Elite institutions are privately owned learning institutions that have a high cost of attendance in terms of fees and other charges and quite selective in the cadre of students that gain admission and over the tears have predominantly served students from upper and middle upper socio economic status. They impact onto the student a high social standing. ... This small percentage mainly consisted of children from upper and middle socio economic background. ... While in the 1940's it was mainly white males from high and middle socio economic back grounds the number of females, blacks and A...

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Looking back at colonial America, life expectancy averaged a measly 30 years, driven down by the high infant mortality rate. ... As observed by Kubler-Ross, "in simple terms, in our unconscious mind we can only be killed; it is inconceivable to die of a natural cause or of old age."" ... In addition, perhaps it is the parent who is not ready to accept death and all symptoms relating to death, including aging, the most obvious indicator. ... With the quality of their life and the lives of their dependants at stake, these anti-aging creams and cosmetic surgeries become a quick and relatively ...

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This was a highly mechanized, industrial age in which people's roles were being determined by their merit, talents, character and grit'. ... The genesis of the Episcopacy at the end of the 19th century represented the merger of what appeared to be an irreconcilable conflict between two rival elite groups: the old pre-industrial New England - based on upper-class norms, with its high-minded, non-urban mores, and the big, rough New York based - Gilded Age rich. ... Floyd Hunter saw power as a pyramid with a small number of top leaders at the peak, a somewhat larger number below [middl...

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This was achieved by adding the styling features once only available to the very wealthy, by creating them as carbon copies and thus making the styling available at a reasonable price to the mass middle class. ... At long last, the hallowed promise of "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage " was on the verge of actuality for much of the middle class. ...

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To compound our naturally competitive natures, Americans often impose various forms of contest into everyday life from a very early age. Whether its identifying the "gifted" children in middle school, or placing students on "slow" academic tracks in high school, our society has permanently institutionalized inequality. ...

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Progressivism appealed to middle and lower class Americans who felt helpless against industrial giants like Andrew Carnegie and John D. ... At the same time, over 1.7 million children under age sixteen worked in factories or fields. Progressives' especially middle class female activists helped spearhead the movement for laws that restricted child labor in 38 states by the late nineteenth century. ... Monopolies caused the workers and citizens of America to suffer extremely high prices. ...

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A study in Physician and Sportsmedicine noted a "steady increase in the proportion of US men who report participating in no leisure-time activity between the ages of 29 to 69... In this day and age, the majority of Americans do not have the ability to just take hours out of their schedules to workout, especially if it has a negative connotation for them. ... Individuals that participate in high levels of activity, often, are less likely to mind a longer commute to the facility. ...

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Nationwide, high schools and elementary schools are forced to balance the budget given to them for education and the art courses are often the first to be cut. ... In fact, these studies have shown that high school students who are actively involved in art courses have higher standardized test scores than those who had little to no involvement in art courses. ... "Through arts study, middle school students improved in their ability to turn barriers into opportunities and persist in completing tasks, and the mastery of art skills at the high school level was found to encourage further mot...

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Most middle-class families attempted to adhere to the so-called Victorian sexual ideals of the day. ... Because of this presumption, most middle-class Americans saw women as the moral guardians of the home, charged with controlling the lustful natures of male family members. ... In other words, a new ideology of sexual restraint became prevalent among middle-class Americans. ... This fluctuation of the mass-produced goods fostered a shift in middle-class values. ... Economic affluence gave the middle class more leisure time and more money to spend on consumer goods, luxury items, and ent...

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History of culture were not as globalized in the early age as they are now and it was creating a specific culture and definition of what truly is beautiful at the specific culture. ... American culture has not only helped create the anorexic young woman whose eating disorders are tied to a low sense of self-esteem--approximately 90 percent of sufferers are female; various polls have revealed that young women see themselves as "too fat" while in fact they are often below standard norms for body size[40]--but fashion has served up the newest ideal of "heroin chic": a fashion industry "look" tha...

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Leiss, Kline, Jhally and Botterill state that "this was advertising's golden age, not merely because advertisers had grasped its almost unlimited transformational capabilities, but because society as a whole almost completely agreed with its key premise, that the road to happiness was paved with more goods and services". ... Economic growth post world war created an affluent consumer society where the urban middle class and upper class had more purchasing power than before. ... Modern consumer goods became extremely appealing as they made life much easier and provided high quali...

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Pew Research Center found that in 2013, the "Median net worth of upper-income families was 6.6 times greater than that of middle-income families.... Unlike communism, which has repeatedly failed due solely to corruption in the high ranking government, socialism does not have very specific guidelines at all. ... The age of socialism is around the corner and hopefully will be here to stay. ...

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My nephew goes to a suburban, mostly white, primarily middle-class and affluent school that teaches largely to tests while valuing less and less the language of a child's inner world. ... I cannot speak very much to my own early past views as a younger man, say up to the age of 24, on people who are disabled or many other subcultures because my own thinking then on the subject was undefined and nebulous. During my own primary education through high school there were no autistic children, no self-identified gay youth and none with obvious physical disabilities such as blindness or cerebral...

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(NCHC, 2004, p. 1) This shows that the high costs of healthcare are not because it is getting too expensive for the average American to afford. ... Unfair insurance practices like the high cost of premiums, the high cost of buying a share in an employer's company coverage program and the routine unwillingness of insurance companies to cover the costs for many necessary medical treatments have all led to a situation which in which roughly 46 million Americans are uninsured. ... The consequence is that middle class Americans often struggle to deal with medical costs, especially when unexpec...

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Very few children continued schooling after the age of ten. ... Most high schools and colleges did not accept females or African Americans. ... " Public Education united the country as schools were now open to the poor, the middle class, and the rich. ...

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The dangerously high hot pants, the rowdy crowd, the seductive dance routines, and the aura of wild partying gives the impression that if a young woman purchases degrading clothes, acts provocatively and "dirty- she will be cool and accepted. ... Age, gender, educational background, race, parent's income and occupation, as well as family size are examples of the personal characteristics that support the make up of attitudes for a teen. ... A suburban white middle class girl will most likely not watch and relate to the plights of an inner city black youth i.e. ...

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Imani Perry asserts that the spoken word of African-American music has its origins in Africa and survived the middle passage to the Western Hemisphere (Perry, 2004). ... African American youth stand at ground zero for issues of race, nation, gender, age and sexuality (Collins, 2006). ... Rap lyrics within hip-hop delve deep in to the black experience, often times unearthing painful actualities about black life, while still allocating a sense of hopefulness, and high self-esteem. These components of hopefulness and high self-esteem are invaluable elements for the education process. ...

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Indeed, this cycle of inequality can begin at a young age, through the experiences in a child's environment. ... A study by Paul Willis and Jay MacLeod (Kornblum, 2000) found that students in inner-city schools were not encouraged to have high expectations. ... The government reported that 10% of tracking in public middle school verged on outright discrimination (Armstrong, 1991). ...

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There are examples, starting in the middle of the paper, of how political correctness can be harmful. ... Political correctness is a term used to describe the attempts to minimize offenses against racial, ethnic, cultural, gender, age and disabled groups. ...

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