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- 3891: Why Our Grading System Is Impo
- ... was informed by my employer that the most advantageous part of my application was my advanced level of high school classes and standardized math test scores. Letters of recommendation were disregarded in his statement. In short, any job that requires high levels of thought and logic can be matched with individuals who present high test scores. Any Microsoft employer would quickly argue that evidence of strong computer programming (i.e. grades ...
- 3892: Great Expectations And Oliver Twist
- ... escape from conditions which make them unhappy: Pip from his poverty, and Oliver from his loneliness and starvation. Since dealing with escapism, it is not surprising that death also plays a major role in both stories. In the two novels, death and coffins symbolize a happy and peaceful manner of escape.19 In Oliver Twist, it is suggested that only loneliness and brutality exist on earth. Supposedly, there is no sanctity ...
- 3893: Great Expectations - Mrs. Joe
- ... own. Being uneducated, Joe never felt sure of himself that he could make an appropriate decision, anyway. When asking for Mrs. Joe's hand in marraige, it can be assumed that Mrs. Joe did everything short of buying the wedding ring herself to make the marriage a reality. So, Mrs. Joe essentially created Joe to be the character that he allowed himself to be. With the slow death of Mrs. Joe ...
- 3894: Great Expectations
- ... of passion and character, the real premises of which we detect only when we are startled by the conclusions. The plot of Great Expectations is also noticeable as indicating, better than any of his previous stories, the individuality of Dickens's genius. Everybody must have discerned in the action of his mind two diverging tendencies, which in this novel, are harmonized. He possess a singularly wide, clear, and minute power of ...
- 3895: Great Expectations
- ... own. Being uneducated, Joe never felt sure of himself that he could make an appropriate decision, anyway. When asking for Mrs. Joe's hand in marraige, it can be assumed that Mrs. Joe did everything short of buying the wedding ring herself to make the marriage a reality. So, Mrs. Joe essentially created Joe to be the character that he allowed himself to be. With the slow death of Mrs. Joe ...
- 3896: Great Expectations
- ... escape from conditions which make them unhappy: Pip from his poverty, and Oliver from his loneliness and starvation. Since dealing with escapism, it is not surprising that death also plays a major role in both stories. In the two novels, death and coffins symbolize a happy and peaceful manner of escape.19 In Oliver Twist, it is suggested that only loneliness and brutality exist on earth. Supposedly, there is no sanctity ...
- 3897: Great Expectations
- ... Havisham; Orlick, somewhat later, to keep her gate. Pip regards Biddy as a sister, Orlick‘¦s intentions towards her are less honorable. Pip associates with Magwitch, Orlick with Magwitch‘¦s bitter enemy, Compeyson. Orlick, in short, seems embarked on some great expectations of his own, sullenly tracking Pip‘¦s upward progress from the marshes to Satis House and on to London. Pip cannot rid himself of this obscene shadow. In Vol ...
- 3898: Wicca Versus Witchcraft
- ... underground where much of their knowledge and traditions were lost. Wicca does not include flying on brooms. There are many rituals, which include brooms, however, and these may be the source of the flying-broomstick stories. In parts of Europe, some people run across their fields astride a broom to coax the grain to grow. They may also jump over a broom handle asking the grain to grow as high as ...
- 3899: Great Expectations
- ... reserved it for me to restore the desolate house, admit the sunshine into the dark rooms, set the clocks a-going and the cold hearths a-blazing, tear down the cobwebs, destroy the vermin, -- in short, do all the shining deeds of the young knight of romance, and marry the princess.... I had made up a rich attractive mystery, of which I was the hero." This is a very obvious illusion ...
- 3900: Great Expectations
- ... reserved it for me to restore the desolate house, admit the sunshine into the dark rooms, set the clocks a-going and the cold hearths a-blazing, tear down the cobwebs, destroy the vermin, -- in short, do all the shining deeds of the young knight of romance, and marry the princess.... I had made up a rich attractive mystery, of which I was the hero." (252) This is a very obvious ...
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