Is class still relevant in Australia? To facilitate this question‚ the readings of Karl Marx‚ Fredrick Engels‚ Max Weber‚ Helen Marshall‚ R.W. Connell and T.H. Irving will be considered. Connell & Irving (1992) identify ‘class structure’ in Australia with the ‘ruling class’ owning property/business‚ and the ‘working class’ in the way of labourers whom ‘act together in resistance to the capitalists’. This is relevant today in Australia with the privileged having majority of the power and wealth
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bringing light to humanity and equality which he obviously thought should be a part of our culture. Although the American audience was initially not entirely receptive of the viewpoints that Whitman had to offer‚ his poetry still lives on to be very relevant today and has been greatly admired. By discussing the topics of nature‚ humanity‚ America‚ and life in general‚ Whitman seems to enlighten his audiences on new perspectives through his exploration on these different topics with the great
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pictured that the future‚our modern society‚would be a certain way. Our modern society is somewhat different compared to Ray Bradbury’s idea of what the future would be like.For example‚he thought that our world would create fires in order to burn books.Although‚ Bradbury isn’t that off when he describes our modern society. As he was walking home‚Montag stumbles across a seventeen year old girl . She is quite strange‚according to him. Our society and the society in the book in some ways are alike
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still very much relevant in today’s world. In the Handmaid’s Tale‚ Atwood brings to light the effects of limiting women’s rights and the use of a strict social class order has on a society suing a first-hand story of a woman being thrown into an authoritative theocracy in the United States. Throughout the book Offred’s story bounces back and forth between her current life and her life before the revolution‚ giving the story dimension and Offred’s interpretation and contrast of how her life has changed
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Regardless of the truth behind this spectacle‚ the tales of King Arthur still live today because we have an inherent need for what he represents: chivalry and honorable behavior. The lack of documentation leaves scholars guessing as to how this hero met his end. However‚ I believe that the historical truth behind Arthur is less important than the impact he made on society during the Middle Ages and continues to impact us today. One of the most famous stories is of the Round Table. “It became the place where
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looking closer at vices in our society‚ sales of George Orwell’s 1984 have skyrocketed. Whether or not Orwell meant to warm us about the future of our society is unclear‚ but it is clear that some of these warnings are in fact valid‚ considering the degree our world reflects Big Brother’s. Although it would be an exaggeration to say that our society has turned into the totalitarian state Orwell writes about‚ his ideas and warnings are without a doubt‚ embedded in today’s society. This dystopian literary
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are the facts of life.” This is relevant today because of the racial inequality in the world. Another way TKAM is relevant today is the amount of poverty in the book. In chapter 2 Miss Caroline finds out Walter Cunningham doesn’t have money for lunch‚ Miss Caroline then offers him twenty-five cents for lunch. After he refuses many times Scout says “Walter Cunningham was sitting there lying his head off. He didn’t forget his lunch‚ he didn’t have any. He had none today nor would he have any tomorrow
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Designer clothes‚ Hollywood‚ and actors are the priority of many people today. The book that explains all this is J.D Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye. This novel is about a teenager‚ Holden Caulfield‚ who notices the world around him. He sees how a materialistic view on life has dominated over a spiritual view. The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger indicates that ways of a material world is present‚ just the way it is today. When parents are not there for their children‚ they will often buy
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There are many people in society today that think the same way that Atticus Finch does about Tom Robinson‚ a black male accused of raping a white woman‚ in Harper Lee’s book “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Atticus believed that although Robinson was African American‚ he deserved a fair trial and not to be killed‚ despite what the other white people were saying in the town. Atticus thought that Tom had just as many rights as the Caucasian people. The towns’ people felt as though Tom was beneath them and
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I do not think affirmative action is appropriate for the United States today. Affirmative action had an important role back in the 1960’s‚ in the midst of the civil rights era. It was intended to promote equal opportunities to work and to education for minority groups (at that time African Americans). That was almost sixty years ago. Our culture has evolved since then‚ with each passing generation‚ racism and prejudice dies a little more. As a nation‚ we will continue to evolve‚ and the challenges
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