Victoria Conrardy Mrs. Lord A.P. English 11 February 21‚ 2013 AP Book Project Part One Introduction 1. Title-Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is significant because Ehrenreich does explain how many do “survive” off of minimum wage which really is not much. 2. Author-Barbara Ehrenreich is seventy-one years of age and is a widely-read and award-winning columnist and essayist‚ and author of 21 books which include: Blood Rites; The Worst Years of Our Lives; and Fear of
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Life Struggle on Minimum Wage Sometimes life isn’t always as easy as getting a job‚ making money and paying you bills. In her fascinating book on extended essays Nickel and Dimed‚ Barbara Ehrenreich poses as an unskilled worker to show the struggles encountered everyday by Americans attempting to live on minimum wage‚ "matching income to expenses as the truly poor attempting to do everyday." (6) Ehrenreich gave herself three rules she had to live by and they were: 1. She could not use her education
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for keeping secrets. Fourteen months after Kitty arrived‚ my brother Nicholas was born. His nickname is Nickels because he always has coins jingling in his pants pocket. His brown hair had a slight wave to it‚ and he grew up to be six foot two inches tall. He loved roaming the hills around our house and took our hound dogs with him everywhere. Thirteen months after Nickels was born‚ my sister Ivareen arrived. We call her Ivy. She has a petite build
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Poor to make the News”‚ she investigates a phenomenon that has been swept away by the waves of media headlines about “middle class cutbacks” and “the super-rich giving up private jets”. (pg 322) She talks to people she met while writing her book “Nickel and Dimed” and uncovers stories of people whose ends could not be met before the recession‚ and are even less likely to be met now with increasing layoffs‚ foreclosed homes‚ and unavailable loans. She describes the problem well‚ and provides several
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Selling your life by the hour “What 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
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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
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What Makes a Community Prosper The word community is derived from the Latin prefix communitatus which is comprised of three elements Com meaning togetherness‚ Munis meaning exchange‚ and Tatus meaning intimate. Individuals --who are interdependent of each other-- may provide each other with sustenance‚ monetary aid‚ physical aid‚ guidance and other forms of facilitation that benefit their fellow community member. In a prosperous community‚ the only way for all members to achieve prosperity is if
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can lose their job at any given moment. It’s almost as if they are expecting the worst even though they work their hardest. One other obstacle that the working poor face is that they are unable to find affordable housing. In the novel entitled‚ “Nickel and Dimed” the author‚ Barbara Ehrenreich‚ provides different housing situations that her co-workers were going through. After talking amongst themselves‚ Ehrenreich gathers that “Gail is sharing a room in a well-known downtown flophouse for
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