Essays Tagged: "working man"

Pictures by Jørgen Schytte & Lilian Bolwinkel

his glasses. He is wearing a nice suit and definitely looks like a bigwig, hereby I mean that he is working high up in the hierarchy of a business.The photo to the left have made the working man look ...

(3 pages) 55 0 3.1 Mar/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

"The Metamorphosis" by Kafka as a social criticism

story Kafka shows howsociety can be split into into different sections, with Gregorrepresenting the working man at the time, and his familyrepresenting all the other kinds of people throughout society ... k to support his family,and gets little respect for this. It shows what happens to himwhen he stops working for them, he transforms into a hugecockroach. He is rejected by his family, and he is not ca ...

(4 pages) 197 0 3.9 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a dreary story that depicts the life of a working man in the earlytwentieth century. The book shows the horrid working conditions placed about ... with a black smoke that pours all day long from the big factories. The streets are not paved and theworking conditions are terrible. The setting is a perfect place for a man to struggle from one probl ... olace of comfort and relaxation. The time is important to the novelbecause it is before any laws on working conditions and food quality have been established. The noveltakes place in several time sequ ...

(6 pages) 166 0 3.8 Aug/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

John Steinbeck's "Indubious Battle"

rike, briefly becomes its leader, and is ultimately crushed in its service.Jim Nolan's father was a working man driven to his death by blow of police clubs and pistol butts. As a youngster, Jim witnes ...

(8 pages) 78 0 1.7 Apr/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

"Grapes Of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. Speaks of the awakening Of the main characterTom Joad

er on it. Tom's conversation with this trucker is his first witness to the suppression of an honest working man by the larger more wealthy corporations since his release from prison. The trucker tries ...

(2 pages) 62 0 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

Andy Warhol.

lo Picasso and Jackson Pollock as one of the three most important artists of this century. He was a working man, a social climber, a person who liked to build things, an acquirer of goods, and a known ... artifacts used, that give Pop, and particularly the work of Warhol, its significance. (3)During his working career, Andy used several different methods and media for producing his art. He was able to ...

(4 pages) 141 1 4.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Adolf hitler.

core within the Thule Society were all Satanists who practiced Black Magic."2The Society was not a working-man's group as it included amongst its members: "judges, police-chiefs, barristers, lawyers, ... s paternal lineage.Frank did so and told the Fuehrer that his grandmother had become pregnant while working as a domestic servant in a Jewish household in Graz.The facts of this matter are in dispute- ...

(4 pages) 38 0 3.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Andy Warhol Artist and Filmmaker

ackson Pollock as one of the three most important and influential artists of this century. He was a working man, a social climber, a person who liked to build things, an acquirer of goods, and a known ... ociety. Pop art also contains a serious sub-message that is not apparent at first sight. During his working career, Andy used several different methods and media for producing his art. He was able to ...

(3 pages) 58 0 4.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

The industrial revolution transformed British popular culture, discuss.

erms of demographic location and with attitudes towards and between classes and social groups, the 'working man' found himself in a very new and diverse scenario which was a phenomenon in the western ... the agricultural calendar and lifestyle was also a huge effect on people residing in rural England. Working times would revolve more around when the work was finished, rather than a particular time an ...

(6 pages) 62 0 4.2 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Andy Warhol

lo Picasso and Jackson Pollock as one of the three most important artists of this century. He was a working man, a social climber, a person who liked to build things, an acquirer of goods, and a known ... artifacts used, that give Pop, and particularly the work of Warhol, its significance. (3)During his working career, Andy used several different methods and media for producing his art. He was able to ...

(5 pages) 71 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Anomie and Alienation: Catalysts for Society's Disintegration by PJ

ieved that as the world gets more immersed in a capitalist system, society would deteriorate as the working man becomes engrossed in the multiple steps toward complete alienation from his work and soc ... like Durkheim, Marx believed a deviation from one's normal train of thought and means of living and working eventually led to a decline in societal cohesion. Marx theorized that there are four compone ...

(5 pages) 53 0 3.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Domestic Staff

You Afford Domestic Staff?Families employ domestic staff today because the most common family is a working man and a working woman, most likely with a child, which adds up to little family time and a ... o little family time and a stressed everyday life. So because of the decreasing amount of time, the working families have to hire domestic staff, whether it is nannying, dog-walking or cleaning it is ...

(2 pages) 16 0 0.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Was Australia a working man's paradise in the 1900s?

sperous. Australia was in fact one of the most secure and economical places to find work, that is a working man's paradise.Australian workers were, in many ways, considered much better off than their ... . New South Wales had already started paying their aged citizens a pension since Federation.Shorter working times, workers compensation, maternity allowances, invalid pension and increased leisure tim ...

(2 pages) 27 0 3.0 Sep/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Analyse the effect of inequality on access to socially valued resources in ONE society.

and political representation. Over the years, Australian society has been described by people as a "working man's paradise, 'the land of the fair go', and an egalitarian society. However, there has be ...

(4 pages) 29 0 3.0 Jun/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Bias, Rhetorical Devices and Argumentation

but he will be too busy arranging to keep them.Kane uses amplification by repeating phrases, like "working man" and "Jim Gettys".A couple places in the speech Kane could be using proof surrogate; one ... tatement, "Now I can afford to make promises!" line drawing fallacy.Kane's comments addressing the "working man", the "under paid", and the "under fed" were weaselers, because of the terms "best effor ...

(3 pages) 30 0 3.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

John L Lewis

By: Allan Breden Allan Breden February 24, 2000 A working man's man John L. LewisJohn L. Lewis started life in Lucas County, Iowa February 12, 1880 th ... any disasters and aided in many heroic deeds to lend him authenticity to his claim to speak for the working class. In 1905 John returned to Lucas and in 1907 he ran for mayor however he was not electe ...

(3 pages) 16 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Modern Day Sweatshops

es that we wear, and the products that we use every day are made by hundreds of thousands of people working in less than poor conditions for a payment that would hardly buy the average working man a l ... must work or die from lack of supplies and sustenance for them and their entire family. The working conditions are beyond horrid. Women anywhere from ages thirteen and up work in a dark and cr ...

(2 pages) 29 1 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Jackson

rats DBQ The main thing that the Jacksonian Democrats fought to guard was the rights of the common, working man. When the Bank of the United States presented its new charter to the president he turned ...

(1 pages) 1005 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Grapes

er on it. Tom's conversation with this trucker is his first witness to the suppression of an honest working man by the larger more wealthy corporations since his release from prison. The trucker tries ...

(2 pages) 1134 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

industry as his vehicle, Sinclair conveyed his position of socialism and lamented the plight of the working-man.The Jungle's main character, Jurgis Rudkus, immigrates with his family to America from L ... of living the "American Dream". Instead, their dream is torn apart by the dreadful cruelties of the working class life in Packingtown, Chicago. Jobs are scarce and those available are more deadly than ...

(4 pages) 39 1 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science