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During the time period of the novel The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald the U. S was in the midst of the famous Jazz Age in which the economy was expanding vastly, but also, shifting social attitudes. The lower class dreamed of living the American Dream that their eyes could see, but were oblivious … Read more
An Inspector Calls How does Priestly develop the Character of Sheila Birling? In an Inspector Calls, Sheila Birling’s character is seen as a child that has been raised into an upper-class family and has become familiar with the luxuries and social standing lower classes wouldn’t dream of obtaining, her spoilt upbringing and deceiving parents have … Read more
The difference in how Indians and Englishmen used land lead to a controversy in their definitions of property and subsequently a difference in how each group viewed prosperity; Indians viewed prosperity as having the most political influence while English saw it as having more available commodities but both took on the same attitude in order … Read more
Women of the nineteenth century led very hard lives. If they were well off and married they were considered property, and if they were poor they were condemned to work long hours for barely any pay for most of their lives just so that they or their family could survive. In Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s “The … Read more
Thomas Jefferson, one of our founding fathers and renowned philosopher, envisioned all American citizens with equal rights, Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness when he drafted the Declaration of Independence. The unalienable right of Pursuit of Happiness can be defined as the right to prosper and thrive in the time Jefferson had written the … Read more
More than forty-five million people, or 14. 5% of Americans today are living below the federal poverty line. As we know twenty-two percent of wealth is owned by only one percent of the population. This means that only 78 percent of Americas wealth is distributed throughout the upper middle class, lower middle class, working poor, … Read more
The promise to have property (terra nullius), and in that property, is the tabula rasa of man’s new beginnings. Yet that liberty came at the further expense of aboriginal, black, and enviromental freedom. The flame from liberty’s chalice casts its lawful protection of those considered citizens, and in that, disavows certain men from that sense … Read more