poverty paralleled many of the experiences that Ehrenreich faced in her endeavor to make ends meet as a minimum-wage worker. Most of the connections I made between Seccombe’s research and Ehrenreich’s experiences fell under the pathway of “Housing Problems‚” in which there were several similarities between the two. Seccombe (2006) writes that “the United States currently faces a severely limited supply of affordable housing units” (p. 73). Ehrenreich‚ in her attempt to find somewhat affordable housing
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and logos. Serving in Florida is an essay written by Barbara Ehrenreich that is a first-hand experience by the author in the world of working minimum age jobs. The author tried to balance two low paying jobs in order to make ends meet. This paper will discuss how Ehrenreich mainly uses pathos‚ or the emotional appeal‚ in her essay to persuade young adults to go to college and strive for high paying jobs. Author Barbara Ehrenreich uses ethos‚ the ethical appeal as the secondary rhetorical appeal
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Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich used her book Nickel and Dimed to illustrate her job assignment to live in the shoes of and‚ write about her experiences as a minimum wage worker in America. Ehrenreich goes to live in Key West‚ Maine‚ and Minnesota and works low wage jobs‚ sometimes more than one at a time. The point Ehrenreich is trying to make is that it is almost impossible to live a decent life in America with one‚ let alone two jobs paying very low wages. It is tough to be a low wage
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magnificent environment (Ehrenreich‚ 2001‚ p. 121). She had a rental car and stayed at a friend’s house for free with one stipulation to babysit a Pet Bird. She was not too thrilled about the bird flying around landing on her head‚ but this was the arrangement (Ehrenreich‚ 2001‚ p. 122). Barbara described the apartment as 1970 style‚ but she was happy to have a temporary place to live‚ compared to living conditions she had experienced in Florida and Portland (Ehrenreich‚ 2001‚ p. 123). Barbara scanned
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Every job Ehrenreich had was unskilled‚ but it required for the workers to learn more through their jobs. She had to learn how to manage the tools she was working with while concentrating on her work. The three moments of glory for her were at The Maids where she finished cleaning to help out others. The other two was when she realized she could earn more at Wal Mart by keeping quiet and when she fed the Alzheimer’s ward and still had time to clean. Ehrenreich is proud of her physical ability because
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poverty. First Body: What: Allusion Pg. 2‚ Logos Pg. 37. How & Effect: Ehrenreich uses these personal‚ rhetorical strategies based on her experiences as a low-wage worker in the poor working class. The effect is that Ehrenreich is able to show the readers the conditions in which the impoverished work in and the daily obstacles that they face in life; also there is an appeal to logic and a reference of a poverty idiom. Why: Ehrenreich is deliberately using these rhetorical strategies to incite the readers
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psychological trauma‚ embarrassment‚ and emotional discomfort” from both patient and their parents (Ehrenreich‚ 2005‚ p.13). On the other hands‚ anti-FGC activists‚ and Western feminism has attacked the “African genital cutting as primitive‚ irrational‚ harmful‚ and deserving of condemnation.” This type of practice is equally problematic to intersex surgery which occurs in own country (Ehrenreich‚ 2005‚ p.13). Regarding to both cases‚ the articles suggested that performing intersex surgery procedures
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Name of Book: Nickel and Dimed Author: Barbara Ehrenreich Plot Summary: The author‚ Barbara Ehrenreich‚ works for the prestigious New Yorker magazine. One day over lunch with a famous editor discussing possible stories to write‚ she comments that the minimum wage is too low. She thinks someone used to more money should try to live on this pittance. The editor‚ Lewis Lapham‚ assigns her the story. This is not good news for Ehrenreich. Having spent her childhood with middle class struggling
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"Serving in Florida" by Barbara Ehrenreich‚ is an effective essay derived from Ehrenreich’s book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. This essay is a personal reflection of Ehrenreich’s experiences working "under- cover" in low paying‚ blue collar jobs in Florida. This essay is a descriptive narrative that shows how hard it is for low paid‚ working class Americans‚ to make it in the world. Ehrenreich vividly describes her experiences and sends a message to the reader that many working
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have thousands in their banks either. Being wealthy comes with a different mind-set than someone who is poor. In Lemieux article he expresses how the upper-class treated him as if he were less than a human his first time begging for money‚ whereas Eighner expresses in his article how the upper-class tend to be very beneficial for dumpster divers and
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