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    between the three is theirs to make‚ the stress of college is always put on their shoulders. An individual from Youniversitytv.org said something that struck a light bulb and it states “these days‚ there is a great emphasis placed on students going to college‚ almost to the point of expectation”. At a very young age we learn that college was the way to go but the process to get into college is so intense it made some people wanted to rethink their choice. At that moment I knew that college was going

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    Okonkwo's Expectations

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    be extremely masculine. The problem with these expectations is that the idea of masculinity is skewed in a way that makes having emotions seem like a feminine practice. It weighs heavily on the men in the village and has a large influence on their decision making. One man who is particularly affected by these expectations is Okonkwo‚ the most skilled warrior of the village and protagonist of the story. He was so obsessed with adhering the expectations set by himself and his society that he became

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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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    that the pit would grow an olive tree forth from his corpse. This tree would be a sign of peace and an apology to his victim’s family. Feguer’s remorseful peace offering was a gleam of goodness in the heart of an evil man. In Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations‚ Dickens shows a theme much like Feguer’s‚ that all evil people have potential for goodness. The three major characters who show this are Abel Magwitch‚ Miss Havashim‚ and Estella.

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    The Crucible and Irony

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    IRONY in The Crucible | |Occurs when someone states one thing and means another; often recognized as sarcasm | |Verbal irony |i.e. narrator refers to honesty as an “incumbrance” or “burden” | | |A contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen | |Situational

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    Irony in The Crucible Irony is a contrast between what is stated and what is meant‚ or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens. The Crucible is a play by the American playwright Arthur Miller‚ and is filled with examples of irony throughout the play to build suspense and create anxiety. Arthur Miller used three kinds of irony‚ and they are dramatic‚ situational‚ and verbal irony. The Crucible is filled with many examples for each kind of irony through the play. The dramatic

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    Medea's Irony

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    one’s husband does not “ever think he’s trapped in the marriage.” (Euripides p.17) The stark contrast between the female and male experience of marriage is used by Medea to highlight the inequality faced by women. She does this again by explaining the irony in men telling women that they are “lucky to live safe at home while [men] take up their spears and go

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    Great Expectations was a book that describes a humble orphan that had been in a forge doing the dirty work for most his life‚ and then he was taken by his Uncle Pumblechook to basically change his life. Charles Dickens’s life was like that of Pip‚ they both had experienced poverty and both had success at a young age. It was like he had written an autobiography‚ but had changed some things around. Some things in the novel are confusing‚ like I’d like to know what happened to make Miss

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    Well within those chapters of the story " Great Expectations" Magwitch which is Pips bean factor and also the thief that made Pip bring him food has died in prison. Before he died though he tell Pip about his daughter which is a coincidence because Pip is in love with his daughter Estella. So as he dies talking about his daughter Pip would go through a change. Basically because now the way he saw the world has changed. Like how him and Magwitch didn’t get off at a good start but he sent him money

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    An Expectation and Its Reality The thought process is one of the main differences between human being and animal. People have the ability to think‚ to plan for their future in a specific way than animal. A state of the art building‚ music‚ designs of any kind‚ and assays show in the real world what the artist has been thinking in the abstract. People have that ability to conceive or image everything first in their mind‚ than try to accomplish what they have pictured in the abstract‚ where no

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