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    Miss Havisham Suffering

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    world is to make men suffer. Pip is one of the victims of Estella‚ but through thick and thin he loves her no matter what. When Miss Havisham starts to see an attraction between these two‚ she does everything possible to keep them apart. Pip comes to Satis House one day‚ only to find Miss Havisham chanting something into Estella’s ear‚ “Break their hearts‚ my pride and hope‚ break their hearts and have no mercy.” (Dickens 93). This is aimed mostly towards Pip‚ by having Estella break his heart and make

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    Great Expectations

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    The canonical novel ‚ Great expectations by Charles Dickens sets the scene for a narrative journey into the heart of belonging as it related to literary techniques of truncated non-grammatical sentences‚ malapropism‚ animal imagery‚ and violent vocabulary‚ also the use of Gothicism throughout the novel. the opening chapter‚ introduces you to a single character‚ Phillip Pirrip‚ better known as Pip. Early in the book during the opening chapter‚ Pip the character is a child‚ and Pip the narrator focuses

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    What's Up Doc

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    9 Women‚ Caste and reform Q1. What social ideas did the following people support? a)Rammohun Roy Spread of Western education Reforming Hinduism Greater freedom and equality for women Upliftment of widows Campaigned against the practise of sati Critical of caste inequalities b)Dayanand Saraswati ReformingHinduism Supported widow remarriage Education for girls c) Veerasalingam Pantulu Supported widow remarriage d)Jyotirao Phule Education for girls Critical of the caste system

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    Great Expectations Essay

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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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    Buttermilk Research Paper

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    Buttermilk preparations in Arshas (Hemorrhoids) All patients should take buttermilk in the morning. Again during the day‚ buttermilk or recipes of buttermilk are indicated depending upon the strength of the digestive fire of the patient15. • If the power of digestion is weak‚ only buttermilk should be given again in the evening. • If the power of digestion is slightly better‚ then the patient should be given only buttermilk in the morning‚ and in the evening‚ he should be given Takravalehya

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    EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN INDIA “Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose‚ doing God’s work‚ peacefully and harmoniously.”-Wayne Dyer‚ American motivational speaker. According to McLeod‚ the concept ‘Empowerment’ derives from Latin word ’potere’ which means "to be able”. From the view of sociological aspect‚ empowerment is a multi-dimensional‚ multi-tiered and multifaceted concept. The term empowerment has different meanings in different socio-cultural and political contexts.

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    Societal stereotypes trick us into believing that people with abundant wealth are automatically more satisfied and content with their lives than people who are not as wealthy. This is not true because there are multiple factors besides wealth and status‚ such as friendships and family members that are crucial factors in determining how satisfied and content a person can be with their life. The novel Great Expectations demonstrates two situations‚ which are opposites of each other. Wemmick is low-class

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    Wereshnefer Sarcophagus

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    Wereshnefer was a priest of the goddesses Mut‚ Nephthys‚ Sekhmet‚ Neith‚ and Satis. Although his offices were in temples from Aswan to Koptos in Upper Egypt‚ his tomb‚ from which this unusually large sarcophagus comes‚ was in the northern Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. The scenes and texts on the sarcophagus and its lid belong to funerary literature originally composed for royalty more than a thousand years earlier. The body of the sarcophagus is inscribed inside and out with descriptions of the

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    Pip‚ the protagonist‚ and narrator of Great Expectations is absolutely the most pitied character in the novel. Throughout the entirety of Great Expectations‚ Pip shows a number of traits that establish who he is to others around him. He can be considered charitable when he deliberately steals his family rations for a stranger. While he acts like an outright jerk when Joe comes to visit Pip in London. Though there are times when Pip gets his readers to admire him at times‚ Pip acts narcissistic‚ impulsive

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    his shrewish older sister and her husband‚ the kindly and unassuming blacksmith Joe Gargery‚ are raising him. Initially Pip is content with his humble surroundings‚ although his class-consciousness receives a rude awakening on his first visit to Satis House. Here he encounters Miss Havisham and her ward Estella‚ the latter of whom takes delight in continually reminding the protagonist of his lowly status. When Estella remarks on Pip’s ’coarse hands’ and ’thick boots’‚ and his habit of calling knaves

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