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    • Multiple role expectations as a result of commitments to; Family There is a trend of more women being in paid workforce and increasing involvement of fathers in child rearing have created change in parental roles and expectations. It is parents role to provide food‚ shelter and clothing to assit the family. Also household tasks such as ironing‚ cleaning and garden maintenance. this incurs a cost ‚ however their are more time available for family members to spend together . shopping can

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    Every author has his own style of writing. He may use an idea in one of his novels in another. In the books Great Expectations and Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens‚ the author uses descriptive plots‚ exiting characters‚ and a meaningful message to prove that two ideas in a book although similar can be presented differently. Throughout the plot of Great Expectations and Oliver twist‚ Dickens uses robbery to show the similarities and differences within the book. After a young child‚ Pip‚ visits

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    Stage I of Pip’s Expectations: Ch. I to IX Chapter I 1. How does Dickens use setting to convey the mood right at the opening? Charles Dickens uses the imagery of a bleak‚ unforgiving Nature in his exposition of "Great Expectations" to convey the mood of fear in Chapter 1.  The weather is described as "raw" and the graveyard a "bleak" place.  The "small bundle of shivers" is Pip himself‚ who is terrified by a "fearful man‚ all in coarse grey‚ with a great iron on his leg."  He is a desperate

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    “To assail with contemptuous‚ coarse‚ or insulting words or wrongly hurt by maltreatment”‚ the definition of abuse. Charles Dickens uses the dominant idea of abusiveness in his novel Great Expectations. He applies abusive behaviors in the personalities of his characters. Both the protagonist and antagonist are often treated poorly or routinely abused. The author uses negative aspects of their lives to highlight the emptiness and abusive environment of unhealthy relationships. In the

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    of a first impression‚ but considering someone’s personality isn’t always shown through this snapshot judgment‚ first impressions are often deceiving. Sometimes authors use this powerful idea to develop their characters more thoroughly. In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ Pip is first seen as a conceited and negative character and the Aged is seen as a simply dull one. Through Dickens’ use of cheerful diction‚ Pip and the Aged evolve into more likeable and complex characters. In this passage

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    Social class - great expectations Social class is explored through the characters and settings of ‘great expectations’. Different views are shown‚ for how Pip sees and perceives social classes‚ how criminals fit into the social class and how each class is presented by Charles dickens. Dickens presents social class in great expectations as quite rigid but still changing at the same time. It seems that where you are born is where you really belong‚ even if you do have all the gentlemanly qualities

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    In Shakespeare’s time‚ the English lived with a strong sense of social class -- of belonging to a particular group because of occupation‚ wealth‚ and ancestry. Elizabethan Society had a very strict social code at the time that Shakespeare was writing his plays. Social class could determine all sorts of things‚ from what a person could wear to where he could live to what jobs his children could get. Some families moved from one class to another‚ but most people were born into a particular class and

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    that Mark Twain had a desire for the simple life. He once said that‚ "Good friends‚ good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." One of the greatest examples of Conscience and how it affects a boy named Pip is found in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. What would you do if you were forced to do something that conflicted everything you believed in? In the story‚ Pip is confronted with a similar scenario in which he has to steal food for an escaped convict who

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    A Knight’s Tale Following is a comparison of how the social status in the movie compares to the social status of the middle ages. In the movie‚ they start off with a slow dance and then it turns into hip hop. They went to a ball dance and there was a lot of food and so was there in the middle ages. In the movie there is not slow dancing all the way through the song. If you look up the history of the middle ages‚ their dances are similar‚ but they didn’t have hip hop. It’s just a slow move dance

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    Great Expectations Vocabulary 1) Corroborated (vb) Supported or established by existing evidence. “The hue and cry going off to the Hulks‚ and people coming thence to examine the iron‚ Joe’s opinion was corroborated.” Pocket corroborated Pip’s suspicions that Estella had already taken a huband. Sagaciously (adv) Intelligently or wisely. “I sagaciously observed‚ if it didn’t signify to him‚ to whom did it signify?” Pip dozed off as Pumblechook sagaciously

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