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    Copperfield and of course‚ Pip’s ’getting away from it all’ in Clarriker’s in Egypt with Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations. All these examples play very minor roles in Dickens’ fiction - they serve as narrative devices and little else. However‚ one other consequence of Britain’s colonial process - the policy of transportation - plays a far more fundamental part in Great Expectations. It is true‚ however‚ that‚ as Donald Simpson asserts in ’Charles Dickens and the Empire’‚ the concept of transportation

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    people can be influenced in both positive and negative ways. In the three novels that we have read so far‚ Great Expectations‚ Lés Misérables‚ and Wuthering Heights‚ the main characters are faced with negative challenges and influences. Positive guides and influences also affect the characters in these books; the positive guides usually end up winning in the end. In Great Expectations‚ the main character of the story was Pip. Some of the negative influences that Pip faces include poverty‚ low

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    Trader Joe’s is named after its founder‚ Joe Coulombe. The chain began in 1958 as a Greater Los Angeles area chain of "Pronto Market" convenience stores. The original Pronto Markets were similar to 7-Eleven stores‚ so similar Coulombe felt the competition with 7-Eleven would be ruinous.[6]He is said to have developed the idea of the Trader Joe South Seas motif while on vacation in the Caribbean.[7] He had noticed that Americans were traveling more and returning home with tastes for food and wine

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    colder he got. But that was not going to stop him from finding his son. He called out his name‚ and it echoed in the woods. Jimmy! he said with all his might but there was no resposne. But out of the nearness of time a light came into sight‚ anf joe walked towards it. It was Jimmy it had to be who else could have been out at this time of night. As I got closer the light came closer to me. I was not sure if it was still or weather it was moving closer. Evetually i reached it and it was old frank

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    Finding Joe Tag Line “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” First Quote “I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.” • Thailand: Golden Buddha Start of Film: Who is Joseph Campbell and why should we care? • One story within all the stories – called The Hero’s Journey. Circle Graphic: o Wasteland o

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    Over 14.5% of Americans are in poverty and affected by what poverty causes. Throughout the novel‚ Great Expectations is about a boy named Pip coming of age and meeting people along his way of becoming a gentleman and learning life lessons. Charles Dickens looks at the effects of poverty negatively and during the novel it illustrates how many people of poverty struggled‚ but the rich got to live lavishly and didn’t care for the poor. Furthermore‚ poverty is a big issue of our modern day society and

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    Great expectations by Charles dickens was written in 1860-1861. The opening chapter of great expectations is extremely important as it tells of each character from Pips perspective (also telling the readers just how naïve‚ young and innocent Pip is amidst this gloomy dwelling)‚ for example Pip says "…my first fancies regarding what they were like‚ were unreasonably derived from their tombstones" this tells us that Pip is a blank canvas ready to be painted on and every little thing will shape and

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    Joe Walken’s case)! 3 Mary knew this would be a zinger for Peters and indeed starting with 1.1 through 1.7‚ he yawned‚ hummed‚ swore a little and final cried out: “The same old same old – always the same!” (i.e. pulmonary emboli from sitting around too

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    For an individual to belong‚ they must fulfil their society’ies expectations.‚in doing so‚ further Aanalysis of the book ’The gGreat Eexpectations’ composed by Charles Dickens revealshas been made apparent that an aspect of family belonging‚ where Pip‚ the main character tries to live up to societies expectations of being a gentlemen.‚Tthis can be seen where Magwitch uses first person‚ evident in the direct speech ‘Yes‚ Pip‚ dear boy‚ I’ve made a gentleman ofn you! It’s me wot has done it! I swore

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    Dickens uses this description of the Havisham Manor to give Pip’s impression of surrealness surrounding Miss Havisham and her house. Pip has just been apprenticed to Joe and goes to visit Miss Havisham‚ and‚ as he walks home‚ he reflects on the decrepitness and the age of the house and its contents. As the sentence progresses‚ Dickens chooses to order his descriptions in increasing intensity of spookiness and specificity‚ seemingly ‘zooming’ in to smaller and smaller objects and ending with the

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