TELEVISION GIVES CHILDREN UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS A few months after my friend Angela‚ who lives in Santo Domingo‚ acquired access to premium channels such as HBO‚ Cinemax‚ etc. her eight years old daughter asked her one night: “Mom‚ are there poor people in the United States?” This could have been a joke if it were not so revealing. My friend realized that the luxurious scenes shown on television were not only giving her daughter a false idea about life in the United States‚ but they could
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energy to the hope of a bright and successful future by studying and learning. This valued tool is not free‚ considering the increasing tuition fees and rising debts of students‚ hence the need for college to be as productive as possible. College Expectation versus Reality College gives a lot of advantages but not all students are prepared for college.
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people to experience‚ for it can possibly make them better people. Many characters in Great Expectations have to experience and deal with change as well‚ such as Pip. Independence is a change most people have to experience in their lives‚ and helps shape them into more mature‚ better people. Pip has to be independent for the majority of the book‚ and the experience impacts him positively. In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ the character Philip Pirrip‚ better known as Pip‚ is used to present the
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Moving onto a more advance language arts class this year‚ I have pretty high expectations. Last year I was able to expand my writing skills‚ so I’m hoping to have the same results for this year as well. My first expectation is to be able to write complete sentences with fully accurate capitalization‚ punctuation‚ and intermediate grammar by the end of eighth grade. My second expectation is to also acknowledge what we learn from this year’s class so we can use these new writing skills for future classes
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Great Expectations: Symbolism In life‚ symbolism is present all around us. Whether it is in the clothes we wear‚ the things we do‚ or what we buy‚ everything has a meaning. Symbolism is also present in literature and it is shown in Charles Dickens Great Expectations. The symbols of isolation‚ manipulation‚ the tragic hero‚ and wanting to be someone else are seen throughout the book through the characters of Estella‚ Magwitch‚ Miss Havisham‚ and Pip. The character of Estella represents the symbols
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“Great Expectations” to show that cruelty acts as a bridge to a newer phase in one’s life and wants to show how one has or will become in that phase. In Great Expectations‚ Miss Havisham will present cruelty at its finest after one gets to know her more and learn what tragedies she has been through. Dickens also presents that cruelty comes at a different time later on after you assume you got to know someone really well. It will come as you are in someone’s “trap.” In Great Expectations‚ Miss Havisham’s
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Respect is something that should be withheld until it is earned. For instance‚ Pip in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and Amir in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner exemplified individuals who earned respect and honor through their dedication and hard work. In Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations‚ Pip is a young orphan who lives with his sister and brother in law. They lead an impoverished lifestyle off of bits of bread so when Pip is introduced to the lavish lifestyles of Miss Havisham and
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After reading the novel‚ “Great Expectations”‚ written by Charles Dickens‚ I discovered a wide variety of themes that amused me such as abuse‚ desire‚ guilt‚ ambition‚ and good and bad. Abuse‚ being one of the major themes‚ manages to shape and change people from one thing to another. Pip‚ being the protagonist of the novel‚ suffers much abuse. At the beginning of the novel‚ Pips mother‚ father‚ and five siblings are killed in a tragic accident and he is adopted by his sister Mrs.Gargery. She usually
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The criminal character is usually the most hated literature‚ but Magwitch in Great Expectations is a little different‚ for many reasons. In the novel‚ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ Magwitch‚ even though he is a criminal‚ earns the reader’s compassion and admiration. The reader’s introduction to Magwitch makes the humanity of the character shine through with his irons on his leg. Magwitch’s childhood is less than ideal‚ which basically leads him to his life of crime‚ and finally‚ the death
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Expectations from the International Baccalaureate Program The International Baccalaureate Program is a two-year program for high school students who are aged sixteen to nineteen years of age. The program not only helps us be successful in university‚ but it also helps us be successful in life. I expect the International Baccalaureate Program to expand my knowledge in several fields. I chose to take half IB. In English Language and Literature‚ I expect not only to read books and work
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