He created his perfect woman out of ivory and lavished her with gifts. ... These elements are strongly echoes in the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and the modern film Pretty Woman. ... Here, the superficiality of society is being presented in a way the modern audience will recognise. ... Vivian's transformation is made obvious to the modern audience through her dramatic change in clothing. ... Vivian is the modern Eliza in that they share many characteristics. ...

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(Egyptian funeral lament) Modern scholars believe that clothing provides a mark of identity, and it is a kind of nonverbal communication. ... In modern industrialized societies, clothing is not so strictly regulated and people have more freedom to choose what kind of message they wish to convey with the way they dress. ... It means that you a have perfect style of clothing and this doesn't depend on gender, age group, or sexual orientation. ...

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The proletariats made up the majority of the population as the modern working class, which were brought into existence by the bourgeoisie to meet the increase in demands for production. Marx predicted that the exploitation of the laborers by all aspects of the bourgeoisie state would lead to the substantial increase in the proletariat class because the members of the lower middle class would "sink gradually into the proletariat, partly because their diminutive capital does not suffice for the scale on which the modern industry is carried on" (Marx). ... Marx believed this would happe...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The industrialization of contemporary America has also left behind those without the technological skills necessary in the constantly changing modern world. ... A perfect example is the University of California, Berkeley, which has just approved tuition increases by 5% each year. ... A modern day example is that of inheritors to large companies, where their parents have collected this huge fortune, while they just stay useless and spend money freely or have the option of just going to college for fun, with no application of the knowledge in mind. ...

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The snap shot is so well studied, and the composition so perfect, that I do not think that it happened accidentally, as Degas would want us to believe. ... For what concerns the arts, "Ukiyoe", which literally means "modern painting", became trendy. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Growing up in a middle class family and inspired by expressionism and communism ideals, Brecht revolutionised the course of modern European theatre in his creation of a completely new form of theatre. ... The suffering of the Lamb and Pickles families are concentrated on instead of the stereotypically perfect match between Hat and Geoffrey Birch which is forgotten by the narrator. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Even though she was touted as "unsinkable" and "indestructible", it was quickly realized that the Titanic was not the modern marvel it was dubbed to be. ... The climax of the story shows the sinking ship with perfect detail, right down to the occupancy of lifeboats and the methods to which the upper class and wealthy escaped alive. ...

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• Grade Level: High School