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    I want to have the distinguished honor of enrolling in the Reserve Officer Training Corps because I wish to do something bigger than myself so that one day when time has pushed forward I can look back and say my single greatest decision in life was to be courageous and join the military through ROTC. Acceptance into the program would not only open a door to a life unlike any other‚ but it would give that unit another talented‚ hungry‚ and driven mind in it’s ranks. There is no other candidate that

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    Katerina Alexander Period 4 Knox 1/24/2011 Great Expectations Timed Write Essay In the passage provided from Chapter 37 of Great Expectations the characters of Pip‚ Miss Skiffins‚ Wemmick‚ and the Aged P use adequately calm and gentle actions to provide a safe and homely setting for Pip. This passage begins with a description of a post meal event where Pip feels “warm” and “greasy”. The Aged P‚ Wemmick‚ and Miss Skiffins moved around in a gentle manner as Miss Skiffins “washed up the tea-things

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    Essay on Great Expectations Pip needs to tear himself away from societies’ beliefs such as the ever so important social class standings by changing the way he treats the different-classed people. Must he make those judgments based on his own understanding of their characters‚ or rely on the prejudice that society has set for him? He wants to become successful and wealthy and well respected in society but in doing so‚ must he give up his character amd loyalty to his loved ones? Pip attempts to achieve

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    Great Expectations Essay- Charles Dickens- The well admired novelist Charles Dickens was born in 1812 to a clerk in the navy and wife Elizabeth. Charles was the oldest of eight children two of which died in childhood. The writer reflects his own upsetting family life onto the pages of his book. However he does exaggerate himself and what he went through‚ but under the name of Pip‚ this really adds to the atmosphere of the book. More great tributes to Great Expectations are the brilliant page turning

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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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    Great Expectations In Charles Dickens novel‚ Great Expectations‚ he portrays characters from both the working and leisure classes and the different life styles they live. Joe is a man that is born into the working class. Unlike Estella‚ his life is not filled with spare time‚ and Joe doesn’t eat the best food that is offered. Estella is not the daughter of Miss Havisham because she is adopted at a young age. Dickens makes witty remarks about each class. Coming from a working class‚ Dickens understands

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    Prince Eric she will become a mermaid again‚ but Ariel can’t bear to kill him and commits suicide by throwing herself to the sea and turning into sea foam – a very different conclusion from the family-friendly Disney version. Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is another fairy tale that doesn’t have a very conventional ending. His novel makes it clear that these tales do not have to follow the same path as others just to be good. Using satire and poignancy‚ Dickens spins a story with both typical fairy

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    Imprisonment in Great Expectations Prison is a very grim and doleful place for humans in which everyone might experience once in their life physically or mentally. The theme of imprisonment is demonstrated frequently in many works of literature‚ as many characters must struggle with the reality of their prison whether it is a physical or mental prison. In Charles Dickens’s bildungsroman novel‚ Great Expectations‚ the characters Miss Havisham‚ Estella‚ and Pip must struggle and endure physical and/or

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    Jasmine Arana Mrs. Ramirez English 9/ Period 1 20 January 2015 Great Expectations Great Expectations is a comprehensive novel written by Charles Dickens that shows the spiritual and moral development of the main character‚ Pip. Pip is a young orphan child that lives with his sister‚ Mrs. Joe‚ and her husband‚ Joe and is best friends with a beautiful‚ smart girl named Biddy. He lives a happy childhood with his apprentice‚ Joe‚ until one day Uncle Pumplechook invites him to “play” at Miss Havisham’s

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    After being exposed to the life of the upper class and apprenticed to a blacksmith‚ Pip‚ from Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations takes a walk with his friend Biddy and confesses his inordinate desire to become a gentleman on behalf of a beautiful‚ yet snotty Estella. As Pip struggles through the snare of distress over his aspirations‚ he dismisses Biddy’s difference in opinion about the significance of the upper class. Through this‚ Dickens expresses that the misperceptions of class bring unnecessary

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