untouchables and the work they do makes them impure. This caste system influenced the work they did‚ the person they could marry‚ and the people they could eat with. The United States had a similar system during segregation between black and white people. During segregation white people thought they were above all other minorities like Brahmins thought they were in the Hindu caste system. The Hindu caste system had the greatest impact on the world because it’s still relevant in modern India today‚ it influences
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Years‚ decades and centuries have past and yet a play written in the 16th century is still related to how we live our life today‚ in the 21st century. Romeo and Juliet may have things that can’t possibly exist today but many fail to realize the significance the play has. ’Romeo and Juliet’ is about humans and human emotions we feel. As long as we have our emotions this play will be relevant to human life. Romeo and Juliet effects love‚ life and death and the society the world lives in. Love plays
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In Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech‚ he stressed that now is the time to give African Americans true freedom‚ equality‚ and opportunity. This is still very relevant to African Americans today‚ even though it shouldn’t be. I say it shouldn’t be because now‚ for Mr. King was 52 years and five months ago. These problems have been going on for more than half a century after he professed his dream‚ and there has been little change since then. There is still discrimination towards blacks and
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by George Orwell 1984 By George Orwell Offers the unique perspective of a man during the year 1984‚ where a totalitarian government controls everything with omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation. The book becomes even more relevant today‚ as in some cases governments around the world creep very slowly toward the Totalitarianism of George Orwell’s created government without even knowing. Orwell incorporates many deep subtexts into his novel that create a chilling presentation of
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Frederick Winslow Taylor - The Father of Scientific Management The years leading up to the 1920’s were a time of momentous change for America. New technology was gaining momentum and factories were producing more and more goods. People were able to buy goods rather than making them like they had in the past and the standard of living was going up. Manufactured goods were a major part of life‚ especially during the 1920’s. This change towards being a consumer nation didn’t happen all at once and
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Blog Post Essay 3/2/15 Is Animal Farm still relevant today? Yes‚ and in a few ways. First‚ one element of the story is how power can corrupt any leader. Power hungry leaders are almost completely normal in our society today. Secondly the book has an element of human nature. Humans have a selfish side as shown by some of the animals‚ but also a caring side as shown by other animals. Finally‚ Animal Farm is relevant today because it has an element of propaganda
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schools? Four hundred years have passed since William Shakespeare penned his last play. Yet his prose‚ plots‚ and characters are as alive today as they were when the plays were originally staged during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespearean works should still be studied in school‚ as his attitude‚ values and beliefs are still relevant in today’s society. He’s 450 years old and yet‚ not only do we perform his plays but also‚ we recognize ourselves in them and continue to
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in many instances have been falsified and predictions invalid‚ his ideas about class struggle and conflict being a motivator for change is still relevant in contemporary society. The disparity of wealth between occupations in Australia demonstrates that class stratification is still inherent within society and the recent Qantas airline dispute is a relevant example of this. Marx’s theory of class struggle originates with his belief that “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history
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HOW IS NIGHT RELEVANT TO TODAY? Elie Wiesel’s book night tell us the story of the Holocaust that killed so many Jews and scarred the one that did survive for life. Elie Wiesel just so happens to be one of the luckier ones who actually survived being beat‚ seeing others being beat and killed‚ seeing babies being thrown in the air and used as a target practice. Children as well as women and feeble men were thrown in pits of fire‚ most of them alive‚ although some of them were dead. He even saw
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Is the Bible still relevant today? Sure‚ the Bible was relevant once upon a time‚ in that long-ago era of shepherds and scribes. That story of how the Hebrew people emerged from their centuries of slavery in Egypt is a gripping account‚ but does it have any connection to my world of lightning fast e-mails and jet travel? The problems of a fish swallowing a disobedient prophet named Jonah and how to get Daniel out of a den of lions seem pretty far removed from fixing my transmission or resurrecting
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