The Upper Hand

simply disgusting. They are unhealthy and unsettling. No one wants to work at a place that is going to make them ill and unable to work. The conditions are so bad and injuries are very likely to happen because of the use of machinery. People have lost hands, fingers, or simply gotten very ill from the material that they work with. Diseases spread so easily throughout the factories and no one is able to afford the time to sit home and get better. If they take “sick leave” they risk putting their…

We might not see it obviously, but there are very strong relationship between language and social class. Language and social class interacts in interesting ways in our everyday life. In this essay I will mention about few example from my personal experience and thoughts and also from the articles that I read that is related to language and social class. From reading everyone’s discussion board, I noticed that there are few classmates that feel like they are considered as a lower social class…

to another was considered to be a serious offence” (Victorian Era). However, in the beginning of the novel, the upper class was ruling England, but as the novel continued, you started to see how the middle and lower class starts to take control over England. The fate of Howards End is a prime example of how the middle class and lower class will take over. Howards End is owned by an upper class family, who loves money and tends…

Lady Bracknell strongly believes the middle and lower classes should never be taught to think for themselves or question the aristocratic classes. This in itself, would end up breeding anarchy and the possibility that the upper class could lose their privileged position. Wilde has created, with Lady Bracknell, a memorable apparatus of his satiric wit, questioning all he sees in the Victorian…

Oliver Twist is a great proclamation on states of mind toward the poor in Victorian England. Charles Dickens demonstrates to us what number of individuals of that time were classist to the point that they treated the poor like crooks. Needy individuals could just get help from poor houses, which had much in a similar manner as present day sweatshops. Families were isolated. The poor were terribly deprived, to the point of moderate starvation, buckled down, and beaten. Indeed, even youngsters did…

Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, based on the Greek mythology of the same name. It features a poor, uneducated girl, Eliza Doolittle, who is taken on a journey to become a duchess, to open up a flower shop. She is mentored by a professor, named Henry Higgins. By the end of the play, it is unknown if Liza ever marries Higgins, or a young man named Freddy Eynsford-Hill. As mentioned, as the story comes to a close, it leaves the reader something to think about. Does Eliza…

In “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” Katherine Boo argues that societies are becoming corrupt because of capitalism’s prevalence in modern societies. Capitalism is creating an economy where products and profits are owned by companies and individuals instead of the government. ("Capitalism" Merriam Webster) Having profits owned by individuals drive owners to create inequitable systems that take advantage of lower class citizens. The systems drive the lower class to compete against one another to…

The article, ”Middle-Of-The-Road Activists Carrie Chapman Catt and the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War” , written by Linda Schott seeks to address the attempts of Carrie Chapman Catt and her role in women’s suffrage and the peace movement. The analysis of the life of Chapman Catt was very interesting in showing the strong and the low points of her crusade for women’s suffrage and her attempts at the peace movement. It is clear by the article that the author neither was for or…

Describe the Work Hall of Bulls is a beautiful Upper-Paleolithic cave painting made in ca. 15,000 B.C. The painting is scaled larger than life size standing 25 feet tall and 62 feet wide; and, it resides inside of a cave on a coarse, rigid, and uneven rock wall. The cave is located in a small geographical area called Lascaux located in Dordogne France. Furthermore, there is no known artist for the Hall of Bulls, because of historical ignorance and the age of the painting; however,…

whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, the West versus East egg symbolizes old money versus new money. This symbol exemplifies the novel’s greater themes of the hollowness and the carelessness of the upper class and no matter how much money you have, you can’t buy love. The West versus East egg symbol is representative…