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Motions of The Earth

The Earth revolves around the Sun while rotating on its axis, causing phenomena like night and day. It takes one year to revolve around the Sun in its nearly circular orbit, and one day to complete a rotation. Day and night result from the Earth's rotation, while the changing of seasons is due to its revolution around the Sun in relation to the Sun's position. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman by Charles Dickens about an orphan named Pip. As a child, Pip encounters an escaped convict and is terrified into stealing for him. Later, Pip becomes acquainted with the wealthy but reclusive Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella. He falls in love with Estella

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Motions of The Earth

The Earth revolves around the Sun while rotating on its axis, causing phenomena like night and day. It takes one year to revolve around the Sun in its nearly circular orbit, and one day to complete a rotation. Day and night result from the Earth's rotation, while the changing of seasons is due to its revolution around the Sun in relation to the Sun's position. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman by Charles Dickens about an orphan named Pip. As a child, Pip encounters an escaped convict and is terrified into stealing for him. Later, Pip becomes acquainted with the wealthy but reclusive Miss Havisham and her adopted daughter Estella. He falls in love with Estella

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Motions of the Earth

The Earth is constantly in motion, revolving around the Sun and rotating on its axis. These
motions account for many of the phenomenon we see as normal occurrences: night and day,
changing of the seasons, and different climates in different regions. With a globe ball properly
mounted and rotating on its axis, the movements of the Earth around the Sun may be illustrated
accurately.

Rotation
The Earth spins on its axis from West to East (counter-clockwise). It takes the Earth 23 hours, 56
minutes, and 4.09 seconds to complete one full turn. Day and night are produced by the rotation
of the Earth. The speed of rotation at any point upon the equator is at the rate of approximately
1,038 miles per hour, decreasing to zero at the poles.

Revolution
While the Earth is spinning on its axis, it is revolving around the Sun in a counter-clockwise
direction. It takes the Earth one full year to complete one full revolution around the Sun. This path
is known as the Earth's orbit. It is very near a circle. The mean distance of the Earth from the Sun
is about 93 milling miles and the distance varies by 3 million miles, forming a slightly oval path.

The revolution of the Earth around the Sun traverse a distance of 595 million miles in 365 days, 6
hours, 9 minutes and 9.5 seconds. This means a speed of 18 miles a second (or 66,000 miles per
hour) while at the same time rotating once each twenty-four hours

GREAT EXPECTATIONS.

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel;
a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is
Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.[N 1] The novel was first
published as a serial in Dickens' weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August
1861.[1] In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes.[2]
The novel is set in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century[3] and contains some of Dickens's most
memorable scenes, including the opening in a graveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by the escaped
convict, Abel Magwitch.[4] Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery—poverty, prison ships and chains, and
fights to the death[4]—and has a colourful cast of characters who have entered popular culture. These include
the eccentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful but cold Estella, and Joe, the unsophisticated and kind blacksmith.
Dickens's themes include wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over
evil.[4] Great Expectations, which is popular both with readers and literary critics,[5][6] has been translated into
many languages and adapted numerous times into various media.
Upon its release, the novel received near universal acclaim.[5] Although Dickens's contemporary Thomas
Carlyle referred to it disparagingly as that "Pip nonsense," he nevertheless reacted to each fresh instalment
with "roars of laughter."[7] Later, George Bernard Shaw praised the novel, as "All of one piece and consistently
truthful."[8] During the serial publication, Dickens was pleased with public response to Great Expectations and
its sales;[9] when the plot first formed in his mind, he called it "a very fine, new and grotesque idea." [10]

Plot summary[edit]
On Christmas Eve, around 1812,[11] Pip, an orphan who is about seven years old, encounters an escaped
convict in the village churchyard, while visiting the graves of his parents and siblings. Pip now lives with his
abusive elder sister and her kind husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. The convict scares Pip into stealing food
and a file. Early on Christmas morning Pip returns with the file, a pie and brandy. During Christmas dinner, at
the moment Pip's theft is about to be discovered, soldiers arrive and ask Joe to repair some shackles. Joe and
Pip accompany them as they recapture the convict who is fighting with another escaped convict. The first
convict confesses to stealing food from the smithy.[12]

Pip is ashamed of Joe at Satis House, by F. A. Fraser

A year or two later, Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who still wears her old wedding dress and lives as a
recluse in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pumblechook to find a boy to visit. Pip visits Miss Havisham and
falls in love with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip visits Miss Havisham regularly, until he is old enough to
learn a trade.[13]
Joe accompanies Pip for the last visit, when she gives the money for Pip to be bound as apprentice blacksmith.
Joe's surly assistant, Dolge Orlick, is envious of Pip and dislikes Mrs Joe. When Pip and Joe are away from the
house, Mrs Joe is brutally attacked, leaving her unable to speak or do her work. Orlick is suspected of the
attack. Mrs Joe becomes kind-hearted after the attack. Biddy arrives to help with her care.[14]

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