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Ain’t No Makin’ It’s groups of Hallway Hangers and Brothers each create their own informal social theories in their adolescence to prescribe the reasons behind their current circumstances, their aspirations, and the social structures that affect their lives. The Brothers’ social theory is largely in concert with the “achievement ideology” that dominates in the American psyche. This ideology assumes an almost complete meritocracy in American society where anyone can “make it,” i.e. live a…

In the novel Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac discusses societal interactions in France in the early 1800s. Balzac investigates the jostling for power in different social classes. This novel is set after the French Revolution, where there was an increase in the fluidity between classes. This fluidity was caused by the restoration of the aristocracy, after it was mostly destroyed in the revolution. Rastignac is a young student, who is just becoming an adult in the real world. He wants to become a…

On the macro level, one could argue—as Johann Norberg did in his 2003 doc Globalization is Good—that entry into the global economy is an important step towards achieving a higher quality of life. With some caveats, this argument is basically supported by the findings of statistician/geographer Hans Rosling in his pro-data Ted Talk Debunking 3rd World Myths… However, a look beneath the overview of sweeping trends reveals that the costs of entering the world economy often involve grievous offenses…

CHAPTER-2: Quest for Freedom Quest for freedom is the most eminent theme in the novels of Anita Desai. Due to its importance in her works, it is bound to find reoccurrence. The quest for freedom prevails as the most powerful and influential theme and all the major characters seem to be striving for something with which they cannot come in terms with. The society in which they live and cannot go away from it leaves a deep question mark in their minds. They are in quest for freedom…

Buffett is an advocate of Graham’s investing principles. He uses his purchase of Washington Post Company to illustrate those principles. Buffett and others estimated the intrinsic value at between $400 and $500 million while the market price was $100 million. The key thing that Buffett takes from Graham’s principles is the practice of buying good businesses at market discounts compared to the underlying value. A common misconception is that the market provides the most accurate price. Buffett…

Human infected with many diseases that are difficult to overcome and these diseases is cancer. Cancer is a human body cells grow abnormally and kills the cell manufacturing to places in the body. The change of the composition and multiply and spread in the body. In this paper we will address to the type of cancer is skin cancer, skin cancer is a common cases, especially after age, where the risk rose to infection types of skin cancer in the elderly. The skin cancer affects men more than women.…

The speeches of Hera from Homeric Hymn to Apollo Within the passage, Hera expresses her anger toward her husband Zeus who dishonours her by producing Athena alone. The speech is a consolidation of Hera’s jealousy toward the superiority of Athena and the hatred toward her own failure in childbearing. In contrast with the glorious Athena, Hephaestus who Hera produces alone was “feeble from birth among all the gods, lame and withered of foot,” (H.H. 3g). The shame and the disappointment amplify…

The manmade apocalypse The concept has been pondered for decades: what would our world look like if we were to succumb to a nuclear apocalypse? The critically acclaimed author, Cormac McCarthy, devises his own interpretation of a fallout, and expresses it through his literary masterpiece, The Road. McCarthy’s novel shares the experiences of a father and son wandering through an ash-filled and decimated wasteland in a post-nuclear war scenario, and their encounters with the few remaining…