Becca Leach WSC 001 Dr. Pasupathi 12/19/12 The American Dream My grandfather came to America from Italy with nothing but the clothes on his back. He did not speak a word of English and left his family back in Naples. Three years later‚ my grandfather had a stable enough job to send for his wife and son to join him in America. He truly lived the American dream. An immigrant hoping for a new life was able to become successful and raise a family. This “Cinderella Story”‚ however‚ did not
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21 Feb. 2013. Down and Out in Paris and London Down and out in Paris and London is the work of an elite author by name George Orwell which was published in 1933. It explains in two parts‚ the subject of poverty about two cities. It gives an account of his survival in Paris and his experience as a casual laborer. In his second part he tells of his life in London. This he uses the viewpoint of a tramp and what accommodation is available. This book so compelling as it is written in a way that
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Shen Fu The book Shen Fu’s Six Records of a Floating Life is both an autobiography and love story of a man named Shen Fu‚ who was educated toward the path to grow up to be a scholar‚ but he kept on failing the exams. He went on to earn his living as secretary for a magistrate and also selling off his wife’s artwork. His wife is the girl that he fell had fallen in love with as a young child. Together‚ they had a very weird and odd relationship (at least compared to our modern day idea of a relationship)
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Social Class What is social class? It is defined as a large group of people who rank closely to one another in property‚ power‚ and prestige. These elements separate people into different lifestyles‚ giving them different chances in life‚ and provide them with distinct ways of looking at the self and the world(page 188‚ Henslin).In the United States about 15-20 percent are poor‚ lower class; 30-40 percent are in the working class; 40-50 percent are in the middle class; and 1-3 percent are
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1. The function or role of education Functionalists Functionalists say it does 3 important things • Teaches the skills needed for a job (so helps the economy) • Sorts the clever people from the thick for the right jobs (allocation function) • Is secondary socialisation (so helps people fit into society). Durkheim said the last one is done by passing on norms and values and this continues shared values – a consensus. Thus we have social order. Parsons adds that schools prepare children for
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The cultural deprivation theory argues that many working class and black children do not acquire the basic values‚ attitudes and skills needed for educational success through primary socialisation in the family. Many cultural deprivation theorists claim that working-class families inadequately socialise their children and therefore their children are ‘culturally deprived’. There are three main aspects to cultural deprivation‚ one of them being intellectual development. This refers to the
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Pygmalion did contradict the audience’s views‚ as the type of people who would read Pygmalion or see it in the theater would be the upper class‚ as the middle class and the lower class wouldn’t be able to afford it. The upper class were outraged at Shaw’s accusations and portrayals of the upper class. “Pygmalion… scandalized it’s… audiences in 1914.” This quotation is absolutely true; Pygmalion teaches us how the upper class ostracized the lower class‚ and the outrageous and demoralizing way in which
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I would consider myself now at the moment a lower middle class individual because I have an 8 am - 5 pm job as simulator technician at oil based company. But sometimes I would like to consider myself a upper middle class individual just by the way I carry myself around people but I am still a lower middle class. My life consists of working a job of required skills of which not just any person can fill. I had to go to numerous classes and pass the exams in order to be certified a simulator technician
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Evaluate the view that working class failure in education is caused by cultural deprivation. Class is the most important influence on educational failure. Herbert Hyman argued that the system of values of the lower classes created an obstacle to their improvement. Hyman outlined the following differences between the system of values of the working and middle classes. The working class; place less value on education‚ place less value on attaining a higher occupational status and believe that
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Explore the ways barker present the theme of self exploration through the interaction between the character‚ Prior and Rivers. Regeneration‚ inspired by the war adapts the personal and psychological effects of war trauma to create characters that show how the war changed people and what it did it mentally. Through the characters of prior and rivers. Barker creates the theme of self exploration between their relationship and interactions. To take us into an insight into the writers perspective
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