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    The world of A Midsummer Night dream is constructed of three different social classes, these being, royalty, nobility and commoners. As well as social classes there are also two being types- humans and fairies. Bottom and puck are two characters of different class and Being -type, Bottom a commoner and Puck a fairy. Although it doesn't seem like it there are many similarities and differences between the two. There are also many instances where Shakespeare uses this to enhance the comic nature of

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    Social Classes in Early Colonies - By the late seventeenth century there were a few upper class mostly younger sons of the lesser gentry some businessmen in the middle class who move for religious and commercial reasons and mostly English laborers; in the Chesapeake these laborers were often indentured while in New England they often arranged their own passage. In both men>women (a little more lax in the early south and women>children; in the south: large plantation owners>small plantation owners>

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    This draft compares wages of different social classes in the U.K. at about 1850. It was rough during this era. Life was good for the rich and the middle class in Victorian England: everyone else was just struggling to survive. A large part of the population was very poor. Skilled and unskilled workers alike were paid subsistence level wages. For example, if they were laid off, they had no savings to live on (AboutBritain.com). This shows that a worker was just paid enough to survive. However,

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    2.) Social classes can be explained as a group of individuals who have a similar position in the economy based on their economic success. Not only are social classes important to social theories, but since the classes are made up of a group of individuals who share a similar economic status, they have been used greatly in the studies of social mobility and for the census. There are four social classes that are recognized all over the world, they are the Upper class, Middle class, Working class

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    The American and British history of different social classes is presented in the novel When the Sleeper Wakes by H.G Wells with a future world that has similarities to the social classes of the American and British histories. One way Wells demonstrates the distinction between classes is with the colors of their clothing. The young boy that pushes in the tailor’s machine is described as wearing clothing made of “coarse pale blue canvas” (Wells, 105). This is to show that based on the color he is

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    Patricia Ostrowski Mrs. Murphy ENG4U 29 February 2016 Divided Social Classes Abolishing Desires Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace”, from a Marxist perspective, can be used to show the negative impact of social classes on lives of the working class. The story was written during the “Belle de Époque”, which translates to the lovely age, this was an era of economic and social growth. Popularity of shopping malls and high-class luxuries grew. As the bourgeoisie got richer the working class

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    The development of social classes in medieval England affected life for the people in many positive ways. It served as a means of organization to base their daily lives off of, and also gave the peasants and trade classes protection from the rulers and the clergy class in return for their labor and allegiance (“Quizlet”). Life in the Middle Ages was based on the framework of social classes so they could flourish socially and economically. The British class structure was a configuration of five

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    Communications and Social Classes The Stagecoach, a critically acclaimed film, which followed the adventures of a group of unlikely and unfortunate passengers escaping from the brutality of Geronimo’s Apache warriors, established the precedent of the classic Western movie, containing crucial Western archetypical elements such as Ringo the Kid that has not hardly changed today. Furthermore, Stagecoach espoused social issues of the time by including passengers of varied social status and standing

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    views, racial, and social class differences impact human relationships? Social classes, different political views, and different religions can have an effect on forming relationships. When you get a new phone or expensive piece of clothing, you might get a sizable head like Donald Trump and think you are better than someone else who has an old phone or different clothing. If that sounds like you, then you might want to look at the bigger picture in life and at how social classes affect relationships

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    According to Plato, there are three social classes of citizens in the Kallipolis, which are organized in a hierarchy. Of these three classes, the bronze class is the lowest class, which consists of industrial workers, farmers, and hard laborers. The middle class, the silver class, is composed of the military and government officials that maintain the balance of the society. And finally, in the upper gold class, there are the rulers and philosopher kings. One’s affiliation with each class would

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