“Serving in Florida‚” by Barbara Ehrenreich‚ the author shares her experiences of how it is for an unskilled person to live on minimum wage in Florida. She wanted to see if she could maintain a lifestyle working low wage paying jobs the way millions of women were. By the authors use of ethos‚ pathos and logos‚ one can feel and understand the stress that many of these Americans have. There are three types of persuasion; ethos: the credibility that the author establishes‚ pathos: the persuasion of audiences
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and persuading an audience; these techniques can be seen in Barbara Ehrenreich’s novel Nickel and Dimed. To start‚ Lepore presents two different paths an author can choose when writing as she claims‚ “Some people make arguments by telling stories; other people make arguments by counting things” (Lepore 9). Telling a story allows an author to convey his ideas through complex plots and characters; furthermore‚ he or she can induce pathos to appeal to emotion. A narrative is a subtle piece of work
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America | March 29 2009 A riveting tale about the world of low class workers‚ Ehrenreich puts into words what most are don’t acknowledge or are afraid to acknowledge. Through first-hand experience‚ Ehrenreich successfully navigates her way through the low wage work by working such common low wage jobs as waitressing‚ housecleaning‚ and sales. While along the way discovering that each job encompasses their own organizational structure‚ culture‚ and
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you don’t necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you’re really selling is your life‚”as Barbara Ehrenreich once said. In Nickel and Dimed: On Getting By in America‚ Barbara Ehrenreich sets out to work on a project‚ as well as investigate on the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States. Ehrenreich appeals to the readers with the true reality and struggles with money that society has taken a part of. Summing up‚ and showing
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Patricia Goldsby ENC1102 June 19‚ 2009 Professor Jenson Poverty in America Authors Lars Eighner and Barbara Ehrenreich discuss in their struggles of everyday issues with poverty in America. Barbara Ehrenreich‚ author of “Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America‚ raises awareness of the lives of low-wage‚ poverty stricken people being pushed into the labor market of welfare reform by highlighting the struggles they encounter daily. Whereas Lars Eighner‚ author of “On Dumpster Diving”
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John Doe Mr. Teacher Nickel and Dimed Summary Barbara Ehrenreich‚ author of Nickel and Dimed‚ is an award winning columnist and author of twenty-one books. Although she has her doctorate in science‚ she is well known as a journalist and muckraker. She has been featured in The New York Times‚ The Washington Post‚ and many other publications. Ehrenreich pondered how unskilled‚ uneducated‚ and untrained workers can survive and thrive in the American workforce with minimum wage incomes. She was
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After reading about the travels Barbara Ehrenreich took in the book Nickel and Dimed as an attempt to “discover some hidden economies in the world of the low-wage worker” to Florida‚ Maine‚ and Minnesota‚ I have been able to deepen my understanding of the harsh reality people face while working in low income jobs. (Barbara Ehrenreich‚ Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America‚ p. 3) She undertook several different types of low wage jobs such as a waitress‚ hotel housekeep‚ nursing home cook
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Society questions if the American Dream is available to everyone. The ideal American Dream is for every American citizen to have an equal opportunity for wealth and prosperity. Settlers have come to America looking for gold and land‚ so they labor to gain their fortunes. America also industrializes and grows due to the workers labor for wealth and land. More jobs are formed through industrialization for people to gain their American Dreams. However‚ society still questions if everyone is given an
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Macro theories: Nickel and Dimed‚ On Not Getting by In America” by Barbara Ehrenreich‚ 2001 1) Barbara was responding to 1996 TANF (5 years) reform that modified AFDC (lifetime warranted) SSI benefits for children or adults with disabilities What jobs available to single mothers? Could single parent live on single income and it was an experiment for Barbara to explore it. Welfare queens by Ronald Reigan Law wanted increase marriages‚ Work force 2) 3) Critical conscientious Symbolic
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receives this title of the working class as their social status‚ it is very difficult to come back up on top. This is illustrated in Ehrenreich’s “Serving in Florida.” Once Ehrenreich immersed herself in the flurry of her routine of work‚ sleep‚ and eat‚ she realized that there was little to no room for advancement in society (Ehrenreich‚ p. 290-303). This is because of what one calls subsistent wages‚ meaning that what one is paid is only enough for survival; the individual MUST work so that they may
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