It's been clear since the 1970s that the class system was becoming more inflexible.
But it does reinforce a fear: is America beginning to develop more of a class system?
The assumption was that England's class system would prove to be the main determinant of their future.
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Casually, the movie chronicles the end of the rigid British class system and the liberation of the working class through popular entertainment.
On the soldier side, deepening the class system and customization became important.
Being content with your station is, of course, antithetical to the American class system, which presents itself, with some justification, as a meritocracy.
However, the end result has been a clearly differentiated, best-in-class system.
Interestingly, even as Thatcher was working to open things up and making the British class system more like America's, the US class system started becoming more and more rigid.
Many critics praised its style and tone, and its submerged critique of the French class system, while others complained that, while nothing happened very prettily, nothing happened.
Marlborough exemplified England's class system, for it lay in the shadow of Marlborough College, one of the nation's great public schools, a preserve of tradition and privilege.
There sprung up a class system, whereby the boys who had shirts and pants and shoes were considered the wealthiest, and next were those who had two of the three.
The theme for this time is the class system.
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In fall 2011, the Florida High School Athletic Association began offering a public-only Class 1A in six sports, including football, with private schools going no lower than 2A in its eight-class system.
The Maya also developed social class system which was a well-ordered and carried on trade throughout a network of cities that went as far south as Panama and as far north as Central Mexico.
In soccer though, the economics are such that there is a very obvious class system, with a half dozen European superclubs in a perennially dominant position where they can cherry-pick talent from their closest rivals.
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He is a member of the first generation of working-class Britons to have received a college education, which fostered in them a sense of possibility that was thwarted by the country's rigidly stratified class system.
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Sometimes they carry this to ridiculous lengths: I remember being addressed on the subject of the rigidity of the British class system by very rich men over lunch in a grandiose club in one of America's greatest cities.
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In one case, there is triumph over a bitter caste and class system marinated by certainty and cruelty, and in the other, over the aftermath of slavery in which some people who were white legally owned others who were black.
If the indignant depictions of the class system in so many Titanic dramas coexist uneasily with their adoring depictions of upper-crust privilege, that, too, is part of the appeal: it allows us to demonstrate our liberalism even as we indulge our consumerism.
However, because some character classes or skill sets can easily defeat characters of other classes or skills in many MMORPGs, developers should consider a skill-point character development system over a class-based system to balance play and to provide an opportunity for any character class engaged in combat to win.
Building a world-class transportation system is part of what made us a economic superpower.
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Building a world-class transportation system is part of what made us an economic superpower.
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Today we have set objectives for new Labour Government - a world class education system.
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We want to create a world class education system and make college affordable again.
Education Minister Leighton Andrews described it as a "world class" system for those aged three to 19.
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Building a world-class transportation system is one of the reasons that America became an economic superpower in the first place.
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"Northern Ireland has a lot to offer potential investors with our skilled work force and world class education system, " he added.
This deal, struck by JP Morgan, allows a cash-strapped county to upgrade to a world-class sewage system it could otherwise never afford.
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