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    the middle class. The middle class has served as the backbone to a working economy for decades. Though, lately, the middle class is facing a downward spiral: it is slowly shrinking in number. Because the Middle class will never truly be eliminated, solutions can be limited; however the best thing to do is to try to strengthen this weak link. As Richard Nixon said in his Address to the Nation, we are a “working class” as a whole, we should be using that backbone to uphold our nation. The middle class

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    Rise of the Middle Class

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    Jyoti Rana Research Scholar Dept. of English B.P.S.M.V, Khanpur RISE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS The Victorian Era is named after the Queen of England, Queen Victoria. She ruled from 1837 to 1901 when she died. That era, which followed the Regency time period, is characterized by reforms in the government, industrialization in the factories, economic prosperity, and moral decline. It forms a link and transition between the writers of the romantic period and the very different literature of the 20th century

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    Life for the middle class during the Middle Ages was noticeably easier than the peasants, but still not as glorious as the nobles. As the increase of cottage and textile industries became more apparent and important, there was an increase for jobs as merchants. These merchants eventually became capitalist and continued to increase investments along with profits. The common peasants would become more urban, moving in towards the cities and towns, instead of to the rural areas, and became wage workers

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    Today in America, there is a specific class of people who are slowly dwindling away into nonexistence. These people had a dream, the American Dream, they dreamed of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. For some people, this dream was broken down into having a white picket fence with 2.5 kids, a house, and a car. However, today these people are not dreaming they are hoping; hoping to get through another day by making ends meet. These people—which are the core pillar holding up the American

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    the middle class in media predates modern entertainment to Victorian times, when music-halls and novels entertained audiences with exaggerations of life. These early reflections influenced the way television comedies do today. According to Banville (2011), “All of these cultural forms have one thing in common, the goal of representing the livid experiences of ourselves and others to both ourselves and others” (p. 17). Although the medium changed from music-hall to sitcom, being middle class is a

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    Vanishing Middle Class, her question initially was, “What is the middle class?” Which laid out her platform for her main stance: to expose the true issues of the middle class and why they’re suffering. For example, she counters the idea that they’re spending too much money on consumer goods by observing that “fixed” and necessary goods are up while their wages aren’t keeping a pace. With that being said, she makes a suitable point that the cost of living in America for the middle class is rising

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    Introduction Wage is a topic that is constantly covered in the media. One big issue is the growing wage gap between the middle class and the upper class. While minimum wage increases are considered a good method to reduce income inequality, they are controversial since many business owners and economists argue that they increase the unemployment rate. Impact of minimum wage on employment One concern that is commonly mentioned during the debate on raising minimum wage is the loss of employment as

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    The middle class and the low class were very different from the upper class. The middle class included free commoners. This class included a lot of the population in the civilization and included artisans of all kinds, lower-level officials, soldiers and police, servants and many farmers. Unlike the upper class, this class appropriated through a variety of taxes, were required to do labor and had to do tribute payments that supported the upper class. The people here did not wear any fancy clothing

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    While researching the topic of the middle class and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) otherwise known as Obamacare, I found many articles about the impacts of the ACA on the middle class. The majority of these articles discussed how the ACA has negatively impacted the middle class and has made the middle class Americans have to pay higher taxes and premiums. These articles also show that for those who were previously uninsured, the cost of medical care has gone up. My goal in this paper is to show how

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    relation between the two ‘Canadian groups,’ natives and white men. Their cultural interaction shifts across the spatial context where people lived, worked and played. Since the late 19th century, the interaction between native Canadians and white middle-class population evolved around social and physical environments surrounding natural spaces, more specifically, parks. In other words, their interaction took place in natural, open spaces. Despite the different historical settings, the communication

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