For that purpose they found the long essay exactly fitted to their need, with the wide range of literary and historical material and their rapid and simple style. Morley says the essays were "as good as a library: they make an incomparable manual and vademecum for a busy uneducated man, who has curiosity and enlightenment enough to wish to know a little about the great lives and great thoughts." ... Mill saw the distinguishing feature of modern life was "that human beings are no longer born to their place in lifebut are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, t...

• Word Count: 1835
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Margaret Schlegel's character will be discussed thoroughly in this essay as she is the main character in "Howard's End." ... Significant scenes from each character where they show their moral imagination will be explained while also their certain desires will be made clearer towards the latter of the essay. ... A certain toughness of character or strong-mindedness is a key trait that this essay will discuss, especially in Margaret Schlegel's view. ...

• Word Count: 2048
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Essay on Karl Marx "Man was born free and is everywhere in chains." ... Marx was a liberal reformist who analyzed the relationship between the proletariat and the bourgeois, and believed, like Rousseau, that society was not in fact free, especially when concerning the proletarians. ... The proletarian would feel worthless, and with nothing to lose, revolt against their employers, breaking the "chains" and becoming free. ...

• Word Count: 1303
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

In the essay "Imagine a country" the author describes inequality in our country based on the perspective of a functionalist, conflict theorist, and social interationist. ... This theory of stratification is certainly debated today and was also debated as far back in the early mid eighteen hundreds when Karl Marx his theory in his pamphlet "The communist manifesto" and by Max Weber in his essay "Class, Status, and Party". ... Free education for all children in public school. ...

• Word Count: 1944
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout this essay, we will discuss the dominant ideology of modern day Britain to highlight the fact that, despite rhetoric used by consecutive neoliberal governments, reducing the education gap is not prevalent within current UK education policy. ... Throughout this essay we will explain; why education is so important to the individual and to wider society; what the achievement gap is and its implications; how closing the achievement gap is contradictory to the dominant political ideology of neoliberalism. ... This is relevant in terms of education because neo-liberalism as a policy an...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this essay I will be critically evaluating the contributions of social theory in the understanding of society. ... Marxism focuses on the financial aspect of society, believing the family unit has a sole purpose of creating the next generation of workers for free; to eventually participate in cheap labour, benefiting the Bourgeoisie in a Capitalist society. ... This however links with the Marxist conflict view that the family is nothing but a deception, encouraging the working class to fall into false-class consciousness whilst never breaking free from cheap labour and poverty, benefiting t...

• Word Count: 2016
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Her previous life had been comfortable; she now lives with her two children, working as a waitress while spending what little free time she has going to night school on top of the responsibilities of attending to her home and family. ... In Donna Langston's essay, Tired of Playing Monopoly, she says, "...it's not just being female, but also being a person of color or class, which makes life a quicksand trap" (Race Class and Gender, p. 131). ...

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

But for the sake of this essay, I will only be discussing Marxism theory and apply it to a small country located in Central America, Guatemala. ... While free-trade and "globalization " was beneficial for the economic development in previous years, there is date stating that now those prospects have moved to different regions due to the low cost of production. ...

• Word Count: 1415
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this essay, it will be argued that fundamentally, the Pilgrimage of Grace was not concerned solely with the defence of the Catholic Church. ... 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. ...

• Word Count: 1690
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this essay, I intend to show that through the establishment of the global economy which led to advancements in technology, political centralization and the exploitation of the proletariat, the bourgeoisie did indeed produce the weapons of their own demise. ... Marx ascertains that under capitalism, there is no such thing as "free-trade." ...

• Word Count: 1749
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"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 aff...

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

In this essay, you will understand that the wealthy will always have job security over the middle and lower classes because they always have money that they could spend whenever the choose to do so. ... Therefore, whatever free time they have goes into making sure their children stay on track academically and extracurricular. ...

• Word Count: 1597
• Approx Pages: 6