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"Exceeding Customer Expectations", 2007.
An analysis of "Exceeding Customer Expectations" by Kirk Kazanjian.
1,419 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper examines the book, "Exceeding Customer Expectations" by Kirk Kazanjian, and looks at how Kazanjian talks about the formation and operation of the Enterprise Car Rental Company. The paper discusses how the author ascribes the company's success to its approach to customer service. The paper further relates that the book tells the reader what elements of customer service benefit a company, how to include them in a business plan, how to deal with problems as they arise and how to learn lessons from the Enterprise experience and apply them to any business.
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"Kazanjian offers insight into how a company can succeed, suggesting that it needs to remain focused on motivating employees to satisfy customers completely. The history of Enterprise serves as his model, and he then emphasizes ways that focusing on customer satisfaction must be considered throughout a business operation and not simply in those areas that deal directly with the public. Of course, those areas need particular attention, but customer satisfaction begins with the design of a product, with packaging, with distribution, and indeed with every aspect of a company."
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Exceeding Expectations, 2001.
A review of Alice Walker's 'The Color Purple" and Mary McCarthy's "The Group".
2,085 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 2 sources, $ 65.95
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This paper analyzes the roles of women in society and the implications of these roles within Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" and Mary McCarthy's "The Group" and looks at how women's roles are reflected in the novels.
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"Before the age of feminism and the absence of women in the work place, women were judged by their ability to reproduce and become suitable wives and mothers. Since then, women have evolved to represent a different role in society, hastening to assume more professional roles as businesswomen, lawyers, CEO?s, professors, and doctors. Women have become more capable of surviving in modern society without any aid from husbands and families, and this new economic independence is proof of the evolution of a woman?s place in the context of the modern world. Accordingly, a woman?s ?authentic female selfhood ? is largely influenced by her choice of career or occupation, a decision that strongly affects a woman?s respective independence or dependence. In The Group and The Color Purple, by Mary McCarthy and Alice Walker, McCarthy?s character Kay and Walker?s Celie both demonstrate the effects of these economic structures on their own marriages, and also their reactions to these structures and the ways they overcame them. A woman?s socioeconomic status depends greatly on her ability to achieve beyond the excessive limitations placed on her by males, hence becoming a determining factor in her economic, but also personal, independence or dependence."
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Expectations in Childhood, 2002.
Compares society's expectations of a boy as seen in Julius Lester's "Being a Boy" with parental expectations of a proper Chinese girl as seen in Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club".
1,321 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper examines Julius Lester's feelings in "Being a Boy" about not being able to fulfill society's expectations of proper boy behavior, and the feelings expressed in Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" of not being able to fulfill the expectations of one's parents. A comparison is drawn as to which of each story's characters has the greater burden of expectations.
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"According to Julius Lester?s on ?Being a Boy,? the author was never particularly good at fulfilling masculine ideals. ?As boys go, I wasn?t much,? he says. He says he spent many childhood hours ?pummeling? his ego because of his inability to play cowboys and Indians properly, even to steal his neighbor?s fruit without becoming ill. However, Lester?s preoccupations with masculinity and femininity seem to pale in contrast to the worries of the women in Amy Tan?s novel The Joy Luck Club. Rather than simply worrying about growing up to be proper women, the protagonists of the novel must concern themselves of fitting their ideas about gender, their ethnic heritage, and their status as assimilated daughters of native Chinese mothers, into the fabric of their American identities."
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Expectations and Performance in Education, 2005.
Examines teacher expectations and student performance in education.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper discusses the impact of teacher expectations on student performance. It looks at the effects of a teacher's gender bias, expectations toward gifted versus learning disabled students, and teacher minority expectations. The results of prejudicial expectations and unequal treatment and expectations of students are also discussed.
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"The following presents the topic of teacher expectations and student performance. The effect of teacher expectations towards students on student performance in the classroom setting is discussed ..."
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"Great Expectations" and "A Clockwork Orange", 2008.
A review of the novels "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens and "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess.
1,098 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper examines two great works, "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens and "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess, as novels that fall under the Bildungsroman genre, which is a genre of novel that deals with the growth of the protagonist. The paper explains that the Bildungsroman novel chronicles the life of the hero from childhood to adulthood and the conflict that he meets and resolves on his way to wisdom. The paper then points out that some novels come under the umbrella of Bildungsroman but may contain few deviations such as Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange" and Dickens' "Great Expectations". The paper also looks at how compared to "A Clockwork Orange", "Great Expectations" is certainly a more conformist form of Bildungsroman but the one place where it deviates from tradition is the choice of narrator. The paper analyzes each novel in relation to Bildungsroman, and concludes that both novels are masterpieces in their own right, but Dickens's work is a better example of a true English Bildungsroman than Burgess' work.
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"Dickens has used an adult voice to narrate the experiences of a child which is starkly different from other examples of the genre where narrator is either a third person or is the protagonist himself who grows with the novel. Buckley, in his book, Seasons of Youth explains the origin of Bildungsroman and its three distinct categories. He further adds that English Bildungsroman tradition was different from that of German's since the former was "in its broadest sense . . . a convenient synonym for the novel of youth or apprenticeship" (13). Buckley's intensive research indicates that English bildungsroman was not always completely autobiographical."
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"Great Expectations", 2002.
Examines Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" as a novel about the formation of the self in relation to childhood.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 1 source, $ 71.95
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In this tale, we are met by Pip, first a young boy taken under the wing of a felon who places him with a delusional old maid, then a snobbish young man with expectations of being a member of the aristocracy and finally as a humbled man who has learned the lesson of humility. Childhood is a time in which what we are and do then determines in great part who we will become. Dickens, clearly, employs a significant amount of his own past and dreams for this novel. The themes of good and evil, of right and wrong, of sadness and happiness are all played right along side of each other in a demonstration that life rarely follows a straight and narrow path, that it is important to experience a fall from grace, or to lose one's great expectations, in order to fully own one's life. The hard-working humble man that Pip becomes by the end of the book would have been an insufferable immature boor had a change not taken place. For children, disappointment is indeed a bitter teacher. But, it is a necessary one as well. For it is in later childhood and adolescence that we can begin to fully understand that life will not always go our way. Unfortunately, there are many with lives that protect them from such knowledge. For them, perhaps, connecting with Pip is impossible. For the rest of us, however, we can truly understand what it is to have great expectations and to see them disappear, only to find that we are indeed the better for it. The exploration of childhood, and the symbolic nature of young development, is absolutely essential to this book. We are able to watch as Pip's infantile dreams of greatness, riches and power turn him into a monster, for no one actually gets what they want simply because they want it. Only the fact that he is a child redeems him.
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Students' Expectations and Achievement, 2007.
This paper discusses whether the expectations students have affect their academic performance.
724 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 25.95
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This paper explores how students' expectations affect their grades and performance. The paper reveals that students who have high expectations do better than students who have low expectations. The paper shows how, while many educators are concerned about test scores of African-Americans, there are several factors that affect the test scores. The paper emphasizes how students who perceive themselves as doing well will do better than students who fail to believe in themselves.
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"Jennifer entered college directly from high school. She has poor expectations for herself due to the fact that she was the first member in her family to go to college. Will the expectations that she has for herself affect her performance? Nancy has high expectations for herself concerning college because she had a 3.8 grade point average in college. Do the expectations students have about specific college classes affect their performance? How do different variables affect students' performances and should these be considered when students begin taking college courses? If students have positive attitudes about classes affect performance? How do negative attitudes affect students' performance?"
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The Future of Pip and Estella in Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations", 2002.
An examination of the relationship of Pip and Estella in Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" and whether they have a future together.
2,690 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 80.95
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This paper gives an overview of "Great Expectations" as the story of a young man who discovers that life as an adult is not simple and that there is a danger is pursuing ones childhood great expectations. The writer explains that two different endings are given by Dickens so that we don?t know what exactly will happen in the relationship between Pip and Estella. The second ending in particular leaves Pip?s future open and unclear. The paper argues that while we cannot definitely know what will happen to Pip and Estella we will see that both have grown up enough to make their own decisions and are quite likely to end up together. The writer explores the themes of childhood experience and dreams. It concludes by arguing that through reading the final chapter and in particular the revised ending, it becomes obvious that Pip and Estella have built up throughout the story to a final end ? one with each other.
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"Charles Dickens? novel, Great Expectations, is the story of a young man who grew up and out of poverty with grand dreams for his future, who discovers that life is not as easy or as pat as he once thought, and becomes a man in the end, aware of the dangers of pursuing too closely childhood?s great expectations. In the end, even though there are two different endings offered by Dickens, we do not know exactly what will happen to Pip or to Estella. The second ending, in particular, helps us to understand that Pip?s life is not clear and the future is as open as an adult as it seemed narrowly defined as a child".
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"Great Expectations", 2004.
This paper offers two mini-essays on "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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The paper provides two brief essays on Charles Dickens' novel, "Great Expectations." The first essay deals with the themes of the work and the second essay discusses Dickens' writing style. The essays discuss
how an individual's expectations shape his/her life and examine Dickens' use of figurative language.
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"There are a number of themes in Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations." Perhaps one of the most significant is the fact that individuals often have great expectations that shape and inform their lives expectations that are all too often much greater than realized. Pip is an excellent ? and the main example of this. Raised by his harsh older sister and her kindly blacksmith husband Pip's maltreatment by his sister is a sign of her own frustrated expectations at her status in life."
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Charles Dickens? ?Great Expectations?, 2002.
This paper analyzes the novel ?Great Expectations? by Dickens and its film adaptation of the same title, directed by Alfonso Cuaron.
1,180 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 40.95
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The paper discusses that both the novel and the film ?Great Expectations? provide a profound understanding of the emotional strengths and weaknesses of human psychology. The author believes that the foremost, and most obvious, similarity between the novel of Charles Dickens' ?Great Expectations? and its film adaptation is the theme based on the depiction of a true Victorian era. The author feels that, unlike the book, the movie characters appear distant and the overall film lacks the sentimental touch of a movie based on the theme of love and its consequences.
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"The probable reason why the movie failed to satisfy its viewers was the fact that the novel was the author?s own innovation, based on original thought; whereas, the movie was just a visual sequel of Dickens?s magnum opus on the silver screen. Moreover, where the plot of "Great Expectations" demonstrated the literary figure?s creative genius, it also well blended his two diversified predispositions. Charles Dickens?s ability to analyze closely and his keen sense of observation pertaining to non-living things as well as living species including human beings is one factor. The other, his rather powerful inclination, which overshadows his former tendency, is towards pitiful and hilarious glorified ideals. This harmonization of the two propensities has been aptly and equally remarkably figured out as well as carried out by the director of the movie."
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'Great Expectations', 2006.
A review of the literary classic, 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens.
865 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 30.95
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This paper reviews and discusses the famous book by Charles Dickens, 'Great Expectations' focusing primarily on the character of Pip. The paper summarizes, overviews and provides comments on a collective group of chapters.
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"The hints that Dickens gave earlier about Mr. Jaggers' housemaid are now understood. Pip can tell the truth, because she looks and acts like Estella. This part gets somewhat confusing, because everything comes together like a mystery book. You have to remember everything that takes place in the whole book. In these chapters, the personality of the characters change back and forth as they find out different information. People who were so awful like Miss Havisham show their other side. Wemmick says Estella's mother was "tamed." This word is only used today with an animal. Was it the same when Dickens wrote? "
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"Great Expectations?, 2004.
This paper discusses realistic, romantic, and gothic elements in Charles Dickens?s "Great Expectations?.
1,545 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper explains that, in ?Great Expectations?, Dickens uses realism through social class and psychology, romanticism through his characters? aspirations, and gothicism through the setting, supernatural elements, and the characters themselves. The author points out, as contradictory as these elements may be, together in the novel, they provide for a story that is loyal to the ever-present instability of human nature itself and the journey in experience and growth. The paper relates that the gothic elements in this novel include such events as supernatural events, shadowy, sinister settings, and actions driven by revenge.
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"Realism in a romantic novel is a necessary base from which to rise or stray. When we meet the main character Pip at a very young age, it is clear that he is a practical child and despite his immaturity of age he is logical boy, with a sensitive soul. As a young boy, Pip accepts his station in life, and carries out his life?s? responsibilities as necessary. This novel is also very accurate in its realistic representation of social structure and class differences. Pip starts out low on the social chain, only above the criminal, impoverished class, and early in life he recognizes that there is a lower scale than the one he belongs to. When Pip helps the convict Magwitch on the marshes, he observes how uncouth and low Magwitch is, and he fears that in helping him or reaching to his level that he will be cast down to the same place."
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"Great Expectations", 2006.
An analysis of Chapter 27 of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper is an analysis of Chapter 27 of Dickens' "Great Expectations" focusing on the meeting between Joe and Pip, the uncomfortable distance between a now snobbish Pip and the countryman who helped raise him and the heartbreaking goodbye when Pip, at last, seems touched by Joe's innate goodness.
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Poverty and Shame in "Great Expectations", 2008.
An analysis of the themes of poverty and shame in Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations".
1,300 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper examines Charles Dickens' semi-biographical novel "Great Expectations" with particular focus on the themes of poverty and shame. It also takes a look at the themes of greed, selfishness, and human behaviour, with regards to the "wants" and "needs" of the main characters. The paper argues that the poverty of the central character, Pip, is the motivation behind the greed which develops in Pip's character. The structured class system and rules of society, along with the many people he comes into contact with throughout the novel, influence him as well. The paper concludes that, although Pip develops into a greedy and selfish young adult, his misfortunes are not only his fault, but have been inflicted on him by others.
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"Therefore, when the opportunity arises for Pip to educate himself as a gentleman, he does not hesitate for a moment. Pip says, "It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify" (106). Even though his house has never been an enjoyable one "because of [Pip's] sister's temper...Joe had sanctified it, and [Pip] had believed in it" (106). Pip's goal is to make something of himself and his future. He can't wait to rid himself of shame and poverty when he says to himself, "No more low wet grounds, no more dykes and sluices, no more of these grazing cattle...faced round, in order that they might stare as long as possible at the possessor of such great expectations - farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood...I was for London and greatness" (147). Pip is willing to give up the only love and family he knows to impress Estella and prove that he is of value, not only to her, but to society as well."
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"Great Expectations", 2002.
A character analysis of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper will evaluate the idea of the monster in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. By analyzing Pip, Magwitch, and Miss Havisham, we can see how he creates monsters out of these key characters.
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