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    Great Expectations Whose Life is it Anyway? How do you determine whether the life you are living is the life you call your own? Many people may find themselves being lead through life as opposed to leading their own because of external influences. This is the case of Pip‚ the protagonist in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Great Expectations is a classic novel about a young‚ lower class boy whose life is forever changed from exposure to an upper class woman named Miss Havisham. One can

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    that high teacher expectation mean that the teacher believe that the student is a high-achiever and the dynamics surrounding the learning of that particular student or groups of students were underpinned by favourable conditions and it impacts learning in a positive way. On the other hand‚ where teachers hold low expectations of their students mean that they believe that the student is a low-achiever and the approach to learning is impacted negatively. Teachers form expectations for student performance

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    Great Expectations – Class Notes Chapter 1-5 Major characters: Pip‚ Graveyard digger man‚ mr and mrs gargery‚ uncle p‚ mr w Plot: Prisoner told pip to get food‚ chirtsmas time Themes: Honesty‚ family‚ fear Social Class: Working class Children seen not heard Married couples don’t love each other (arranged marriages) Relationships: Joe is close to Pip   Chapter 5-7ish Pip’s parents are dead Pip’s sister is raising Pip Pip’s sister is mean Themes: how do men know who they are? Lower

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    Post-war Soldier and Civilian expectations of the British government British soldiers and civilians had high expectations of their government following World War 1‚ most of which did not eventuate. The soldiers needed understanding of their suffering and emotional pains of the war‚ while the British civilians felt that Germany’s reparations were highly important in the short-term. Employment was a significant issue to both groups‚ with the soldiers arriving home to no jobs whilst the civilians wanted

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    Unrealistic Expectations

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    Sometimes we create our own heartbreaks through expectations. And I think that those expectations are truly my enemies in past. Expectation comes for many things even the smallest thing in life‚ such as‚ expecting a taste of macchiato in a coffee shop or expecting how good a movie that just released on the cinema before you watch them. At times‚ expecting something ends up disappointing our self. Sometimes‚ we think that everybody hurt us‚ they disappoint us‚ the obviousness hurt us‚ but do you

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    General Info: A story of moral redemption. The hero is an orphan raised in humble surroundings‚ in the early decades of the nineteenth century‚ comes into a fortune‚ and promptly disavows family and friends. When the fortune first loses its lustre‚ then evaporates completely‚ he confronts his own ingratitude‚ and learns to love the man who both created and destroyed him. The story is told by the hero himself‚ and the challenge Dickens faced in devising this first-person narrative was two-fold

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    Expectation Theory

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    Name: Thy Nhu Be (Jessica) Class: Comm 145 Professor: Donna‚ Schiess Paper: Theory and Context Paper Date: 05/01/2013 Expectation Violation Theory Introduction There are two types of communication‚ verbal communication and nonverbal communication. Some people think that communicate verbally are more effective than nonverbal communication. In fact‚ according to Mark Knapp and Judith Hall‚ nonverbal communication are twelve to thirteen times more effectual than communicate verbally. When

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    Pips Expectations

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    Stage Two Pips Expectations Pip goes to London to start his new life and to live his dreams of being educated and wealthy. When Pip arrives‚ Mr. Jaggers shows him where he will be staying and gives him a tour around town. He begins to have less and less time for other people outside of his little circle but when he arrives he begins to meet new people. He first meets a man named Herbert Pocket‚ who is related to Miss Havisham. He tells Pip about her past and why she is the way she is now. He tells

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    Dickens’ novel‚ Great Expectations‚ there are several differences between the illusion and the truth. The appearance of certain things is often detrimental to the outcomes of characters when the reality of a situation is revealed. These illusions are revealed through Pip‚ a lower class boy caught in the struggle of the social classes of 19th century England. Throughout the book‚ Charles Dickens emphasizes the difference between appearance and reality through Pip’s expectations of something better‚

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    It’s Just Cutting Bread Charles Dickens‚ in his novel Great Expectations‚ conveys the trenchant behavior of Pip’s sister‚ Ms. Joe. Dickens purpose is to understand life from Pip’s point of view through his fear. Dickens expresses an aggressive tone in order to thoroughly identify the forceful behavior while Mrs. Joe is cutting the bread. Dickens intensifies the paragraph by using great detail in explaining how mean and cruel Mrs. Joe actually is. Charles features professional diction in order

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