The text book's definition of the American Dream is, " achieving the American Dream means having a secure job, owning a home, and getting a good education for their children. ... The intent of the Act was to protect teenagers but it doesn't really do a good job of it. ... This makes for no job security. ... If machines can take over jobs like this then they will be able to take over all jobs that don't take much skill. I haven't read a book this interesting for along time. ...

• Word Count: 1422
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the book Marx proclaims the "the executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole Bourgeoisie" (11). ... The confidence Marx had in writing such a book was derived from the teachings of a man Hegel, Marx's so called philosophical father. ... The majority do not seek to overthrow their employers, and they really want things like job security, and improved labor conditions. ...

• Word Count: 1446
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This book talks about different problems America needs to address and different ways to prevent these situations from becoming worse and irreversible. ... Stiglitz love for economics allows his book The Price of Inequality to be trustworthy and reliable as he talks about the inequalities in America. ... America has plenty of resources and wealth to fix this inequality gap and eliminate poverty, there is still other countries doing a better job of reducing it. ... People who are fortunate to have jobs still suffer due to the strong downward pressure on wages. ... The inequalities that are writ...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
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"Even people making $60,000 can't afford many colleges, " says Beth Shulman, a former union official and author of the 2003 book The Betrayal of Work (A. ... However outsourcing has provided even a cheaper way of filling low paid jobs. ... Unfortunately, more middle class jobs are not in the foreseeable future. ... These jobs have lower wages than the average manufacturing job, and benefits are poor. The amount of jobs projected for financial services, technology, and other high income jobs stands under 5% (T. ...

• Word Count: 1804
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She finally ends up graduating with good grades, yet can still not find a job that pays higher than her job at the restaurant, so she takes on a second job as a grocery checkout person, still barely able to make ends meet for her family. ... Despite our own personal efforts, mobility through the classes is mainly based on a persons status, and overcoming the "labels", such as the ones discussed in Herbert Gans" book The War Against the Poor, that go with a persons status makes mobility extremely hard if not nearly impossible. ... Since WWII, there has been a large increase in h...

• Word Count: 1278
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The book quotes that if your parents are poor and you are brought up in poverty more than likely the child is doomed to be poor also. ... These people even though they are as intelligent as white males they are still inferior when it comes to getting the job. Money talks if the white male and the Hispanic male went to the same school got the same degree and Hispanic had the higher GPA, more than likely the white male would still get the job and the Hispanic would be left to search for another job and yet again be beaten out by the white male. ... Also, the poor...

• Word Count: 1420
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In his book, Ain't No Makin' It, Jay MacLeod tells how a group of poor students in a particular school were able to relate to a teacher (Jimmy Sullivan) who spoke their "language."" " It was cool, cuz like you walk in there you talk to Jimmy, and you know Jimmy's real cool, - said one of his students. ... In their book, Social Foundations of Educational Decisions, Fischer and Thomas state that distinctive things about a subculture (including language and behavior) have a definite influence on a child's learning style (26-27) and that "informal education- "which occurs...

• Word Count: 1645
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The book documents how meat is perceived by people of different class, race and gender, as well as going behind the scenes of the American meat industry. ... Jane who is biracial, half Japanese and half white, and her mother were the only few Asian Americans in the novel as well, but their implications on meat and class were not mentioned; although Jane does turn into a slight vegetarian at the end of the book for political reasons regarding the hormone antibiotics DES still being injected into animals. ... It also pushes forth the American import of meats to Japan, and author Ruth Ozeki did...

• Word Count: 1294
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

They remain in fear of seeing their favorite movie being sexist or their favorite book a starting grounds for bullying the less wealthy. ... Another popular book called Chat Room, written by Kristin Butcher, displays a female who needs a man to be happy. ... Her grandmother taught her to never take a job that would challenge one's dignity and her parents taught her to work hard to bring herself out of poverty. ... While reading one's' book or watching one's movie, they should acknowledge the wrongs along with the rights and glorify the good while reprimanding the bad. ...

• Word Count: 1681
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Hilton Frean's book "The Social Order", is again representative of the values inherent within this particular family. In the novel, it is clear that the book is critical of the social order of the capitalist system, but it is hypercritical of Hilton to suggest ideas such as these when employed as a pillar of the current social system. ... Her father's job as a stockbroker is affirmative of the Victorian and modern capitalist system and especially the free market that he describes as " pure mathematics the higher mathematics of the game. ...

• Word Count: 1734
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

- Individuals in the lower-middle class tend to hold low status professional or white collar jobs, such as school teacher, nurse, or paralegal... - Lower class households are at the greatest risk of falling below the poverty line if a job holder suddenly becomes unemployed. 4. ...

• Word Count: 2276
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Communist Manifesto was intended to be a book easy to read and understand by the working class. ... In other words, the working class instead of working for the capitalist, the working class works for itself and gives more meaning to its job. ...

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This is especially the case for events such as job interviews. ... Will it associate such confusion with the judgment of social class so that people will surrender to the fact that it is too difficult to judge a book by its cover? ...

• Word Count: 1660
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Over half of all women in the United States have paid jobs or are looking for them. ... As Ben Bagdikian writes in his book The Media Monopoly, "A corporation dependent on public opinion can call upon its media subsidiaries to help in what the media are clearly able to do - influence public opinion- (Bagdikian, p. 30). ...

• Word Count: 1636
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

"The poor you shall ever have with you". St Mark's Gospel (Chapter 14, verse 7). In addressing the issue of class inequality in modern society the following essay discusses the patterns and consequences of poverty within the UK and the USA. Poverty has always existed in societies whether affluent or not, whether technologically advanced or not, and whether modern or not. Class status affects individuals objectively, namely education, health and lifestyle; and subjectively, namely self-image and its perpetration. ...

• Word Count: 1993
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are many definitions of what exactly makes up the state, Ralph Miliband in his book, "The State in Capitalist Society" defines the state as consisting of the following institutions: Parliamentary assemblies local government police military judiciary civil service (bureaucracy) cabinet - leading politicians Most scholars and politicians would agree with this definition of the state although some might also add institutions such as the education system and sections of the media in certain countries, such as the BBC in Britain. ... In the past it could be said that the sate...

• Word Count: 1985
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate