Once inside the gates of Smith, a much more serene feel takes hold, and you become elevated to the sense of community and scholarship that seems to permeate the atmosphere. ... We sat in the common room, on large couches in front of a fireplace. ... There is a piano in the common room as well, and pictures on the wall. ... Living amongst other homes gives a sense of community, as do all of the group activities and house councils tat students are encouraged to participate in. ... Going to an all woman college gives women a sense of unity, self-confidence, identity, and surrounds them with rol...

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In Gregory Mantsios article, "Class in America – 2009," he uses statistical evidence, data and many examples to dismember four common myths Americans still believe about social class. ... I'd argue that pre Industrial Revolution, the synergy between the social classes was much more common than we see in the 21st century. ... The majority of students' at the most prestigious colleges all have one thing in common: they were raised within middle to upper class households. ... This relates to education in a sense that it limits the resources a child has access to for ed...

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The novel exemplifies the Victorian's desire for upward mobility and dispels the common fantasy that anyone can rise to higher social status if only they would come into a source of wealth. ... He is depressed by the realization the he is "common"" and "course"" and that those he loves, possess the same faults. ... Pip believes that his "selection " is a sign of his great personal worth and the people with which he's always associated with are now beneath them because they are too "common"." ... "I am afraid- sore afraid- that this purpose originated in my sense of the contrast the...

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The character which may be considered a common man is portrayed as an evil man by the dominant society during the time but, if we look closer towards the intentions and causes of Iago's actions, it may be said that he acted to break down these barriers of class. ... Through the portraying of these two main characters, Othello and Iago, we are given an extra sense, of how they vastly contrast with what Iago and Brabantio were saying in the beginning of Act I. ... (Act 2, Scene 3, lines 334-340) This great contrast between the characters creates a sense that white men are evil and malic...

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However, due to the common convention of the time that, "Litera-ture cannot be the business of a woman's life: & it ought not to be.... The stifling fear and sense of urgency that Jane endures in the red room takes a crippling tole on her. ...

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If someone were to ask me, two months ago, "What comes to my mind when I hear the words, the Middle Ages?" I would have replied with something I had seen from some movie with Heath Ledger in it. The Middle Ages began with the fall of the Roman Empire and ended with a great renaissance. The Middl...

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Slavery was common in ancient Greece, as it was all over at this time period. ... Telemachus not even being able to remember his father before he went off to war, still had this enormous sense of pride that he was the king's son. ...

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Social Stratification and Social Class The definition of social stratification is the division of people into layers according to their relative power, property, and prestige. All nations practice social stratification, and always, the men are put before the women. There are three major systems...

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This short note addresses the question whether Degas should be considered the last of the academics or the first of the modernists. While it may be possible to argue in favor of either thesis, in this note I will provide examples that lead me to believe that Degas should be considered a modernist. T...

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The state-centric approach suggests that the common trend of Canadian deference to authority leads to a government acting largely as an autonomous entity making decisions for the nation. ... It is a common trend, regardless of class, that people gravitate towards others with similar paradigms. ... It is especially in this sense that pluralism draws on the values of liberalism, which emphasizes the basic rationality of all people as well as universal equality. ...

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In this sense the term state is used in much the same manner as the term society, they are for some interchangeable. ... James Madison presented the solution to this dilemma: " Take in a greater variety of parties and interest and you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens - (J Madison in Lowi & Ginsberg American Government 307) According to Madison, a good constitution encourages multitudes of interests so that no single interest can tyrannize the others. ... The executive of the modern State is but a committee fo...

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Marxist literary theory presents a challenge to traditional criticism in the sense that it provides a political social perspective upon literary works. ... It criticises the oppressive determinist social values and norms in society that govern the individual by common-held morals, expectations and the undermining of free will. ...

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This new sense of achievement created by the industrial revolution allowed them to believe that they had made it, they achieve the American dream. ... This new lifestyle adopted by the middle class exposed consumptions to be a bundle of "loneliness and emptiness" which was beginning to be casted as "common in their accounts of everyday life" (Ewen 196). ...

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Darcy's actions where because of the Bennet's social standing, therefore letting money overrule common feelings such as compassion and concern. ... Darcy is initially shown to be rude he is later explained and forgiven in a sense while the other characters of a lower social standing are never explained, therefore left to the reader for them to be shown as uncivilized characters. ...

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Not in the sense of closeness though. ... The fact that both Wessex and Shakespeare were of different classes meant that they would have nothing in common and would not gain anything from the other in any way. ...

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Because there were a lot of differences among the German cities with respect to their political, constitutional, religious, social and cultural developments, historians have found it advisable to begin a study of the reception of Luther's ideas by the various urban classes by examining the free imperial cities which had much in common. ...

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Compare and Contrast the approaches of Marx and Weber to Social Class and Stratification Social Stratification refers to the hierarchically organised layers of social inequality Such as status groups, classes and ranks. Two of the most well known sociologists Max Weber (1864-1920) and Ka...

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The two women mirror each other in the sense that they both make difficult decisions to save and maintain a life. ... We do not lack consciousness of social wrongs, but because they are so common that we simply ignore their existence and impacts in our daily lives. ...

• Word Count: 1988
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