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    Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls explores in depth the role of women and their impact on society in vast array of historical contexts. Utilising a plethora of literary techniques supported by her revolutionary dialogue structure and pessimistic themes, allude to weighted philosophical topics. Themes can be closely linked to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ The Communist Manifesto and Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex when examining the text through a feminist or Marxist lens. Churchill explores the

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    `Wuthering Heights Essay ©     In Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” was a story portraying from the 18th and 19th British Society. Bronte depicts the clash between good and evil in human nature. Their different classes are ranked based on aristocrats, upper middle class and the lower class (poor). The greatest significance in the story is the many roles that impacted the people’s lives. If it wasn’t for the change in social classes, majority of the consequences probably would not have occurred.

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    complex broadly called integrative theory, and necessity of regulating the conflict situations in the society. In integrative approach, the state emerges to meet organizational needs with which the chiefdom power organization could not cope. It has consensual rather than forced character and is presented as the political system with more complex economic and social infrastructure. This approach to some extent equates with structural functionalism in which it assumes societies to be generally stable

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    The American Dream and the Contributing Factors to our Societal System When one thinks about the, “American Dream”, the topic of currency will come in to play almost every time. This originates with the different social classes involved within the current societal system the United States mirrors. With that being said, those who classify as, “lower class,” will have a much harder time succeeding than those who were born in to money and belong to the, “upper class.” Now, it is important to realize

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    Social Inequality

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    Perspectives by conflict theorists in sociology suggest that the social, political, or material inequality of a social group, are used as an instrument of oppression. Power is a concept that can be explained by interactions between individuals and groups. The law is an instrument of oppression used to maintain power and privilege(Henslin164) Social inequality can be seen as many different things. The most common would be gender roles or discrimination by social stereotyping. They can also be established

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    There are many reasons behind an author’s story. Mainly it is to portray a message, give a good laugh, or explain a purpose, but the author will get their point across to their readers. In Katherine Mansfield’s, “The Garden Party,” she focuses on a young, upperclass girl, with the name of Laura Sheridan. During the story, the Sheridan family is preparing to host a very lively garden party. Unfortunately for the circumstance, there has been a death in their community. The Scott family, who is of the

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    Robots or no robots, this is the question. Robots are useful and desirable, because the can free us, humans, from many boring, repetitive, and easy tasks, and they can take care of us all 24/7, and at a very low cost as well; but at the same time the widespread of robots raises the question of whose jobs robots will overtake and where these people that nowadays are performing the boring, repetitive, easy tasks are going to work. Given the fact that technology advances at a constantly accelerated

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    Does social class affect people’s education? How can teachers affect education? How can motivation affect education? Teachers play a big part for kids and adult education. Social class, teachers and motivation have its pros and cons it can affect kids' education, but sometimes not really depending on the kid. Social classes can affect children’s education depending on the class there in. There are different classes like the working class, middle class and upper class. These classes may or may not

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    The article “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” by Jean Anyon is about research conducted in five different schools of four different social classes; the Working Class, the Middle Class, the Professional Class, and the Executive Class. In the data collected, Anyon discovered the various ways that these five schools teach the children. First, the two Working Class Schools taught the children really poorly, often telling the children to follow steps to get the right answer, and always

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    My Identity And Identity

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    Throughout history one of the primary ways that people express their identity is through music. Many components of my identity are important to me, however I have chosen three songs to represent my class background, my sexual orientation, and my nationality. These three facets of my identity are perhaps the most important in defining my sense of self. I feel that the song “In Color” by Jamey Johnson best represents my class identity as someone whose family comes from humble beginnings, yet has

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