Upper East Side

In the Augmented Perception for Upper-Limb Rehabilitation study experimenters were looking at different hand postures and movements used in everyday skills. This was evaluated through identifying different motions of the arms, elbows, wrist, and fingers, and imitating these motions. With respect to identifying the motion, the participant either with or without a headset on, heard a beep, saw two stick figure arms, then saw either the left or right arm move and perform 1 of 4 actions (wiggle,…

spiritual dimension for the nation of Israel, who had mostly secular motivations until that point. However, what is perhaps the most interesting is the political and strategic choices and consequences of the war. The dynamics of power in the Middle East were forever changed by a few simple choices. The set up for the war can be illustrated as a two player simultaneous game between Israel and Egypt. Egypt currently lead bu Gamal Abdel Nasser was the de facto leader of the Arab world. While he…

Society is constantly changing and individuals have to constantly conform to the pressures that result from such change. Individuals strive to be socially accepted into society, the work place, and with friends and family. The constant battle to conform to these every day pressures and being the person that you are and not just to have a sense of belonging and importance, are only some of the battles people have to deal with throughout life. Society on a whole is generally becoming more…

1. In Oscar Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being, Wilde plays on the concept of dualism and the concept of double meaning. The dualistic theme is also present in the motif of food, where food or the act of eating is seen as more than just for consumption or entertainment more particularly since food is always centered around a conflict. Thus food can be seen as a tool of distraction from the conflicts the characters find themselves in more specifically Algernon where food is seen as an escape…

unequal to them and the upper class gets whatever they want when in reality, the upper class really works for what they have. They know how to make money and the middle class does not. The middle class do not work for what they want that is why they are still stuck in the middle class. The middle class are uneducated on how to make money so they chose the easy way out and find a job that is not guaranteed for the future. The middle class does not know how to make money. The upper class usually…

Power is strength, and to acquire power there will be a struggle, but at the end of the day if you have power you will have the ability to make or break as many rules as you choose to and there won’t be many people who will be able to stop you. A long time ago the British had an excess of power over the citizens of this country and it took a revolution to change things. It was members of the middle class that made the revolution possible, while they were working to support their families,…

Wealth inequality, or the unequal distribution of wealth, is a heavily debated topic in the United States, a nation that, according to Inequality.org, “exhibits wider disparities of wealth between rich and poor than any other major developed nation.” To some, like Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, “we can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both;” to others, wealth equality is a form of socialism. The…

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a great book that gives the reader and insight of how life was for people with low income, foreigners and also how females and men were looked upon as. Sinclair signals how people that come from poor class are treated and also taken advantage of. Racism is also shown to foreigners, they are looked at as if they were animals. Sexism is shown when women are taken advantage and unable to say or do anything for their own safety. Sinclair published this book secretly…

because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me” (124). This was not a surprise that Daisy married Tom first due to the norms of the upper class society since, there was no need for the offspring of the wealth to work after school due to the continuous funding offered by parents if an approved marriage occurred. This made the role of Daisy along with many upper-class women of the 1920s to be a type of trophy wife and to keep the family…

This is evident throughout the documentaries Two American Families and People Like Us. In which the exclusivity of upper class society in the united states reflects on their economic and social interests in which upper class society will do anything to maintain their power over others and where in Two American families; middle class families struggle against a growing gap between rich and poor in which to maintain…