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    Nickel and Dime

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    Nickel and Dimed is about a woman‚ Barbara Ehrenreich‚ working at a number of low-income jobs and writing about the experience. Barbara moves to three different cities in the United States to experience poverty and working conditions in those cities. Barbara spends about a month in each different city‚ where she works as a waitress‚ maid‚ and sales assistant‚ and reports on her experiences. She concludes by pointing out how difficult it is for low-income employees to get by and advocates policies

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    for cash assistance. In the expo‚ Nickel and Dime‚ Barbara Ehrenreich questioned the “uplifting benefits” of unskilled adults working in a low-wage economy. Ehrenreich’s undercover journalism was her scientific methodology of choice to capture firsthand the experience of poverty in order to prove her theory that it is mathematically impossible for welfare recipients to survive in the low-wage workforce. While following Barbara Ehrenreich journey in “Nickel and Dimed” I realized how certain

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    Ehrenreich’s book explains and describes the condition of the working poor in the United States. To write this book the author who is a well-known journalist at the New York Times decides to experience being a low-wage worker for a few months. She gives up her middle class life to become and live as a working poor. This was not to be a social experiment that was to recreate a poverty social scenario‚ but it was ‚ in fact‚ to see if she could maintain a lifestyle working low wage paying

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    Nickel and Dime Section 2

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    Nickel and Dimed -- Section 2 Reading Quiz J. Kinder 1) Explain what confuses Ehrenreich about the “law of supply and demand” in Portland. 2) Explain some of the physical difficulties of being a dietary aide at the nursing home. 3) Explain some of the behavior rules that the management of “The Maids” has for the employees. What do you think they are intended to accomplish? 4) Explain how Ehrenreich felt The Maids’ cleaning methods were lacking. 5) Choose one co-worker

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    Kaitlin Yates 14 August 2010 Contemporary Social Problems A sociological evaluation of Nickel and Dimed. “To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor‚ a nameless benefactor‚ to everyone else”.(221) Barbara Ehrenreich in her book Nickel and Dimed explored life as a low wage earner by working several “unskilled” jobs in different areas of the country and attempted to live off the wages she earned. I will evaluate some assertions she made and make some assertions of my own based

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    Sociological Views

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    Assess the view that the nuclear family is the most ideal for society and its individuals (24 marks) There are a variety of sociological perspectives on whether the nuclear family is the most ideal for society and its individuals. By nuclear family‚ we mean a couple and their children (usually between two and three) who live in the same household. Sociologists can refer to Parson’s functional fit idea‚ Marx’s theory of the family serving capitalism and a range of feminist perspectives on the matter

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    Examine different sociological views on changes in the experience of childhood over the past 50 years. There have been many changes in society that have affected children over the last 50 years‚ however there are several different sociological views on whether these changes have been beneficial to children or not. Functionalist sociologists have the ‘march of progress’ view‚ as they believe that the experience of childhood has massively improved over the last 50 years. They believe that society

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    Sociological Views of Poverty Michelle Williams-Thomas Sociology 101 Professor Yelena Gidenko February 12‚ 2012 At the beginning of the twentieth century‚ the most common reasons people died were accidents or communicable diseases like pneumonia. Today‚ millions die each day from poverty. How can poverty be defined? And what is the difference between absolute and relative poverty? In the paper I will address these issues along with sociological views of poverty. Poverty is a

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    Organized religion is a duality between the religion and the church which represents it. Sometimes the representation of the religion is marred and flawed to those who view it because of the bureaucracy contained within. Unknown to those who gaze upon the dissolved morals and values of what is perceived to be the contradiction known as modern religion‚ it was never intended to be this way. Most religions started off as a sect‚ a minor detail on the fringes of the society it never wanted to represent

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    March of Dimes

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    March of Dimes Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ who was an unfortunate victim to polio‚ created the March of dimes in 1921. Polio started in 1916 and mostly infected children‚ killing thousands and paralyzing many. Though we have beat polio‚ March of Dimes still continues to help research to make babies healthier across America. The story behind the name “March of Dimes” is that had the idea that we should try to cover the White House lawn with dimes for polio research. Many people came from far and wide

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