Upper West Side

Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully attempts to portray the miserable conditions of the working class in the height of the industrial revolution while utilizing her skills as a writer, thus cautiously avoiding having to alienate her primary audience of upper middle class members of society. Thus, effectively drawing the attention of the reader to the conditions of the working class and ultimately advocating for empathy, understanding and forgiveness through religious teachings and thus, ultimately…

didn’t expect much more from Hejmo civilians. They also noted the amount of blood pooling beside them from the most definitely deceased receptionist. There’s no way they’ll be the only casualty. “...you choose who lives and who dies… charity gala… upper end of the city,” Brodie picks out the key parts of the shooters’ rant. All around them, Brodie sees people visibly relaxing. Raising an eyebrow, Brodie finds it curious. Do these people seriously have this much faith in their…

You know we are living in the wealthiest country in the world, but actually it is the greatest percentage of that wealth is in the hands of a tiny percentage of the population. It is environmentally and technically possible for everyone to enjoy a good standard of living if the wealth were restructured, manipulation ended and the arms race discarded. The unbalanced circulation of wealth prevents the whole society from enjoying the full benefits of people 's labor, intelligence and creativity and…

Martin was the only one given a detailed characterization, it gives us a perception of his place in society, as part of the upper class. The narrator describes Martin’s appearance when he arrives with a “a pale linen suit and faded terracotta shirt … gleam of his rich brown skin” (103), and also his physical attributes “a tall man, he moves in a loose, underwater way” (103).…

The Gilded Age was a period in American History in which big business emerged, causing tension between the working class and owners of companies. This was all possible only by the occurrence of the Industrial Revolution in America. The institution of factories in the U.S. allowed for mass production, which hurt many small businesses and independent artisans and encouraged a system of wealthy business owners and impoverished unskilled workers. This stratification eventually reached its peak in…

The cave of Chauvet may be the most important discovery of cave work ever. Some historians believe that the Cave may possibly some of the oldest cave art know to the world. The cave is very beautiful and historical and it is very important to the study of cave art. The cave was discover on the eighteenth of December, Nineteen Ninety Four. The cave was accidently discovered when Jean-Marie Chauvet and his two other speleologists friends were wondering around the Ardèche Valley, in southern France…

When I interacted with my mother it was more of the relaxing kind because she gave me good advice and diverse ways of seeing things than my father. My mother when she saw I was struggling with a subject in school she would go and talk to my teachers to see what can be done to help me improve. For my father, it is the opposite because he wants me to get great grades and not slack off a bit. He is the one that is more demanding when it comes to school rather than my mother. It is like one parent…

With a culture preoccupied by the belief that material gain constitutes fulfillment within life, it is becoming increasingly common to view the act of living as the need to obtain wealth. This inane form of existence is a result of the capitalistic system in which our Western world is governed. An essay that effectively expounds the circumstances leading up to the current economic disparity among the classes is Edward McClelland’s, RIP, The Middle Class: 1946-2013. In the U.S. today, the need…

opium to relieve themselves of their struggles and suffering from the worsening economy. By looking at the evidence from earlier, a repeating cycle can be identified involving the opium trend and the worsening economy. The cycle consists of middle and upper classes smoking opium in efforts to achieve higher social and economic status, which results in the middle class to spend tremendous amount of their wages to indulging in opium and eventually losing all their money to the practice. With the…

People from District 12 who cannot afford their food, they can add their name more times to exchange the oil and grain. The upper-class people will have less risk of needing tessera of hunger games. People from rich districts have been trained since they were a kid, and their weapons and equipment are much better than the competitors in poor districts. The tributes from the upper class like District 1, 2, 3, have the opportunities to learn the survival skills and build up their strength,…