This rise has led to an increase in different purchases, such as homes, cars, and consumer goods. ... Socialites are the upper class in India; they like to shop in special stores, go out, and buy luxury goods. ... They are working for themselves, figuring things out on their own, and shopping for themselves. ... Modern items at homes are much more common and the pace of living is fast improving. ... Shopping malls have become a huge deal in India, 20 years ago they had small shops on corners, and now India is one of the top in producing shopping centers in the entire world. ...

• Word Count: 2577
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As Edward notes the influence of wealth when taking Vivian shopping, "stores aren't nice to people, they"re nice to credit cards". ... This aspiration is also shared by Eliza, for even before contemplating the idea to visit Professor Higgins for elocution lessons to become a flower-girl, she returns home to her squalid lodgings, "dreaming and planning" what to do with her "new riches" to better her life. ...

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This street is lined with quaint restaurants, one of a kind clothing shops and rough brick apartment buildings that I have gotten to know intimately in years past as a real estate rental agent. ... Public drinking water pumps were erected and carts with barrels filled with the sparkling water traveled the dirt and cobbled streets to homes and taverns alike. Many beautiful, wooden homes were built in the nearby settlements while the land near the pond was used for the purpose of industry. Industry such as tanneries, butcher shops and breweries emptied their noxious waste into the pond and by t...

• Word Count: 3406
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Various political, racial, and familial tensions in this small community are also revealed through the experience of an African American officer (Joe Morton), who has returned home to head a military base, and through the personal struggles of a Mexican-American teacher (Elizabeth Pena), who does battle with an angry school board upset over her multicultural approach to the history of the Alamo. ...

• Word Count: 2799
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He is neither idle nor ungrateful, and yet he "and his order" are hunted down like a morally and physically diseased animals, and in the case of Jo he is told to "hook it [that] nobody wants you here" (BH 717) and ultimately made to "move on" from the only place he knows - his home. ... The brickmaker, though he moves from the door to let Esther and the others leave their home, clearly feels uncomfortable that he demonstrated such a small, but helpful, gesture. ...

• Word Count: 3779
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography