Gentry

When we think of “Medieval England” we think about guys in armor suits, royalty ruling cruelly over their land and servants, and among other things, farms. However, medieval England- and medieval europe for that matter -isn’t that far from our own society today. We actually inherit many of the things that were created in the medieval times, such as the basic structure of land tenure that we now see as renting. Society in the Middle Ages may appear to be much different than ours today, but in…

The Feudal System has been in existence since mankind was born although kingdoms in the middle ages were most known for it. It is a social and political structure for a governed body of people. A feudal system consisted of four classes of people. The peasants were the lowest on the totem pole. Often peasants consisted of slaves and poor people that worked in the fields for a place to stay and food to eat. The lords governed the peasants and the peasants gave them labor as a service. Knights…

Manorialism was known as the Lord's Estate. During the Middle Ages the manor system was the basic economic arrangement for those of the time. The system rested on a set of rights between a lord and his serfs. “The lord provided the serfs with housing, farmland, and protection from bandits” (Littel). In return serfs tend to the lord's land, care for his animals, and performed other tasks to maintain the wellbeing of the land. Peasant women shared some part of the work in the farm with their…

Below the nobility were the gentry. The gentry were gentlemen who were not entirely rich but they were certainly had money. Below them were people called yeomen, these people were farmers who were able to own their own land. Yeomen had an adequate amount of money, but unfortunately they often still had to work alongside their men. A gentlemen did NOT do manual labor. Below the yeoman was most of the population, such as craftsmen, tenant farmers and laborers. (1) Untitled middle and lower…

At the time when British invasion was all the rage, one relatively unknown big-haired, beautiful girl made a name for herself. During the late 1960s, Bobbie Gentry became the girl who was known as the one that knocked The Beatles off the top charts with her “Ode to Billie Joe.” But who exactly is Bobbie Gentry? Bobbie Gentry, born Roberta Lee Streeter, came to the world on July 27, 1944, in Mississippi. She grew up on her grandparent’s farm in Chickasaw County after her parents divorced and her…

On a local radio show, Pelicans’ head coach Alvin Gentry unveiled his plan to start Holiday and Rondo together going into next season. Holiday would obviously shift to shooting guard in that arrangement, and then be the primary ball handler most of the time when Rondo is not in the game. For fantasy basketball owners, it’s going to be worth watching how Rondo and Holiday function together. This would not be the first time Gentry has deployed Holiday this fashion. Tim Frazier started 12 of the…

J. Sam Gentry Middle School is a regular school operating on a traditional calendar with 352 students in grades six, seven, and eight. The school is part of the Surry County School district and located in Mount Airy, the largest city in Surry County. In the 2016-2017 school year, growth was not meet and the school received a performance grade of C based on the North Carolina School Report Card grading scale. Achievement indicators are Reading EOG Proficiency 67, Math EOG Proficiency 57, Science…

Well You Did It, (You’re a) Man In the 2005 hit country song, Something to Be Proud Of, Montgomery Gentry provides three values that make up a rural American family man. By emphasizing the ultimate form of nationalism, family rather than bachelorism, and hard work to achieve financial stability, the artists portray a successfully sculpted masculine model that, by their definition, is “something to be proud of”. I argue that the importance of these three values is passed down from father to son…

attitude and how she goes about daily life is what makes her and I complete opposites. Though all of these are true, they are reasons why she is both my best friend and the one person who has impacted me the most in my life. Her name, is Hannah Marie Gentry. Ever since the first grade when she protected me from bullies, a heroic act, we’ve been inseparable. For more than seven years we’ve been through so much…

novel about eighteenth century women, Austen portrays the upper gentry class of the time as an extravagant society, defined by pretension and greed. Thus, one could consider Sense and Sensibility a sharp critique of the gentry class of the Regency Period, one promoting social awareness and change. Sense and Sensibility gives a glimpse into the illustrious lives of the gentry class in England. While not royalty or aristocracy, the gentry form an elite, land owning, wealthy, and powerful…