Beneath the familiarity of middle-class life, in the opening and closing scenes, and the culture of children's play evident in the adventures in Never Land is the anxiety aroused by the shifts in masculine identity in relation to modern life, including the new technologies of the workplace and the demise of Empire. ... Industrial technologies are not simply tools within the workplace; because they change the terms of work, they inevitably have an impact on the relation of workers to their labour and, hence, on the identities of workers, particularly in terms of redefining class and gender...

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We are aware that there are a variety of different types of social groups such as gender, sexuality and race; however social class is the main area in division in people, it informs gender, sexuality and race identities. ... Evidently to the theory, self identity as well as behaviors of individuals can be influenced by the terms used to describe them. ... Furthermore, in relation to "performativity" (Butler, 1993) explains performative discourse, whereby the reiterate statement of "she stinks" highlighted within the case study, shapes Christina's identity. ... Within a school institute or...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

China has seen much political change in the past few centuries. Changing from being ruled by monarchs, to imperialists, with a short lapse of democracy before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came to power, and ongoing from the 1970s a blend of socialism and capitalism introduced by Deng Xiaoping. ...

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From the late 1980s, research on gender, crime and social issues, has hugely focused on the study of masculinity, and how there has become a correlation between masculinity and violence. Feminists have researched extensively on all types associated with gender, including gay and lesbian, thus acting towards the literature on masculinity slowly increasing within the past 20 years due to the pressure from feminist works. In this essay, I will begin by reviewing theories on masculinity, and evaluating why such ideas create the assumption that violence appears to be associated with masculinity. I ...

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Jack and Algernon have a dual identity. ... (Act 1 page 7) Algernon and Jack take the business of having a dual identity very seriously, as it is their escape from the reality of the society in which they live. ...

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Work as employment i therefore of declining importance as a source of social identity in the second half of the twentieth century. ... Peoples identities are increasingly expressed through consumption rather than production, and as a consequence it is argued, that outdated nineteenth century class theories, obsessed with productivism, should be finally abandoned. ...

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"Save England before it blows up, like the springing of a mine" (Hillis-Miller 1998, 31) is the warning embedded in Charles Dickens's Bleak House, though it seems far from the time in which the novel was born. The 1850's saw the staging of the Great Exhibition, an event through which England could b...

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There is a misrepresentation of what diversity means and its implication on the Public Education in the United States. United States public schools have become a battleground for contending educational and social philosophies. Some school rejects the emerging multicultural curriculum while others argues for greater recognition of the diverse cultures that are increasingly represented in our rapidly expanding population; specially Hispanics. Despite the facts that some public schools served all students (not students let behind Act), Mexican American children during the first four decades of ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Introduction The liberals interpret and fundamentally believe that change must be devoid of any conflict to avoid disrupting the processes in society while the radicals believe otherwise and categorically state that change must be revolutionary especially that conflict is inherent in most capitalist setups in which the class is divided by social formation of the society. Change is concept of development and relates to complete or partial transformation of the society. The liberals and radicals both agree that change in the society and its political life ought to change but only disagree on th...

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Karl Marx introduced Marxism into the world because he believed that social standing was determined by money. Through creating such divisions as the upper, middle, and lower class, the theory of Marxism analyzes what ways capitalism can be used against the people. In the book The Grapes of Wrath written by John Steinbeck, the main character, Tom Joad, struggles with being in the lower class because of the limitations set by the rich. As Karl Marx said in The Communist Manifesto, "The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antago...

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• Grade Level: High School