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Flaubert, Swift Comparison

this age, will not yield their parents a sum sufficient to cover what has been invested in raising them thus far (Swift). He then ...

The Fair Tax

used by the wealthy to shield themselves from paying a fair share of the national tax burden. The fair tax would,...

School Children, Internet, and Computer Classes

everywhere - in the workplace, in libraries, and in the home. According to a 1998 commercial survey, some 60 percent of American ...

Amerian Society and Economy as Presented in John Ford's Stagecoach and Ann Banks' First Person America

of such changes that occurred during the 1930s. A number of the First Person America interviews focus upon the sharp class consci...

Families on the Fault Line by Lillian B. Rubin

In five pages this sociological text is summarized and analyzed in a consideration of the working class 'invisible' American citiz...

1960s to 1900s' US Middle Class

In nine pages this paper discusses the American middle class with three questions relevant to this time period answered. Seven so...

Our Kind of People Inside America's Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham

and fascinating experiences of upper-class blacks who grew up with privilege and power. Previously known for his provocative New Y...

Marxist Views on America's Poor

soul. Marx saw capitalism as the culprit in creating poverty as it divided the people. Many would think that those in the higher ...

Blood Passion by Scott Martelle

This book review focuses on Scott Martell's "Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West," which descri...

Restoring the American Dream

Zakaria traces what he calls the "hollowing out" of the American middle class and the chaos that has wrought on the economy and th...

The Growing Middle Class of Urban Immigrants 1877-1900

each other. "Throughout Americas history, White privilege allowed Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, Asians, certain European i...

American Middle Class Defined

In eight pages this paper examines America's middle class concept throughout history and the shrinkage of this socioeconomic class...

Defining the Upper Class According to G. William Domhoff

In seven pages this paper discusses G. William Domhoff's definition of the upper class within the contexts of national groups and ...

Student Achievement and the Importance of Class Size

compared the achievement of students who were in classes of between 13 and 17 students to classes where there were 22 to 26 studen...

Class Size Reduction and Technology

In eight pages this paper discusses whether instruments of technology technology are more important than class size with an argume...

Great Britain and Class Mobility

In five pages this paper first defines class and then applies it to an explanation of the United Kingdom's intergenerational and i...

Dorothy Allison's 'Question of Class,' William Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and Class Distinctions

In five pages these two stories are compared in terms of their presentations of class consciousness where distinctions are clearly...

English System of Criminal Justice from 1700 Until 1850 and Class Rule

he can make an Old Bailey case of it, he takes the Boy up, because he gets his expenses, or something, I believe, for his trouble ...

Speech on Public Speaking and Audience Analysis

are physical therapy, business, accounting, pre-law, nursing, and psychology. Some of the occupations represented are office cler...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

The Disappearing Middle Class

getting into debt, and he could look forward to a secure and comfortable retirement" (p. D8). That is no longer true, only the wea...

Technology In Middle And High Schools

Panel members overwhelmingly believed it was very important to have technology right in the classroom (Clark, 2006). The research...

Paul Willis' Learning to Labor

In five pages this paper provides a review of Learning to Labor by Paul Willis' chapter 3 'Class and Institutional Form of Culture...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and the Theme of Class

In a paper consisting of 8 pages the theme of class and how it is represented in Bronte's title protagonist in terms of establishi...

Tutorial on Banking Concept of Education According to Paulo Freire

In five pages the banking concept of education as defined by Paulo Freire is applied to a tutorial case study scenario involving a...

Blinded by Class in 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' by Leo Tolstoy

of their husband and friend. Tolstoy wrote of Ivan and his co-workers, "He had been ill for some weeks with an illness said to be...

Prenatal Education in a Military Program

This research paper addresses a scenario that describes a prenatal education class that pregnant military personnel and wives are ...

Issues in Social Stratification

the upper class is largely defined by the characteristics of having "old wealth," that is, having had above average income for mul...

The Nature and Function of Humor

dealing with the world in future" (Palmer 57). As this suggests, humor, at least temporarily, has the power to free perception fr...

Great Britain, is It Class Driven or a Meritocracy?

more on ability and skills rather than family background and inheritance; a meritocracy. Class mobility between the generation and...