Barbara Ehrenreich is a journalist who posed as an unskilled worker in 1998 to highlight the struggles encountered every day by Americans attempting to live on minimum wage. Ms Ehrenreich had always been interested in poverty. As the result of the new law‚ people would be expected to leave welfare and get jobs‚ sounds good. Unfortunately‚ the jobs they were able to get really didn’t pay enough to live on. Serving in Florida is about her experience as waitress trying to make ends meet just like millions
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low-income jobs for different reasons. Ehrenreich believes minimum wage work is challenging in all aspects of the employment. She has the option to remove herself from this lifestyle but continues to stay in order to gain experience for her book "Nickel and Dimed". Crawford on the other hand finds a deeper appreciation for the working class‚ and even though he has an option to pursue a higher education career with his college degree he chooses to work as a mechanic for the love he has for the work
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“Activity Matters: Understanding Student Interest in School Science”‚ was written by Su Swarat‚ Andrew Ortony‚ and William Revelle‚ published on 9 February 2012 in Wiley Online Library. The article briefly discusses about students interest in science and developed a research design involving three components to evaluate their influence on student interest. Though certain references are relevant‚ the authors failed to present a relevant research gap and meaningful literature review. Under “Sources
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Ehrenreich’s personal experience into the world of the living poor introduces a rarely seen world. Her insight into the living poor provides invaluable information that a large majority of the United States has rarely seen or experienced. Her methods‚ which can be considered courageous in comparison to what most people would attempt‚ could easily be improved. Her experience into the world of the living poor introduces an entirely unseen world in the American economy. As a consumer‚ we witness many
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"Minimum Wage" The episode of 30 Days about trying to live on minimum wage opened the eyes of it’s viewers. It placed star Morgan Spurlock and fiancee Alex in the lives of the "working poor" of the United States for one month. Spurlock’s fiancee walked to work daily rather than spend the money on riding the bus. Both Morgan and Alex were in need of healthcare during this time period just to find over-crowded free clinics‚ afraid to go to a real hospital because of the cost. Alex’s 30th birthday
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Reading Barbara Ehrenreich interview was very interesting and made me actually think about how others feel or how others are living‚ who appears to be joyful and look like their living good. I agree with just about everything Ehrenreich said. As far as well established businesses that make a plethora amount of money but only pay their employees minimum wage. I personally can’t relate to her interview‚ unfortunately i know a few people who can. Growing up i had a really close friend who parents were
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During her experience at living like a low income class‚ Barbara Ehrenreich faced situations that was challenging both physical and psychologically‚ she worked in differently and varied jobs‚ from a waitress‚ a nurse‚ a Wall-Mart sale‚ a maid at a hotel and even a housekeeper. In all her jobs she found herself unexperienced and challenged‚ even with her background and her knowledge. Among her jobs and the people she met‚ she was presented in Maine to her boss Ted at The Maids‚ where she worked as
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it is important for engineers to be able to calculate what load on structural element will cause buckling. In this experiment‚ we will observe the failure mode of buckling‚ by loading five slender aluminium elements in compression. Procedure In this experiment‚ we used a Digital Force Display (DFD)‚ to observe the failure mode of buckling‚ of five slender aluminium elements. We used de DFD to put load on the elements in compression‚ starting with the longest one‚ and kept putting on load until there
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