Elite

There is a stark contrast between the working and middle class schools’ interactions between teachers and students and those of the affluent professional and executive elite schools. At the working class school, many of the decisions the teachers made were made with neither an explanation nor the consultation of the students. Teachers also typically spoke to the students disrespectfully: the investigator seldom heard the…

One of the most celebrated men of the 20th century is Nelson Mandela, the man who helped free South Africa from Apartheid rule. But however inhumane, disgusting and barbaric Apartheid rule was, it contributed to the growth of the South African economy and created tremendous amount of wealth for the white South African minority. A significant amount of this wealth was generated from South Africa’s vast gold mines that were all owned by whites. To make these mining houses practical and lucrative…

enjoyment of physical activity, teamwork, and fun with friends within a community to expensive, time-consuming, and over-competitive activities. This is because in recent decades, there has been in large shift from public, player-controlled sports to elite private sports, which has sadly had a huge impact on the meaning given to sports. Rather than participating in sports to create friendships, have fun, and stay in shape, parents place their children in high-performance sports that are…

Originally designed like the others, to control behavior and social order, became a place people went to escape the genteel elite institutions and everyday life in general. “Carnivals and other seasonal feasts and festivals,” Kasson informs, “have served in a number of pre-industrial cultures as occasions in which customary roles are reversed, hierarchies overturned, and penalties…

With acceptance rates at all-time lows, elite colleges are becoming more and more challenging for students to earn a position within. Good grades and extracurriculars are no longer enough; students need to have national or unique recognitions to be considered for acceptance into colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That is, of course, unless your parents can play a role. The 2019 college admissions scandal known as ‘Operation Varsity Blues’ is one…

prosperity along with the corruption in moral values. The old money, profoundly depicted through Tom and Daisy, proves to have an empty heart under the cover of noble background and elegant lifestyle. To begin with, the old money, also known as the elite group, has money running in generations and leads a carefree, luxurious life. People like Tom and Daisy are heirs of colossal fortune; therefore, they barely have to work. They expend money lavishly on whatever captures their attention. “[Tom…

Either way, the people of developed countries are depicted to be the elite that only buy and eat the best of the best. Assuming that even the elites also have human feelings, I can infer that they can care for other humans, especially if the other humans are children. If the other humans were to be senile civilians, I still think there is still pity. However, it is because the other humans are not humans that caused the elites to easily throw them away, i.e. ugly food. Furthermore, it seems that…

Confucianism is an ideology of order in which everything has its proper place. Confucianism idea of order especially the hierarchy of occupations was strictly enforced between samurai, peasants, artisan, and merchants. This influenced the layout of Kyoto. In Chapter 1, “Heian-kyō: The Ideal”, describes “how the city was meant to be, how it was planned, and how it was idealized.” Kyoto is laid out in a grid pattern with the emperor’s residence positioned on top. Everything else is based on…

percent of the elite (Klerlein). There was so much support from the upper class, which was made up of one percent of the population, for the Somoza rule because the dictatorship tended to favor them and discarded the lower classes. Many of the lower class were made up of farmers who had little to no education and the Somoza regime wanted to keep it that way as well (Klerlein). This contributed to the fact that there was a large gap between the “income distribution” and how the elite were…

Both Political Clientelism and Political Patronage illustrate the relationship between patron and client in which both groups have a close relationship, intimate, and they depend on each other. Basically, patron-client relationships are reciprocal. Patron-client is an unequal relationship when one group become more powerful rather than other group. This means that client is powerless and they were under control by patron. However, the concept of Political Clientelism and Political Patronage are…