Upper West Side

Britain, and Russia. Germany was then split up into two sides, East and West. France, America, and Britain controlled the west while Russia controlled the east. Berlin was the capital of Germany. Berlin, although in the east, was split as well so that Russia wasn’t the only one controlling the capital. Because of this, the East Germany constructed the Berlin Wall. While many people tried to escape across the Berlin Wall from East Berlin over to the West, the wall was successful at keeping many…

had most definitely got into their heads. “The Stanford Prison Experiment degenerated very quickly and the evil and inhuman side of human nature became apparent very quickly.” Also proven in the experiment is that the environment played a huge factor with the result of the guards beginning to harass the prisoners and play a more savage…

Starting off with the bottom class individuals. I would prefer to be in the French revolution if I was part of the lower class. Although famine, taxes, and inflation were negative externalities of the Revolution, I feel the formation of the new form of government from Third Estate was a history changing revolution to be a part of. They created a document that reflected the rights of every individual, not just the nobility. They earned their freedom and as Locke said, “the government’s purpose…

reasons for their choices? The group in favor of the co-op is the upper class who favors healthy food versus the people from the lower class who prefer cheaper food. Since the upper class is more educated, they are taking into account the health of their body’s as oppose to the less educated people which are generally lower class. These differences reflect a contrast from a philosophical perspective in terms of health vs cost. Upper class favor a the co-op because they will be able to get…

birthday he is encounter by a rich man with his family. He tells Al since he is rich he can do whatever he wants. He rented out the whole park leaving Al Bundy and his family in a little part of the park where he couldn’t do anything. At one point the upper class family were given instructions by there dad to point and laugh at the lower class family. This is an example on what the article says that how the America’s working class were being demean by these people and how the audience would see…

Herbert Marcuse- Marcuse, Herbert. “Liberation from the Affluent Society.” July 27th 2016 The more money you make, the more likely you are to spend more. For us to be able to survive in our modern society we are enslaved to working every day to survive or live a certain lifestyle. The debate for the need to raise the middle class always seems to forget the lower class, for every election in North America we hear politicians argue about strengthening the middle class. Can a society have a…

clear that factory workers during the Victorian era were not treated well, because they were not seen as worthy of having those rights of the upper classes. These factory workers were treated as well as slaves, which is not well at all. Lower class women during this time decided to take matters into their own hands and began to sell themselves to the upper class men in order to avoid working in the factories and still be able to support themselves and their families.…

According to author Michael McGerr, the argument of his work A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, is “that progressivism created much of our contemporary political predicament” (xiv). While the author states that this is his purpose, his work seems to be more of a summary of the progressive era, devoting just a miniscule conclusion to connecting how progressive battles then led to the political situations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. If…

into a new era that America was undertaking at the time; the middle/working class was tired of the conditions they were forced to suffer through while their bosses were the wealthy few. The fact that the middle class was a vast amount larger than the upper class was a constant worry for these wealthy few, because they knew that if positive changes were not made soon the working class would come together as a whole and…

How has women’s clothes represented their role in the Victorian society? While contemporary weddings are often a symbol of love and commitment between the bride and the groom, for the history of the past, love actually played a very minor role in the majority of matrimonies that took place. In the Victorian era, marriage was not as romanticized or fairy tale-like as depicted in many novels of the time, it were seen as two families joining together forming a business deal in a beneficial…