Status symbol Essays

  • A Car as a Status Symbol

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    A status symbol is a possession that indicates the owner's social position in the community. With cars, you wear your status on the road. Everyone is capable of being able to identify which ones are the most expensive. The brand marking is clear. Luxury cars have been among the most idolized status symbols, in recent times. Are cars just machines used for getting from place to place, or are they more than that? Are they a way to make yourself be seen by society? In today's society, cars seem to be

  • Social Status Symbols

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    A. Status- Pg. 96: The position that someone occupies in a social group (also called social status.) In the documentary about MS-13, they speak about a member’s status. A status is someone’s role in a group. In this gang, there are subgroups and within these subgroups everyone has a status, a job and a role. For example, some people are labeled as hit men, others are recruiters and some are even the drug suppliers or middle men. A middle man is a person or people that transport the drugs to suppliers

  • Analysis of Edmund Waller's Poem On a Girdle

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    Analysis of Edmund Waller's Poem "On a Girdle" At first glance, Edmund Waller’s poem “On a Girdle” seems to suggest nothing more than praise of one woman’s fair beauty and the speaker’s love for her. After diving deeper into the text, however, it becomes apparent that the speaker does a much better job of praising himself than the woman. His love is more a lust for control and possession than a true declaration of sentiment. Waller uses extreme imagery and exaggeration to seemingly praise

  • Elitism In The American Dream

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    using sex to sell products. It is no secret that advertisers have been using sex to sell their products for years. These tools are used in all types of advertisements. However, this is not just selling sex, it is selling elitism. It is selling the status of “hey, if you can get our product, you can get these types of girls”. Elitism is

  • Housing as Social Status Symbol in Rome

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    be defined by the type of house they have because it symbolizes their income. This rule is active in modern and ancient civilizations. In Rome, housing was used to symbolize wealth and power: the bigger the house, the higher the status. Housing has always been a symbol of income and importance. In ancient Rome, this stereotype plays a significant role in society. Housing area and type outlined social classes, thus dividing the roman citizens and emphasizing different social groups. “[In Rome] people

  • Youth And Social Themes In Beijing Bicycle, By Wang Xiaoshuai

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    and Jian are the faces of Beijing 's youth and alludes to the disillusion of migrants from the country. The juxtaposition of Guei and Jian is particularly their contrasting relation to the bicycle, highlights their differences in social standing and status. Social standing in China is shown in the film as Guei is a new migrant who has come to the city with hopes for better income. On the other hand, Jian comes from an upwardly motivating city family concerned with providing the children with good

  • Analysis Of The Chinese Film 'Beijing Bicycle'

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    Chinese Film Final Hook: Two men walk into a store. One is dressed in a three-quarter black business suit; his hair is gelled back and he stands in a confident pose as he stares ahead. While the other man looks downward, his hands in his baggy gray sweatshirt and he smells of alcohol. How people portray themselves can cause stereotypes and judgments to be formed within a blink of an eye. A person may read in the newspaper the next day on how a store was robbed and instantly think it was the

  • Jane Eyre vs House of Mirth Lily

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    family who resented her and did not want her, therefore torturing, abusing, and treating her as someone at a status even lower than the servants. As a child, she knows that her status is awkward and even later on, as a grown woman, she is considered a second class citizen simply because of her sex. Further into the novel, once she has become the governess at Thornfield, the social status put upon her is inferior to Rochester and others of high class. She is forced into this social standing despite

  • The Wife Of His Youth By Charles Chestnut

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    intentions once more by the way Charles Chestnut included the description of Queen Guinevere in The Wife of His Youth. Instead of focusing on beauty, like the previous poems accomplished, the poetry regarding Queen Guinevere highlights her financial status and the adorning accessories she can afford to buy. The materialistic aspect of Mr. Ryder’s attraction to Mrs. Dixon is evidenced by “buckled with golden clasps before…closed in a golden ring” (4). However, the evidence is not limited to jewelry:

  • Breaking the Assumptions in Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women by Caroline Walker Bynum

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    femaleness and used their status in society to grow closer to God. Through the analysis of several hagiographies, amongst other pieces of evidence, Bynum illustrates the effect choosing different symbols has on the overall mindsets of men and women in the Middle Ages. Bynum’s arguments about the cultural stereotype in the Middle Ages of men as the nurtured and women as the nurturers creates a link to the religiosity of both genders, and how women specifically used their status in society to enhance their

  • A Wall Of Fire Rising Summary

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    Symbols are often personalized, and the same symbol can have a different meaning to each character. Symbols can symbolize desires, emotions, or even an individual’s state of mind. In the short story “A Wall of Fire Rising” by Edwidge Danticat, the hot-air balloon is the main symbol. This symbol compels the reader to probe beyond the literal meaning of the balloon and uncover what it truly means to each character. First, the hot-air balloon represents an escape from poverty and Guy’s desire to be

  • The Kite Runner Mind Map Analysis

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    the internet. I chose a kite to be the major symbol of the mind map because it represents many different themes. In the novel, the kite represents a wide variety of themes such as guilt and hope. The kite was made so that it can be opened up. Symbolically, this action means that you are “unpacking” the themes out of what seems to be an ordinary kite. In order to highlight the importance of the kite and other drawings, I used bold colours for the symbols and faint colours for the background. Since

  • Symbolism in Beowulf to Reinforce the Importance of Religion and the Values of the Anglo Saxons

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    Staver states, “Jesus is the young warrior who comes to earth to fight with Satan” (Staver 155). This means that Beowulf is a symbol of Jesus for the way Beowulf leaves his home to embark on a journey to rescue Herot by defeating Grendel, and it shows the way the Anglo Saxons projected their faith in Christianity through Beowulf. Also, Grendel is used in Beowulf as a symbol of Christianity as a representation of Satan or a spawn of hell. In the modern English translation of Beowulf, Rafeel writes:

  • Symbolism in the Color Purple by Alice Walker

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    examples of the symbols used by the author and are very important in understanding not only the characters of the story, but also global values such as love, power, mutual understanding, and authority over another person's life. The purple color itself symbolizes love in the story. When Celie is shopping for the first time in her life for new clothes, she wants to get something purple. However, she cannot find any purple garment while seeing a lot of people wearing purple. This is a symbol of her search

  • Fear Of Change

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    change. Faulkner uses characters and symbols to portray this theme. Everything about Miss Emily shows how she is afraid of change: her actions, home, and relationships with people. When Miss Emily’s father dies, she denies it and refuses to accept the loss of comfort her father gave her. Miss Emily keeps her father’s body in her home because she unwilling to accept life without him. She is scared of losing things and life changing. Faulkner uses the rose as a symbol to show loss in Emily’s life and how

  • Symbolism in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Symbolism in The Great Gatsby The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story full of many symbols as well as several different themes that are evident throughout the novel. These themes include different uses of certain colors, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg, the Valley of Ashes, East Egg and West Egg, and the green light at the end of Daisy Buchanan’s dock. The novel also reveals numerous themes, including those of the past, present and future, the carelessness of the wealthy, and

  • A Worn Path - Eudora Welty

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    symbolism and then must delve deeper into the text to find the more meaningful symbols. In the second paragraph, Phoenix's skin is described as having "a pattern all its own of numberless branching wrinkles as though a whole little tree stood in the middle of her forehead." An obvious example of Christ symbolism is the tree being a symbol of life and knowledge gained through the acceptance of Christ. Further analysis of the tree symbol could also conclude that like Christ, trees provide shelter and protection

  • Essay On The Use Of Symbols In Everyday Use By Alice Walker

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    Symbols are intricately intertwined into all types of prose and can have very deep connections to it. Symbols are a method of repeating the theme or reflecting upon it from a different angle or view so that the theme or repeating ideas are more apparent and occurring in readers’ minds. Authors do not explicitly state all the information to the reader in any given prose in order for the reader to attain a sense of suspicion and to self – analyze the poem; therefore, in order for the audience to understand

  • Once There Were Two Little Girls...

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    disgusting substances on the face of the earth. Byatt actually forces the Thing into a very awkward position in the story by making it representative of both life and death at the same time. It is very easy to see that Byatt is truly an expert at using symbols and elaborate imagery to bring her tales to life. Works Cited Margaronis, Maria. "Where the Wild Things Are."Nation. 14 Jun 2004: 24-8. Print. Messud, Claire. "The Beast in the Jungle." New York Times 9 May 2004: 233 pp.. Print. Sorensen

  • Comparison Of Friendship In The Kite Runner

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    interesting. Amir and Hassan are as close as a servant and master can be, yet Amir acts like, a Hazara like Hassan is beneath him. But Amir relies on Hassan to protect him as he never learns to assert himself as a child, his childhood cowardice and social status is why he sacrifices Amir,” replied Alex. “What do you think of their friendship?” “Well Hasan and Amir were close as brothers, before their relationship decayed after Hassan was raped. Foster uses the pomegranates to symbolize the friendship. Amir