The continuation of the impacts of the Great Recession will affect not just the people who are now in prime age, but also the new generation, who will have to work in the future generation. ... U.S. domestic demand, in decline for five straight quarters, is still three months shy of the 1974-75 record, but the pace, down 2.6% per quarter versus 1.9% in the earlier period, is a record-breaker already. According to Pew research, the United States has seen an increasing concentration of wealth to the detriment of the middle class and the poor with the younger generations being especially affected...

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This means that, whilst "Old Labour" has ostracized owners of businesses and the middle classes by their policies on taxation and trade unions, "New Labour" now have an increased appeal to the rapidly growing middle classes. ... Yet another factor, which has always been taken into account when assessing voting behaviour, is the age of voters. Traditionally, support for the Conservatives increased with age as people's desire to change the world declines; older people are also more likely to vote. ... However, in 2001, as we can see in the table, the 65+ age group were the only group that ...

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In the second stage, the Early Industrial family were extended families beginning to become geographically mobile, dying out and becoming less common. ... This means that what the middle class do today, the lower class do tomorrow i.e. If the middle class husbands become more involved in housework then the working class husbands will copy and also become more helpful around the house. ... She collected information from 40 married women who were between the ages of 20 and 30, British or Irish born and had one or more children under the age of 5. She found greater equality in terms of the alloc...

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The Victorian Period (1870 v/s 1900) The Victorian age can be described as the age of transition, which by definition has a dual aspect when change is revolutionary: destruction and reconstruction. ... The Victorians reacted to their age with hope and dismay, optimism and anxiety. ... The early 19th Century saw the introduction of more canals, roads, railways and steamboats that hastened the growth of large-scale production by making possible a vast expansion of commerce. ... (Frasers Magazine: The Age We Live In.) ... John Morley believed "it was the age of science, new knowledge, ...

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From the age old archetypal story of the "Prince and the Pauper," to the formation of the Middle Class in the U.S. immediately after World War II, class is something that has existed and divided citizens of almost every nation. ... Louis in the early 1900s are [comparable] to the looting and angry protests that followed Brown's death" [Ray14]. ... The more familiar examples are the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. in opposition to Jim Crow legislation, protest in India by Mahatma Ghandi that inspire the nonviolence movement in the U.S., and union strikes that take place ...

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How did Europe catch up and eventually surpass the great civilizations in the Middle East and the Orient? ... The new middle class allowed craftsmen to specialize entirely in the production of one such good. ... Such organizations existed in Europe throughout most of the Middle Ages, originating in around the twelfth century and continuing to exist well into the eighteenth century. ... Indeed, further undermining the rise of capitalism, "the anti-capitalistic religious theories of the Middle Ages had probably more widespread acceptance than anti-capitalistic Marxist theories have today" (Po...

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As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). ... The middle class seems more difficult to define. ... The lack of commonality contributes to the instability of the middle class. ... In times of affluence, some members of the middle class acquire savings. ... He is really a good man as breadwinners go, and it is hard luck for him to be propelled into the room now, when if we had brought him in a few minutes earlier or later he might hav...

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As a young man, Flaubert was well aware of incompetence in the medical profession, and the middle class "lip service", which her portrayed through Homais in Madame Bovary, and began to despise the mendacity of middle class all the more as he embraced the writings the likes of Rousseau, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott. ... She also died at a very young age, leaving Delmare with many debts and a young child to rear. ... While the novel of manners shared and exalted middle class values, Flaubert is deeply ironic and ruthlessly critical of them. ... This glimmer of hope rising in the faint ray...

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This class system is reflected in Othello where Iago, is a middle class man who will never become any higher than he is, even though he knows this, he still envies the position that Othello gave Cassio. ... In Othello the middle and lower class is largely ignored and devalued. ... The audience was normally middle to upper class due to the context, where only the rich could afford to go to watch these plays. ... Marxism as an ideology appeared much earlier in time than we might believe, as it was Karl Marx who simply stated his findings but it may not be in him that these ideas originate from. ...

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Justice and Equality in Schooling Education has been a predominant social institution in Britain since as early as 1300AD, when 100 English towns were known to have schools; although it wasn't until 1850 when the introduction of schooling for girls was established. (Microsoft Encarta 2002) The government abolished school fees up to the age of 10, theoretically establishing equality within society and gradually the process of schooling has been searching for a sense of equality. ... Hence "the instrument of communication" (Bourdieu and Passeron, 1997: 73) is considered greater among tho...

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