Think of the people who could have made valuable contributions to society had they not been born in slums and had to drop out of school and take menial jobs to help support the family. ... They point out that in every society, groups struggle with one another to gain power, it uses that power to extract what if can from groups beneath it. ... Social Networks Contacts with people of similar backgrounds, interests, and goals help the elite to pass privileges from one generation to the next. ... The economies of the nations around the Mediterranean stagnated because they grew dependent on tr...

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The Victorians reacted to their age with hope and dismay, optimism and anxiety. ... Faced with such expectations, the average man was glad to take his ideas from the periodical. ... For that purpose they found the long essay exactly fitted to their need, with the wide range of literary and historical material and their rapid and simple style. ... Although men could divorce their wives for adultery, wives could divorce their husbands only if adultery were combined with cruelty, bigamy, incest or bestiality. ... Mills had faith in the existence of ultimate truths in religion and ethics, in ...

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Although Plato had just intentions, I agree with the need for an ideal republic, but I know it is impossible. ... Marxist theory focuses on understanding literature through and in relation to the determining forces of a society, such as history, economics, ideology, and class. The Marxist theory will help me analyze the connection between literature and society through the works of Karl Marx, Mikhail Bakhtin, F. ... Marx notices the class struggle in societies and becomes fascinated with it. ... In his quote, "languages of various epochs and periods of socio-ideological life cohabit wit...

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