The area I am now standing in was known as the Sixth Ward in the early 19th century, which was encompassed by West Street to the west, Reade Street to the south, Canal Street to the north and Broadway to the east1. ... Collect Pond Park is one of them that I am particularly interested in as it is historically known as the location of a spring fed fresh water pond that was a great source for water in the 17th to the early 19th century and later on was polluted by waste from "noxious industry" (Alyssa Loorya, Archaeologist)2. ... Not surprisingly, it was a Native American tribe called...

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It was the social contract theorists, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, who first arrived at explanations of inequality in the eighteenth century. ... It is therefore important to remember that whilst the concept of class was only recognised by mankind in the seventeenth century, its existence may be traced back to the origins of mankind. ... Work as employment i therefore of declining importance as a source of social identity in the second half of the twentieth century. ... As work declines in importance in the twentieth century, so too do other factors become relevant for the analysis of stratif...

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Her story became known as the "Queen Caroline Affair", and survives in the letters, diaries, and newspaper articles of the early nineteenth century. ... The details of the "Affair", however, are not as important as what the scandal reveals about nineteenth century British society. ...

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Introduction The living conditions of the lower class in Victorian England, under the effects of industrialization, is one of the most frequently depicted issues in nineteenth century British literature. ... Social Conditions of the Lower Classes in Nineteenth Century England The Industrial Revolution made Britain the first industrialized country in the world. ... Particularly the lower classes in nineteenth century England were scarred by economic hardship and political turmoil. ...

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"A woman," Caroline Bingley of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice affirms, "must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages."1 Her comment demonstrates the rigid view that members of the upper class had regarding the requirements a woman needed to be called...

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J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. 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). Tellingly, Twain's comment that Peter Pan is uplifting seems to depend on ignoring the fact that each of the "lost- boys is a baby who has fallen out of his pram "when the nurse is looki...

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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...

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