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    In the novel Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens the settings impacts Pip’s emotions as well as the storyline itself. The forge‚ Satis House‚ and London represent Pip’s jusxepiditon and the things he has learned‚ feared‚ or was ashamed of. Each location represents an event and person that changed the course of Pip’s life. The forge‚ was Pip’s home and was all he knew. The forge represents his foundation which was made by Joe‚Biddy‚ and Mrs.Joe;however‚ it also represents the fear

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    Dickens personifies age as a ‘shriveled hand’ and says that it ‘twisted them‚ and pulled them into shreds.’ This means that they are looking old where they should be youthful due to the adult responsibilities they face as they have been neglected by society. A Christmas Carol is a Christian allegory it highlights the importance of repenting and correcting your sins. Dicken shows that if Scrooge carries on his ways he will be stopping the children from returning to a “normal” state. This is suggested

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    Expectations For Boys and Girls Expectations for boys and girls are extremely high in today’s society. A lot of people feel pressure in today’s society and so much so that some people feel the need to take their own lives. Some people are able to rise above societies expectations‚ but that is incredibly hard to do and not everybody is strong enough to overcome that. The pressures of society follow everyone everywhere and different people must handle it in different ways. Expectations for girls

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    Man, Society and Culture

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    ASSIGNMENT ABXM1103 MANSOCIETY & CULTURE/ SEM.JAN2011 / FASS ‘ ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION AND ASSESSMENT PENYERAHAN DAN PENILAIAN TUGASAN ____________________________________________________________ _____________ ABXM1103 MANSOCIETY AND CULTURE MANUSIA‚ MASYARAKAT DAN BUDAYA JANUARY 2011 ____________________________________________________________ _____________ INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS ARAHAN KEPADA PELAJAR 1. This assignment contains ONE(1) question that is set in the language of

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    Conflict vs Consensus

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    Conflict vs. Consensus Within the study of human sociology‚ sociologists look through different lenses to view society. These lenses‚ or sociological paradigms‚ set a basis for the questions sociologists ask and provide different perspectives sociologists can take when attempting to explain humans and their societies. To display the diversity in which we may critique society‚ you can compare the two primary ways we approach sociology: social consensus and social conflict. To support

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    function of the imagery in Great Expectations and explain how it conveys ideas about class or gender. Imagery is a crucial device employed in literary texts that affects how we interpret dominant ideologies of the society represented in the text. This is the case in Charles Dickens’ realist novel‚ Great Expectations (1860-61)‚ which enacts the stratified class structure and power relationships of Georgian and early Victorian England. The novel is a critique of a society where capital indicates social

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    “The unqualified truth is that‚ when I loved Estella with the love a man‚ I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow‚ often and often‚ if not always that I loved her against reason‚ against promise‚ against peace‚ against hope‚ against happiness‚ against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I loved her none the less because I knew it‚ and it had no more influence in restraining me than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.” (29

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    Great Expectations: A Character-Driven Novel The novel‚ Great Expectations‚ by Charles Dickens is heavily a character-driven novel due to the fact that the sequence of events in the novel are causes and effects of the actions of the characters as well as the interactions between them. The novel mainly depicts the growth and development of an orphan named Pip‚ who is greatly influenced by the other characters and became a gentleman and a bachelor in the end of the novel through his encounters with

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    Rizal as a Great Man

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    insights on what a Filipino should have towards his/her language. He also contributed to the love towards education and learning. Jose Rizal‚ being a great contributor in both our nation’s freedom and democracy from the Spaniards‚ is recognized to be even just more to what the textbooks and biographies say. He is beyond what we expect. Jose Rizal is like any man. He ate‚ drank and breathes the same air‚ food‚ and water that we take in. He had a formal education and as well as a family that cared for him

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