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    Great Expectations was a novel written by Charles Dickens in 1860. Dickens was born on February 7th 1812, in Hampshire. Charles was working for long hours in extremely bad conditions at the age of 12, experiences like have a huge influence on the way he writes his novels because they’re mostly about how the poor lived during Victorian Britain. Great expectations was set in Victorian Britain in the early nineteenth century, where women were seen more as objects or property than a human, where people

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    Mansfield uses an extensive range of language techniques to portray the lonely and slightly delusional spinster; Miss Brill. The story of "Miss Brill" is an extremely good example of how a writer can use different language techniques to reveal a variety of aspects of the character. The author uses characterisation through the language techniques to reveal a variety of truths to the reader about Miss Brill’s personality. Mansfield uses the language techniques to express the theme of connectedness throughout

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    those imposed upon her as a child to those she has learned from her suffering as an adult. Because Miss Havisham adopts her, Estella is taught that only one thing matters in her life, and that is to destroy the hearts of men. Through lessons of coldness, pride and cruelty, Estella learns to reject love. She’s treated as an object, only serving to satisfy Miss Havisham’s need for revenge against men. Miss Havisham “[adopts] her to be loved”, and she loves Estella only because she knows Estella is capable

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    Donald J. Trump By Rong Rong Political Science 001 CRN #72154 Professor Uranga November 17, 2016 Introduction I chose to write about candidate Donald J. Trump because his idea of improving economics, creating more job opportunities and diminishing the gap between classes is favored by a large number of people in middle class and lower class, who are important forces during the election. Not believing in the American Dream claimed by Obama any longer, these people want to see something solid and practical

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    There is an ongoing debate on the detrimental effects that beauty pageants can have on their contestants. Judged solely on physical beauty, beauty pageants have been around for quite some time. The first pageant, the Miss America pageant, was held in 1921. Miss Universe and Miss USA soon followed, and by the 1960’s beauty pageants were part of American culture. Viewed as a positive and potentially rewarding competition, pageants have now recently had a drastic turn of view. Advocates of beauty

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    Essay on Great Expectations Theme Analysis

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    liking to her husband Joe because Pip is able to sympathize with him (Dickens 40). Joe becomes his confidant, a fact that becomes apparent when Pip comes home to face a harsh interrogation by Mrs. Joe and Uncle Pumblechook after his first visit to Miss Havisham’s. Pip lies to the both of them about his experience, but feels guilty about doing the same to Joe and confesses his wrongdoing. Joe shows understanding towards Pip, and instead of sternly rebuking him for lying, he simply but seriously Pip

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    The Change of Bond Girls In Adams' article Bond Girls:gender, technology and film she says that the question, how have Bond girls changed? "Blonder, dumber and thinner" would not

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    their own property. Miss Havisham is presented as the embodiment of women's failure to properly manage wealth and property. Mr. Havisham's settlement of the bulk of his estate on his daughter, despite the existence of a male heir, is unconventional, as the property system operated on a patrilineal basis. Estella's

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    ignorance of wealth and high society. Despite this Joe is the only character that is universally kind and compassionate, the stories only true gentleman, but is never socially recognized as such because of his low social stature. On the other hand Miss Havisham is a character that shows this relationship between wealth and immorality. She is the most visibly wealthy person in the novel; she is also the cruelest. All of her actions are motivated by a desire to humiliate Pip and make him feel in human

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    teaching Pip and the reader.   A related theme that is carried through in this ending is the idea of mistaken identities. Estella mistakes little Pip for Pip's son, when he is really the son of Joe and Biddy. This is like how Pip mistakes Miss Havisham for the one who gives him his expectations when it is really Magwitch.   In the original ending of Great Expectations, there is no Chapter 59, and Dickens reunites Pip and Estella in four short paragraphs. Although this ending

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