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    Radley was isolated by most of Maycomb, for example. In the novel, Scout met people in different social classes such as: Robert E. Lee “Bob” Ewell, Tom Robinson, Calpurnia, and Atticus Finch. Through the use of complications, imageries, and characters, Lee implies stereotypes and how a person’s development can be impacted by social classes. Complications Lee used displays how different types of social classes are treated differently. In Maycomb, white people—even if extremely poor—such as Bob Ewell

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    Effects of Economic Change on Social Classes in America. Between the Civil War and World War II, the United States went through drastic economic change. The industrialization of America was going full force and resulting in the expansions of technology and factories. The industrial revolution lead to the urbanization of major populations and most people to turn away from agriculture. Large cities and factories brought benefits to certain social classes and brought struggles to others. The working

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    very different from the origin of the word in Victorian England which implied a high set of social standards. In Victorian England, social classes were determined by a person's economic status, whereas being a gentleman was determined by a man’s social status and required a certain amount of chivalry, resulting in , strict social classes with an extremely poor quality of life for subjects of the lower classes. Gentlemanship was something that was not taken lightly, and highly sought after in Victorian

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    broken down into the upper, middle, and working classes, and within those groups were further subdivisions based on a variety of factor such as occupation, economic power, values, and beliefs. The differences between social classes could be viewed as those who had power, and those who did not (Cannadine, 1999). It could also be seen as pitting those who were the “elites" of society versus those who were the "common people." The division between classes was the largest it had ever been in England’s

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    In the United states, social classes is a controversial issue in terms of defining the actual nature of the classes themselves. Many individuals have categorized the society into three elementary groups that is the “poor”, “middle class” and the “rich”. Additionally, a more complex system of social classes is derived from the three elementary classes. In this regard, a four-class system includes “the capitalist/upper class”, “the middle class”, “the working class” and “the lower class” (Thompson

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    the wealth, house, and classes they are in. This kind of social structure was continued in a Rome empire for a long time especially for the slavery. Roman social structure affects the world today because there are still slaves and social classes. They are not exactly the same, but it replaces other kinds of social structure. This kind of social structure is kept continuing today. By comparing social classes in Rome such as patrician, plebeian, and slaves to the social classes today which are capitalist

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    How does cheating on the middle and low classes cause the problems that there left with? In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays the life of cheaters in New York City during the 1920s from all the social classes. Fitzgerald is trying to tell that the scandals and cheats of the rich, middle, and poor classes are all the immoral but only the middle, and low paying classes pay with their lives. Nick the narrator portrays into a lost mind stuck with the lies and cheats of his fellow

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    In Ancient Egypt, their social structure included social classes. the Egyptian social classes were like the pyramids they built.In Ancient Egypt, there were not a lot of high ranking officials, and the highest rank was that of the Pharaoh. Which consisted of only one person, while directly below him was his many wives and children. The Pharaohs next highest officials were usually his brothers. Next up on the social pyramid was the high priests of the various gods. After they were the royal overseers

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    reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the social classes and the inheritance of the throne relied upon family lines and marriage. The social classes went from the workers to the monarch. The difference between the comforts of those who lived more lavish lives and those who lived “paycheck-to-paycheck” varied widely. The monarch who ruled the throne depended upon their importance or the importance of who they are married to. In the time of Queen Elizabeth, the social classes started with her at the top. She

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    European society put an emphasis on social standing; each social class was expected to act differently, thus affecting the way one would get treated and the amount of opportunities available to them. In Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, food imagery and the way each character acts towards food reveals the distinctions between the various social classes and, more importantly, the mediocrity of the French bourgeoisie. However, Flaubert chooses not to focus on all of the social classes, but solely on the characteristics

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