The Lowest Price is Unethical The worldwide corporation name‚ Wal-Mart‚ is best known for its endless selection of products for sale and their everyday lowest prices in town. Unfortunately these attractive characteristics arise from the act of breaking 18th century philosopher’s ethical theories. Wal-Mart is guilty of using their employees and suppliers as a mere means to an ends for the highest corporate profits possible each quarter. Their practices alienate their employees from their work efforts
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many of these lower-middle class employees were quick to flee into the arms of Adolf Hitler three years later. Kracauer became increasingly critical of capitalism (having read the works of Karl Marx) and eventually broke away from Frankfurt newspaper. About this same time (1930)‚ he married Lili Ehrenreich. In 1933‚ Kracauer emigrated to Paris‚ for political reasons. However‚ Nazism continued to spread and so he‚ in 1941‚ emigrated to the USA. From 1941 to 1943 he worked in the Museum of Modern
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Analysis of Ehrenreich and Fuentes Ehrenreich and Fuentes "Life on the Global Assembly Line"‚ World Views‚ Third Edition‚ is ineffective because the witness testimony cannot be validated‚ the use of illustrations is illogical‚ their examples are based on unfounded information and their statistical data is often not substantiated by scientific data. Ehrenreich and Fuentes’ article is ineffective because witness testimony cannot be validated. Often Ehrenreich and Fuentes supply titles but no documentation
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provoking novel‚ Nickel and Dimed‚ Barbara Ehrenreich explores the life of low-wage workers in America’s society. While speaking with an editor one day‚ the question of poverty and how American’s survive off six and seven dollars an hour played in Ms. Ehrenreich’s mind. So as a journalist‚ Ehrenreich goes undercover working several minimum wage jobs and tries to survive off the earnings. Seeing and living the lives of these poverty-stricken workers‚ Ehrenreich learns that hard work doesn’t always lead
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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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