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    kind of ironic since the art pieces that they have mainly European art. They seem to want to be diverse and have art pieces that people can relate to or to impress, but in reality, they seem to want to attract people who seem to have the lifestyle of upper

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    The bowler hat has been a part of visual culture ever since it was designed and created during the reign of Queen Victoria in 1849 for Edward Coke, a British soldier and politician. Since then the bowler hat has become symbolic in visual and popular culture, being featured in books, films and logos, as well as being used within politics in order to relate to other classes, as well as bypassing gender stereotypes. These hats were originally used as head protection for gamekeepers as their previous

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    Uniforms School uniforms in England were first introduced during the occupation of King Henry VII. England is mostly known for their school uniforms even though British people are not very interested, in fact they spend less money on clothes than the people of many European countries. Although, the school uniforms are part of the British image, many individuals oppose the use of school uniforms. The British is mostly known for their clothes, more specifically the school uniforms, it is one of their

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    person’s health in today’s world. Hierarchy is defined as the categorization of collection of individuals in accordance with their financial, societal and professional position in the society. Individuals are divided on the basis of race, religion, class, ethnicity and many more factors which in turn have great impact on the health and services provided to individuals in these distinct categories. Firstly, we will discuss social dominance theory which was developed by Sidanius and Pratto in the year

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    Haywood's Cautionary Tale

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    Haywood’s cautionary tale warns lower class women to beware of sexual misconduct as their bodies are more available to men. Carrie Shanafelt explains in her essay “Vicarious Sex and the Vulnerable Eighteenth Century Reader” how specific people risk more in reading pornographic novels: “namely, young, female, and lower-class readers” in the eighteenth-century (262). For example, Celia, one persona, is a young countrywoman who works as a maid at the inn where Beauplaisir lives during his stay in Bath

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    refer to any person who was born within a certain radius of a church named ‘St. Mary-le-Bow’ and therefore could hear the Bow Bells ringing. In general, it loosely refers to a traditional accent, which is spoken by people from the Londoner working-class. However, the term ‘Cockney’ is informal. Its most extraordinary characteristic is the usage of rhyming schemes to code their language, but then again, there are also several phonological features which differentiate ‘Cockney’ from other British accents

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    between the 1870s and early 1900s. During this time, many aspects of the working, middle, and upper classes began to change, and the differences that existed between them started to proliferate to previously unknown standards (Carnes and Garraty, 481). However, it is believed that with the increase of economic prosperity, came an expanding interest in minorities like immigrants, children, the working class, and women. When it came to the formation of the Populist party, women’s suffrage movement, and

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    the lower and upper classes taking over our economy, as the middle class slowly diminishes right before our eyes. John G. Maxwell, head of the global retail and consumer practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers stated this, “As a retailer or restaurant chain, if you’re not at the really high level or the low level, that’s a tough place to be. You don’t want to be stuck in the middle.” Middle class jobs are continuing to decline and before we know it America could be looking at a two class system rather

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    However, a hero isn 't just born, they 're made through a series of events such as problems with social class discrimination. When writing the book Uglies, the author, Scott Westerfeld, used a sufficient amount of details to emphasize the differences in social classes and how each class is distinctly separated. By labeling the citizens in the colonies, Westerfeld was able to show how each class was viewed. The novel follows a character named Tally, who is a teenager living in a time set ahead of

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    portraits Jimmy as a working class young man full of anger and human emotion who bears neither slothfulness nor social inequality. Anger is the dominant emotion in the play, but how and why is it expressed by Jimmy? From the fragment provided, there are three important points through which Jimmy Porter shows his deep anger and which lead him to be considered a representation of the Angry Young

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