The image that unfolds before the reader is one of elegance in Russian society; however, the color black represents how tainted upper-society is with sin and immorality. Thus, the elegance is a front for all of the sin and adultery that occurs within high-society. ... Like Tolstoy, Marquez portrays that there is another side to all the purity that people have and that side is sin. ... However, in the past, the same dress would have been a talk of sensation regarding the beauty of it. This change represents a shift in society from one of more elegance to one of more sin and moral deterio...

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• Grade Level: High School

An important characteristic of the sociological imagination is the understanding that any modern social phenomenon is a legacy of the past, a kind of cultural and social traditions, and also it has implications for modern people's actions in different ways. ... Social imagination is really remarkable for its humanity because not all sins and issues in contemporary experience are exclusively conducted to the on the current time, but trying to trace all the milestones and to understand the mechanisms of deployment of a phenomenon in time against the background of different cultural eras and...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Today, behaviors of the past have been recognized as discriminatory and unconstitutional. ... In the long run, the sins of our fathers has left us all with a burden to bear, one that cannot be erased, and refuses to be ignored. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate