In this way, Jurgis is not only a tool in the machine of capitalism, but also ironically an instrument employed by the author to highlight the exogenous demands put on the proletariat in the capitalist system. ... While this technique helps the author to achieve his ultimate political espousal of socialism, Jurgis remains an everyman, a type, rather than an individual character with depth and development. ... His transition into a socialist is one marked by great contentment, in which he is treated as a comrade and who, despite having lost his family, recognizes that he has a place in the muc...

• Word Count: 1109
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

John Betjeman's poem "In Westminster Abbey" is set in the beginning of World War II in Great Britain. ... John Betjeman poem is suggestive in a way; the woman is depicted as a very racist one, and with the words the author uses in the prayer of the woman "Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans" she is asking the Lord to bomb Germany in order to help England win the war and keep her safe and in exchange she will do something for the church and obey their orders, and this is where the reader can recognize the woman is a hypocrite. ... The author is treating religion as a dis...

• Word Count: 875
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Introduction to Othello Out of the four of Shakespeare's great tragedies, Othello remains the most powerful and forceful not only on the stage but also for study as a critical text. ... Shakespeare still presents the story in the view of Othello which reflects the author's context of classes and limitations of the lower classes. ... The economic base of the author is reflected in the way Othello is written, such as the preferred treatment of the upper classes, and as the story progresses dealing mostly with the upper. ... Not only the characters, but also we examine how the author...

• Word Count: 1957
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(para. 5) At the heart of classic economic Marxism is the idea that certain groups throughout history, the oppressors or "bourgeoisie ", are evil and cause great harm, while other groups, the "proletariat ", are victims of the oppressors. ... Author Anthony Browne, of the bestseller The Retreat of Reason: Political Correctness and the Corruption of Public Debate in Modern Britain, contends that the real reason for pay differences are work and life choices and child care breaks woman must take after pregnancy (Browne, 2006, p. iii). ...

• Word Count: 1998
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When the Manifesto of the Communist Party was published on the eve of the February Revolution of 1848 in Paris, it's main author, Karl Marx, was convinced that Western Europe was on the verge of witnessing a great class struggle between the bourgeois and the proletariat. ... Marx's influence during his lifetime was not great. ...

• Word Count: 1492
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lenin, who was the more accomplished theorist and author of the two, outlined the major points of his work in his most important work: "What is to be Done." ... According to Robert Conquest, writer of The Great Terror - A Reassessment, before 1934 there was still some underground opposition to Stalin in the form of the Politburo as the highest branch of both Party and state it could still overrule him. ... The best example of Stalin's violent excess can be seen in his article: "The Great Turn". ...

• Word Count: 1728
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Nineteenth-century England was a time of great change. ... The author wants to show his audience how humans adapt to using advanced technology and how they are changed by it, rather than focusing on the technology itself. ...

• Word Count: 1341
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• Has Bibliography
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As further observed by this author, an individual's socio-economic class be divided into three broad categories; high, low and middle SES. ... A good example of this is for instance when students in North Carolina's University in 2002 developed and used terms such as hype, cool, phat, sweet or tight in reference to things that are either favourable, pleasing or great. ...

• Word Count: 1334
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Many scholarly pieces have been written on Karl Marx, the author of the communist manifesto. ... The same stance, Marx believes, must be taken when practicing democracy; if too many people are promoting their individual cause, then attempting to satisfy each person's need will most likely pose great challenges. ...

• Word Count: 1578
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However often contradicted through our own human err of bias perception, the works of great thinkers such as Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke have provided a pivotal influence on societal values. ... Montesquieu also advocated freedom and liberty that can only be achieved through legitimate rule: "Men are governed by several kinds of laws and the great worth of human reason consists in perfectly knowing to which of these orders the things that are to be determined ought to have a principal relation, and not to throw into confusion those principals which should not govern mankind." ... These ri...

• Word Count: 3737
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After the seventeenth century crisis of order, Europeans gradually moved towards the idea of liberal democracy and capitalism, hoping to model their society with the ideals "liberty, equality, and fraternity." While Europeans have not been fully successful in reaching their envisioned ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity the human and individual rights, equality, and violence can be examined to show the continuous movement of societies towards these goals. Upon examining these aspects of society in multiple countries, it is clearly seen that progress has been made throughout...

• Word Count: 2113
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

One of the authors, Friedrich Engels will be my focus for this research papers. ... Engels was the one that furnished Marx with a great amount of technical and economic data that was necessary to publish the comments and revolutionary ideas that they came up with. ...

• Word Count: 2224
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the end of this paper, the author will present an argument suggesting that The Communist Manifesto is the greatest work by Marx, given that elucidates on the haunting power that accompanies the use of communism. ... the sale of commodities, the realization of commodity capital, and thus of surplus-value as well, is restricted not by the consumer needs of society in general, but by the consumer needs of a society in which the great majority are always poor and must always remain poor" (Marx, 1965, pg. 391). ...

• Word Count: 2958
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

IS THE CONCEPT OF CLASS WAR STILL VALID? 'Social stratification' is the term used to describe systematic structures of inequality. In pre-industrial or traditional societies, inequalities and thus social stratification were widely held to be natural. Aristotle stated that 'by nature' there were fre...

• Word Count: 3162
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ideologies cannot thrive without the aid of the individual. Without them, there would be no ideology in the first place. Political parties would not be needed, regulated government would not exist, and historical/political occurrences such as the creation and destruction of the Berlin Wall or the H...

• Word Count: 2738
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate