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    Analysis: Chapters 1–3 The first chapters of Great Expectations set the plot in motion while introducing Pip and his world. As both narrator and protagonist‚ Pip is naturally the most important character in Great Expectations: the novel is his story‚ told in his words‚ and his perceptions utterly define the events and characters of the book. As a result‚ Dickens’s most important task as a writer in Great Expectations is the creation of Pip’s character. Because Pip’s is the voice with which he tells

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    Mary Oliver

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    Mary Oliver In Mary Oliver’s award winning book‚ “Blue Pastures”‚ Oliver states three qualities that makes up an artist. The first quality is to be extraordinary and never ordinary. Also‚ break loose from time and the craziness of the world today to reach the inner child. Another quality is to find a place of solitude so creativity can flow uninterrupted. Oliver exhibited all three qualities and more. She is truly an artist. Oliver talks of the normal things in life that must be done. Dishes

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    Working Paper No. 00-01-01 Are Policy Rules Better than the Discretionary System in Taiwan? James P. Cover C. James Hueng and Ruey Yau Are Policy Rules Better than the Discretionary System in Taiwan? James Peery Cover Department of Economics‚ Finance‚ and Legal Studies University of Alabama Phone: 205-348-8977 Fax: 205-348-0590 Email: jcover@cba.ua.edu C. James Hueng Department of Economics‚ Finance‚ and Legal Studies University of Alabama Phone: 205-348-8971 Fax: 205-348-0590 Email:

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    and the ones we should look up to. Joe Gargery was brought up in a poor and abusive family‚ but due to his compassionate character and past experiences‚ he is able to process difficult situations and empathize with the needy‚ suggesting that his compassion makes him take something negative and always manage to shine a little positive light on it.In the novel great expectations by Charles Dickens‚  Joe’s compassion makes him able to have a positive

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    ExpectationsExpectations”…what do you think of? “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens maybe? Whatever the case‚ all people have expectations. It could be something they expect of others‚ or something they expect of themselves. It is something you look forward to in the future. It is the motivation‚ the incentive‚ people need to keep looking forward to tomorrow—the prospect of something wonderful about to happen. An undergraduate might have expectations of a bright‚ successful future‚ a businessman

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    Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol: A True Gentleman According to Dictionary.com‚ a gentleman is a civilized‚ educated‚ sensitive‚ or well-mannered man. However‚ by Victorian definition‚ a gentleman was‚ perhaps most importantly‚ a rich man. “Charles Dickens…was an author of relatively humble origins who desired passionately to be recognized as a gentleman‚ and insisted‚ in consequence‚ upon the essential dignity of his occupation” (Victorian Web). In Great Expectations he portrays Pip‚ a

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    Great Gatsby essay: to what extent are relationships doomed Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ is set in America of the 1920’s‚ a predominantly materialistic society revolving around wealth and status above all else. Fitzgerald depicts this obsession with money and luxury through complicated relationships full of trouble‚ infidelity and sorrow. The relationships Fitzgerald portrays all symbolize the materialism and hedonism of the age; each relationship is doomed to a certain extent

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    Oliver Cromwell Oliver Cromwell was born on the 25th of April 1599 to Robert Cromwell and Elizabeth Steward‚ a family of minor gentry. He had been educated at Huntingdon Grammar School and Sydney Sussex College‚ Cambridge. Cromwell was famous for being both skilled militarily‚ creating the famed Ironsides cavalry platoon‚ and politically‚ becoming the First Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England‚ Scotland and Ireland. He held extremely strict Puritan religious beliefs. Oliver Cromwell was

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    as Leon Litvack observes in ’Dickens‚ Australia and Magwitch’ (Dickensian 93‚ 1998)‚ the colonies could function as a kind of theatrical ’green room’ from which characters could appear‚ or to which they could vanish having fulfilled their dramatic function. Either way‚ Britain’s imperial hold of so many far-off places meant that characters could appear and disappear with impunity - if an English gentleman decided he would go to Africa‚ it was perfectly acceptable that he should do so. Hence we get

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    Alternate Ending for Great Expectations Every book has an ending that reflects on certain themes shown previously in the book. In the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ money‚ power and corruption are the roots of the evils in society. There are certain criteria in making a conclusion to a book. According to my opinion‚ a book must have an ending that shows that the main character has learned from his mistakes and is willing to let go and move on. The main character should sometimes get

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