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    Egyptian Afterlife

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    No other ancient civilization is as closely associated with its burial rites as that of Egyptian. Dated as early as 4000 BCE to 30 CE, Egyptian mortuary rituals have evolved over the years, but the perpetual emphasis on the eternal afterlife in the coveted destination that all ancient Egyptians strived to reach: The Field of Reeds, the Egyptian paradise, did not change. Many theories have argued that the ancient Egyptians were obsessed with death, whereas in fact it displayed an obsession with…

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    people. The people in capitalism are normally divided in four groups: the elite people, the rich, the middle-class and finally, the poor people. Between the poor and the elite, they are a massive difference between their wealth. More important, they are a lot poorer people than there are rich or elite people. It end out with a horrible inequality, making the rich people richer and the poor people again poorer, and the few elite people own more than the enormous quantity of poor people. In…

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    Assignment 4 In Jean Anyon’s essay “From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work,” she focuses on many schools whose curriculum have been carved out by social class. The lower the students families social class is the more repetitive and simple their curriculum will be, while on the other hand, the higher the social class is the more thought goes into the students coursework. Anyons basic point is that the work children are told and expected to do in school is the work that they will…

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    Arab Spring Movement

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    Tunisian related to Mohammed’s frustration causing digital elites to react Mohammed Bouazizi’s story. Social elite networked and circumvent the national media blackout by brokering information from outside media because, they knew Tunisian government will not allow such news to be covered or aired on national T.V to confirm the corruption and incompetency of the Tunisian government. An example of a social event that brought digital elites networked and circumvent the national media blackout by…

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    Perfect Body Film Analysis

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    Andie develops an eating disorder after she feels pressured by her coach to lose weight. In a high-risk sport such as gymnastics eating disorders are not uncommon. Gymnastics is an elite sport highly focused on aesthetics and leads to many athletes being over conscious of their body image. There are healthy ways to maintain a lean body image but Andie learns a way that she finds easier. She deprives herself of food and over exercises…

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    Inequality is something everyone faces in America, whether beneficial or detrimental towards individual lifestyles, it has become the one thing we cannot escape. Those in the upper class who benefit from the expansive wage gap are quick to say how such a great inequality does not truly exists, or how with hard work and perseverance anyone could be successful and rich. However in a time where the wage gap is greater than ever and the socio-economic divide is expanding, we can no longer ignore the…

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    Mevlevi Influence

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    made themselves so important within the upper elites of the Empire that ended up paying off dividends in the end. “The Mevlevis were known for their close affiliation with the literati although their influence could be equally felt in the halls of government. In fact the [Chelebi] was given the honor of girding the new sultans with the sword of their forebear […] ”. By filling this position, the two different groups, the Mevlevi and the Ottoman elite, gained various things. Symbiotically, the…

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    With the rise of booming industry arose also the opportunity to come into extraordinary power, which in turn gave rise to the reign of exploitative economic royalists. The availability of such power, Roosevelt identifies, iss exclusive to the elites, where the average man has no place. (Again, the average man is stripped of his freedom, which we fought to oppose in '76.) In the words of FDR himself, “The savings of the average family, the capital of the small business man, the investments set…

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    Both Chandler Tuttle and Bruce Pittman take their stylistic turns in adapting the short story in their own way. Given that opportunity to have a longer runtime, Pittman’s 1995 feature film, is allowed to better introduce the setting that the secret elite have imposed on the citizens. Everything is made up to look like it was in the 1950s. Phillipa explains, “Everything is intentional. America was happiest in the 1950s and …after the revolution…

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    whether America or Britain won the poor people were still under the rule of the elites. Zinn went further to discuss the fact the Washington did not want to allow black people to fight in the revolution for their freedom. Furthermore, tenants were promised land of their own and it was not fulfilled, the rich became richer and poor ultimately became poorer. The tenants became a threat in the war. For Zinn America elites were pushing Britain away for their own benefit which excludes the Native…

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