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    When I was near to eight years old, I walked outside when my father got home that nice warm summer day. I went over to where he was by his truck and trailer to find that he was detaching chains from an old Farmall M that had been oxidized entirely and the motor and transmission had been seized entirely. “It was a cotton picker down in Texas” he said, “she’s definitely seen better days but we’ll make it look brand new”. Bang, thump, ssss was all you could hear as we loosened the binders that held

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    Extreme learning machine proposed by\cite{elm,elms} is a feed forward neural network classifier with single hidden layer in which the weights between input and hidden layer are initialized randomly. ELM uses analytical approach to compute weights between hidden and output layer\cite{elm} ,which makes it faster compared to other gradient based classifiers. ELM fails to handle class imbalance problem effectively. Many variants of Extreme Learning Machine like Weighted Extreme Learning Machine(WELM)\cite{WELM}

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    Eighty three percent of Americans who have taken an Edward Jones survey say they cannot afford the expenses of a college education (Levaux). That leaves only 17% of Americans who say they can afford the expenses of college for themselves or family members. That leaves millions of American who either will be in debt for many years with student loans or millions of Americans who are not reaching their potential. The proportion of new high school graduates now appears to be declining. College education

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    health inequality still exists relating the socio-economic (RG social class scale) and life expectancy. In the late 20th, the Black Report (1980) confirmed that social class is the main cause of overall death and the inequality gap between social classes strata appear to be widening. Townsend and Davidson (1982) identified five most important factors of income; occupation, education, housing and lifestyle-affecting health. Of these factors occupation is one of the most accurate predictors of all life

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    used interchangeably with others such as working and elite classes. The disparities in health, mentioned above, and indicators of class include measures such as mortality, morbidity and disability rates. Individuals tend to affiliate themselves with a certain social class. Only 5% of Australian’s claim they have no class affiliation (Western and Baxter, 2011). Class creates social divisions within a population. People who share classes also tend to share similar life opportunities. Example of these

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    Social class is what defines humans. We are classified based on our wealth, power, authority and prestige in society. Social class can alter your morals as diverse social classes possess different moral values. In The Book Thief, there are several characters who all come from a lower social class, yet some have different personal morals. How the characters used their social class is what makes their personal morals different. The Hubermanns lived on a street that was filled with lower class families

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    answer is the revolution leading to the abolishment of social class. According to Hammond, he defines civilization as “organized misery” in which he criticizes the class system for denigrating the lower classes into subservient people unknowingly supporting and enriching the middle and upper classes while scrapping by with little reward to their own lifestyle (Morris 125).

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    further reports published, the Acheson report (1999), an independent inquiry to look into the health inequalities, repeated the findings of the Black Report form (1980), showing that the divide between the lower and higher social classes, was still present and that upper classes mortality rate was lesser than that of the lower class increasing the divide and called for benefits to be increased for expectant mothers, In 2010 the marmot report, that was conducted by professor Michael Marmot, also found

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    there is a dramatic increase or increase as then the health and social funding can be spent in areas which need more help. For example, if there is a rising problem with obesity, then funds can be spent to help those who are unable to control their weight, more services will be able to be provided to those who are obese. Illnesses such as obesity are on the rise but also illnesses associated with smoking, drinking and drugs are also, funding is targeted at providing help for those who suffer from these

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    persecuted and looked down upon compared to someone who performs “down.” By using the excerpt "Serving in Florida" from Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich and the play, Six Degrees of Separation, by John Guare, we see how performing different classes than the one each person is a part affect themselves and those around them In Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, Barbara went “undercover” to perform and learn about a class that was not her own. Although it was for only a month, Barbara struggled

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