Some of the causes included, the extreme power to a single leader, and the desire for power, while some responses would be hatred towards the leader and hard work to stay alive, all depending on one’s perspective due to their status in a society. My first grouping would be documents 1, 4, and 6 because they all pertain to the leaders of the societies that caused the inequality. Document 1 is a wall relief from the palace of Sannacherib at Nineveh in 704-681 B.C.E. This wall relief shows the ruler or leader sitting at the top of a hill watching his slaves being brutally treated as they do hard work. His amount of power caused him to control his slaves to do hard work without remorse or sympathy towards them which caused the social inequality.
(Tignor, et al., p 51) Farming in the region depended on irrigation from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Many resources in Mesopotamia were scarce or absent which stimulated trade within the region and beyond. In order to receive wood such as cedar from Lebanon, stones, metals and other necessary materials for building they traded textiles, pottery and honey. Mesopotamians had an unyielding patriarchal society, starting at the top with pharaohs (gods), and descending to nobles, bureaucrats and military personnel, to peasants and slaves. Slavery was not based on race or heredity but consisted of criminals, prisoners of war and debtors.
CHP. 5 S- China, at this time, was a hierarchy. People were divided into social classes. China also had dynasties- and each dynasty had its own set of rules and social structure. Rulers generally had many advantages, and the lowest class was slavery.
The Northeast and the South had many differences. One of the differences that they had was that the Northeast was against slavery, they were free states but the South was for slavery, they were slave states. Another difference between them was that the Northeast industrialized while the South got stuck in the past. Meaning the people of the South continued to rely on manual labor while the people of the Northeast invented new machines to do their work for them. In addition to that, in the Northeast women started to have their independence away from the home.
While these two autobiographies are rooted in culture, they both differ in what exact cultures the autobiographies nestle in. Rodriguez writes about life in a prominently poor Mexican neighborhood. He describes many of its various aspects such as the “people … on the metal chairs … and beer” (paragraph 1), the “stucco and wood-frame homes” (paragraph 2), and the “neighborhood consisting mostly of Mexicans” (Paragraph 2). This poverty enriched land is such a clash when viewed against the presumably middle class white community that Dillard describes. Her description of the suburbs in Pittsburgh seem less poverty stricken such as with them leaving from houses (paragraph 4) and the clothes that the man that chases them wears(paragraph 10).
Brittany had created a social system that allowed the upper class African nobility to be treated respectfully, and treat peasants badly while still regarding them as fully human. Harms also explains what drove and inspired the slave traders. He admitted it was “driven by greed and afflicted with inhumanity and caused people to be treated like cattle” (Harms 18). However, Harms mentioned how not everyone involved in the slave trade thought they were doing inhumane acts. Some people defended the slave trade.
Musavir Ali Honors English 11/21/14 Cunningham Pride How does pride shape our interaction? In the story "To Kill a Mockingbird" pride shapes the life of Walter Cunningham. In the story there are two known families that share a connection; the Finch family and the Cunningham family. Both of these families are known throughout the town in very different ways, the Finch family is considered middle class while the Cunningham family is considered extremely poor. Even though the Cunningham family is poor they have their pride.
Daniel Pacheco English 101 H. Barsamian 4/29/12 The Immortal Life of Segregation To me social class is what matters most today. People have judgments about others based on their economic standing. People treat other people differently because one is richer then the other. We are all separated into social class the lower class are all grouped together in one neighborhood and the rich in another but we cant be mixed we have to stay in our social class. If we look back in history race was what mattered most.
The differences between The United States and the Roman empire. Acceptance of people other than the majority has always been hard for cultures to grasp, this can be seen in sexism, slavery, and in the separation in social classes, between the rich and the poor. This acceptance shapes how the culture is formed, and how the society runs, and because of the difference in tolerance and acceptance between The United States and rome proves The United States and Rome cannot be compared, and likewise cannot be considered similar. The use of slaves, and treatment in Rome is extremely different from The United States. Primarily, the treatment of slaves in America was much harsher than the treatment in Rome.
The methodology of their studies was based on the comparisons of cities with high and low levels of segregation and the effects on the society based on the changes in those levels of segregation. study gives credence to the argument that the isolation of the black community was a driving force for the concentrations of poverty within black urban neighborhoods. Economic dislocation is held responsible for the many of the societal problems that these communities grapple with. It is concisely argued that the withdraw of economic resources within the black urban communities were instrumental in the creation of what they call the “underclass.” It was through this economic restructuring, of the cities in which the majority of African-Americans lived, that the opportunities for a large demographic effectively disappeared. The trends of isolation of poor communities demonstrate the negative effects of a downward spiral of poverty that continually worsens its