Working electrode

America: Divided by Class It’s all about the money—who hasn’t heard of the Rockefellers, Carnegie, or the Vanderbilt’s? The Gilded Age was a time when wealthy elite amassed their riches and built their opulent mansions while their workers often lived in squalor. Three distinct social classes emerged as life in America changed from rural to urban and immigrants poured into the nation. The Gilded Age is a term coined by writer Mark Twain in The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873), a book…

Living in a world where there are many different people who believe different beliefs, live different lives, and learn in different ways. People become well aware of the fact that everyone is human and not everything goes the way they had planned. While watching “Two American Families” one will come to the conclusion that even though two families who live in America who are completely different, one, a white family and one, an African American family. People are going through some of the same…

Motivation Makes a Dream Reality Approximately the top one to two percent of people in the United States are considered part of the wealthy class which is defined as making above $250,000 per year (Francis). The American Dream is defined as "the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American and a life of personal happiness and material comfort as traditionally sought by individuals in the United States” (Definition of American Dream). The key…

To give credence to any argument, an author must impose a feeling of justice for the greater society upon the audience, or else be taken to account for the various pitfalls of their stance. Since we live in society largely based on a market model, the determination of how individuals come in act in systems of production, distribution, and exchange become subject to evaluations of justice. Many an argument is made in a vacuum of idealism where an author fails to realize the entirety of the scope…

353-354) thus allowing individuals with a higher income to have the benefit of having these resources unlike working class individuals. I agree that these resources are important, especially for individuals who learn more visually. Therefore, individuals who cannot access these resources, most likely working class individuals, have a disadvantage compared to ones who can. Further, Davis proclaims that a child’s education is affected by “the quality of public…

Depending on the geographic location in the United States, political party affiliation can be a crucial part of social life. How you choose your friends, your outlook on key political policies, your ideal government, and your public conduct are only a few of many life choices that can be affected by political party affiliation. Although there are many factors that have been associated with these differences, this text will focus on two key factors: social class and sex. Social class and sex…

According to WHO (World Health Organization) adolescence is the period that happens between the ages of 10 to 19 in which human growth and development occurs. Throughout the life span, adolescence signifies an important transition from childhood, as it is a period of ‘newness’ and change, which can be seen in the person, the dyad and the environment’. Linda P Spear supports this as she defines adolescence as ‘a period of physical, psychological and social transition between childhood and…

There is a lot of ways for a government to rule its country. Usually, they use a precise type of economic politics in order to control a country’s economy. Some governments use capitalism –like in United-States, some use communism – like Russia-, some can use socialism – a bit more like in Quebec. There are obviously many more economic politics, but the ones that are used most likely still capitalism and socialism. Those two doctrines are really different in many ways, but mainly regarding the…

The way that the Scottsboro trials were handled by the Alabama court system, and the repeated wrongful convictions of the defendants in the face of exonerating evidence, is a prime manifestation of the way that racism worked in the South of the Jim Crow era. Racism is possibly the biggest factor behind the accusation of rape and the mishandling of the case. At the same time however, class differences also provided a motive for some of the actions of the people involved in the case. Ruby Bates…

Passage four is an example of tragedy drama, the extract focuses on a domestic disagreement about the finances of the couple. The themes which run through this extract are representations of gender, and of social class and wealth. Passage one is an example of an epigram poem, its purpose is to invite the reader to the speaker’s home for a dinner party. The piece has similar themes of wealth and social class running through it. The poem follows iambic pentameter which gives the poem a leisurely…