Settings: KENT: Pip’s hometown of Kent is where the book opens up‚ it “was a marsh country‚ down by the river‚ within‚ as the river wound‚ tweny miles of the sea” (pg 1). Within the town‚ around the churchyards criminals are always presently lurking about and because the town is so near the ocean‚ the mists hung around and not only gave a visual of the murkiness of the area‚ but also represented the ominous atmosphere. LONDON: London is broken‚ every single place described in London‚ including
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However‚ these contrasting theories each have inherent conceptual flaws and often are best useful when used simultaneously. Realism fails to explain intrastate conflicts and the ability of states to create security threats for their citizens‚ it overlooks issues of food security and health security‚ and it ignores genocide‚ oppression and gender violence. It downplays the impact
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are two techniques that can be applied. The first being realism‚ where the importance of the story overshadows the art of production. Second being Formalism‚ where an emphasis is placed on the production of the film‚ often resulting in enhances visuals and sounds effects. Although production has advanced since the first motion pictures in the 1890s‚ the key components of a good film hold steady. Formalism and Realism are accomplished in all great movies. Formalism is the theory that focuses on the
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Idealists have high expectations of the teacher. * The teacher must be excellent‚ in order to serve as an example for the student‚ both intellectually and morally. No other single element in the school system is more important than the teacher. * The teacher must excel in knowledge and in human insight into the needs and capacities of the learners; and must demonstrate moral excellence in personal conduct and convictions. * The teacher must also exercise great creative skill in providing
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Dickens uses this description of the Havisham Manor to give Pip’s impression of surrealness surrounding Miss Havisham and her house. Pip has just been apprenticed to Joe and goes to visit Miss Havisham‚ and‚ as he walks home‚ he reflects on the decrepitness and the age of the house and its contents. As the sentence progresses‚ Dickens chooses to order his descriptions in increasing intensity of spookiness and specificity‚ seemingly ‘zooming’ in to smaller and smaller objects and ending with the
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Once he has met Estella‚ the young maiden who drives his childhood fixation‚ his way of life progressively becomes more apparent making his antipathy towards himself and others more apparent than ever. Meeting the young maiden quickly makes him regret being a “simple” blacksmith and regretting that Mr.Joe raised him so. On page (67) when they’re playing cards Pip calls them Jacks instead of knaves much to Estella’s entertainment and distaste‚ ostracizing his lack of knowledge. This leads Pip to
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Romanticism and Realism in the Arts Romanticism and Realism were two forms of art that came into existence in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Both formed as a resistance to traditional standards and in response to a time of war and revolution. Both Romanticism and Realism are prevalent in works of art to this day. This is where the similarities of the two art forms end. So how can two opposing literary movements overlap time periods yet be so different in style? Romanticism
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Global Poverty & Realism Jinpeng Zhu 11/19 Global Poverty According to the World Bank (2015b)‚ from the most recent estimates in 2012‚ 12.7% of the world’s population (896 million people) lived at or below $1.90 a day. It was a decrease from 1990 which was at 37% (1.95 billion) and in 1981‚ at 44% (1.99 billion). Among regions‚ East Asia had the most decline in poverty from 80% in 1981 to 7.2% in 2012. In Sub-Saharan Africa‚ it stood at 42.6% in 2012 (World Bank‚ 2015b). East Asia and Pacific
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The rise of Realism in 1855 was the time when farming began to industrialize‚ communication expanded through railroads‚ and Nationalism was yet again revived. On top of all these important transformations that have marked this period of time was the significance for literature with a new audience‚ new settings‚ and new characters. The novel‚ Ethan Frome‚ by Edith Wharton‚ is a magnificent example of literature from the Realistic period. First‚ Realism is a definite movement away from the
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analyzing and comparing The Catcher in the Rye and Great Expectations‚ by J.D. Salinger and Charles Dickens respectively‚ one usually stops and ponders‚ what can these two novels possibly have in common? Well I can tell you‚ quite a lot. To begin with‚ both are fictional autobiographies‚ narrated personally by the protagonists‚ that is Holden and Pip. However‚ regardless of the fact that they are both narrated in the first person‚ one‚ Great Expectations is a full life story‚ and you can tell by the very
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