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    Social class today does not affect our relationships as it did back then. In As You Like it by William Shakespeare and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde‚ plays that are set in the past it has an evident impact on the relationships of some of the characters‚ while others totally defy it. In the plays As You Like It and The Importance of Being Earnest it is evident how social class has a negative impact on relationships. Where the characters lived and who their family was and the way

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    “The higher the social class of other students the higher any given students achievement‚” once said American Sociologist James S. Coleman who got it exactly right. Childhood achievement is one of the most strived for things in American society. The fact that social class determines success is a huge issue. The problem is that kids do not branch out from their social classes making lower class kids have a difficult time succeeding in life. Social classes can impact kids lives as they are maturing

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    The real America is influenced by the events that occur and the circumstances of the time. The real America is the reality that people are living in. What is true and happening shapes the real America. The real America now is being connected to other people through the internet and social media. Social media helps to link people together and showcase people’s lives‚ but it can also showcase too much. Donald Trump is the current president of the United States of America. His use of social media

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    is that the class and family life you come from affects your chance of success. Coming from a lower class‚ Gladwell says‚ causes you to be less assertive around authority and less pressured into ambition. Parents of lower class families often do not encourage their kids to fine tune their talents through extra-curricular activities‚ but in middle to upper class families‚ kids are able to partake in multiple activities with the support of their parents. Also‚ in middle to upper class families‚ children

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    Social class is classified in society by the amount of wealth‚ power and authority a family has in the community. Depending on the social class of a child‚ it will depend what kind of education or resources their family will has access for their schooling. Social class plays a massive role for any child’s education. Social class affects education especially if the child comes from a poor family. Their resources are limited and the schools are barely passing the states curriculum. Looking for a better

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    Social Class and Class Struggle in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games SOCIAL CLASS AND CLASS STRUGGLE IN SUZANNE COLLINS’S THE HUNGER GAMES Moh.Arifin English Literature‚ Faculty of Languages and Arts‚ State University of Surabaya arifin.mailbox@gmail.com Prof. Dr. Fabiola D. Kurnia‚ M.Pd. English Department‚ Faculty of Languages and Arts‚ State University of Surabaya Abstrak Perjuangankelasadalahmasalah yang selalumunculdalamsejarahperjalananmanusia‚ bahkandalamkehidupanmasyarakat modern perjuangankelasmasihdapatditemui

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    TMG Tom’s Midnight Garden‚ 1958. Perceptions of class and social hierarchies in the 1950’s had changed and some children’s literature began to tackle social issues. P 143 Reader 1 red Reader 1 There was moral panic about mass media and the fear it could divert attention from moral activities such as reading. 1 red Children’s literature began to reflected these changes and fears‚ yet books still had to be generally suitable in a gentle middle class manner and publishers still wanted educated readers

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    the door to study of one’s social class has direct influence on one’s life experience and changes. Marx lived in Paris from 1843 to 1845‚ he meets with other radical thinkers and revolutionaries. He made parents become a center of all things social political and artistic. All the social theories were not available in Germany were available for him in Paris. Marx end up meeting angles and was immersed into the Socialist world. His focus was the conditions of the working class‚ before the first-time work

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    in literature and education. A lot of stereotypes held are of their social classes; the upper class were snobbish and shallow‚ and the lower or working class were dirty‚ illiterate and uneducated. Two historic and popular novels that examine Victorian life are George Elliot’s Middlemarch and Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South; in both novels the writers try to portray the essence of the society as a whole‚ not merely of one class‚ sometimes more or less successfully than the other. The two texts

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    M. Ryan-Johnson English 1113-392 10 September 2011 “From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” In “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work”‚ Jean Anyon discusses the differences in schooling between the working class and the higher up‚ executive class. She asserts that opportunities to gain valuable knowledge and skills to succeed are more readily available to the advantaged class‚ while the lower working class is given a more basic curriculum. Her article gives thorough

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