Underclass

Just like every Saturday afternoon, my mother and I went to a Friendly’s after recreational baseball games. Unlike getting our normal outgoing, spontaneous, comradely waitress, my mother and I got a rude, crude elderly Caucasian women as our server. That day was the last day I ever stepped foot inside of a Friendly’s restaurant. We received the worst service that you could ever imagine. My mother and I had been treated as if we were second-class citizens and the thought of that experience makes…

Shakespeare’s Play Henry V My paper is going to discuss various genres in Shakespeare's Henry V; majorly it's going to be centered on tragedy, comedy, and history. Besides, it also going to discuss some themes, symbols, and motifs. Be that as it may, in turning into an extraordinary ruler, Henry is compelled to act in a way that, where he as a typical man, may appear to be corrupt and even indefensible. With a specific end goal to reinforce the solidness of his position of…

Preceding the Civil War, American lives and lifestyles changed dramatically. Some of these changes were subtle. However, many of the changes such as the addition of the 13th Amendment for example, occurred affecting both white and black families do the point where the traditional ideas of male and female norms were altered, and new definitions of what individual’s roles were in society were just beginning to show. The new civilization of the south post-war were focused on rebuilding their cities…

When the poet Frances Scott Key saw the American flag gusting in the wind atop Fort McHenry in 1814, he was so in awe of what it represented that he crafted what would eventually become America’s national anthem, The Start Spangled Banner (Smithsonian). His lyrics eloquently illustrated the pride of an evolving nation and the resilience of the American flag, which served as the most exalted symbol of nationalism and civic pride. Two hundred years later, his brief moment of inspiration still…

According to sociologist Basil Bernstein, working-class children are systematically disadvantaged for possessing linguistic cultural capital that is considered suboptimal by the dominant class. By definition, cultural capital is “the general cultural background, knowledge, disposition, and skills that are passed from one generation to the next” (MacLeod 13). Pierre Bourdieu explains this concept in his essay “Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction,” in attempt to describe the persistent…

Food is a means through which tensions over the conflict between global and local identities and practices are expressed, food is often used to define cultural boundaries including national identity. Food can be used as a means to separate groups of people into classes food also has the ability to bring people together under one identity. The article Tasting Empire: Chocolate and the European Internalization of Mesoamerican Aesthetics, by Mary Norton depicted how food was a means of separating…

The usage of satire in this book is so that the readers can better understand why the underclass are making these types of decisions. It also helps explain why people like to jump to conclusions. An example of satire is when Miss Caroline scolded Scout for already knowing how to read. This is confusing to both Scout and the readers. Why would…

Up until the 1970s, policies regarding corrections were based on the principle of rehabilitation so that when prisoners were released they could successfully reintegrate into society. To increase the possibility for successful reintegration, prisoners were encouraged to amend their occupational skills and to receive treatment for any psychological issues they faced ranging from addiction and substance abuse to aggression. Since the 1970s, policy makers have shifted to a crime control model that…

The aim of this paper is to posit that Soyinka’s adaptation of The Bacchae reveals that the allure to and support favoring Dionysos and the Dionysian religion has far less to do with an attraction towards the God Dionysos and the beliefs and rituals that go along with practicing bacchanalia, and far more to do with the aversion and rejection of the tyrannical King Pentheus, his oppressive ideology, and his inability to rule Thebes. In the very first line of the scene description on page one,…

Irish Immigrants: A Key Player In San Francisco’s Anti-Chinese Movement American society has constantly redefined and changed its concept of “whiteness.” It was not until the mid-20th Century that “white” became the all-encompassing term for those of European and Caucasian descent that we know of today. Prior to the 1940s, it was widely believed that there were several different racial categories among those of European descent (Painter, 2015). One such racial category was the Irish, who faced…