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  • Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Struggle to Maintain Victorian Upper and Middle Class

    Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Struggle to Maintain Victorian Upper and Middle Class

    The Victorian men and women conveyed in Bram Stoker's Dracula are pure and virtuous members of the upper and middle class. However, hiding behind this composed and civilized conception of England lies a dark and turbulent underbelly. This underbelly is the lumpenproletariat, whom Karl Marx defined as "the lowest and most degraded section of the proletariat; the ‘down and outs’ who make no contribution to the workers cause". Victorian culture discriminated against these vagrants, who

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    Essay Length: 1,913 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Mike
  • What They Didn't Teach Us in Sales Class

    What They Didn't Teach Us in Sales Class

    “What They Didn’t Teach Us in Sales Class” In reducing high turnover among new sales personnel, the first thing that firms should do or the employers of that firm should do is to match the job with the best suited to perform it. High turnover organizations spend disproportionate amounts of resources on recruiting and replacing their workforce, while smart organizations invest in employee retention. Indeed that there’s going to be turnover no matter what you

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    Essay Length: 871 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Monika
  • When Curiosity and High Class Meet: A Psychological Critical Analysis of A Rose for Emily

    When Curiosity and High Class Meet: A Psychological Critical Analysis of A Rose for Emily

    Eidt 1 English 113, D3 29 November 2007 When Curiosity and High Class Meet: A Psychological Critical Analysis of “A Rose for Emily” “A Rose for Emily” is an interesting tale about a small town spinster who leads a somewhat secret life. The narrator in the story is not a single person but the voice of the community itself. The whole story is told in parts of her life about strange things that happened and

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    Essay Length: 1,298 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Comparison of "in Mrs Tilcher’s Class" and "mid-Term Break"

    Comparison of "in Mrs Tilcher’s Class" and "mid-Term Break"

    Choose two poems from your reading on the theme of childhood. Compare and contrast the experiences described in each poem showing clearly why each poem affected you the way it did and with close reference to the poet’s use of language show how he/she conveys these feeling to you. A person is affected by life occurrences differently as a child than as an adult. Childhood is a period of life every person experiences and therefore

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    Essay Length: 1,964 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Class and Social Structure

    Class and Social Structure

    This week in class we dealt with the subject of varying types of social structures. To start there are open and closed systems. An open systems allows for an individual to move up or down in society where as the closed system allows for no mobility. The only closed system I am familiar with is the caste system in India. In a closed social system you are born into your class and that is the

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    Essay Length: 420 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Asset Valuation

    Asset Valuation

    Asset Valuation Team A's car dealership is a profitable venture. The lot of land is located in a prime location, and it was fortunate to obtain a sizeable parcel, which is perfect for the large fleet of cars it keeps on hand. The dealership sells new and used cars and also repairs cars and sells parts. There are three main parts to the business; the car dealership, the repair shop, and the body shop, each

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    Essay Length: 259 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Vika
  • Low and Middle Class Business Owners Are Educated

    Low and Middle Class Business Owners Are Educated

    Low and Middle Class Business Owners are Highly Educated Each day millions of people encounter many different types of small businesses whose purpose is to assist those customers with a particular interest. For example, many people may like to start off the day by going into a delicatessen to buy breakfast and then occasionally might have to stop by a gas station where a newspaper or a pack of cigarettes may catch their attention while

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    Essay Length: 1,462 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Victor
  • Capital Assets Pricing Model

    Capital Assets Pricing Model

    The Capital Assets Pricing Model is used to determine the necessary rate of return for an investment should it be determined worthwhile. This model factors in the sensitivity of an investment to risk in addition to the anticipated returns of the market and the investment. This model also recognizes the importance of an investor developing a market portfolio. The concept of the market portfolio demonstrates that in order to find financial success, an investor must

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    Essay Length: 470 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Mike
  • Hypothesis: Social Class Determines How Asian Teenagers (aged 15-17) Do in Gcse Rather Than Culture

    Hypothesis: Social Class Determines How Asian Teenagers (aged 15-17) Do in Gcse Rather Than Culture

    Hypothesis: Social class determines how “Asian teenagers (aged 15-17) do in GCSE rather than culture. Culture is hard to define and operationalise between different “Asian” groups. In test after test, nationally, Chinese and Indian students show superior performance in mathematics and other subjects compared with their Pakistani, Bangladeshi (also “Asian”) and non-Asian counterparts. In 2003, according to National Statistics, 71% of boys and 79% of girls achieved 5+A*-C GCSE/GNVQs. These statistics were significantly higher than

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    Essay Length: 3,794 Words / 16 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Jessica
  • American Class Stratification

    American Class Stratification

    As American’s, we have been raised to believe that hard work will bring us success and happiness. The “ American Dream” embodies the ultimate goal of the people, a dream that is centered upon attaining financial success at any cost. As a result, our society has become obsessed with the notion and attainment of wealth. The mass media plays an instrumental role in perpetuating this idolization of affluence and distorted perceptions of economic class. We

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    Essay Length: 717 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The Social Construction of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

    The Social Construction of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

    Socialization is the unequal distribution of power, wealth, income and social status between individuals and groups. This distribution is not random, it is patterned and structured. Three important axes of global inequality are gender, race and ethnicity, and class. These inequalities are on a global scale and are found in virtually all societies. It wasn’t until relatively recently, however, that a caste system developed to include race and ethnicity among class and gender. Since

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    Essay Length: 333 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Current State of the Voice over Ip Marketplace for Enterprise-Class Deployments - 2005

    The Current State of the Voice over Ip Marketplace for Enterprise-Class Deployments - 2005

    The Current State of the Voice over IP Marketplace for Enterprise-Class Deployments August, 2005 TABLE OF CONTENTS ANALYSIS 2 AVAYA CORPORATE 4 AVAYA COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER 5 MEETING EXCHANGE 6 EXTENSION TO CELLULAR 7 SUPPORT FOR SIP 8 SIP CONVERGED COMMUNICATIONS 8 SIP TRUNKING 9 AVAYA SEAMLESS COMMUNICATIONS 10 CONCLUSION 11 Analysis At the onset of writing this paper, I intended to research and analyze the relevant companies and associated product offerings in the Voice Over

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    Essay Length: 2,119 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Social Classes in the Great Gatsby

    Social Classes in the Great Gatsby

    1.Introduction F. Scott Fitzgerald is famous as one of the greatest authors of the twenties. He is referred to as a member of the “Lost Generation”. His books deal with the idealism and the disillusion of the post-World-War-1 decade and also with the struggle of the American society to find spiritual happiness and material wealth (Di Bacco 525). Long describes Fitzgerald as “central to the American twenties” or “historian of the golden twenties”. “He names

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    Essay Length: 2,907 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Vika
  • The Samurai Class

    The Samurai Class

    The Samurai Class The history of Japan is vivid and filled with tradition. One tradition of their history that has lasted through the time is the Samurai. The Samurai class is essentially a class of warriors who held an incredibly high social status compared to the other warrior classes or armies of Eastern Asia. They lived by Bushido, their code, and with honor. Like most elite classes their demise was only a matter of time.

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Top
  • American Middle Class Debt

    American Middle Class Debt

    Introduction The American Middle Class is escorting the world into economic debt. What we are doing and what we should be doing are two completely different things. Debt is the number one cause of poverty worldwide. The American middle class is leading the way for the rest of the world as to how they should live their lives and spend their money, and we are doing a very poor job of it. With the rest

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    Essay Length: 1,337 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Challenges for the Working Class and the Poor to Make It in a Postindustrial Economy

    Challenges for the Working Class and the Poor to Make It in a Postindustrial Economy

    Challenges for the Working Class and the Poor to Make It in a Postindustrial Economy In the last quarter century the environment that people have relied on to provide them with jobs has gone through some major changes to accommodate the needs that society rely on for everyday function. In the past, the major means for a family to have a reliable, steady income job was usually found through goods-producing jobs such as being a

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    Essay Length: 1,149 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Do Disadvantaged Benefit More from Small Classes?

    Do Disadvantaged Benefit More from Small Classes?

    report on article "Do Disadvantaged Benefit More from Small Classes?" This article talks about the advantaged and disadvantaged students in our classes. They break them down in terms of economics. It's really interesting how they show this through certain expierments and other correlations. The writter Barbara A Nye, Larry V. Hedges, and Spyros Konstantopoulos take the information already collected during a class size experiment in the state of Tennessee in the mid 1980's. They then

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    Essay Length: 865 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Class in America: Gregory Mantsios

    Class in America: Gregory Mantsios

    Class in America: Gregory Mantsios In the article, “Class in America”, Gregory Mantsios (Myths and Realities 2000) shows us how what class a person is in affects his or hers life more than they think. This article is written sufficiently well however, it does have some weak spots. I will prove my thesis by examining his use of examples and showing factual data and statistics, but also show how this article could have been better.

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    Essay Length: 2,051 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Effects of Westernization on the Ruling Class of South Africa

    The Effects of Westernization on the Ruling Class of South Africa

    South Africa: In the Hands of Many Africa is land of various climates, deserts to the north, in the middle of the contenent, lays large jungles, and plains and mountains to the south. The whole southern end itself is various, not only in its in its cultures, but its peoples too. Between the beginning of the 19th century and the beginning of World War I in 1914, there was a power struggle between 3 major

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    Essay Length: 1,450 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: July
  • Class Size

    Class Size

    In 1998, President Clinton sparked a debate when he "proposed the first national effort to reduce class size in the early grades." People who supported this proposal argued that the result of smaller classes (especially in the younger grades) would be more effective teaching and learning and higher student achievement. Critics say reducing class size is costly and that decreasing class size does not mean that teacher effectiveness will improve, and other less expensive alternatives

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    Essay Length: 618 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Class Plan

    Class Plan

    Senior English Fourth Quarter class plan 1. We will be reading and discussing in class the Pulitzer Prize winning novel “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” by Thornton Wilder. This short novel is comprised of 5 (short) chapters that will be read both in and out of class. You must bring this book to class every day beginning on April 11, 2005. Failure to have book for study will result in loss of 5 pts.

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Social Effect of Rising Gas Prices on the Lower Class, and Small Business Owners

    The Social Effect of Rising Gas Prices on the Lower Class, and Small Business Owners

    The Social Effect of Rising Gas Prices on The Lower Class, and Small Business Owners One of the largest financial burdens on the lower class and small business owners over the past six years has been the steady rise in gas prices. “Gas prices have been steadily rising for more than six years. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the average retail price of gasoline in the United States in March of 1999 was

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Movie in Class, Why Not

    Movie in Class, Why Not

    Movies In Class, Why Not? Someone says that since the day computers were invented, children have become lazier than ever before. Today, books are no longer their best friends. Instead of spending time reading books, children are more interested in watching television. In consequence, one common question is asked “Should we use movies in classroom regularly?” In the article “History 101: Pass the Popcorn, Please”, Elaine Minamide states “Anything that gets kids thinking and talking

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    Essay Length: 638 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Bred
  • Experience in English Class

    Experience in English Class

    My Experience in English Class I feel this semester, only the first of many I will endure, was a successful one. The objective of the course was to make us better writers, and I certainly have improved. I learned what makes a paper good or bad, what makes it easier to write a good paper, and how the manner that the class is held makes a difference. We all did so many papers and every

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    Essay Length: 773 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Steve
  • While Watching the Video in Tuesday’s Class

    While Watching the Video in Tuesday’s Class

    While watching the video in Tuesday’s class, I first though that Alex was being too much of a pushover and he was letting Melinda walk all over him with her excuses. By the second part of the tape I was then seeing that he had a little more of a tougher side and he was telling Melinda how it should be. In my opinion, I do not think I would mind working for a boss

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    Essay Length: 304 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: David

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