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    The supernatural compared to the third world countries are both misunderstood by the society. Therefore they are being mistreated economically and socially. The super naturals are being expressed by magical realism. Both stories include magical elements to express treatment conveyed to the real world and the third world economy. Magical realism is the style of painting literature in which fantastic or imaginary are often unsettling images depicted to express the brutality. By combining fantasy…

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    The Gremlin: A Short Story

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    the deaths of innocents!” The Gremlin only laughed in a way a clown would. How had Randall got here? Well it all started when he was born. Throughout his life his family lived in a middle class family with your average middle class issues. Randall always dreamt of moving to a different social class and pictured himself living in a McMansion with…

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    City Between Worlds : My Hong Kong takes the reader to the metropolitan city of Hong Kong, exploring its colonial past and uncertain future. In this uniquely sized tome Lee travels through the bustling city, highlighting events that occurred and recalling buildings and landmarks that have since been demolished or relocated. In eight detailed and informative chapters, Lee discusses the structure of the city as it is today compared to its past, Hong Kong’s colonial past, and the values and…

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    small amount of people had wages that allowed them to enjoy the life that they desire. The majority of American workers earned very little to fully enjoy life. In “Progress and Poverty”, Henry George criticized the current economic climate during the late 1800s and how we should solve it. George stated that as time progresses, poverty would expand and lead to even more problems. It goes against American tradition to allow someone to have a wage that does not allow them to live comfortably.…

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    Social Class vs. Political Views How does the social status of an individual conflict with the ethical and political views they have? The graphic novel Persepolis, written by Marjane Satrapi, shows a middle class family with a high class background in a country where the government has changed from a slightly Americanized culture to a more oppressive conservative Islamic culture. In 1979 Iran, a movement occurred that was later known as the Islamic Revolution. Persepolis is Marjane’s (Marji”s)…

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    story The Necklace. The story opens to a young, beautiful Madame Mathilde Loisel in her shabby and worn Paris apartment in 1884, a time when class separated people and she wanted nothing more than to be of one higher than the lower-middle placement she was born into. In the short story The Necklace, Madame Loisel struggles to achieve a taste of the upper class status she felt she deserved only to end up worse off than she began. This use of irony and the characterization of Madame Loisel…

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    is not a necessity. Let’s put class and hierarchies to the side for a moment; anyone can obtain any phone, not particularly the iPhone, just any type of phone in general. Just like the iPhone, many phones now a days are able to capture photographs, call, text, read emails, etc. Besides, Apple’s smart way of marketing, every other being having it, and the aura of having a status, why and what is it that drives many phone possessors to only want an iPhone? To bring class hierarchies back into the…

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    Darwin’s name appears several times in Marx’s Capital but is only used as a relation and not as a fundamental basis for influence. Marx argues that no one gives him credit for discovering the existence between Bourgeoisie, middle class to high-class people, and Proletariat, working class people, or for acknowledging the conflict between both. While for Darwin they gave him credit for discovering conflicts between species. Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx’s cofounder of Marxism, was a lot more…

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    interest energetic Americans have showed up in craftsmanship starting late. He moreover highlights the declining of training in America. To help his dispute, he joins reference of persuading reviews, reports made by conspicuous affiliations that bring issued inspects, and a reference from a well-known maker. Gioia's general reason in creating this article appears to draw thought towards deficiency in America interest in articulations. Gioia's gathering of spectators is the American open. In…

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    The Necklace Irony Essay

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    In “The Necklace,” Mathilde is portrayed as a very unthankful person by the use of characterization, verbal irony, and person vs society conflict. The story commences with Mathilde, a non-wealthy woman, receiving an invitation to a party, but hastily complaining about her lack of jewelry, so she borrows a necklace from Madame Forestier. At the conclusion of the party, she loses the necklace and spends years paying for the replacement, only to discover the original was made of paste. Throughout…

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