As the private agenda was succeeding for the middle class they began to complain about the loss of energy, which would later be dubbed "the middle class disease". ... Middle class homes had many expectations. ... In the early 1900's the automobile came into play in urban society, thus enveloping the middle class. ... This drew a lot attention to those still trying to emerge themselves from the Victorian age. ... The experiences of middle class women, and the middle class in general, thoroughly show the changing times of American urban society. ...

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In Costa Rica children since early ages work but sometimes they are exploited , these children belong to the group that varies ages within 5 to 11 years. ... The second group is made up of children and teens from the ages of 12 to 14 who according to statistical make up an 86,5%, finally there is a group made up of teens that belong to the ages of 15 to 17 and make up 86,2% of the population of working lower class children and teens (Ministerio de Trabajo); nevertheless in Manchester children at the early ages of their life started to work and were exploited in the factories. ... The lower c...

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Derek Vinyard, the protagonist of American History X, grew up in a white lower to middle class family. Derek's views of society are directly shaped by his father at an early age. ... Did the middle class get lower? ... But Danny is shot at school by a black gang member that he had a conflict with earlier. ... These barriers have been around for ages. ...

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During the period of the early nineteenth century, farmers lost their economic independence and that became the beginning of the Populist Movement. ... Hicks said that to the upper and middle classes, more had been given than to the lower, to the city dweller far more than to his country kinsman. ... In early nineteenth, the farmer worked hard, but got less income. ... The upper and middle class got richer day by day, but the poor people needed to work daily harder to even survival. ... But Hofstadter argued that the rhetoric that accompanied their demands indicated that the populist "wer...

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The continuation of the impacts of the Great Recession will affect not just the people who are now in prime age, but also the new generation, who will have to work in the future generation. ... U.S. domestic demand, in decline for five straight quarters, is still three months shy of the 1974-75 record, but the pace, down 2.6% per quarter versus 1.9% in the earlier period, is a record-breaker already. According to Pew research, the United States has seen an increasing concentration of wealth to the detriment of the middle class and the poor with the younger generations being especially affected...

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Individualism is also taught at an early age, one as on individual can go from the bottom and rise to the top. ... Religion follows some class lines, Baptists are usually lower class, Methodists are middle class, and Episcopalians are more upper middle class and upper class. ... Churches, attract the upper and middle classes because they support there world views and values, where as sects tend to reject there world views. Classism, there are many different classes in America, upper-upper class, lower-upper class, upper middle class, lower middle class, upper-lower class, and lower-lower cla...

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In the second stage, the Early Industrial family were extended families beginning to become geographically mobile, dying out and becoming less common. ... This means that what the middle class do today, the lower class do tomorrow i.e. If the middle class husbands become more involved in housework then the working class husbands will copy and also become more helpful around the house. ... She collected information from 40 married women who were between the ages of 20 and 30, British or Irish born and had one or more children under the age of 5. She found greater equality in terms of the alloc...

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The Victorian Period (1870 v/s 1900) The Victorian age can be described as the age of transition, which by definition has a dual aspect when change is revolutionary: destruction and reconstruction. ... The Victorians reacted to their age with hope and dismay, optimism and anxiety. ... The early 19th Century saw the introduction of more canals, roads, railways and steamboats that hastened the growth of large-scale production by making possible a vast expansion of commerce. ... (Frasers Magazine: The Age We Live In.) ... John Morley believed "it was the age of science, new knowledge, ...

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Dialect and Cultural Symbol A dialect is the variety of language associated with a particular place, social level, ethnic group, sex, age, and so on. Most of us have a normal way of using language that is an intersection of such dialects and that marks us as being, for example, a middle-aged, white, cultured, female Charlestonian of old family or a young, urban, working-class, male Hispanic from New York City. ... This type of language habit showed he represented the middle-class: "Mawnin', Jenny," he said. ... 's mighty early in the day to start carvin' white folks," Dr Pea...

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"Back in 1970, a high school diploma could still be a ticket to the middle income bracket, a nice car in the driveway and a house in the suburbs. ... This means that anyone, regardless of family income, could be educated to a level that would allow them a comfortable place in the middle class. Even restrictions upon child labor hours kept children in school, since they are not allowed to work full time while under the age of 18. ... If a middle class income of 1970 required a high school diploma, and the middle class income of 1990 requires a college diploma, then it should be as easy for the ...

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As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). ... The middle class seems more difficult to define. ... The lack of commonality contributes to the instability of the middle class. ... In times of affluence, some members of the middle class acquire savings. ... He is really a good man as breadwinners go, and it is hard luck for him to be propelled into the room now, when if we had brought him in a few minutes earlier or later he might hav...

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Social Pressures in "The Japanese Quince" In the early 1900s, there were many social classes and each person in that class was expected to abide by its rules. ... In this society, businessmen were usually part of the upper middle class, which probably had one of the harshest social rules for being proper in public. ... Probably the most enjoyment a businessman had in this age was the daily routine of having everything orderly and neat. ...

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An equal approach understands that society is, based on social categories such as gender, race, disability, age, social class, sexuality and religion that will impact on our life experiences. ... United Kingdom is a society which is seen to be diverse; therefore one of the government's initiatives is that everyone has a right to be treated equally regardless, of background gender and age. ... The learning outcomes of children from a "Working class" family home and children within a "Middle class" family home, both classes are different from each other, where middle class families focus on...

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The upper class is the very wealthy, the middle class is the average of the society, and the lower class is the poorer people of the society. ... The upper middle class consists mainly of people who have wealth because of the education they have had. ... The lower middle class is about thirty-four percent of the population. ... The children learn from an early age what is expected from them, such as who they can and can not marry. ... His son has no inheritance, goes to a public school, and grows up middle class. ...

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As a young man, Flaubert was well aware of incompetence in the medical profession, and the middle class "lip service", which her portrayed through Homais in Madame Bovary, and began to despise the mendacity of middle class all the more as he embraced the writings the likes of Rousseau, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott. ... She also died at a very young age, leaving Delmare with many debts and a young child to rear. ... While the novel of manners shared and exalted middle class values, Flaubert is deeply ironic and ruthlessly critical of them. ... This glimmer of hope rising in the faint ray...

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The Education Act (1870) meant that free compulsory education was made available to everyone up to the age of 10. Previous to this, only the wealthy middle class children got some kind of education while others went straight to work. ... Grammar schools were for the better off middle classes and elementary schools were for the working classes. ... It aimed to motivate pupils and teach them how to behave in society from an early age. ... This was to help pupils develop individually but resulted in pupils with a middle class backgrounds being put in top sets. ...

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This class system is reflected in Othello where Iago, is a middle class man who will never become any higher than he is, even though he knows this, he still envies the position that Othello gave Cassio. ... In Othello the middle and lower class is largely ignored and devalued. ... The audience was normally middle to upper class due to the context, where only the rich could afford to go to watch these plays. ... Marxism as an ideology appeared much earlier in time than we might believe, as it was Karl Marx who simply stated his findings but it may not be in him that these ideas originate from. ...

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Lastly, to raise awareness about some of the situations that are closely related to the present age and to improve the people understanding of the issues that have been mentioned in the novel. ... As for the late 20th and early 21st Century is known as a Postmodernism era, the time of the changes taking place and it refers to the growth of knowledge in all fields, including philosophy, literature and more. ... As stated earlier, this novel has taken place in the nineteenth century. ... There are different opinions on this issue, but so many of them agree that this novel still relevant to be as...

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Justice and Equality in Schooling Education has been a predominant social institution in Britain since as early as 1300AD, when 100 English towns were known to have schools; although it wasn't until 1850 when the introduction of schooling for girls was established. (Microsoft Encarta 2002) The government abolished school fees up to the age of 10, theoretically establishing equality within society and gradually the process of schooling has been searching for a sense of equality. ... Hence "the instrument of communication" (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1997: 73) is considered greater among tho...

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With the exception of a few renovated areas, (not to mention an in-progress $35 million fine art center renovation) the architecture looks relatively aged, giving the place a sense of history. ... While reading through the website, www.smith.edu, I learned more about the underlining goals of the school, all of which conformed to my earlier expectations of class values. ...

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