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    together‚ she is expressing her contempt of his background. Even though Pip is hurt by her taunts‚ he still becomes infatuated with Estella‚ and it is this attraction which triggers his own animosity towards his origins. Sometime after Pip has come of age and has been working in the forge with Joe‚ the lawyer Jaggers informs him of an anonymous benefactor who wishes to make the protagonist a gentleman. Incorrectly Pip assumes this benefactor to be Miss Havisham‚ and starts to entertain the belief that

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    Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9‚ are apt at critiquing victorian society. Yet‚ the plays are somewhat thematically different. The critiques present in The Importance of Being Earnest focus on the victorian obsession with appearances‚ whereas those in Cloud 9 have a greater emphasis on colonialism and the repression of gender and sexuality. Both works are highly relevant to the society and time in which they were published. Hence‚ although both critique victorian society‚ Churchill also discusses modern society

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    Women have always struggled to get equality they deserved from the society Victorian era to 21st Century due to male dominance‚ depression‚ hysteria‚ and gender roles. Female suppression is mostly due to male dominance because the men also feel like they were better and strong than the women. In the Victorian Era‚ women faced a lot challenges considering equality and rights compared to the 21st century. In the 21st century‚ Women have received more equality and rights in general society thanks to

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    developed nations. The main focus of this essay is going to be on fallen woman. In the Victorian era women were seen as pure and clean because of this view‚ their bodies were seen as temples which should not be adorned with jewellery. A woman should be reminded that marrying she gives up many advantages. A few artists such as William Holman Hunt and Augustus Leopold Egg and many more portrayed these Victorian values through narrative artwork and this essay is going to discuss a few of these artist’s

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    he Victorian Ages were a rough time for the working class. Children were considered a helping hand‚ and in those times the people did not believe in childhood. Children were considered labor slaves‚ and they were in high demand. Children worked on the farms‚ the street‚ textile mills‚ servants and even the worst‚ prostitution. Often children were orphans‚ and they lived on the streets. But orphans were not the only children on the streets; children that came from abusive families‚ alcoholics

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    Child Labor in Victorian England "The report described the children as ‘Chained‚ belted‚ harnessed like dogs…black‚ saturated with wet‚ and more than half-naked‚ crawling upon their hands and knees‚ and dragging their heavy loads behind them’" (Yancey 34). This quote from Ivor Brown probably best describes the strenuous work preformed by a child laborer during the Victorian Era. Child laborers played an important part in developing the country’s economy. Children‚ one of the main sources of

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    Different servants had different levels of responsibility and different levels of privileges. The cook‚ is one of the most important members of the domestic staff of a Victorian household. She would typically have her own bedroom‚ and earn a salary about double that of a housemaid or chambermaid. Her realm is the kitchen and dining room. She would be involved in menu planning with the lady of the house‚ and from that would be responsible for shopping‚ running the kitchen‚ preparing the meal‚ cleaning

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    Can Norton antivirus detect worm’s virus? Fadi M.S Al-suhimat Recent Internet worm outbreaks have infected hundreds of thousands of Internet servers and user machines within minutes‚ causing billions of dollars in losses for businesses‚ governments‚ and service providers. The high stakes involved have inspired numerous research projects‚ through which industry and academic institutions are working to strengthen local-area and wide-area networked systems’ abilities to fend off cyber-attacks. To

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    Education in Victorian England was different from today’s schooling in many aspects. The malicious treatment of students at boarding schools frequently included being beaten and almost starved. Some children died as a consequence of the harsh way of life. Officials at these schools commonly censored mail and did not let pupils take vacations home‚ so parents had little to no knowledge of these problems. However‚ many children still attended these schools‚ because public education was more expensive

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    1800’s‚ society deemed sex talk as confidential and urged others to discuss sex purely for procreation. Therefore from 1820 to 1860‚ the era became known as “Early Victorian True Love” where sex was perceived as an act of true love triggering reproduction and not pleasure. However‚ from 1860 to 1892 an era identified as “Late Victorian Sex-Love” was established and sex converted into desire and economic gain. Consequently‚ in 1892 different interpretations of intercourse inaugurated new identifiers

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