The narrator offers a different model of social ascent: assimilation.
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In the Roma house, two cast-iron outside stairways lead upwards, but offer no social ascent.
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As elsewhere, many people in Brazil consider beauty essential, not only to secure a partner, but also for career development and even social ascent.
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There is a sense that others, thanks to affirmative action or lax immigration policies, have nudged ahead of them on the ladder of social ascent.
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"Strapless," inspired by Deborah Davis's book of the same name, recounts the social ascent of the glamorous New Orleans-born Amélie Gautreau in Belle Époque Paris, and her fall from grace when "Madame X," John Singer Sargent's revealing painting of her with a strap falling down a bare arm, is shown at the 1884 Paris Salon.
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Those dances are performed during the civil celebrations or events as birth, death, wedding or a social ascent and sometimes during religious festivals.
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In Flatland Abbott describes a society rigidly divided into classes. Social ascent is the main aspiration of its inhabitants, apparently granted to everyone but strictly controlled by the top of the hierarchy. Freedom is despised and the laws are cruel. Innovators are imprisoned or suppressed.
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Very few sons of poor families sought admission to the 'grandes écoles.' The elite maintained their position while allowing social ascent the professions for ambitious sons of wealthy farmers and small-town merchants.Patrick J. Harrigan, "Secondary education and the professions in France during the Second Empire." Comparative Studies in Society and History 17.3 (1975): 349-371.
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Commemorative statue of Boutros el-Khoury in Karm Sadde. Khoury died in 1984 in Beirut at the age of 77. Caricature by Pierre Sadek published in An-Nahar. Khoury has since become established in Lebanese collective memory as the quintessential self-made man, due to his rural origins and his impressive social ascent during his work in Tripoli, Lebanon and Beirut.
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Her mother, Áurea García, owned a haberdashery and firmly believed in learning as the only way to social ascent. Noemí was born in Buenos Aires, some blocks away from the Argentine National Congress, and spent most of her childhood in the neighborhood. She went to Normal School Nr. 9, “Domingo Faustino Sarmiento”, where she became a normal teacher. At the time, she wanted to be a doctor.
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Abraham Peyrenc de Moras (1684 – 20 November 1732) was a French banker. Though descended from commoners and often described as the son of a barber, his family began its ascent in the 17th century since his grandfather was a hat merchant and his father a licensed surgeon, tax collector and a bourgeois of the city. Abraham surpassed them and experienced a meteoric social ascent in 18th century Paris, cemented by his being made noble in 1720.
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During the second invasion the third of Viscaínos participated in the Combat of Miserere. His social ascent was after taking place the Declaration of Independence. In 1816 he was appointed to integrate a regiment of urban militias created by order of the Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. He also served as Alcalde in the neighborhood of Monserrat and San Nicolás, populated largely by traders of British and American origin.
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Wallachian Paharnici were especially important during the 16th and 17th centuries, when they included figures such as Lupu Mehedințeanu, Șerban of Coiani, and Matei Basarab. They and other Paharnici established means of boyar protection against the social ascent of immigrant Greeks. Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu, himself a former Paharnic, gave a privileged position to the Păhărnicei, but put to death their controversial Paharnic, Staico Bucșanu. Before 1700, figures associated with the Moldavian office included close relatives of the monarchs, such as Alexandru Coci and Ștefan Lupașcu Hâjdău.
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Magazine for Literature and Art", Vienna May 1981 His early works were influenced by his Viennese past: changing schools, speechlessness and isolation, simultaneously the material and social ascent of his family. They revolved around issues of aesthetics and identity, the relationship between individuum and collective, and communication mirrored by consumption.Horst Christoph, "Feuerfahnen in der Dämmerung" in: Profil No. 3, Vienna January 19, 1981 "Oroschakoff reveals our anxiety and fear (...), our refusal of self-awareness, our insecurity about our place of work as well as about our precise localization. (...) Oroschakoff visualizes what sociologists and historians are just beginning to explore: Siberia or the loneliness within us all.
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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (The Would-be Gentleman, 1670) by Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), is a comedy-ballet that satirises Monsieur Jourdain, the prototypical nouveau riche man who buys his way up the social-class scale, to realise his aspirations of becoming a gentleman, to which end he studies dancing, fencing, and philosophy, the trappings and accomplishments of a gentleman, to be able to pose as a man of noble birth, someone who, in 17th-century France, was a man to the manner born; Jourdain's self-transformation also requires managing the private life of his daughter, so that her marriage can also assist his social ascent.
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The younger Oei sealed his family's social ascent with a hallowed appointment in 1886 to the government position of Luitenant der Chinezen. This high-ranking post of the Chinese officership gave Oei not only the deference of the Chinese community, but also significant legal and political jurisdiction over them under the Dutch colonial system of indirect rule. By the mid-1880s, the elder Oei seems to have given his eldest son a prominent role in Kian Gwan and the family's other business interests. The collapse in sugar prices in the mid-1880s ruined many established Cabang Atas families, thereby jeopardizing their domination of Java's revenue farms, in particular the lucrative opium farms.
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So the Mastai- Ferretti family rose in the province.Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, Storia arcana del pontificato di Leone XII, Gregorio XVI e Pio IX, Milano, Francesco Colombo, 1861, pp. 138-139. The social ascent had not stopped, since the peak of fame came for the Mastai-Ferretti thanks to the cadet branch that distinguished itself in the ecclesiastical sphere. Even in this sector, many Mastai had already obtained titles and awards, much so that the fourth Giovanni Maria could count 3 uncles "Monsignors", including the bishop of Pesaro. Appointed priest in 1819, in 1827 he became archbishop of Spoleto, to which he added, after 5 years, the title of bishop of Imola and in 1840 the purple cardinal.
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For now, they were tolerated till the start of the Inquisition in Portugal decades later. Without the disadvantage of being considered Jewish, they were able to rise in the social hierarchy, even to the higher ranks of the court. Again the elite descendants of the ancient families of the old aristocracy of Asturias and Galicia created barriers to the social ascent of Jews, who were often better- educated and more proficient than their antagonists. The anti-semitic movement among the Old Christians infected the common people, and in 1506, spurred by the perceived blasphemy of some injudicious remarks uttered by a converso over the occurrence of a supposed miraculous event at the Church of São Domingos, and then further inflamed by the invective of three Dominican friars, culminated in a massacre of New Christians, in which between 3,000 and 4,000 people were killed.Soyer 2007, p.
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