Petite bourgeoisie

Graveyard for the Hardworking Three Messages from Elegy The poem Elegy, written by Thomas Gray, is about the working class, or better known as the lower class. Thomas Gray is a romantic poet, which means that he mainly focuses on nature and the simple life. The definition of lower class is, “the social class that has the lowest status; the working class.” In this specific poem it is relating to the people and the overall town; the town is what some may call a farming town. Such as, how people look at Wyoming. The poet of this poem is the narrator as well in the poem. The narrator is telling this while sitting in a churchyard, which is a graveyard for a certain class. The upper class were not buried in the same graveyard as the working class, because where someone is buried during this time in England, represents the type of person someone was and what class they belonged to. That is why this poem’s title is Elegy, because Elegy means, sad song or the song of death, and the overall theme of this poem is the remembrance of the dead. The three messages from this poem would be, time, place, and past story. One major factor in this poem is time. The first six stanzas in the poem relate to time. In the beginning of the poem it takes place in the late afternoon, or evening. Farmers are tired and heading home after a long, and hard day at work. The author is sitting in a churchyard, which is a graveyard where the working class is buried. There is an owl perched in a tree, and the…

Part A: Short Questions Question 5: When looking at Filipina migrant workers in Japan, ‘love’ is the most important aspect for these women. Filipina hostess workers are essentially paid to ‘love’ their customer. These women need to provide ‘love’ to the Japanese men, in order to live and survive. ‘Love’ is the main role of a Filipina woman working in a hostess bar needs to show. These women are taught how to ‘love’ their customers and care for them, whether they actually ‘love’ the customer…

South Boston from the eyes of Good Will Hunting Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s first production Good Will Hunting, is a movie about an orphaned teenager from South Boston struggling to stay out of jail. unbenounced to most, Will is a mathematical genius, but has meager motivation to showcase his talents to the world. South Boston has harbored Will from seeking opportunities to his genius and plagued him with low expectations that surround him. The movie portrays low class struggles of South…

In the analysis of the novel, The Adventure of Don Chipote or, When Parrots Breast-Feed by Daniel Venegas, it was of utmost importance to note Nicolás Kanellos put great effort into the circulation of said novel in Spanish and English. Kanellos, in his findings, contends that Spanish-language immigrant novels more accurately present the wickedness of American society such as the oppression of immigrant workers. Presumptuously, Kanellos could have felt so passionately about circulating this…

The cafes in the bourgeoisie centre’s wide streets became avenues of display and pleasure. As part of the proliferation of mass consumer culture, cafes in this area were no longer political, but rather places of pleasurable pastimes. They became sites for the integration of the working class worker with the white collar worker. They thus became a reflection of the changed urban environment, using a “shared set of rituals for interaction” associated with drinking, to create camaraderie between…

equally. For example, I went to Kelly High School, which is a public high school that was on probation and had a great deal of violence and gang problems. Everyday instead of worrying about homework and exams, I was worried about my safety. Mainly all the teachers in that high school made a hasty generalization regarding the students because they believed that all of them were immature and didn’t care about school; however, the few students that did care, like me, were deprived of having a…

An Inspector Calls explores the concerns of wider society contrasted with selfish individuality. The playwright J.B. Priestley hated the attitude of viewing the lower class as different people, and Mrs. Birling is a woman who has this attitude. She is a cold and selfish woman who is out of touch with the reality of life. Throughout the play she remains the most self-centered as she demonstrates no responsibility and no remorse. In act one there is a stage directions describing the setting of…

How Growing up Poor Made Me a Better Person I really hate it when someone is looked down upon because they are poor and in a lower economic class than someone else. If you look up economic class it is defined by Wikipedia in the following way: the term "social class" is usually synonymous with "socio-economic class," defined as "people having the same social, economic, or educational status," e.g., "the working class"; "an emerging professional class." Or the lower, middle and upper class. We…

that “older, wealthier, and more highly educated people are more likely to vote, with non voters being predominantly found in lower socioeconomic strata of the population” (Harrison, 2014, p. 14). Attributing class as the main factor of voter turnout rates is incorrect, and in fact issues of gender, age, ethnicity, and ableism are all contributing factors. However, class is a definite way to classify and quantify the information needed to understand this aspect of voter turnout rates. Grabb is…

On a fine sunny weekend day, sitting comfortably in a coffee shop and observing the employees were executing their activities autonomically , a barista making his coffee for the customers, a cashier swiftly working on the till, a manager ensuring the satisfaction of their customers. I overheard a conversation where two gentlemen where in a discussion over labor practices in Canada. Exemplifying the barista serving the drinks. The barista stood there for hours with a smile and accepting all…