January 2012 Blue Collar Brilliance‚ by Mike Rose‚ describes the cognitive misconceptions we have toward people who hold jobs that require little or no educational background. Mike‚ a professor at UCLA reflects on his life experiences. In 2009‚ Blue Collar Brilliance appeared in the American Scholar‚ a publication by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In addition to this article‚ Mike has authored many books that focus on literacy. Mike developed an interest in psychology early in life. Mike attended college
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consider blue-collar workers unintelligent and uneducated. Blue-collar workers are seen in this perspective because of their hands on jobs in which many individuals assume that intelligence is not required. “Our cultural iconography promotes the muscled arm‚ sleeve rolled right against biceps‚ but no brightness behind the eye‚ no image that links hand and brain.” (Rose 98) In Mike Rose’s text‚ he explains how being a blue-collar worker does not mean an individual is unintelligent. Rose shows how
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These issues are viewed more sharpen via two writers’ point of views Mike Rose and Caroline Bird. Based on their essays‚ Rose with “Blue-Collar Brilliance” and Bird with “College is a Waste of Time and Money”‚ both suggest college is not the only way to succeed and that society mistakenly overvalues a college education. It is time to rethink the idea about college. By showing that knowledge can be acquired outside the classroom‚ Rose repudiates that people who spend more time in school‚ are not more
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Respond to Rose’s ideas on blue-collar work. I read the article‚ “Blue-Collar Brilliance”‚ by Mike Rose‚ last night before going to sleep‚ and woke up thinking about it‚ which is why I chose this article out of all of the ones we have read so far. The author states how his mother “shaped her adult identity as a waitress in coffee shops and family restaurants” (Rose 202). This quote is what hit me the most because it shows how some people don’t have the opportunity to get a formal education‚ and
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As the rise of enrollment into university by the general population in the United States increases‚ there is still a need for blue-collar work. The stigma today that follows blue-collar work is a major prejudice held by intellectuals within the educational system. Intelligence is often only accredited to those who attend university and receive a degree‚ but this is not the case. There are different types of intelligence such as career oriented or technical intelligence and academic intelligence.
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Research/Topics/1 Introduction/Introduction_Blue C... AUTHOR: MIKE ROSE TITLE: Blue-Collar Brilliance SOURCE: The American Scholar 78 no3 43-9 Summ 2009 COPYRIGHT: The magazine publisher is the copyright holder of this article and it is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction of this article in violation of the copyright is prohibited. To contact the publisher: http://www.pbk.org/pubs.htm My mother‚ Rose Meraglio Rose (Rosie)‚ shaped her adult identity as a waitress in coffee shops
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In America most people generally think that blue collar workers are less intelligent than white collar or professional workers. Sadly this commonly held belief is just as prevalent today as it has ever been. In spite of the fact that there is evidence to the contrary this assumption still causes people to be stereotyped and treated differently. Mike Rose‚ in his article “Blue-Collar Brilliance”‚ reprinted in “They Say‚ I Say”‚ provides both personal examples and results of clinical tests that
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In writing this parable‚ Wallace intended to remark on young people losing touch with the world around them. The older fish and the young fish are obviously representative of older and younger generations of people‚ respectively. Water surrounds fish and is quite necessary for them to survive -- basically‚ it is their life -- and the younger fish’s ignorance about this essential thing serves to represent the author’s view that younger people have grown removed from their surroundings and from essential
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Blue Collar Brilliance David R Miller Comp 1 Essay 1 In my observation mentally with Mr. Roses essay on blue collar brilliance‚ Mr Rose tries to tell the reader on the different levelsof work there is for high educated people opposed to the non educated. Furthermore he tries express through his family experiences in the work environment how a person with a manual labor is not so different than a person with a high level of education‚ they are equal in job to job views but not in society.
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the essay “Blue-Collar Brilliance” written by Mike Rose‚ he begins to talk about how Blue-Collar workers are smarter than what society put them out to be. Rose talks about his mother and how she has to member a lot of martial during the work period. Rose also talks about his uncle that started as a regular worker and worked his way up to supervising the paint-and-body line. This is where Rose came to see that Blue-Collar workers are smart they aren’t just given the credit. I agree with rose I Think
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