who suffered in poverty and a lowered GDP (Holzer). Despite all the downsides‚ there is a small hint of people benefiting from being in poverty. Being in poverty can help people appreciate the little things in life; this is exactly the message that Barbara Kingsolver relays in her book The Bean Trees. The Bean Trees is a story set in 1970’s Kentucky and Arizona about Taylor‚ a young woman growing up and becoming independent who has been affected by poverty her entire life. As the story unfolds and Taylor’s
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In Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich‚ the author doesn’t discuss the experiences of immigrants or people from different racial backgrounds in detail. Since I come from an Asian background‚ I want to focus on how these experiences‚ particularly for Asian immigrants‚ may differ from Ehrenreich’s. The standard of living‚ racial dynamics‚ and the way people are treated often vary based on skin color and appearance. For immigrants‚ especially those starting life and work in the U.S.‚ these factors
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Cultural Baggage The article “Cultural Baggage” by Barbara Ehrenreich’s was difficult to understand. But‚ in the beginning it talks about a friend asking the writer what her ethnic background was and Ehrenreich says “none”. This puts her to think since the friend mentions that she knows everything about her ancestors. Then she goes on saying that she was Scottish‚English and Irish. She begins to feel some guilt for saying none and for not knowing much about her background which even makes her
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“Crazy Eights‚” published in 1934‚ was written by Barbara Dana and contained 162 pages. This was a fiction story that took place in Maplewood‚ New Jersey. It was about a young girl named Thelma who had a difficult life and was unloved by her family. She ended up making a very bad mistake during her teenage years and struggled to find her true identity. This story shows how to keep strong and have courage during rough times. Thelma Beldwin and her family lived in Maplewood‚ New Jersey. Thelma was
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Barbara Mellix (1999) in "From outside in" explains how a person of different ethnicity is also able to succeed in appropriating his or her own academic discourse through determination and diligence. She reveals her nostalgic as a little girl of two diverse but similar languages. She used to speak ’Black English’ in her yore time as a lingua-Franca and tried to speak in ’Standard English’‚ which was used for articulate Communication with the public that built her more motivated‚ enthusiastic and
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The Bean Trees novel‚ written by Barbara Kingsolver is a novel that talks‚ particularly about the shared burden of Womanhood. The novel begins when a woman gives a female American Indian child to the protagonist of the story‚ Taylor Greer. Equality between women and men has been an issue around the globe for years. In some communities‚ women do have legal rights as many say‚ but many statistics have pointed out that men around the world have better access to education than women. According to women’s
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In her narrative‚ Nickel and Dimed‚ Barbara Ehrenreich explores the world of the low-wage working class. An upper-middle class biology Ph.D. and journalist‚ Ehrenreich temporarily uproots her life in a two year social and economic experiment to join the laborers of America. Her purpose is to get firsthand knowledge and answer the question‚ “How does anyone live on the wages available to the unskilled?” (Ehrenreich 1) Beginning her journey in Key West‚ Florida‚ Ehrenreich finds employment as a waitress
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In Barbara Lazear Ascher’s essay called "On Compassion" is about how she is looking around at people at a bus stop and she starts to point out the flaws in everyone that is there. In the opening sentence she talks about how sloppy this one man is by saying he has "his buttonless shirt‚ with one sleeve missing‚ hangs outside the waist of his baggy trousers." She also says that everyone at the bus stop is just daydreaming and not paying attention on what they are doing. As it goes along the owner
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Characters: Characters play a major role in the novel The Bean Trees‚ however Taylor Greer or formally known as Missy Marietta plays the largest role in the novel. “... she entertained me with her vegetable-soup song‚ except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes...And me. I was the main ingredient‚”(Kingsolver 246). This quote describes Taylor to the point‚ because she is the main ingredient to many people’s lives. However‚ it also shows how Taylor may be somewhat
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Challenging society’s viewpoints about compassion‚ Barbara Lazear Ascher’s essay “On Compassion” calls to attention the act of giving to the homeless‚ and whether these actions are done out of true compassion or simple agitation. The various stories recalled within the essay are set in “The Empire State”‚ New York. As the essay begins‚ the author first writes about a homeless man who approaches a mother waiting a crosswalk with a stroller in hand. The man is distracted as he walks by the sight of
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