two groups English and a Spanish class. I was in an all Spanish class. One of my first memories of hearing a person speaking English was in my first grade bus coming back from school from a kid setting right next to me reading out loud from a book I did not understand any single word he was saying so I left it like that and did not think anything about it. That kid happened be my neighbor in which he attended the all English class. After finishing the first grade my mom moved me to a different school
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Violating Cultural Expectations For my assignment on violating our cultural expectations‚ I used a urinal next to someone that was using another one. I did this throughout the whole day because I felt that only doing it once wouldn’t be satisfying enough. On Saturday‚ I went to Victoria Gardens and Ontario Mills with my girlfriend and I thought that it’d be a perfect time to do my assignment on violating our cultural expectations. The first thing that came to my head was using a urinal next to
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Washington D.C. As a child‚ I attended an elementary school called Thurgood Marshall. I was placed in Montessori at the age of three and from there my education began to develop. Around the age of five or six‚ reading became a challenge for me. I struggle with pronouncing words and comprehending what I had previously read. For instance‚ in the first grade my teacher would pick students to read sections of the mini pages in the Washington Post Newspaper. One day‚ I was one of the students that were chosen
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Miss Havisham is the most important character in Great Expectations. How far do you agree? Miss Havisham appears regularly throughout the novel and is a key character. However‚ Pip is the protagonist‚ he is the one the book is about so he must be the most important character? This is what it would seem if you don’t look deeply enough: But I think the further you search‚ the more you will see how important Miss Havisham’s character really is and you will eventually conclude that she is most
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Essay on Great Expectations Pip needs to tear himself away from societies’ beliefs such as the ever so important social class standings by changing the way he treats the different-classed people. Must he make those judgments based on his own understanding of their characters‚ or rely on the prejudice that society has set for him? He wants to become successful and wealthy and well respected in society but in doing so‚ must he give up his character amd loyalty to his loved ones? Pip attempts to achieve
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building and know nothing about the culture and language a huge chill came over me‚ which I have never felt before. Something finally hit me I was in school in America. I walked in my first English class and sat there in a full panic mode but pretended I knew what I am doing. I heard a loud noise that said “Alright class take out your notebook and write a paragraph about your winter break”. Although I can understand some English words I had no idea how I was going to do
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In the case of Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens successfully enacts the stratified class structure and power relationship by employing imagery in the form of characterization‚ pathetic fallacy and figurative language. Through such imagery‚ the novel specifically conveys a critique of a society where capital indicates social position‚ where wealth defines opportunity‚ and where social class enforces a strong sense of stratification. It also comments on the possibility of class mobility and the relationship
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“If You Can’t Be With the One You Love‚ Love the One You’re With” Love‚ as much as any other theme or motif‚ drives the storyline of Dickens’ Great Expectations. As the naturalists of the era believe‚ characters are the products of their circumstances‚ and so Great Expectations is an exploration into the psychology of a young boy‚ based on the circumstances into which he is placed. Pip‚ the protagonist‚ is motivated by love‚ the love of a young girl named Estella. However‚ while he tirelessly
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Reaction paper My expectations for this class are not the highest‚ although I do expect people to take it seriously‚ so we can get to learn something‚ because it is in fact my favorite class. I’m convinced that this class will be much more difficult than what I’m used to‚ so I have to hold on‚ really be active and follow in class‚ so I don’t fall behind‚ which I think will be easy. I look forward to learn a lot of new things about the English language and of cause expand my vocabulary more. The
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The Role Expectations Play In The Outsiders Do you ever feel like you’re being forced to do things because of the expectations society has placed on you to do them? For instance shaving your legs just because you are a female. Societal expectations and expectations placed on the characters in the novel “The Outsiders” by themselves greatly affected their actions and reactions‚ as well as the final outcome of the novel. One example of the role societal expectations play in the novel is that all the
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