Upper West Side

In the article “Telling ‘Spatial Stories’: Urban Space and Bourgeois Identity in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris” (Journal of Modern History, 2003), Victoria E. Thompson explores how the ideologies of the middle class, expressed through literature, had a significant impact on the organization of society, and the physicality of landscape in Paris surrounding the July Revolution of 1830. During this time, social class and landscape were under construction, and as a result, the formation of the…

Networks Political Process Model was developed as a critique of Resource Mobilization Theory, which tended to focus only on formal organisational networks. As Beinin and Vairel (2013) point out, since then several scholars have recognised the importance of informal networks. As they argue, informal factors shape social movements (10-11). As Baylouni (2013: 89) puts it, ‘[m]uch transformation occurs through both the dynamics of everyday life and member involvement in movement institutions that…

in America. This dream, however, has been shattered by the increasing wealth gap, class distinctions, and political corruption. Now days, moving up in America and going from poverty to wealth is a lot harder than it was in previous generations. The upper class controlling a majority of the wealth and political power results in the middle and lower class having nearly no chance of moving up in wealth. These classes, who need their voices heard the most, are left in the dust and forced to try and…

According to Bar, (2002) the Upper Paleolithic is the process that changed from middle Paleolithic to Upper Paleolithic. This process was typically considered mainly as the major revolution of its kind in the first history of human evolution. The concept represented an observable event in parts of Eurasia; however its presence across other regions was not effectively noticed. The events included the biological, cultural, technological as well as environmental and geographical features/event of…

Americans all over the nation have become far too accustomed to the big blue corporate stores; know as Wal-Mart, they are incapable of seeing the damage caused by the corporate Wal-Mart, which ultimately impacts all social classes. Thus, many citizens are incapable of surviving without one-stop stores like Wal-Mart. This is a big issue because Wal-Mart is the main good-provider in the U.S. This movie poster effectively utilizes imagery by using pathos to portray Wal-Mart as the middle class…

The purpose of public education should be to give students a free and equal education. While I do believe that public education provides an abundant education for some, I also believe it hinders and holds back others. Public education gives students a free and unequal education. Inner-city students attend public schools where they lack books and engaged teachers. They are expected to learn without the necessary resources. Inner-city students don’t have the funds they need to gain an equal…

so horrid. Bouvier worked in order to bring food to the household but this is no work or responsibility for a child. What is more astonishing is the fact that her own mother made sure that she worked non-stop without rest. Why was this? The was the side effect of such cruel poverty, these people reached a point of hopelessness to go as far as sending their own children for some loaf of bread on the table. This takes us to another reading; “Report on child labor” by the Sadler Commission, a man…

of fear: fear of losing another man to Thea, fear of being in debt to Judge Brack, and above all, a fear of scandal. Through Thea, Ibsen shows us what Hedda’s life could have been like without all of that fear, and without the pressures of being an upper-class women, which is perhaps why Ibsen accentuated the fact that Hedda has never liked Thea -- Thea is Hedda’s reminder of all the things that she can never…

During the 1920s the upper class society lived with tremendous power. They all shared similar personalities and attitudes towards life. All except one character, Jay Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is about an upper class society versus the working class. The upper class characters, Tom and Daisy, run into trouble because of their thirst for power. With this constant struggle of power and wealth between class, Marxism flows throughout the text. One character, Gatsby is portrayed as an upper class…

Inequality in the United States has been an ongoing issue for decades, but recently the inequality gap has grown. As stated by Robert Reich in Inequality for All, our economy relies and depends on the middle class which is decreasing rapidly. The middle class is extremely important to keeping the balance in the economy, however currently the rich have been getting richer and the middle class has been getting smaller. We look to the middle class to do the tougher jobs that keep American…