Social class determined marriage and was only suitable if the two were equal in rank and gentility. Women were uneducated, only indulging in the arts, needlework and music with a role to get well married in the social and financial rank. ... Mr Knightley is transformed into Josh who portrays the conservative and environmentally friendly philosophical college student while Frank Churchill is transformed into a homosexual named Christian. ...

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As I read the lesson this week on social class, which according to Weber is a large group of people who rank closely to one another in terms of property, prestige, and power, I read that the poverty line for a family of four in America is about $22,000. ... For example a child may live in poverty but work his or her way up to college and become a lawyer with a good stable income. ...

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Social class is a large group of people who rank closely together according to wealth, power, and prestige. ... An example of status inconsistency is a college professor. The college professor has a very prestigious but low paying job. ...

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In today's society, this entails people going to college as an example, the 'Liminal Period' of the time that is spent in college transforms the individual. ... Consequently, "A further characteristic of liminality is the absence of distinctions of rank, status individuality, basically any of these things would create structural diffraction within the fellowship"[Fly02]. ...

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Cooley's college like lasted seven years, having been interrupted by illness, a journey through Europe, and brief periods of work as a draftsman and as a statistician? ... Cooley rose pretty rapidly in rank at the University, from assistant professor in 1899 to an associate professor in 1904 and finally a full professor just three years later. ...

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We see Lady Bracknell's concern about her daughter's prospective fiancé's suitability, and whether Worthing's father was born in the "Purple of Commerce-(Act 1, page 20), or whether he rose "from the rank of aristocracy-. ... In the scandalous college of Sheridan's play, fashionable gossips try to out new rumours and improve on the malicious style. ...

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Literature itself has no defined meaning. In the beginning introduction of Literary Theory: An Introduction, Eagleton states numerous definitions of literature to prove the point that there has yet to be one specific definition. Eagleton's definition of literature involves a text that is written in...

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