Analysis of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America In “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”‚ Barbara Ehrenreich‚ a well-off white woman with a Ph.D. in Biology questions how low-income workers‚ especially females‚ make a living. Due to the welfare reform‚ 4 million women were about to have to enter into the workforce‚ usually for less than minimum wage. Ehrenreich decides to make an experiment out of her ideas. She decided she would travel to three different cities: Key West‚ FL.
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Name Instructor’s name Class February 25th‚ 2013 Families Are Not Dangerous Barbara Ehrenreich in her article titled Are Families Dangerous?‚ tries to argue that the family institution is the root cause of much violence in the world. Ehrenreich brings up many infamous cases of murder and violence‚ ones that the general public knows about due to the seemingly endless media coverage covering these violent acts‚ in essence glorifying the individuals charged and accused of their heinous crimes
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The Destructive Effects of Healthism Healthism places our primary importance in our personal wellbeing. It results in destructive effects on the American society‚ creating a hostile environment by reinforcing victim blaming. Healthism also reinforces longstanding prejudices which promote a false illusion that bases personal worth off of fitness and health. Rather than unify a culture‚ healthism creates division in American society. First‚ healthism fosters destructive tendencies toward society
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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 wage jobs. The author tried to balance two low paying jobs in order to make ends meet. 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 and uses ethos‚ the ethical appeal as the secondary rhetorical appeal in her essay to convince her readers that she is indeed a credible
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paragraphs of the novel‚ Nickel and Dimed‚ Barbara Ehrenreich emphasizes that the middle‚ to upper class is oblivious to the misery of the working class. The lack of disclosure between the working and upper-middle class makes the upper-middle class oblivious to the working class’s hard work effort. In the first paragraph of the passage‚ Ehrenreich conveys a tone of annoyance and sarcasm. When the maids arrive at the home‚ they are unable to get inside. Ehrenreich voices that her itchy pink rash‚ “Must be
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"Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America." by: Barbara Ehrenreich Barbara Ehrenreich’s‚ Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America‚ is a book that strives to change the way America perceives its working poor. Achieving the American Dream can be difficult‚ if not impossible for many people with stumbling blocks and obstacles along the way as portrayed in Nickel and Dimed‚ due to the cost of living in contrast to the wage of low or middle class earners. Nickel
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In the years 1998 to 2000‚ Barbara Ehrenreich writes about her experience working as an undercover writer and showing the difficulties that come with working a minimum wage job in her novel Nickeld and Dimed ; however‚ in today’s society we are given a much more difficult synopsis if one wants to live off of minimum wage. Compared to the piece by Ehrenreich‚ living in the United States in our current economic presence contains much higher costs of living‚ such as food‚ gasoline‚ and reasonable housing
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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 them
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Barbara Ehrenreich takes on an experiment in order to better understand the working class. She leaves her desk job as a highly acclaimed writer and decides to take on the lower paid jobs herself. In this book‚ Ehrenreich cleverly utilizes statistics and her own personal experiences as well as the experiences of others‚ in order to bring to light the harsh reality facing those Americans who are shockingly close to poverty and debt despite their daily hard work. Throughout the book‚ Ehrenreich uses
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Nickel and Dimed 1) According to Ehrenreich‚ people who work jobs that are subsidized almost entirely by tips should be either paid more to begin with or offered more services such as housing and food like European countries do. For example‚ the typical 10% tip is considered borderline excessive at table service restaurants because waiters and waitresses are already paid substantially. Also‚ it is common especially in Mediterranean countries for the 10-15% service charge to already be included in
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