The productions of these occupations facilitate their own social institutions and provide leisure for an entire subculture of fans. ... The working question for this paper looks into how the members of these occupations view the meanings of their subjective careers in terms of derived satisfaction, the effects that intrinsic and extrinsic influences have on there satisfaction, and how a strong sense of ambition has helped to propel them to eminence. ... This will be followed by a presentation and analysis of my findings supporting the argument that these are in fact high-pressure occupations a...

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As time and context changes, significant developments and changes have occurred in the representation of women, their ambitions and ideas of selflessness and choices. ... Society's highest expectation for a woman was that she marries and be a good, respectable wife and mother, even if this meant she could not pursue her own dreams. This idea of ambition is reiterated throughout A Gathering Light through both Grace Brown and Mattie Gokey. ... Ambition is also seen in Mattie's dream of being a writer. ... This is evidence for society's spurning of women pursuing an ambition instea...

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Eliza is a victim of the conventions in society that leads her at the end of the play to simply leave and live on her own. ... The 1990s film Pretty Woman carries the Pygmalion themes into a different era with its own values nad behaviours. ... They both have free fighting spirits, high ambitions, determination and a strong sense of morality. Eliza wants to make something of herself and has ambitions to work in a flower shop. ...

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They are socialized to hold high aspirations, yet they are relatively blocked off from the conventional educational and occupational opportunities needed to realize those ambitions. ... Certainly hard work and ambition, in school and then in the economic marketplace, are the culturally approved means of success, but there is also an element of admiration for the robber baron and the rogue who breaks the rules about appropriate means but achieves success goals by deviant means (Merton 217). ...

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People usually always marry within their own caste. ... Their way of life or religious beliefs may prevent them form obtaining more or having the ambition to try for more. ... Property is what a person owns and income is how much money is received. ... In the United States, the capitalist class is only one percent of the population but owns ninety percent of the wealth. ... People tend to marry within their own class either by choice or just simply the fact that those are the only ones they come into contact with. ...

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Preparations for the Moka often begin years ahead of the actual celebration and the planning phase has its own round of gifts and political maneuvering. ... Where once you would find family and close friends you may now observe business colleagues, employers, and members of society that may help your own social/political status. ... Each family member does something different, you have to; we want the family to enjoy and remember their Christmas at our house more than somewhere else The family has it's own traditions - you never know what you will be eating when it's dinner at Lloyd...

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Thus, clearly asserting her newly awakening independence over her own life, as well as rebuking Leonce for trying to subjugate her to his will as the patriarch and as an authority ruling over her. ... The changes in Edna, as a result of her awakening on Grand Isle, became apparent; she stopped carrying out traditional wifely/motherly duties, she stopped attending or holding social obligations, and began to become more and more absorbed by her artistic ambitions and desires. ... For Edna, the choice to move out of Leonce's house and into her own is a crucial act which the reader is l...

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The U.S. system has evolved, and while having its own shortcomings, has adopted some of Marx's principles and integrated them into their society. ... With their growing economic powers, this class also began to gain political power, destroying the remainder of the old feudal society seeking to restrict their ambition. ... This class, known as the proletariat, "wage-laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live." ...

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From reading the poem, it's clear that the narrator left his family to pursue an identity of his own, and the first line of the poem suggests that he isn't happy about having to return home out of obligation as the oldest child. ... Now, it seems that she has the ambition to do those things again and cannot, because of health reasons or the fear of breaking social norms. ... Likewise, one would assume that the man's son would be expected to become a farmer in his own adulthood. ... The father in this piece appears to want a different path for his son, one in which he has the abi...

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Even so, writers and storytellers tell their own variations of Romeo and Juliet, each with a different twist. ... If only they were in the same social class, if only Viola was not to be wed to lord Wessex, if only she was a poor woman with ambition. ...

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