Pitt realized the best way how to collect taxes would be through indirect taxes on the rich. Therefore he came up with taxing the strangest pleasures of the upper class such as horses, wigs, powders and even windows. But Pitt also thought about taxing the lower class. He ordered taxes on candles, because they were very common. Despite all of it, his taxation policy was generally successful.
7, an upper-class roman philosopher and advisor to Emperor Nero, stated “...invented by someone with a mind that was nimble and sharp, but not great or elevated.” When referring to the hammer and the tongs, his point of view is that rather than making something meaningful, they use their sharp mind for making manual labor easier thus encouraging laziness. As an upper-classmen he is paying for the manual labor and not for his workers to be doing the easiest job they can find. Therefore, until we have one additional document for each society, we cannot truly understand Rome and China’s complete views on technology. Several people from both Rome and China who were sourced believed technology was very important. A Han government official from early second century B.C.E.
The Article, “For Mitt Romney, the election hinges on the middle class”, focuses on the tactics in which Mitt Romney needs to perform in order to win the middle class votes of the Americans. According to the article, 90% of the American people consider themselves to be members of the middle class. In order for Mitt Romney to have a strong chance of winning the election he needs to have the majority behind him. Mitt Romney is a very successful businessman and has obtained much wealth to his name. Although, he is a part of the small percentage of the upper class in America his main focus for the election is to appeal to the middle-class as a devoted family man who is seeking to lower their struggles.
Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby requires a basic understanding of the social classes; this includes their status, which pertains to their wealth, leading to their popularity among true peers. The narrator, Nick Carraway, personally realized that even with all the wealth and all the popularity in the world, discrimination and prejudice due to social status would never completely fade away. Yet, to the opposing extreme, one with all wealth and highest social status would not achieve true bonds with one another. “…I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.” (Fitzgerald 17). In other words, basic respect and appreciation for one another is, naturally, distributed unevenly, the richer the more honored, the poorer the more prejudice.
384 B.C.) 1. Humans are not born good, but learn to be virtuous. 2. Best government provides for a properly educated middle class – they are free of excesses found in upper and middle class.
“ The Great Gatsby” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, “The Great Gatsby” brings up one of the most important goals of all people in the 1900s to today. The book centers around a handful of characters who all want similar things. This thing that was desired so much was the American Dream. The American dream set in Fitzgerald’s novel is slightly different than the dream that had begun with the first settlers. In this book the thing everyone strives for is based off of superficial and materialistic goals, the characters all want to just become as rich as they can and mainly care about money and power.
It just happens to be that Adams was on the side of the colonist and Sewall on the side of the mother country. Sewall and Adams were both power hungry and strived to hold higher positions in their line of work; they just had completely different styles of doing so (Hollitz 60). Sewall had more of a direct approach that lead him more so to the side of English rule, because to him it was easier to agree and accept the rules as they are (Hollitz 60). He would argue why would someone “living under the mildest government, enjoying the highest portion of civil and religious liberty” rebel (qtd in Hollitz 64). Since he obeyed and enforced British law he was rewarded by the English government with higher titles (Hollitz 57).
This was very undemocratic as anybody should be able to become an mp if they so desire. By 1900 not many people had the right to vote, this was undemocratic because everybody should have the vote to make the voting system fairer. The reform act of 1867 made Britain more democratic because it gave the franchise to every male householder living in a borough constituency. This made Britain more democratic because more men had the vote. This doubled the number of men who could vote.
Shorris bluntly tells the poor they have been cheated. He tells them that the rich have learned the humanities and have the knowledge to use them in day-to-day life but the poor, do not. Shorris simply summarizes, “rich people know a more effective method for living in this society,” (Shorris 4). Rich people know how to successfully and politically fit into the gears of civilization. Since Shorris realizes that the rich have this unfair advantage over the poor, he decides to create a course designed for those that could not learn these humanities in private schools and expensive universities like the rich could.
1) What are Marco Polo's general impressions of the Chinese city of Hangchow/Hangzhou, notwithstanding the cross-cultural misconceptions and historical inaccuracies in his account? Macro Polo makes Hangchow look perfect in many sorts of ways. He refers to it, basically as a Heaven on Earth. Referring to its magnificence as the finest and noblest in the world. He describes the people as very noble, caring, smart and down to earth; they live with no hassles and look to create none.