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    Civilian Expectations

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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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    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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    Greate Expectation

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    They express their disgust at the extremely toilsome life which they have so far lived. “Hateful is the dark-blue sky‚ Vaulted o’er the dark-blue sea‚ Death is the end of life; ah‚ why Should life all labour be?” The Victorian age was an age of great problems and conflicts which could not be easily resolved. But as they wanted to live in peace‚ they approached these problems obliquely and from the gentler angle of compromise in order to avoid any grave danger to their sense of equanimity. And Tennyson

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    often deals with the human drive for wealth and material success. The love of money often exercises a harmful power over individuals‚ causing a conflict both within themselves and with others. Although the characters in A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations assess the value of people only in terms of their financial contributions to society‚ they learn that self respect and dignity can be derived from means other than the possession of money and prestige. Through Scrooge and Pip‚ Dickens shows

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    Legitimate Expectation

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    The recognition of substantive legitimate expectations is to be welcomed‚ but the standard of review in such cases remains problematic. Discuss. Fairness and legal certainty are two crucial factors to be seen in decisions made by public authorities; the doctrine of legitimate expectations was first formulated by Lord Denning MR in Schmidt v Home Secretary (1969).The doctrine comes into play when a public authority makes a declaration regarding its policy‚ or the manner in which it will exercise

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    customer expectation

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    http://blog.clientheartbeat.com/customer-expectations/ Customer expectation a. The hard facts about customer expectations 1. Manage promises 2. Customers want relationships 3. The service process is the key to exceeding expectations b. Understanding customer expectation The benefits of understanding customer expectations Understanding your customers’ needs C.examples of companies exceeding customer expectations Amazon exceeds expectations with delivery Google and youtube Excellent customer

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    Charles Dickens is the best known of the English Victorian novelists. He wrote a great deal about women in Victorian society and the way that roles for women were changing. Prior to these times women were expected to marry and be reliant upon men. Men were deemed to be in charge and any money possessed by women immediately passed to her husband once married. Miss Havisham is the antithesis of the social norm as a self sufficient woman living off her own means. Dickens develops her character throughout

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    Legitimate Expectation

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    LEGITIMATE EXPECTATION The Legal and Institutional Background The doctrine of legitimate expectation operates as a control over the exercise of discretionary powers conferred upon a public authority. The typical reason why discretionary powers are conferred upon a public authority is to ensure that they are exercised having due regard to the particular circumstances of individual cases coming before the decision-maker – ie in circumstances where Parliament was not confident at the time

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    Social Expectations

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    changes. You treat people differently than you would if you were alone‚ you change your actions‚ and you morph your personality to fit what you think everyone around you expects of you. Why do we let ourselves succumb to negative social expectations? Social expectations limit who you are. You can’t display your personality if you are changing it to make the people around you happy. Limitations on who you can be will only hurt you in the long run. When you leave your group of friends‚ who will you be

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    Great expectations: Prose study coursework How did Charles Dickens create sympathy for Pip in the opening chapter of great expectation? In this essay I’m going to be writing about a Charles Dickens book called ‘Great Expectations’ and how he successfully makes the reader feel sorry for the main character in the book named Pip; a young orphan‚ alone in a graveyard and how bad his life is or how bad its going to get. Dickens makes the reader feel sorry for Pip because we find out that‚ apart from

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