Dickensian Graduation Speech Echoes Great Expectations
A school year ends with a graduation speech full of Dickensian allusions. Andrea Gradidge notes graduates will carry GREAT EXPECTATIONS through future plans referencing DAVID COPPERFIELD and OLIVER TWIST while celebrating achievements and possible careers.
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Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
Nel
Little Dorrit
Dombey and Son
Oliver Twist
Ebeneezer Scrooge
Wawanesa
Martin Chuzzlewit
Chuzziewit
Mr. Pickwick
Pickwick Papers
Barnaby Rudge
Quebec
Barnaby
Nicholas Nickleby
Edwin Drood
Grads
Andrea Gradidge
Graduation ponderings on growing up and responsibility
A reflective piece on aging, parenting, and the pressure on new high school graduates to become independent. It contrasts past ease with current rising education costs and the need for youth to secure jobs and funding for higher learning while facing an uncertain path to adulthood.
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Hal
Remembering Purpose for 1997 Graduates
The speech urges graduates to value common sense and hard work amid a fast paced society. It notes the competitive climate and predicts future generations will face time passing quickly as they watch their own children graduate.
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