Plato has many views of literature on society. ... I believe this is impossible because people today are not ranked by how valuable they are to society. ... Although Plato's ideal republic is well thought out and could be beneficial, I do not believe it would work in today's world. ... Not everyone is today's time period is socially educated, therefore the republic would fail. ... Society influences the literature of its time and literature influences the society studying it. ...

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In the case study, the assignment will be looking at the notion of equality and diversity in contemporary society. ... Equality is about creating a fairer society, where everyone can participate and has the opportunity to fulfill their potential (DoH, 2004). ... Although the Labor governments definition is to ensure that full potential is reached, in society today there are still prejudice and inequalities which does not allow people to accomplish their potential. ... A number of different theories have been made to bring together an explanation on the ways in which social class is viewed and ...

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In his 1969 work, "The State in Capitalist Society," Ralph Miliband outlined what he saw as several key aspects of the nature of the neoliberal world. ... This, he claimed, proved the existence of the 'dominant class' as a social phenomenon and the inaccessibility of those of a working class background to the higher echelons of society. ... The outgoing headmaster of Eton today, Tony Little, was himself an Etonian whose fees were considerably subsidised given his family's economic circumstances. ... While many of a capitalist society's elite may choose to sit on their mone...

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Like most, the consumers of India today want to live a life of comfort and luxuries are of course included in that. ... There are a lot of variables that are to be considered; personal needs, values, personality, socio-economic status, social influences, and society in general. ... The "Suzy homemaker" image so to speak has been thrown out the window; women today in India are proving to be equally as good as the men. ... Consumers of today's times in India are not set on one specific single brand rather than older times when the certain brand, was the brand to have. ... Today&#x...

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The reforms that Deng Xiaoping brought are shaping the China we know today not in only in an economic view. ... Urban Chinese Middle Class Background Through the change of the economic policies a new middle class emerged due to the major influences on society. ... The economic reforms changed many aspects of the middle class; redefining the culture, society, and politics. ... Prior to Deng Xiaoping the place where you lived, and the possessions you owned were not yours, but property of the state, which is still the official policy today, however in much looser interpretation. ... Junju implies...

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In pre-industrial or traditional societies, inequalities and thus social stratification were widely held to be natural. ... This implies that in modern times, a notion of class, although radically altered in definition and nature, can be thought to be functioning in the background of society. ... Weber described such legal and quasi legal orders as being composed of 'status groups', nevertheless the term class is still used to describe the hierarchical ranking of groups of individuals in society. ... Thus in modern societies, unequally rewarded groups are often termed classes, and ...

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As Karl Marx said in The Communist Manifesto, "The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. ... Karl Marx was a German philosopher whose firm beliefs were his theories about society, economics, and politics. ... These oppressed people were thought of as subhuman and worthless, and in a way it was a good thing, otherwise we wouldn't have the laws we have today. ... In today's world, a soldier comes home and gets everything ripped away from them. ... The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the rui...

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Is this the reality of our society or just a myth? ... It wouldnt have to mean that America would be a classless society, just one in which people moved up and down the social ladder. ... They believe that the poverty that exists in society is due to social inequalities rather than flaws in the individuals themselves. ... Rationale: White individuals in our society have an obvious advantage over most minority individuals when it comes to being upwardly mobile in society. ... The author compares Latinos of today to early-20th century Italians because they reach the middle class by setting up sm...

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Consumer behaviour model Today's marketplace has become very competitive. ... Today, most societies are in a state of flux. ... Social Class Almost every society has some form of social class structure. ... Bloodlines often mean more than income or education in such societies. ... In some societies, secondary groups may be reference/membership groups. ...

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Sayles explores the bipolar issues of racial divisiveness and tolerance, both as they exist today and as they were nearly forty years ago. ... As a result even today there is a pattern disproportionate academic performance among Mexican American. ... We need to be honest about our past so that we can ensure that our future as a multiethnic society makes it possible for all groups to be acknowledged and to contribute to the whole of who America. ... That would happen, he thought, because mature capitalist society would consist of an extraordinarily wealthy few who had the power of life and d...

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The information that Marx presented was groundbreaking for its time and is still being utilized in contemporary society. ... In fact, so revolutionary was this period in history that without it, sociology may not have become the institution that it is today. ... In this first volume, Marx breaks down how a capitalist society focuses on commodities. ... But as sellers of their commodity-labour power-capitalist society has the tendency to restrict them to their minimum price. ... This change in perspective makes it easier to apply the concepts learned in Volume I and Volume II to society as a ...

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Charles Dickens was forced to learn to live in this cruel society as a member of the lower class. ... After this experience and rising through the system, he recognized the inequalities in the society he lived in. ... He makes it prominent in showing Pip's advancement into high society. ... In the society of today, we laugh at even the idea of a society alike to the one in Great Expectations, "Dickens makes us laugh at a society that values wealth and class, that co...

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"2 Her novels raise central matters within her society, often challenging their foundation and meaning through her portrayal of them. ... In her treatment of marriage, happiness and gender inequalities, Austen unpacks and critiques these matters as parts of society. ... Austen's treatment of these concepts has unarguably contributed to the resonance of her novels in modern society. Examining the popularity of Pride and Prejudice today, it is clear that the ideas Austen raised then are, though found in different contexts, still greatly relevant to the modern world. ... In a patria...

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From the beginning of 1960, immigration has heightened in the American society. ... He saw the society as being divided into groups where there exists competition for economic and social resources. ... According to the theory, in a capitalist society, there exists a massive destruction of groups involved. ... The society will become reorganized; democracy and mass ownership will solve the capitalist power. ...

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Pride and Prejudice deals with the, approximately top 10% of society. ... With the central characters, Austen suggests that true love is a force sperate from society, and Love can conquer all' in the most difficult of times. Reputation Pride and Prejudice shows a society where a woman's reputation is of the utmost importance. ... The fact that Lydia's terrible judgment would have condemned the other Bennet sisters to marriage-less lives seems unfair by today's standards, but in those days, everything was taken very seriously. ... Darcy, who believes in the digni...

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Today, research continues. ... What did Summer Sanders have to overcome to get where she is today? ... Of the forty athletes researched, 8 of the 40 athletes were born into the upper class of society. 7 of the 40 athletes were born into the lower class of society. 23 of the 40 athletes were born into the middle class of society. ...

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Crime surveys also have a role to play in the over-representation of males since statistics of crime have been collected from members of society in the British Crime Survey, as well as official policing statistics released by the Government. ... This, therefore, arguing against the theory of biological disorders which links men with violence, as if this was the case then all men with these biological traits would be committing the same masculine form of violence, no matter what race, age, culture or part of society they live in. ... Social and cultural issues also play a huge in part when it ...

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(Taken from Othello, by Pechter) Today, this strange incident seems rather hilarious as our society more readily accepts those in the lower social classes and is, I believe, more multicultural (we cannot say completely multicultural as racism is still, and perhaps always will be, evident) than an audience in the early 19th century. ... A Marxist will state that the lower classes will always and continually strive to achieve a higher position in the social hierarchy, and thus Othello can be regarded as a struggling, black outsider trying to fit into a Venetian society. ... It seems Othello...

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Both Vivian Ward's and Eliza Doolittle's transformation into society's "ideal women" undertakes the same central journey, with pivotal moments in character development similar to each other. ... Through the women's evolution of self, the narrative also enables the reader to see the society in which the characters are constructed, and how through the female's transformation society's attitudes towards the women are revealed. ... Not only does this statement confirm Higgins" status in the social hierarchy but also portrays the message that in this realm, a person&#x...

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Eric Sanderson, an ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo, bought historical maps of what the British soldiers saw surrounding them during their occupation of Manhattan during the Revolutionary War. ... In 1805, in order to drain the garbage-infested waters, designers opened a forty-foot wide canal that today is known as Canal Street. 8" By 1811 a new neighborhood was built over the location of the filled in pond. ...

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The details of the "Affair", however, are not as important as what the scandal reveals about nineteenth century British society. Through a closer analysis of the time period, it is evident that the Queen Caroline "Affair" magnified the existing duality in British society. ... Lord Malmesbury explained: On summing up Princess Caroline's character today, [it seems she has] some natural, but no acquired morality, and no strong innate notions of its value and necessity; warm feelings and nothing to counterbalance them; great good-humour and much good nature - no appearance of caprice - ra...

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J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. 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). Tellingly, Twain's comment that Peter Pan is uplifting seems to depend on ignoring the fact that each of the "lost- boys is a baby who has fallen out of his pram "when the nurse is looki...

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