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    Monetary Corruption and the Consequences it has in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Charles Dickens examines how money can corrupt people and sometimes to a point beyond repair. In Great Expectations money is suppose to make people happier and to live easier lives but money will eventually corrupt people and ruin their life. Pip is introduced to a lot of money and becomes corrupt. When Pip becomes corrupt he looses former relationships that he had. The relationships that pip looses are completely

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    When I was 8 years old my family and I went to knotts berry farm. Being a small kid the time‚ I barely reached the height minimum to board. When I got on‚ I had to share a seat and lap bar with my dad and we didn’t put the seat belt on correctly. When the ride started‚ I could feel me slide around and my body lift off the seat. The whole ride I ended up hugging the lap bar‚ that wasn’t even pushing on my legs‚ in hopes that I would not fly off the seat. With this experience my mood transformed

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    Diary entry from Pip’s point of view. 08/12/2012 Saturday Dear Diary‚ Today was a new day for me again. I went alone to the churchyard where the tombstones of my parents and my 5 brothers are in the marshes near my house. I live with my sister Mrs Joe Gargery and her husband‚ Joe Gargery‚ a blacksmith as a burden as she never likes me and always tells me off for everything. I stayed there near the gravestones until afternoon was returning back home‚ when I heard a terrible voice which told

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    Throughout this passage‚ Dickens uses satire and character’s past experiences to criticize the social hierarchy of 19th century of England‚ and more precisely to ridicule one’s appearance could change their life‚ not their social class. Magwitch is surrounded by Herbert and Pip‚ where he rambles about his past undergo with his partner in crime named Compeyson. Dickens has made it clear that Magwitch’s appearance altered the sentence of his crime‚ although‚ Compeyson was the chief of directing Magwitch

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    setting in the novel. London. An important setting in “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens is London‚ which is viewed as a place of economic competition and death. The bleakness of the places in London foreshadow a series of unfortunate events for Pip Dickens did not romanticize London but instead gives us a good hard look at the backstreets and alleys where the real life existed. An important setting in the novel Great Expectations is London this setting reveals important themes in the novel

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    BOOK REVIEW GREAT EXPECTATIONS BY CHARLES DICKENS On Christmas Eve‚ Pip‚ an orphan living with his sister (Mrs Joe) and Joe Gargery‚ meets a convict who demands him to bring him food and a file to cut his chains. Pip does so and the following morning and feels extremely guilty. He‚ Joe and some police officers later catch and arrest this convict. Uncle Pumblechook arranges for Pip to go and play at Miss Havisham’s home in hope that she’ll give him money. There he falls in love with Estelle‚

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    or she desires. They take this to their advantage by using symbols of setting and character recurrences to set the mood of the story. In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ a young boy Pip‚ tells his story of moving from a poor town living a rural lifestyle‚ to London‚ where he pursues his dream of becoming a gentleman after receiving “great expectations” from an unknown benefactor. In the story‚ Pip falls in love with Estella‚ a beautiful girl raised to break men’s hearts by the embittered

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    Revenge is a moving force behind many of the characters’ actions in the Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations. Miss Havisham wants revenge on the entire male race. Compeyson wants revenge on Abel Magwitch because he has property and money in New South Wales. Arthur Havisham‚ Miss Havisham half brother‚ wants his revenge on Miss Havisham because their father left her most of the money and estate. Pip does not realize that Miss Havisham and Abel are both using him for their revenge. Miss Havisham

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    Appropriate Classroom Behavior for Young Children Planning an effective classroom environment includes structuring the physical arrangement of the classroom to increase appropriate behaviors‚ such as engagement‚ and decrease the probability of challenging behaviors. There are different strategies for structuring the physical classroom include: arranging the classroom to ensure visual monitoring of children‚ arranging activity centers to support children’s appropriate behaviors (e.g.‚ limiting the

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    In these day and age‚ citizens can have different type of welfare within the city. Different government has different welfare policy. In some western country such as Australia‚ citizens enjoy decent benefit provided from government. Those benefits include public health care benefit and education benefit. In Australia‚ the majority revenue for government to maintain their operation is mainly from taxation. Everyone in the city needs to pay tax even though the revenue hasn’t reached the taxation

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