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    Great Expectations is a coming of age novel. This novel is a story of Pip and his initial dreams and resulting disappointments that eventually lead him to becoming a genuinely good man. During his journey into adulthood‚ Pip comes to realize two diverse concepts of being a gentleman and he comes to find the real gentlemen in his life aren’t the people he had thought. Encouraged by Mrs. Joe and Pumblechook‚ as a child Pip entertains fantasies of becoming a gentleman. In the eyes of Pip a

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    Rectangles‚ Squares‚ and Circles) and the basic concept of what patterns are. Since the students are familiar with the basic shapes‚ we will be using these shapes and to have the student create their own individual pattern caterpillar based on the book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle. 3. Concept: • Four basic shapes are triangles‚ rectangles‚ squares‚ and circles. • Patterns are consistent and recurring characteristic or traits. (“something that is repeated over and over again.”) • Patterns

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    VSAT: Short for Very Small Aperture Terminal‚ an earthbound station used in satellite communications of data‚ voice and video signals‚ excluding broadcast television. A VSAT consists of two parts‚ a transceiver that is placed outdoors in direct line of sight to the satellite and a device that is placed indoors to interface the transceiver with the end user’s communications device‚ such as a PC. The transceiver receives or sends a signal to a satellite transponder in the sky. The satellite sends

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    Great Expectations An important quote that explains what kind of wealth is important is: “It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind” (Lucretius). This quote shows that having a simple life with no complications can lead to more happiness whereas someone who is wealthier might be more worrisome and have more problems despite all the money earned. Great Expectations is about a boy named Pip who wants to become a gentleman. When he gets that opportunity‚ he moves to London

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    Moral Struggles of Great Expectations Pip is the main character of the novel desires to fulfil his expectations and the world he lives in does not gladly provide an easy way to his dream. Joe is his brother-in-law and his angry sister’s husband who treats Pip much better than her‚ just because he happens to have a bog heart. In the beginning of the novel‚ prior to Pip being exposed to the world he feels that he can satisfy his expectations‚ Joe and Pip are equals – the humbleness and loyalty that

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    Julie Vaughn Russell August 4‚ 2013 My Unrealistic Expectations of College Since graduating in 1998 I have dreamed of going to college. We lived in a small town called Corunna‚ Michigan with a population of around 15‚000 people. This town had no college so the only choice for higher education was at least an hour away. I lived with my grandmother and grandfather and they couldn’t afford to send me away to college. After graduating I decided to move to Florida to go to college and give myself

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    Details: Supplier: Park Pipe Ltd‚ Seoul. Contractor: Chic Koon Industries‚ China. Site: New Shanghai Docklands (under construction) Project: Supply of pipe and fittings Project value: W 4‚000‚000‚000 Interest rate on loans: 5% pa Negotiation Expectations: Park Pipe: To have the retention monies reduced to nil. Chic Koon: To get the full 20% retention money. Information required from all Students: Your agenda for the planned negotiation. Your ‘Best alternative’ Your ‘Worst alternative’

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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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    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens tells a story of a young boy named Pip who grew up in a lower class but slowly finds himself transforming into society’s view of a ’gentleman’ in order to gain the approval of Estella. Throughout the Novel many characters‚ such as Joe‚ Estella‚ and Magwitch provide Pip with a very important lesson; Your true friends will love and care for you no matter what happens or how much wrong you do to them. This life lesson Pip learns is one of the most important themes

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    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Great Expectations is a bildungsroman‚ or a coming-of-age novel‚ published by Chapman & Hall in 1861‚ the story it’s set among the Marshes of Kent in London in the early-to-mid 1800s. This is the story about Pip‚ an orphan boy who lives with his sister who is married the blacksmith‚ the story follows the life of this boy‚ from his awakening to life. The main characters are Pip‚ Mrs. Joe‚ Joe Gargery‚ Miss Havisham‚ Estella‚ Abel Magwitch.‚ Mr. Jaggers

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