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    For a long time socioeconomic status and social class has been seen as a strong predictor of student achievement. Australia, like many of our fellow first world nations is very much a ‘you reap what you sow’ nation, but how can we expect those whom are disadvantaged to reap without giving them seeds? In the same respect, can you expect the same results from each individual student in a class to be the same when each of them has different social makeups, interests, experiences and learning speeds

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    Income Inequality is a major problem that has been going on in America for decades. Many people feel that it barely exists today, but those people are very uneducated and don’t really care about the huge problem in front of them the many people that feel that way are highly uneducated, and seem to not really care about which has been gradually increasing instead of decreasing. Unfortunately, there’s not much that can be done, only of course if the poor class of people decide to actually educate themselves

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    century, but back then women and girls weren’t allowed the many jobs and advantages that men and all gentlemen had. The main reason why is because many women didn’t belong in social classes at the time. Ancient Greeks had many jobs and lives depending on the social classes they were placed in. Children were born into the social class of their father. If your father was a rich, wealthy man, when you were born you would be in upper class. Upper class is the most prestigious class there was in Ancient

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    Throughout history, there were numerous ages and eras that brought considerable changes and advancements to the human society. For instance, the age of exploration led explorers such as Columbus and Dias to discover unknown continents and routes. The age of enlightenment caused a burst of knowledge and ideas based on reason from people such as John Locke and Voltaire. The most important era, however, that brought substantial and visible change to the way of living is the era of Industrial Revolution

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    Social justice is one of the fundamental factors that can make a community, society, or the entire country thrive. Counties that have any sort of social justice system even if it is not perfect are more stable than one who lack all forms of social justice system. It is very difficult to see social justice in most countries of the world due to the greediness of those who are in the upper class. This kind of behavior makes the others who are below the the upper class revolt against the regimes and

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    Social Class - a division of a society based on social and economic status. People are strongly affected by social class and the level of violence around them. Social class divides segments of society and in the case of the Greasers, forced them to live in a hostile environment, steeped in violence yet also created the strong bonds and undying loyalty they had for each other. When surrounded at a young age by violence and inequity of social class children are forced to grow up too fast, losing their

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    opportunities because of their position in the social society that sometimes can cause problems in their lives. Thus, the most affected by this judgmental world are mostly people with colors, low incomes, low educational level and people with different cultures. People who are of upper class have easily access to everything because of their power and social standing. "Upper class is a social group consisting of the people who have the highest social rank and who are usually rich” (Wikipedia contributors

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    Nearly all of my family members have experienced social mobility at some point in their lives, including me. Social mobility is moving from social class to another, whether up or down the class ladder and it has affected my family’s way of life significantly starting from my grandmother. These changes of social mobility that my family faced has also affected me in several ways in my life. It made the person where I stand today. It gave reasons for why I care about education so much, why I must work

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    Piers Plowman Dbq

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    Jonathan Knowles Rm. 223 4/13/16 Document 1 Excerpt from Piers Plowman Question: What economic trap did peasants suffer from according to lines 3 - 4? 3: Changed with their children, and chief lord’s rent 4: What by spinning they save, they spend it in house - hire Answer: The economic trap that is stated in this poem, translated by Terence Tiller, to the peasants is a couple of things. First, in the 3rd line, it states,”Charged with their children, and chief lords rent,” which is implying

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    One of the more prominent themes of the novel is that social class doesn’t determine someone’s worth as a person. Throughout the novel, it was never explicitly stated as to who was wealthy high class and who wasn’t. As most people even nowadays, this was also happening in England during the 19th century. The Bennet Family were never stated to have money or a high social class however they did interact with the clear upper class, however they were still treated unequally on terms with them. Based

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