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    A Christmas Carol vs. The Industrial Revolution Rewrite Almost all of America has some point on Christmas Eve or even Christmas Day sat down in front of the TV and watched A Christmas Carol on one of the local channels. It’s like a tradition at my house and probably is at many other households as well. Charles Dickens created the modern Christmas‚ the Christmas we all know and celebrate today. When we watch the movie or read his book‚ people mainly focus on the story of Christmas and how Dickens

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    Novels are a precious source of education‚ and their effect heavily relies on their ability to deliver messages through their conveyance of language. In his novella‚ A Christmas Carol‚ Charles Dickens illustrates the need for social reform during the Industrial Revolution‚ and explores the power of the Christmas spirit. His talented use of language features such as the striking emotive language‚ the clever and deliberate music-focused structure‚ and the brilliant characterisation of Scrooge are very

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    Discuss how dickens uses “A Christmas Carol‚” and the character of scrooge to promote a more caring‚ less selfish society. In the 19th century‚ the poor people faced a very atrocious and frightful life in London. They starved if they had no jobs and had nowhere to live except for streets which were filthy and filled with crime. There was a poor law‚ as there weren’t even state benefits and if someone couldn’t pay the rent for the room they were given to stay in they were moved to union workhouses

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    In class these past couple days we have been watching a movie called A "Christmas Carol." It is an exhilarating movie also and old one at that. There are many main characters‚ but the main one I am focused on is the elder man named Ebenezer Scrooge. He is the elder man in the movie that is traveling back into his past to see why it is he hates Christmas. This man has three ghosts of Christmas take him back to realize he has been putting blame where it is not needed. In the beginning he still continues

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    Ngwudike English 104 03-05-2013 Commercializing Christmas The season of love and giving hit the shopping malls on Black Friday; the stores fill with the latest gifts and the bargain shoppers begin the hunt for the perfect Christmas gift. Americans across the country mark this season‚ senselessly “buying” love for one another‚ while simultaneously degrading the very spirit of the holiday season: love. Thus‚ as the bells toll for the Christmas cheer‚ the deepening greed of our culture begins

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    Have you ever seen the Christmas Carol movie. They are three ghost that make him realize‚ he need be more compassionate and less miserly. There was past‚ present‚ future ghost. The ghost that I think help Scrooge start to be more compassionate and less miserly was the future ghost on Christmas Eve. Now‚ I am telling you the 3 main important details why I choose the future ghost. First‚ the ghost took him and show him how it was going be like if he doesn’t start been less miserly and compassionate

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    A Christmas Carol Many social issue are in Charles Dickens‚ A Christmas Carol‚ with the vast majority of them having to do with scrooge. Scrooge begins the story with no Christmas spirit whatsoever‚ but he changes into a warmhearted teddybear at the end. A Christmas Carol shows that kindness is the way to go rather than being mean and greedy. A social issue that is touched on in this novel is the lack of sympathy that people have towards each other. Scrooge is mean to his family and friends

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    A Christmas Carol The first edition of A Christmas Carol was introduced in 1843 and the movie version was first let out in 1938. Interesting huh? Well here is a very fun fact about Charles Dickens‚ the writer of this novel‚ he always insisted on sleeping with his bed aligned north-south‚ with his head pointing north. He also had a pet raven called Grip which he had stuffed when it died in 1841. These are a couple of facts that I found very interesting and a little different. In this report I’m going

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    Research Essay “We forge the chains we wear in life”‚ This is a quote from the book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. This quote means the decisions you make in life are yours and if you want to live in a good life you have to be a good person and make better decisions . Charles Dickens was one of the best authors from the Victorian era‚ and the Victorian era was one of the most important eras from Britain’s history. It was also known for it’s great amount of poverty‚ and the pollution that

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    NAME: Thatching Ferreira FORM: WTME A CHRISTMAS CAROL ESSAY. How does Dickens create atmosphere and tension in the opening Stave of ’A Christmas Carol? How successfully does he create a vision of Victorian time? Dickens uses many ways to get the audience interest in the opening stave as well as creating atmosphere and tension. One of these ways is the introduction of the main character of ’A Christmas Carol’ novel: Scrooge. Dickens gives loads of descriptive sentences about Scrooge

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