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    Senior English 7 March 2013 Nickel and Dimed Essay After reading the story Nickel and Dimed it changed my view about minimum wage and how it really affects so many people in our society. When people talk about living on minimum wage and how difficult it is you don’t realize how hard it is until you experience it yourself or know someone who has. I do believe it is important to have a job‚ but if you’re basically paying to go to work because the wages are so low and you receive no benefits‚

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    Angie Navarro Castillo Composition I Karla Whitehurst Another Day‚ Another Nickel As I’m driving on Interstate 30 going to work at the restaurant Country Fare‚ I stare at the beautiful mixture of colors displayed in the sky. Pink‚ orange‚ yellow and blue mixed all together in a breathtaking sunset in Arkansas. I get off exit 44. The time is getting closer and I pull over on the parking lot and I see the big sign that says TA. The time has arrived and now I have to work. It may not be the most

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    Elements / Characters Crisostomo Ibarra - Also known as Juan Crisostomo Ibarra y Magsilan‚ a Filipino who studied in Europe for 7 years. The love interest of Maria Clara. Son of Don Rafael Ibarra. Elias - Ibarra’s mysterious friend and a fugitive. Kapitan Tiyago - Also known as Don Santiago de los Santos the known father of Maria Clara. Padre Damaso - Also known as Damaso Verdolagas‚ a Franciscan Friar and Maria Clara’s biological father. Padre Salvi - Also known as Bernardo Salvi. Maria Clara’s

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    to place herself in the position of her subjects‚ Ehrenreich strived to see if she were able to survive on the minimal income provided by a series of low level and low paying jobs. In was her foreknowledge of laws and the inclusion of these laws in Nickel and Dimed that brought about exposing historical and present-day 21st century contradictory practices‚ laws‚ and regulations that exploit the poor working class (if not through her experiment but by the subjects’ honest experience). In addition to

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    Analysis on “Serving in Florida” In the essay‚ “Serving in Florida‚” by Barbara Ehrenreich‚ the author shares her experiences of how it is for an unskilled person to live on minimum wage in Florida. She wanted to see if she could maintain a lifestyle working low wage paying jobs the way millions of women were. By the authors use of ethos‚ pathos and logos‚ one can feel and understand the stress that many of these Americans have. There are three types of persuasion; ethos: the credibility that

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    Nickel and Dimed -- Section 2 Reading Quiz J. Kinder 1) Explain what confuses Ehrenreich about the “law of supply and demand” in Portland. 2) Explain some of the physical difficulties of being a dietary aide at the nursing home. 3) Explain some of the behavior rules that the management of “The Maids” has for the employees. What do you think they are intended to accomplish? 4) Explain how Ehrenreich felt The Maids’ cleaning methods were lacking. 5) Choose one co-worker

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    Jack Nguyen Mrs. Wright AP English 3 30 July‚ 2015 Nickel and Dimed Rhetorical Strategies and Notes Thesis: Ehrenreich’s personal use of varied rhetorical strategies allowed her to divulge the working conditions and struggles of the poverty-stricken class to the readers in order to provoke them to realize that something has to be done about 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

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    Nickel and Dimed Book Report

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    26 April 2010 Nickel and Dimed – Book Report America encourages the value of self-reliance to achieving one’s goals and dreams. There is a common belief that poverty can be defeated with hard work and that the poor are simply too lazy to earn a better living. The idea of self-sufficiency is the cause of controversy for welfare programs. Poor single mothers were looked down upon for having the option to be unemployed and living solely off welfare. When President Clinton’s 1996 Welfare Reform was

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    In Nickel and Dimed‚ Barbara Ehreneich states the tolls on low-wage workers but not how poverty correlates to their mental illnesses. An increase in money provided to low-income workers can help their health and state of mind. Mental illnesses prevent parents from raising their children well and could result to having a child with mental health problems‚ learning disabilities‚ and behavioral deficiency. It is because low-income families that are in poverty are stressed from only making minimum wage

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    relationship between elements and complexes. In doing so‚ he explains a recent dream of his‚ which‚ in turn‚ is actually an explanation of Dream Theory. Dream Theory states that “the primary elements‚ of which we and everything else are composed‚ have no account. Each of them itself‚ by itself‚ can only be named” (126). In other words‚ as elements cannot be broken down further‚ elements cannot have an account because that would require the determining of whether or not the said elements exist. The addition

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