It helps us to discover the perfection of ourselves but at the same time, grab our eyes on the defectiveness as well. ... In a culture where females' infanticide is rampant, Kavita, the baby's mother sent her daughter to an orphanage in order to save her life. ... Griet is the protestant daughter of a tile painter Delft who has lost his sight in kiln accident. ... 'It is about time I caught you doing things maids are not meant to do. ... At this time, literature stepped out and showed me the reflection of the truth in our world. ...

• Word Count: 1988
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

For example, the daughter of Sam Walton, the creator of Wal-Mart has more wealth and opportunities available to her than a grocery clerk's daughter. ... Walton would experience a happier home life than the other daughter, just more opportunities for hobbies and better schools. ... The rich have added time for leisure allowing them more time to dedicate to pursuing self-interests and hobbies. ... They lead a balanced life spending ample time with their families while still taking time to spend with friends and engaging in outside activities. ... Most of their time is spent either wor...

• Word Count: 1412
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• Grade Level: High School

Bennet plays a major link between love and money, this is particularly evident when her purpose is set out within the opening chapter as the novel, "The business of her life was to get her daughters married". ... Bennet's intentions for who her daughters may marry where to be someone of a higher social class, "A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. ... Bennet is not concerned if her daughters marry for love as long as they marry someone with a good financial status. ... Collins for finical support rather than for love, demonstrating the majority of ...

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While strong and brave, at the same time, he was a master of tactics. ... The sons of these nobles governed the church as bishops and abbots, while the daughters staffed the nunneries. ... There was a certain priest during this time that also somewhat shared the same view. ... Thanks to the population explosion, the nobility and the church gained but lost at the same time. ... He had the support of the gentry (lower nobility) and the middle class's sons and daughters (Cantor, ed. 61). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This made them increasingly dissatisfied and idle and as time went on they wanted to be given the opportunity to work and make a difference to society. ... The "sweated trades" were businesses where women were made to all sit together in a stuffy room with no windows thus causing sweat and an all round uncomfortable time. ... Even some families thought that their sons should be educated but not their daughters, as it was thought they would only go and get wed and have children anyway. ... In many cases parents just paid for the boys to be educated, even if the girl got a scholarship she probab...

• Word Count: 1324
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bingley and hope to wed her daughter to this mysterious gentleman, showed us how social status and wealth are often put before our actual personality "A single man of large fortune what a fine thing for out girls." ... Bingley but she is willing to arrange the marriage just to assure her daughter's social statues and financial stability. ... Bennet's desire to wed her daughters for both social and financial stabilities is the consequence of her anxious need resulting from her middle-class value. The value of only wealth and good statues can guarantee the happy life "If I can see one ...

• Word Count: 1942
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• Grade Level: High School

These conditions were prevalent in Dickens's time and therefore were expressed in the writing of his novels. ... This was an uncommon occurrence in this time and proved almost impossible for Pip to handle. ... For a good time Pip travels back and fourth to the Satis house to visit Miss Havisham and he becomes closely acquainted with her. ... Everything falls into place however when Pip discovers that Compeyson was the man who had abandoned Miss Havisham at the altar, and that Estella is Magwitch's daughter; Miss Havisham had raised Estella to break men's hearts, as revenge fo! ...

• Word Count: 1548
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• Grade Level: High School

For one thing, the average Victorian was much more likely to defer to the opinions of his "elders and betters" than to question them or think out his own, which is to say that the tradition of respect for the upper classes survived for a long time. ... To be bored was the privilege of wives and daughters in upper and middle class families in which feminine idleness was treasured as a status symbol. Well off wives and daughters, lived in households where the servants ran everything, even taking off the principal role in the rearing of children. ...

• Word Count: 1835
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the time only wealthy, classier families would drink port. The Birling family are of the middle class, a class very well off within society at the time. ... Mr Birling, like his daughter Sheila also looks down on the lower class in shame. ... At the time a family's social position was very important, a huge difference between the classes determined the quality of life. ... Furthermore, Eva's image is worsened due to her being a woman - no women at that time were considered as good as men. ...

• Word Count: 1335
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Author Francois-Marie Arouet better known as "Voltaire" grew up in a middle class family in Paris where most of the people at this time were living in poverty. During his upbringing the French Aristocracy ruled with an iron fist, but at the same time the Enlightenment Movement was spreading ideas about the equality and basic rights of man and the importance of reason and scientific objectivity. ... (Page 19) Candide's origin is discussed, and it is stated that his mother and father did not marry because his father, "could only claim seventy-one quarterlings, the rest of his family tree ha...

• Word Count: 1280
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Violence was and has been glamorized by the media for a very long time in this country. ... They were the wives of society, the daughters of the land it was ok, to beat and demean them "they were their property. ...

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Viola dresses as a man because her main dream is to be an actress, illegal at the time for women. She adores Shakespeare's plays and wins the role of Romeo in his latest play, Romeo and Ethel the Pirates Daughter. ... Social classes had a large impact on life in this time era (Cimafranca). ... In this time the queen's words were law, no one could go against her. ... Shakespeare would not have been writing or producing a play at that time because he would not have a great need for money. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Priestly carefully observes the setting and unites the time, place and action in his structure. The time span of the play performance corresponds more or less with the actual time the events presented would take to unfold in real life. ... Sheila the Birlings" daughter, is an animated and vivacious character who has an idea about the outside world and so, is not completely innocent. ... She is time and again, downtrodden. i.e. ...

• Word Count: 1550
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Doria is a seventeen-year-old daughter of a single mother living in poverty. ... She tried for a really long time. When I think of all the girls who get pregnant their first time, not even on purpose Dad, he wanted a son. ... She was the only one at the time without any food because she had already shared her food with everyone else on the carriage. ...

• Word Count: 1524
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Pip first starts analyzing his social status when he visits with Miss Havisham and meets Estella, her adopted daughter. ... This idea is also illuminated by the way the townspeople controversially treat Pip and by the time that he is ready to leave the village, he doesn't want Joe to walk with them because of their contrasting classes. ... Just within the short amount of time that passed between Pip finding out about his secret fortune and when he had to leave, his whole idea of the social system had become different. ...

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Pip began the book out poor, and was sent for to spend time every week with an upper-middle-class crazy woman and her heartless adopted daughter, Estella. ... And when the verdict come, warn't it Compeyson as was recommended to mercy on account of good character and bad company..." (276) Magwich was sentenced to twice Compeyson's jail time. ...

• Word Count: 1660
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• Grade Level: High School

Pip began the book out poor, and was sent for to spend time every week with an upper-middle-class crazy woman and her heartless adopted daughter, Estella. ... And when the verdict come, warn't it Compeyson as was recommended to mercy on account of good character and bad company..." (276) Magwich was sentenced to twice Compeyson's jail time. ...

• Word Count: 1658
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• Grade Level: High School

In this play, the consequences that result from Dolly's failure to fulfill her role in the family are outlined through her daughter Rose. ... As a group, Emma, Alex, Mark and I were admittedly rather unprepared that day due to insufficient time and perhaps a lack of initiative in meeting outside class times. ...

• Word Count: 1509
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It can be seen that the novelist does not share the ideals held by the Frean family, indeed Sinclair's own views took much from the modern thinkers of the time, namely Sigmund Freud. ... Harriet also relates and names herself to her father, as shown on page 116, "You forget that I"m Hilton Frean's daughter" and this act of willing patriarchal oppression where Harriet has no real identity herself, moulds Harriet into a conformist to her parents standards. ...

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Pip feels comfortable in his home, at that time he was not aware of his social status and so he was happy were he was. ... Magwitch has done so much for Pip just because that one time when he gave him food when he escaped. ... After all of this, Pip learns that Estella is Molly and Magwitch's daughter. ...

• Word Count: 2416
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

By the time Louis XVI came to the thrown in 1774 his kingdom was deeply in dept. ... Lefebvre tells an anecdote about a woman named Madame Lebas, who was the daughter of Robespierre's host Duplay. ...

• Word Count: 2327
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate