It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones" (18). ... The first time the title is used in the book are the lines "and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. ... They stay in a work camp called Hooverville, a place with its own rules that's filled with pitched up tents that housed homeless families desperate for any sort of work. ... Many of these refugees were offered homes outside of the work camps, however, no one was allowed out (206-207). ... In today's world, a soldier comes home and gets everyt...

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While researching this subject I stumbled over a book published in 1999, A Short and Remarkable History of New York City written by Jane Mushabac and Angela Wigan, which shed light on who the first settlers were. ... According to historians it was a popular place for picnics and relaxation. A bridge was erected over one of the outgoing canals called the "kissing bridge" (Peter Brightbill, Historian2). ... Many beautiful, wooden homes were built in the nearby settlements while the land near the pond was used for the purpose of industry. ... Mostly wooden homes were built here and b...

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The increased level of literacy in Victorian England contributed to a mass-market for book publishing and its mass audience was mainly made up of middle-class readers (O'Gorman 1). ... This paper concerns with one of her social explorers: the middle class heroine Margaret Hale who was brought up in the South but is forced to leave her home and move to an industrial town in the North. 2. ... Under the new law of 1834, the costs for this so-called outdoor relief of the Poor Law of 1601 were then to be reduced by establishing workhouses, where those people who were not able to responsibly s...

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It is a place that feeds of the life blood of its inhabitants. ... That the place is given a Christian name illustrates that the people and the place are one and the same thing. ... (BH 300) In regard to the detective, Jo considers Bucket to be "in all manner of places, all at wunst". ... He is neither idle nor ungrateful, and yet he "and his order" are hunted down like a morally and physically diseased animals, and in the case of Jo he is told to "hook it [that] nobody wants you here" (BH 717) and ultimately made to "move on" from the only place he knows - his home. ... The brickmaker, tho...

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The originality of the system resides in the fact that the dynamic elements of society, whose discontent might have engendered revolution, are really satisfied with their social condition and do not seek to change it: a man of so- called "inferior caste" would categorically refuse to enter a so- called "superior" one. 1 In Africa, it is not rare for members of the lower caste to refuse to enter into conjugal relations with those of the higher caste, even though the reverse would seem more normal. ...

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In upper class homes it would have been expected that a high moral tone would have been transmitted from masters to their servants and not the reverse as Algernon suggests should be the case. ... - I call that business."... For both Cecily and Gwendolen it was absolutely vital that they marry men called Ernest. Gwendolen heard that her cousin Algernon had a friend called Ernest and was instantly intrigued... Gwendolen professes that she loves Ernest (as she knows him) passionately, but that she would "pity any woman who is married to a man called John!" ...

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It seems Othello's dark skin alienates him no matter the effort he places in attempting to blend into a rigidly class-structured Venetian society. ... Although Othello's dark-skin automatically places his ranking lower than that of Brabantio, the Duke ultimately sides with the more socially powerful - Othello - by saying to Brabantio "And noble signior, If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black."" [1.3.289/290] The relationship betwe...

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I believe we still have discrimination in public schools, maybe not to extend like were in the old times, but now we called it different: " Multiculturalism-. ... Various political, racial, and familial tensions in this small community are also revealed through the experience of an African American officer (Joe Morton), who has returned home to head a military base, and through the personal struggles of a Mexican-American teacher (Elizabeth Pena), who does battle with an angry school board upset over her multicultural approach to the history of the Alamo. ... Lone Star is most intimately conc...

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As Ray states, 'if there is an underlying biological tendency towards masculine violence, this should manifest similarly in different cultures and places, which it does not' (2011:85). ... Around eight months after the experiment, just under half of the children that participated, were displaying violent acts at home; the same actions that were shown in the video. Experiments such as this do not only show that aggression is learnt (as Bandura found out), but also that the observation of symbols and objects are memorised by young children, and at a later time period these memories ar...

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