Closing the High-Tech Gender Gap This year’s Lemelson-MIT Prize winner discusses grassroots ways for boosting the number of women in technology and business. I have a confession to make: I’ve been living under a rock. I’ve actually been busy under here — running a bioengineering lab at MIT‚ starting companies‚ teaching‚ consulting‚ being a mom. But I’ve been so focused on keeping all the balls in the air that‚ until recently‚ I hadn’t noticed that women typically aren’t the ones starting
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the teacher and his curriculum. She does everything in her power to ensure that her daughter’s mind is not polluted by the strange white man‚ including making weekly visits to the classroom. She even goes as far as stealing and hiding Dickens’ Great Expectations‚ an action that causes immense trouble when redskin soldiers enter the village and find Mr. Pip’s name carved into the sand. Coincidently‚ it is Matilda who wrote his name‚ and it is her guilt that makes her empathize with her mother‚ who refuses
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The abandonment of family‚ hopeless love‚ and twenty years of remorse and shame are all side-effects of insecurities. In the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ indirect characterization and dialogue are utilized to display Pip’s insecurities. This is manifested through Pip’s determination to become a gentleman and his constant apprehension of being scorned by others. His insecurities impel him to be ashamed of his common-bearing‚ displayed through his arrogant attitude towards people of
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All great novels have major themes on which the plot is based on‚ and Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations‚ is no different. One of the major themes in this novel is ambition and self-improvement. Dickens uses this as a universal idea for his novel‚ and from this theme he gets his title of Great Expectations. Another major theme in the novel is social class. Dickens uses the theme of social class to feed into his theme of ambition and self-improvement. With both ambition and self-improvement Pip is
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How are the themes of power and pride presented in ‘Great Expectations’? Great Expectations is a novel written by Charles Dickens during the times of the industrial revolution. Dickens wrote this novel to show the inequality between people (shown in class systems) and also how a change in class can lead to a change in person; he does this through the use of themes such as Pride and Power. However‚ he also highlights that the lower class people also had pride (for e.g. Joe). Charles Dickens
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Show how Chapter 1 of Great Expectations is effective. How does Dickens ensure his readers to continue to read the novel? In this essay‚ I will be analysing what kind of techniques such as: characterisation‚ setting‚ atmosphere‚ themes and effective language Dickens uses to ensure his readers to gain an interest in the novel and continue to read on in Chapter 1 of ‘Great Expectations’. Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on 7th February 1812 in Portsmouth‚ England and died on 9th June 1870 in
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Grace Coster Mrs. Jester English 1 Honors January 11‚ 2016 Magwitch Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is a well-written novel set in the Victorian era. Great Expectations is filled with many characters‚ some who are static and some who are dynamic. The novel is about the main character‚ Pip‚ who starts off as a young poor boy‚ who has many great expectations. Throughout the novel‚ Pip encounters many characters‚ such as Magwitch‚ Miss Havisham‚ and Estella. Pip is the main character and goes
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Female Victorian women‚ in Great Expectations and Jane Eyre do not conform to their stereotype. During early Victorian England‚ women did not have suffrage rights‚ the right to sue‚ or the right to own their own property. Women were seen as belonging to the domestic sphere. This stereotype obliged them to provide their husbands with a clean home‚ food and to raise their children. When a Victorian man and woman married‚ the rights of the woman were legally given over to her spouse. Under the law
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and Contrast (Romeo and Pip) Love is a topic that innumerable authors delight in writing about. In each of their masterpieces‚ love is a driving force in he or she’s makeup. The main characters of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Dicken’s Great Expectations‚ Romeo and Pip‚ are no exception. Although Romeo and Pip live in very different environments‚ love affects their maturity‚ loyalty‚ and fluctuating mood. Love drastically changes both Pip and Romeo’s maturity throughout both works. In the beginning
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Mister Pip Section 1 1 – Mr. Watts ‘He looked like someone who had seen or known great suffering and hadn’t been able to forget it.’ p1 ‘We never saw him smile.’ p1 ‘Because Pop Eye was the only white for miles around‚ little kids stared at him until their ice blocks melted over their black hands.’ p3 ‘She could not see what us kids had come to see: a kind man.’ p41 2 – Themes 1. Island life there was a lot told about island life‚ what the environment is like‚ what the people are like
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