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    This paper will focus on the similarities and differences in cultures and how it relates to schooling, family, religion, education and language. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the effects that culture, race, and class have on human’s behaviors, resilience, struggles and faith. . The cross culture countries of analysis will be Guyana and Portugal which are situated at two opposite ends of the world. Which makes this comparison even more compelling? With worlds so distant, one might

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    This paper will focus on the similarities and differences in cultures and how it relates to human resilience, struggles and faith. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the effects that culture, race, and class have on human behaviors and beliefs. The cross culture countries of analysis will be Guyana and Portugal which are situated at two opposite ends of the world. One major difference is Guyana, which is located in South America and Portugal in Southwestern Europe. Which makes this comparison

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    Social class and equality of class’ has come a long way, from racial struggles all the way to woman suffrage. Although, with these advances there are still differences between social class’ that bring out a serious sense of inequality. Some of the social class differences could be because of things such as: a family’s income, race, and someone’s educational level. There are social “standards” that can limit certain class’ abilities to accomplish high reaching goals. There are some people that truly

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    How does Willy Russell demonstrate class difference in Blood Brothers? "Blood Brothers" was written by Willy Russell in 1985. A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends in ignorance of their blood relationship until the inevitable quarrel caused through 'class' differences leads to the tragic outcome. In this essay, I will examine how

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    Social Class Differences According to Brenda Allen in her book Difference Matters, social class is associated with the allocation of power and resources. It is a stratification system that is one of the biggest predictors of academic achievement. It is widely held in the US that the more financial, cultural, and social capital (Bourdieu) you have, the more likely you will get a better quality education that will lead to a higher paying job. In the film, Idris and Seun come from different class backgrounds

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    income to education. Those in the working class have different attitudes of teaching children compared to the elite class. There are four types of schools based on income, working, middle, upper, and elite class. The attitudes these classes give toward knowledge and work teaching their students for the working class is teach information because it is required, middle-class is to learn how to get right answer and not understand why it's correct, upper class teaches material and children know why they

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    structures are limitations that affect the lives of individuals and groups in the society. Social structures such as class, gender and ethnicity are the limitations that society has to cope with in one way or another (Lawson et al, 2002). Class (upper-class, middle-class, and poor) is a the most favoured limitation that influence the lives of individuals and groups. Social class is the key source of economic and material inequality and is found in all societies (Marron et al, 2011). Karl Marx

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    In other words, compulsory education is designed to keep the majority of the population in the lower class by making children “manageable.” Students are separated out according to intellectual abilities, social class, and even by the Darwinian theory of “the favorite race.” The children are then further sorted based on subject, grades, ranking on tests, or by other means, allowing schools to control who will

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    for students to study in a small class. For their love for their children, parents want to give the best resource to their children. For money, not all of the family could afford the high price. It is really a difficult question. But in my opinion, class size is not important for students; children in large size classes could study as well as students in small size classes. Many parents think small size class is better, and they think smaller class sizes might be expected to improve

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    In American culture, most parents would say that they are doing a satisfactory job at raising their children; yet, each family raise their children so differently. The differences are clearly seen when compared by class. In the upper classes (high class to upper middle class), children are given hundreds of learning opportunities and are taught to value education at a much earlier age. They are put into expensive day cares that require competitive applications, after-school art and sport programs

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