Derek Vinyard, the protagonist of American History X, grew up in a white lower to middle class family. Derek's views of society are directly shaped by his father at an early age. ... Did the middle class get lower? ... But Danny is shot at school by a black gang member that he had a conflict with earlier. ... These barriers have been around for ages. ...
In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. He stars from the ancient Rome where we have patricians, knights, plebeians and slaves; then in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs and we came in our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses which it has simplified the class antagonisms: Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Prol...
In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. He stars from the ancient Rome where we have patricians, knights, plebeians and slaves; then in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs and we came in our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses which it has simplified the class antagonisms: Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Prol...
Politics as a Vocation' is a pretty wide ranging essay - He provides the reader with the working mechanisms of politics; he talks about political journalism and different kinds of party organizations, beginning with the feudal parties of the Middle Ages to the Guelphs and Ghibbilines, ranging through the development of the English and American party systems, to Germany. ... Until the science of politics is perfected, there is insight to be gained by observing how those who came before analyzed political phenomena--on both the merits of the efforts themselves and the way these efforts ref...
The earlier tobacco companies catch their prey the harder it will be for them to quit smoking in the future. ... People, who start smoking at a young age and continue to smoke on into their middle ages, have learned to use cigarettes as coping techniques. ...
