Sentences with phrase «upper class privilege»

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What is patent in the law in England is the effort of the jurists and parliamentarians to maintain the status quo and upper - class status and privilege until the industrial revolution, when the lower classes were eventually able to win the franchise and some [place] for themselves in governance after years of effort and much resistance.

In the futuristic Metropolis, (and almost every dystopian future) wealth and privilege are reserved for an upper crust of society, while an enslaved working class allows for excesses and keeps the city running.

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And even though this was the twilight period of aristocracy, still the conception of learning verged on the ideal of universal knowledge, and was almost the exclusive privilege of the upper classes, automatically conferring prestige and social status on the educated man.

Tarot cards were rare and expensive — a privilege of the upper classes — until the invention of mass printing in the mid-1400s.

None are as prominent as the abundance of works about privilege and upper - class disconnection.

For her second narrative feature Los Perros, which premiered in Le Semane de Critique at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Marcela tells the story of an upper - class housewife whose complicated relationship with her horse - riding instructor forces her to confront her family's complicity in the oppressive regime that gave her a life of privilege.

This time, it's Sandra's inability to look beyond her upper - class privilege that means that she must re-evaluate not only her class and rank, but her priorities about love and life.

Middle - and upper - class white students may need help recognizing their own racial status and the privilege it affords them.

Additionally, many of these parents do not have the same privilege of moving outside of their neighborhoods if their public schools are not performing at a level deemed to be «good» nor do they have the networks, resources, or time that many middle and upper - class families have to research better choices that are available to them (Hannah - Jones 2016).

- Booklist «Osborne is a startlingly good observer of privilege, noting the rites and rituals of the upper classes with unerring precision and an undercurrent of malice... The novel takes on the tone of an existential noir, evoking writers like Jean - Patrick Manchette and Georges Simenon.

Finally, premium economy passengers experience similar priority check - in privileges as the other upper class passengers with, priority boarding and baggage handling, and 110 % of the actual miles flown in KrisFlyer miles.

I am referring here to a section of London's contemporary arts community comprising largely, but not exclusively, white middle - or upper - middle - class artists; a section unburdened by histories of oppression, suffused with privilege and the necessary leisure time available for seekership.