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    The Vengeful Miss Havisham - Great Expectations. In Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Miss Havisham is a complex character whose past remains a mystery. We know about her broken engagement, an event that changes her life forever. Miss Havisham desperately wants revenge, and Estella, her adopted daughter, is the perfect tool to carry out her motives. With her plan of revenge in mind, Miss Havisham deliberately raises Estella to avoid emotional attachment and treat those who love her

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    Illusion vs. Reality in Miss Brill "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield is set the Jardins Publiques in France. Every Sunday Miss Brill looks forward to getting dressed up and visiting the park, where she enjoys people watching. Her weekly visits to the park are undoubtedly the highlight of her week, bringing her great joy and satisfaction. There are many illusions in this story, in this essay I intend to show three different illusions Miss Brill uses to make herself happy and how her reality

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    with features consisting of flat stomachs, lean legs, and a tall stature. A study done on Miss America physiques over the past 95 years reveals that there has been an apparent decrease of body mass indexes (BMIs), dropping since the 1920s. These pageant winners have only surpassed the lowest mean BMI that has ever been recorded of the average female, once, in nearly the past century. Specifically, the range of Miss America winners’ body mass indexes have spanned from 17-21, whereas the average American

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    1A. A good detective is a very smart person who is able to use evidence and to detect lies and truth. And is also able to think things in a logic and quicker way as well as understanding criminal's movements. For example, detective Dupin in the "Murders of the Rue Morgue" from how the bones were broken and how a lot of hair was pulled out, he figured out that the criminal was not a human, but rather an criminal(Orangutan). "I proceeded to think thus—à posteriori. The murderers did escape from one

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    Bullying Bullies

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    recent studies; sometimes kids miss school to avoid bullies.”This proves that those who have been bullied don’t want to go to school. This causes children to stay away from school to avoid getting bullies". For example ‘The National Center for education statistics reported that 27.6 percent of Hispanic students have reported being bullied, says Claudia Redriguez ". This explains the number of Hispanic kids is getting bullied from school.In the text, it states "Miss America 2003, Erika Harold, was

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    People in society do not give enough credit to those who raised them. We take advantage of all the sacrifices and love they give to us as children. They are the reason we are who we are today. In the novel, Great Expectations, Dickens tells the story of Pip, the protagonist, suffered through emotional abuse during his childhood and how he does not understand the importance of the good people in his life. As a young adult, he moves to London, where he encounters people from many walks of life, businessmen

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    turned into beauty pageant in the country. Even though we now conduct beauty pageants nowadays, we still continue to perform Flores de Mayo every fifth month of the year and it showcases the beauty of selected women in their provinces (Ocampo, 2017). Miss Philippines started in 1926 during the Manila Carnival which was established by the US Government (Ocampo, 2017). “Beauty pageants are based of looks despite the inclusion of a talent portion. How one appears, what one wears and how one presents their

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    Charles Dickens, “Great Expectations” follows a boy named Pip through a journey of meeting new people around the town and also is considered an Orphan. There are a lot of characters that are introduced like Miss Havisham who always wears a wedding who shows up a lot in the book. Pip changes a lot through the novel with wanting to be a gentlemen but has made a lot of mistakes and blames it on his sister Mrs. Joe who raised him by hand. The women seem to be different from the men in this novel with

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    Charles Dicken was a white, Christian man who ripped and tore his way up the social hierarchy, who turned his grimy rags into eternal riches. The fruit of his labor has been transcribed into dialects and languages that transcend Anglo Saxon society. He is crowned a prince of Victorian literature and the cerulean sapphire on his crown is his Great Expectations, a bildungsroman at its finest. First published by Chapman and Hall in 1861, it follows a boy’s transformation into a man in a rotting industrial

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    The crime novelist Ariadne Oliver attends to a lunch meeting with other writers and fans. At this meeting, she is confronted by a woman unknown to her. The woman is asking questions about the deaths of Mrs. Olivers friends, a seemingly happily married couple. Seeing that Ariadne both was a close friend of the two and a crime novelist, the woman figures that Mrs. Oliver could find out if there’s something worth knowing about their deaths. At first Mrs. Oliver is reluctant; She writes crime stories

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