As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). ... The middle class seems more difficult to define. ... The lack of commonality contributes to the instability of the middle class. ... In times of affluence, some members of the middle class acquire savings. ... He is really a good man as breadwinners go, and it is hard luck for him to be propelled into the room now, when if we had brought him in a few minutes earlier or later he might hav...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An equal approach understands that society is, based on social categories such as gender, race, disability, age, social class, sexuality and religion that will impact on our life experiences. ... United Kingdom is a society which is seen to be diverse; therefore one of the government's initiatives is that everyone has a right to be treated equally regardless, of background gender and age. ... The learning outcomes of children from a "Working class" family home and children within a "Middle class" family home, both classes are different from each other, where middle class families focus on...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

The inequalities and corruption of the class system were pervasive during the Victorian age. ... Dickens' gives Pip such ambition because the lower and middle classes were never involved in politics or money. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Justice and Equality in Schooling Education has been a predominant social institution in Britain since as early as 1300AD, when 100 English towns were known to have schools; although it wasn't until 1850 when the introduction of schooling for girls was established. (Microsoft Encarta 2002) The government abolished school fees up to the age of 10, theoretically establishing equality within society and gradually the process of schooling has been searching for a sense of equality. ... Hence "the instrument of communication" (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1997: 73) is considered greater among tho...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her story became known as the "Queen Caroline Affair", and survives in the letters, diaries, and newspaper articles of the early nineteenth century. ... Issues such as premarital sex, illegitimate children, and separation were more widely accepted by the working and middle classes than in higher circles. ... P Thompson describes the period between 1815 and 1820 as the "heroic age of popular Radicalism". ...

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The 1850's saw the staging of the Great Exhibition, an event through which England could boast, according to the Times, "of that day when all ages and climes shall be gathered round the throne of the maker" (Schlicke, p48). ...

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