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The most current data that I could find regarding that question was a 2013 survey.  The findings were published in the Journal of Sociology and the results were presented at a conference of the British Sociological Association.  The total number of people surveyed was over 160,000 people, which gives a very large sample pool.  The survey identified a total of seven different social classes within United Kingdom society.  Unfortunately, the percentage of people that were identified as elite upper class does not match any of the percentages that are listed in the question.  The percentage that I was able to find, at least in 2013, was that 6% of the population is classified as elite.  I will attach the full article, so that you may look over the data tables yourself.  

In the first paragraph, we are offered the point-of-view of a seemingly omniscient but, in fact, limited omniscient narrator. If point-of-view can be visualized as the perspective of someone holding a movie camera and shooting a scene, this shows a shot of two men walking through the countryside as if the camera were behind them, seeing what they see as they walk: the windmills of a village, meadows, willows, telegraph poles, a train in the distance. It appears omniscient because we get what seem to be the thoughts of the characters, which, if this were a movie, we might imagine as a voice-over: they are both tired of walking and at the same time find the countryside grand and beautiful. They are not differentiated at this point: they have the same thoughts and reactions, which might lead us to believe that, after all, the narrator is limited omniscient, and does not know everything: is he summarizing the conversation he is overhearing? Is he guessing at what they are thinking? This s...

A soliloquy is a long speech in which a character expresses his or her thoughts out loud while alone on stage. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , there are three important soliloquies, including Friar Lawrence's discussion of the nature of plants and herbs in Act II, Scene 3 and Romeo's final statement of his love for Juliet inside Capulet's tomb in Act V, Scene 3. The best soliloquy of the tragedy, however, is probably Juliet's expression of her fears about taking the friar's potion in Act IV, Scene 3. Shakespeare's soliloquies often portray a character who is poised on the edge of action and is deliberating the pros and cons of that action. At first, Juliet debates whether she should call the Nurse in for comfort. Rejecting that idea, she becomes fearful that the potion will not work and that she will have to marry Count Paris, but she is carrying a dagger which she claims she would use on herself rather than be married a second time. Next, she fears the ...

In Act II, Scene 4, we hear the conversation between Ross and an Old Man. This scene takes place in the morning after King Duncan's murder. The two men are talking about some unusual and dangerous occurrences in nature. Ross is surprised that, although the morning has arrived, it is still very dark outside: By the clock, 'tis day, And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp: Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame. The Old Man then notes that a mighty falcon was killed by an owl, which is abnormal. Ross mentions Duncan's exquisite horses turned wild and ate one another, which is symbolic of Scotland's aristocracy turning against each other. And Duncan's horses—a thing most strange and certain— Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race, Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, Contending 'gainst obedience. . .  'Tis said they eat each other. All these bizarre occurrences seem to suggest the natural order of things,...

The Day of the Triffids abounds with many themes: catastrophe, natural selection and evolution, the human need for survival, the threat of invasion and human extinction, the collapse of moral values in a dystopian society, the importance of hope, etc. However, I would like to focus on the two of the most important themes: the survival and reestablishment of the human race and the importance of science. This novel presents us with a dystopian world, in which we are faced with a pessimistic view of humanity. When our protagonist, Bill Masen, awaits the doctors to take off the bandages which covered his eyes, he soon realizes that the world has gone blind as a result of an unexpected green meteor shower which people enjoyed looking at the day before. All of a sudden, the world is thrown into chaos; humans are no longer the most powerful species on the planet because their ability to see has been taken away from them. They cannot cope without being able to see, unlike a triffid, a type of ...

Distances in space can be represented in two ways: Kilometers (km) or Astronomical Units (AU). An astronomical unit is the distance between Earth and the Sun and is usually used to measure distances within our solar system. It must be noted that the distance varies for each planet because of its orbit around the Sun. Orbits are not circular; rather, they form an ellipse or oval. Before modern technology, astronomers measured the parallax of an object to determine its distance away from another point. We now have the technology to measure distance more directly by using spacecraft and radio signals. I included Pluto in the table, but it is no longer considered a planet in our solar system. At certain points in its orbit, Pluto is actually closer to the Sun than Neptune. Planet Distance  (from Sun) Mercury 57,910,000 km 0.387 A.U. Venus 108,200,000 km 0.723 A.U. Earth 149,600,000 km 1.000 A.U. Mars 227,940,000 km 1.524 A.U. Jupiter 778,330,000 km 5.203 A.U. Saturn 1,424,600,000 km 9.523 ...

In Night by Elie Wiesel, the Jewish people of the town Sighet in Transylvania were forced to leave the ghetto they had been forced into earlier when the Nazis took over the town. They left on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, as the sun was coming up. The people gathered in the streets, ready to go. The local Jewish Council had made a deal with the Hungarian police that the Jews would organize their own departure.  The townspeople went to their main synagogue, the Jewish place of worship, which had been vandalized and desecrated by the Nazis. They stayed there all day and night, crowded together. "There were so many of us that we could scarcely breathe. We spent a horrible twenty-four hours there. There were men downstairs; women on the first floor. It was Saturday; it was as though we had come to attend the service. Since no one could go out, people were relieving themselves in a corner" (Wiesel 20). The next morning the Jewish people of Sighet walked to the train station. They...

After the creature observes the family's sadness, wondering at the cause of it, he discovers that their emotional hardship is, in part, directly related to their financial hardship.  They live in poverty, though it does not seem so to him because they have each other's company, having only the vegetables from their garden and the milk produced by their one cow.  At this point, he stops taking food from their stores for his own subsistence and begins to feed himself with nuts and berries from the woods.  Further, he realizes that Felix spends a large part of his day collecting firewood for the family, and the creature begins to borrow Felix's tools to prepare wood for them, often enough to last them for several days at a time.  He then happily observes that Felix is able to use his time to do other jobs that need done: repairing the cottage, working in the garden, and so on.

In Chapter 11, Mrs. Dubose is portrayed as an unapologetic racist who verbally insults the Finch family as Jem and Scout walk past her yard. Jem loses his temper after hearing Mrs. Dubose's hateful comments and ruins her camellia bushes on his way home from the store. Atticus punishes Jem by making him read to Mrs. Dubose every day, except on Sundays, for two hours. After Jem's punishment is over, Mrs. Dubose passes away, and Atticus explains to the children that Mrs. Dubose suffered from a chronic illness. He also tells them that she was addicted to morphine, and her final wish was to break her addiction before she died. Atticus mentions that Mrs. Dubose died free and says, " She still disapproved heartily of my doings, and said I'd probably spend the rest of my life bailing you out of jail. She had Jessie fix you this box— " (Lee 148). When Jem opens the box, he finds a white, waxy, perfect camellia inside. Atticus then says, " I think that was her way of t...