Middle class

The upper middle classes were better paid and in a position to experience a higher standard of leisure time, this led to uncertainty as to exactly how that time could be appropriately spent. As a result, leisure for the emerging Victorian middle class had to be instructive, productive and beneficial for both the soul and the developing sense of social integrity. Recreational and leisurely pursuits had to have a rational justification, the middle classes being wary of jeopardising…

The working class, defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary as, “of, relating to, deriving from, or suitable to the class of wage earners,” is comprised of Americans in the lower and lower-middle classes. Americans in the lower class make up about twenty-nine percent of the nation, while the middle class consists of about fifty-one percent. The distinction between the working class and middle class can be complex. Some middle class workers are part of the working class, but not everyone in the…

My family represented the lower middle class of the social hierarchy. Specifically, we were part of the working class of society. My mother worked as a nurse’s aide at Flushing Hospital for many years while my father worked as an attendant for a BP gas station in Fresh Meadows. Both working positions did not pay much. My mother was being paid 10 dollars and hour while my father was being paid 9 dollars an hour. The total income my mother and my father made was relatively low. In addition, the…

The middle class was seen as a subunit of the Upper class as they were not as superior however were not slaves and had their freedom. This class was not allowed to marry anyone from the family of the Upper class which is ironic seeing that a man from the middle (close to the lower) class married a princess from the Upper class which had not happened in centuries. Furthermore, the lower class were basically the throw away slaves. They consisted of past slaves that were given freedom miraculously…

three known landmasses of Europe, Asia, and Africa had been fathomed. On account of the work of overcome voyagers, the secret areas, which had beforehand been depicted in abstract terms, were all of a sudden changed into stable world geology. Amid the Middle Ages, the secrets of the natural world were seen as a component of God's outline. Europeans considered it past the limit of people to comprehend these secrets, and they trusted it wasn't right and even risky to attempt to control or change…

Being born into a caucasian middle-class family was not something that I chose or had any power over. My life could be much different than it is now had my parents, or may I say birth parents, kept me. I do not like to use the phrase “given up” as my parent did not just give me away to some strange family, but I was put into a middle-class family so that I could live a “happy” life. My biological parents, more my mother, were not in the position to raise a baby. At the age of eighteen and living…

sually, when one belongs to the middle class it’s subjective to the place of inhabitance. In my case I’d say I’ve experienced fifty-shades of middle class inequality. It was recorded that between 1979-2007 the “median family income (in U.S.) rose by 35 percent, while incomes for those at the 99th percentile rose by 278 percent” . Consequently, this extent of economic inequality has applied pressures, set boundaries and limited the opportunities available to me. This in turn has impacted my…

Nights grow cold, parallel with the heart of the city in the recent months. Tensions grew between us and the ones living in their sovereign homes. The lower class was even starting to turn on each other, turning to survival whilst forgetting the morals of being conjoined in terms of an end. The upper class has been viewed as an obstruction to our everyday lives; disrupting the civilized flow of our organized community. Time progressed as well as the hatred for the other estates. I worked my…

unfairly, that often leads an individual to seek for equality or expect to receive the same treatment like every person desires in our nation. Even though, the working class makes a certain amount money that barely makes ends meet in sustaining a living, the fact of the matter is, the inequality economy has and will corrupt the middle class, which is the heart of the government system running as to the “Virtuous Cycle.” Ultimately, causing the existence of wealth and poverty or the rich and the…

taxes while the middle class has to pay more than them. If the middle classes have to pay more than the higher class than what about the lower class? Do they have to pay even more and then use the last bit they have on their needs? If our economy is this way how are we going to sort this out? I believe that if we just change our taxes a bit by having the higher class pay what the lower classes do and the lower class what the higher does. Then all we have to do is lower the middle class’s…