Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. ... The slaves of the king formed the greater part of his forces and in consequence their condition was greatly improved. ... Once established in the family he became almost an integral part of it; he was the loyal domestic, respected, feared, and consulted by the children. ...

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John and Wendy's rehearsal of their parents seems like a recurring part of the dynamic of the family, so that Mr Darling's entrance and his petulant demand that his wife fix his tie read like an extension of the role playing: as the children play their parents, so the father plays his child. ...

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It is only in Chapter 36 having read Darcy's letter that Elizabeth begins to appreciate the consequences of her prejudice and misjudgement of both George Wickham and Darcy. ... It is these prejudices, which in part drive him to come between Jane and Bingley. ... Austen criticise class structure but only a small part of that structure as she does not represent anyone from the lower classes; those servants she does portray are generally happy with their life. ...

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As part of the 'New Left', an emerging stance on the left wing of politics, Miliband disagreed with the notion of pluralism being a means of spreading political power across a wider spectrum than what he called the 'dominant class', which he asserted to maintain not only the majority of the wealth, but also the majority of political power with which it has come to be associated. ... It will predominantly focus on the second chapter, Economics and Dominant Class, as it is here that Miliband most clearly outlines his gripes with capitalist Western democracies in terms of in...

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The title originally came from this song, which was written during the Civil War in 1861 when Julia and her husband became part of the U.S. sanitary commission. ... Before this quote, the chapter talks about how men are throwing out good food because they can't make a profit. ...

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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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