Howard Bloom, a literary critic notes, "That is, Dickens portrays Havisham and the convict as social products who self-defeatingly embrace the ideology of the class that has unjustly destroyed their innocence and happiness" (Bloom 258). Estella is another example. She is a member of the upper class, a ward of Miss Havisham, but she is really the child of a convict and a cold, calculating woman who only manipulates Pip. She represents all that was wrong with Victorian British society and culture, and it takes Pip nearly the entire novel to see her and society for what they really are. Biddy is the exact opposite of Estella, but because she is "lower class," Pip never sees her for what she is. Indeed, she represents the best of a person, while Estella, the untouchable, represents the worst of British society and culture.
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Bloom, Harold, ed. Charles Dickens Great Expectations. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2000.

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Ed. Margaret Cardwell. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Newlin, George. Understanding Great Expectations a Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.

The man was limping on towards this latter, as if he were the pirate come to life, and come down, and going back to hook himself up again. It gave me a terrible turn when I thought so; and as I saw the cattle lifting their heads to gaze after him, I wondered whether they thought so too. I looked all round for the horrible young man, and could see no signs of him. but, now I was frightened again, and ran home without stopping.
Critical Reading

This passage sets the tone for the first, dramatic scene of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, when the young boy Pip has his life-altering encounter with the convict Magwitch. Immediately, the reader learns that the boy, Pip lives in the country, because of the grazing cattle on the field and the overgrown nettles of the untended graveyard. The reader also learns that people rather rarely…...

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Appearance vs. Reality in Great Expectations

In Great Expectations Pip is frequently affected, effected and influenced by appearances. The very nature of his life is dictated by his view of the appearance of others and his own self and outward appearances. The work itself demonstrates a major theme associated with not judging by appearance as it simultaneously demonstrates how much those very appearances actually mean to the individual characters and society in general. The tenor of the story is based around the concept of appearance making or breaking an individual while juxtaposing the dark concept of hidden faults and weaknesses that exploit all the characters, regardless of appearance. The juxtaposition of the appearance and power of wealth with the ideation that it represents all that is good and poor as all that is bad, specifically speaking of people and their appeared circumstances is a construct of social criticism on the…...

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Works Cited

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. East Rutherford, NJ, USA: Viking Penguin, 1997.

Great Expectations Dickens judges his characters not on social position or upbringing but on their treatment of one another
Character, class and social status in Great Expectations

The world in which Charles Dickens wrote was one in which class and social status was a determining factor in establishing the quality of an individual's life. Social status was an element of nineteenth century society, like the legal system, that Dickens continually exposed and criticized in his novels. Dickens allows our judgment of his characters to be determined by actions and relationship rather than by social standing or appearance. In essence, the understanding and assessment of the characters in this novel depends on separating appearance from reality. Social status is no guarantee of good character and this aspect is explored in the various relationships in Great Expectations. The final judgment of character lies rather in the evidence of their morality and compassion for…...

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Born, Daniel. The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel: Charles Dickens to H.G. Wells. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

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imprisoned angle of human character Charles Dickens has presented in his novel Great Expectations mainly through its central and self inspired character of Pip.
Great Expectations (Dickens)

Charles Dickens is without a doubt one of the most finest and hugely admired of the British 19th century writers. To this popularity two factors mainly contributed, the first being the quality his writing. Secondly his work was widely adapted for both the stage and the screen. Additionally the writer was involved in an extremely triumphant second career as a public performer in recitals of extracts from his own writings. Great Expectations presents the world from an imprisoned angle.

ith the book being titled Great Expectations the confidence within the writer surfaces along with the standard he has set for himself. The mastermind that Charles Dickens was it in unlikely that he selected the title as part of a marketing gimmick. It is rather more…...

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Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations.

Farewell." (Bronte 596)
In other obvious ways, the novel divides itself from the values of recognition, suggesting that individuality is a multiple and variable potential, a power of estrangement or alteration as much as it is a power of identity. Here, fate seems to play an important part if we consider, for instance, the multiple scenes of non-recognition in the novel: Lucy goes to Belgium where she meets Graham again; he helps her at night, though she does not recognize him, and he does not recognize her; nor do they recognize each other on the many occasions when he is at the school. Recognition only takes place after he and his mother have taken her in after her collapse, and she recognizes their furniture and ornaments. Again, Paulina returns, and she and Lucy fail to recognize each other for a longtime, as do Paulina and Graham. She also comes across…...

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The coincidences of plot are abundant in Villette. The fact that Lucy was acquainted with a de Bassompierre in childhood, and that she just happens to meet another relative of that family (Ginevra) on her sea-crossing may appear hard to believe when considered as a whole. However, the world of early nineteenth-century Europe was smaller than today, with fewer people in the educated classes. Since there was no electronic communication, word of mouth was more important then. It is not outside the realm of possibility that Lucy would meet these two people in the manner that she did, but it is still remarkably convenient for the plot. Bronte never veers into the fantastic; merely the believably improbable. Bronte even wryly inserts into the mind of Lucy, upon the reunion with Polly, the idea that "it seems a miracle when that chance befalls" (Bronte Chapter 24). This device, especially with the excellent character development for which Bronte is famous, was more common and more credible in novels of her day than what many readers prefer today.

Bronte, Charlotte. Villette. London: Penguin, 1985.

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002.

Crime
hen Justice is Neither Deaf nor Blind: Crime and Punishment in Dickens' Great Expectations

Charles Dickens' Great Expectations is epic in scope, covering the rise and fall of its hero Pip through the class system of nineteenth century England with the growth and failure of a tragic romance tied into the package. The several interconnected plot lines, the wide cast of detailed and fully human characters, and the many timeless and universal themes that play integral roles throughout the story all mark this novel as one of the masterpieces of English literature, and its social commentary is important both historically and as an ongoing dialogue with modern society. One theme in particular continues to reverberate all too resoundingly in a modern context: the novel deals with crime and punishment in many ways both fundamental to the plot and incidental, and the perspective this gives on the relationship between justice and…...

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Works Cited

Collins, Philip. Dickens and Crime. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. 1860-1. New York: Penguin, 1965.

Hagan, John. The Poor Labyrinth: The Theme of Social Injustice in Dickens's Great Expectations. Nineteenth-Century Fiction 9(3) (1954), pp. 169-78.

Morgentaler, Goldie. Meditating on the Low: A Darwinian Reading of Great Expectations. Studies in English Literature 38($) (1998), pp. 707-21.

Storm and Great Expectations
George Herbert's poem "The Storm" showcases a variety of themes which have been long present in literature, film and other art forms for hundreds of years. This poem, by focusing on the presence of the storm, speaks to the inherent, yet unavoidable struggles of man via the journey of life. To struggle is organic; it's natural and as inescapable as a storm carved by nature. It's equally as natural to not to succumb to the storm, to rage and fight against the storm and to continue on one's path. This poem brings a range of works from art and literature to mind. Most notably, the film adaptation of "great Expectations" emerges as strongly evocative.

Great Expectations directed by Alfonso Cuaron (1998) was an adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens. This film was able to portray the inherent and inescapable struggle of a poor boy born to…...

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Cuaron, A. (Director). (1998). Great Expectations [Motion Picture].

Glazer, M. (1998). Great Expectations. Retrieved from Drew's Script O. Rama:  http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/g/great-expectations-script-transcript-gywneth.html 

Herbert, G. (n.d.). The Storm. Retrieved from Luminarium.org:  http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herbert/storm.htm

EuroDisney
With great expectations of 11 million visitors the first year and exceptional profits anticipated from concessions, entertainment, hotels and sports, the Walt Disney Company imperviously launched EuroDisney in April, 1992. Despite the fact there had been two previous attempts at mega-parks in France, each priced at $150M or more and launched in the years 1987 and 1991 that failed, Disney charged on against cultural and economic warning sights. Analyzing this case from the context of the four functions of management including planning, organizing, leading and controlling, the factors that led to the initial difficult launch period and eventual acceptance by the French is explained.

Planning at EuroDisney Takes on an Unfortunate Ethnocentric Perspective

Instead of realizing that the primary factors behind the success of other parks located in foreign nations was in large part due to managers from those nations running them, Disney executives ignore this point and plunge into managing the…...

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Geert Hofstede, & Robert R. McCrae. (2004). Personality and Culture Revisited: Linking Traits and Dimensions of Culture. Cross - Cultural Research, 38(1), 52-88.

reading is "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens. This introduction to a different kind of novel is a new experience for me, because as I finished reading the novel, I felt disenchanted and unsure of the story's final chapter, and the way Dickens ended his novel. I've always been acquainted with stories that depict life full of suffering, but in the end, one can always expect that the story will end up alright, that the protagonist, the sufferer, will emerge triumphant in the end. Not so with my first novel. Not only did I feel disenchanted, I was at a loss and did not know what really happened between the characters, Estella and Pip. Did they end up being together after all? Or did they realize/decide that they are just friends?
This disenchantment led me to further discover other kinds of literary works, especially the classic ones, and true enough; I…...

Expectations and Significance of Group Facilitation Learning Outcomes
Humans are notoriously difficult subjects to analyze, understand, motivate and lead, and while some group counselors appear to possess a natural ability to facilitate effective group interactions, others struggle to cope with the exigencies of a group setting. Despite the challenges that are involved, the importance of developing the requisite skills needed for effective group facilitation means that counselors must draw on the entire range of group dynamic theories and proven strategies to achieve this goal. In order to gain further insights into these areas, this paper provides a review of the relevant literature to identify relevant expectations from learning about group dynamic theories and strategies, followed by a discussed concerning various aspects of applying these concepts in real-world settings. Finally, a summary of the research and important findings are presented in the paper's conclusion.

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Clark, A.J. (2002). Scapegoating: Dynamics and interventions in group counseling. Journal of Counseling and Development, 80(3), 271-272.

Furr, S.R. & Barrett, B. (2000). Teaching group counseling skills: Problems and solutions.

Counselor Education and Supervision, 40(2), 94.

Zinck, K. & Littrell, J.M. (2000). Action research shows group counseling effective with at-risk adolescent girls. Professional School Counseling, 4(1), 50-52.

Expectations Change That Led evolution
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How the ideological changes that accompanied the revolution shaped the arts/culture of ussia/USS

The social and economic systems experienced tremendous transitions occasioning to stress among the populations of ussia. The great reforms formed a cautious path to modernization and reform. Through emancipation, peasants were allowed to own pieces of land and had the personal freedom to share their pieces of land. However, these peasants were not happy with the settlement programs based on emancipation because they held the belief that they were legal owners of the land. This claim became a major source of discontent leading to the 1917 peasant revolution (Sampson & Marienhoff, 2008).

ussia experienced a turning point at the onset of 1917; the nation was prepared for revolution and indeed, they saw the first revolution, which brought rapid changes and increased social opportunities. Huge traffics of peasants…...

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Rossman, V. (2010). Russian intellectual antisemitism in the post-Communist era. Lincoln, Neb:

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"(Fitzgerald, 2) the image of personality, the "self as process" (Bloom, 189), parallels that of reality as process. Gatsby's own character is for its most part invented, dreamed up into reality, according to a plan he had made when he was nineteen. Fitzgerald's novel is thus an extremely subjective vision of the world, in which the author has a very important voice. As in all modernist novels, reality is obliterated by the artistic and scientific constructions. Fitzgerald tells the story of the American Dream, and the blind belief in idealism. As Breitwieser explains, Fitzgerald's intention is to define the modernist tendency of disconnecting from the real and dissolving into the artistic and the relativist view, just like in the jazz piece Nick listens to at Gatsby's party: "terminating expression, dissevering the conduit that makes things really real" (Breitwieser, 370)
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Barrett, Laura. "Material without Being Real: Photography and the End of…...

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Barrett, Laura. "Material without Being Real: Photography and the End of Reality in 'The Great Gatsby.'"

Studies in the Novel. Vol. 30(4) 1998, p. 540-555.

Breitwieser, Mitchell. "Jazz Fractures: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Epochal Representation." American Literary History. 3 (2000): 359-81

Bloom, Harold, ed. Gatsby. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991.

New Deal and Programs to Cure the Great Depression
Back in the 1930s, the Americans experienced the worst financial crisis that has ever occurred in the United States' history. In attempts to get back from this particular disaster, the New Deal- a chain of laws and programs, meant to provide assistance to the Americans- was established by Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, an argument has always existed regarding the usefulness of the policies of the New Deal. Robert haples published his results to the prolonged Great Depression in his article "here Is the Consensus among American Economic Historians?" back in 1995. The findings of a research on Forty Propositions states: it is quite exciting to view where the division falls in this argument, given that the difference in reactions clearly exists amidst historians and economists.

In his article, "An Overview of the Great Depression," he offers an introduction to the circumstances that…...

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Eggertsson, Gauti. "Great Expectations and the End of the Depression." American Economic Review. 98. (2008): 1476-1516.

Kirkwood, John. "The Great Depression: A Structural Analysis." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. 4. (1972): 811-837.

Parker, Randall, ed. Economic History Association. Tuscan: 2010. s.v. "An Overview of the Great Depression."   (accessed February 10, 2013).http://www.eh.net/eha/contact-us 

6). Beattie, like anyone else, was a product of her times.
She is also, again like anyone else, a product of her own individual circumstances. A further interpretation of the bowl as a symbol of the feminine finds a deeper connection between the circumstances of the fictional Andrea and the real-life Ann Beattie. Though she is not especially forthcoming with personal details, there are some facts with which a correlation can be drawn.

Though (presumably) happily married for many years, Ann Beattie and her husband have no children (Frost, par. 1). Again, she has not shared the reasons for this, nor would it be a reasonable question to pose to her. It is a significant fact to note, however, given the resemblance of the bowl to the female womb. Henningfield suggests an interpretation of the bowl, especially of the husband's turning away from it and Andrea's refusal to let him put…...

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Beattie, Ann. "Janus." The Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed. Allison Booth, J. Paul Hunter, Kelly J. Mays. New York: Norton, 2005. 280-283.

Brent, Liz. "Overview of 'Janus.'" Short Stories for Students, Vol. 9, the Gale Group, 2000.

Frost, Adam. "Beattie, Ann." Literature Online bibliography. Cambridge, 2002. ProQuest Information and Learning Company. 12 Mar. 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl-ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion-us&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:ref:BIO006220:0

Henningfield, Diane Andrews. "Overview of 'Janus.'" Short Stories for Students, Vol. 9, the Gale Group, 2000.

1. The symbolism of the caged bird in Maya Angelou's autobiographical work, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
2. The theme of captivity and freedom in Harper Lee's novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird."
3. Analyzing the oppression and confinement of women in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper."
4. The symbolism of the birdcage in Henrik Ibsen's play, "A Doll's House," in relation to gender roles and societal expectations.
5. Comparing the experiences of the caged birds in Richard Wright's novel, "Native Son," and Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, "The Handmaid's Tale."
6. Exploring the theme of captivity and liberation in Jean Rhys's....