Upper West Side

sheep for every human being in England". Expensive fabrics that only the wealthier class could afford included: silk, brocade, velvet, crimson and cotton. Cotton was an expensive fabric during the sixteenth century because it had to imported from the West Indies and the New World. Crimson was a good indicator if a person was of royalty because, "No person except royalty would dare wear crimson except in under-garments, and the middle class were not allowed to wear velvet except for sleeves."…

The groups were split into four conditions. The first one was a man with an upper arm tattoo. The second condition was the same man without an upper arm tattoo. The third condition was a woman with an upper arm tattoo. The last condition was the same woman but her tattoo was removed. There were two different types of factors. The first factor is the target gender and it has two levels (male…

being waged, with the participants being the working, proletarian class, and the middle class of the bourgeoisie. Gustav was a writer, and despite being good at what he did, he still fell somewhere in between the two, leaning more on the proletarian side. Because of this, he absolutely hated the bourgeoisie, and what they stood for. One question a person may ask at this point, however, is why would he dedicate an entire novel to showing the everyday person the supposed glamorous life of a…

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,…

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…