Leisure Opportunities and Social Class
Need
In an essay of a
minimum of 500 words, take a first-person perspective of the bulleted descriptions below. Develop an argument in your
own words, and justify academically the side of the argument you choose. The essay will need to reflect your
understanding of the time to avoid being anachronistic, and your argument must come from the standpoint of a first
generation immigrant and encompass each of the four elements below.
Are you treated as equal by earlier generations?
Would you feel pressured to pledge your loyalty to a political machine?
Would you agree to engage in a strike?
Do you feel leisure opportunities are divided by social class?
As this is a point of view essay, a modern perspective will not accurately address what the question is asking for. It is
strongly suggested that at least one selection from the provided source book is used as research of the event and views
of the time.
Leisure Opportunities and Social Class
Political and economic systems change from time to time. On the other hand, people construct and deconstruct races in a social manner. Empires also rise and fall while cultures evolve through time. The common factor in all the above changes is human social organization. The socio-economic class will always define people. It determines the leisure opportunities available to an individual. Various parties claimed that the fall of the Berlin Wall and Soviet Union’s defeat in the cold war implied that capitalism………………