Early Christianity appealed mainly to the masses of ordinary people; however, as it gained popularity amongst intellectual elites, it rose in the social hierarchy. ... " Within the ordinary working class, there was an ordinance for women to work alongside men in daily labor as stated by Pagels, "In the lower class, where all labor was needed, women had been allowed to perform any services they could do;" thus, there was more equality between the sexes (University Readers 86). ... The higher class were more patriarchal in comparison to the ordinary working class, due to women&#x...

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Their access to property and monetary rewards are definitely unequal to an ordinary factory worker since these people are the sources of capital in any form of industry. ... Therefore, upper class people get a lot of these. ... They socialize and mingle with celebrities and political figures giving them better weight on the judgment of politicos even though they are not different to an ordinary voter. ... Being professional accounts to the economic status that these people have. ... However, the obviously big population of an ordinary family belonging to the lower class is a contradiction to t...

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They accomplish their goals by giving people a false sense of equality as if class barriers do not exist. ... The most appealing tactic used is by saying that even though an ordinary person may not have the opportunity to acquire the infinite opulence symbols, they are not excluded from a possibility of enjoying the contentment of having one of these luxuries. ... In its TV commercial, two cars are portrayed next to each other, one being a limousine and the other an ordinary vehicle. ... Yet the advertisers understand that the best way of making their products popular is by using the popular w...

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Another economic factor is that generally people in the North have less money. ... People who live in a world of economic comfort and freedom make up a very small percentage of the population and as such the audience cannot relate with them. The general view is that people in northern landscapes do not enjoy large amounts of wealth and as a result appear more real. ... "This we can name as moral realism, in that it involves a moral commitment to a set of particular set of social problems and solutions inevitably, the claim for moral realism is in part bound up with the claim for surface re...

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In the New World, Aztecs believed that dying in certain ways led to different post-death existences: a man who died in battle would become a humming bee that would bring on the sunrise, a woman who died in childbirth would be reborn into a goddess that would bring on the sunset, sacrificed victims became one with the sun and a person who died an ordinary, undistinguished death would go to the underworld realm of Mictlan. ... Greek tradition was similar to Egyptian, with royalty believing they were more than man and using their power to oppress many lower class people as slaves. ...

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In the process, they become more distant from ordinary people, losing whatever empathy they may once have had". ... She feels like wealth makes people become less humane in a way. ... Many people think that it works the other way around, but the mortgage interest deduction actually saves far more money to wealthy people than middle class citizens. ... Myers also supports this claim, that most tax breaks benefit wealthy people more than average people, with her research over home tax breaks. She says that if two people buy the exact same house but one person makes $50,000 a year and th...

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A democratic system would allow citizens to choose representatives that would voice the thoughts of people, and with the economic reforms. ... These two people belong to differing classes and there is no way the government can appease them, however a democratic system would bring into a sense of what the majority is looking for. The majority may not please the losing faction of a certain issue, however the attention would be diverted onto the people who elected the official(s). ... The people of China may want democratic reform, however the CCP is able to appease to the people in a way that gi...

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However, Madeleine Hope Dodds and Ruth Dodds inclined towards the view that the rebellion was a popular movement, and was an aspect of the conflict between the free spirit of the English people and forms of tyranny: the Pilgrims were engaged in a struggle between liberty and despotism6. ... Due to the disastrous harvests of 1535 and 1536, cattle plagues, and additional irritations from hard landlords, such as the Earl of Cumberland, enclosures and entry fines had provoked extensive riots from the common people. ... Elton identifies politics on a national level, and believes that 'ordinar...

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Thus, there can be no doubt that Luther changed the attitudes of people toward their roles in society. People placed a new emphasis on their work roles. ... Luther instilled in these people the concept that time is money. ... Since credit is so important, people began to realize the importance of impressing their creditors. ... In some people the following of their calling preceded all other pursuits in life. ...

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Eagleton's definition of literature involves a text that is written in a language that sounds different from the reader's one: "If everyone used phrases like 'unravished bride of quietness' in ordinary pub conversation, this kind of language might cease to be poetic" (5). ... These socially educated people will then create the ideal republic he dreams of. ... I believe this is impossible because people today are not ranked by how valuable they are to society. Most people do not work, but yet they still eat. ... Plato's ideal republic could not exist now bec...

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We have seen it in the Lone Star movie, which is a rich and rewarding exploration of the tensions and attractions between the people of this multi-racial community. ... I recall a part in the Lone Star movie in which the owner of the restaurant refuse to recognized her past (she came to United Stated, by crossing the river like many Mexican, and also she tries constantly to enforced the English) She was upset to her own people calling them wet back and making remarks about them been the same. ... There are several different varieties of political economy theory, but they all share two assumpt...

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