work hard but they should be able to pick what job they. Having a blue-collar job doesn’t mean that they are dumb or have no valuable skills. In his article “Blue-Collar Brilliance” Mike Rose explains that there are two different types of knowledge a person can hold. One is street smarts and the other is book smarts. Rose goes on to explain that street smarts is valuable and even more valuable than book smarts. This is caused by society connecting blue collar workers as not having the same amount of
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article‚ “Blue-Collar Brilliance‚” author Mike Rose highlights and explains the multi-thinking process involved in a blue collar job. In the article‚ Rose gives a detailed description of his mother working as a waitress in several restaurants. He observed his mother‚ Rose Meraglio Rose‚ achieving a great expertise over the years‚ by creating a perfect coordination between her body and brain. Rose also describes that “The restaurant became the place where she (Rose) studied human behavior‚ puzzling over
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Mike Rose presents an issue about student`s block during writing. He starts expressing an example extracted from interviews of undergradutes from UCLA who five of them present this block problem and the other five do not. They have this issue because most of them are in rushed‚ late papers or they do not trust on their own skills because of previous experiences. It is also explained that emotion brings this problem and these emotion are what divide the five students with this block problem and the
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threat to the form and structure of society‚ and the principles and values that underpin any democratic state. And‚ if we are to counter it‚ it needs to be recognised for what it is and then we need to act to end its influence. The purpose of this essay is to understand mediocrity‚ its nature and its consequences. That purpose too holds within it something of a contradiction; for mediocrity is not a coherent principle‚ in the sense that it may be advocated by an individual or practically applied
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classmates and students of all ages. I would like to reach anyone who feels they are “average” and also people who want to be more than average. My audience is of both genders and a variety of ethnic backgrounds. The audience already knows that Mike Rose was a misplaced student who was sent on a dead end track for his education. He was then redefined by being placed in college prep courses and blossomed into a very successful writer. I believe anyone who read the core reading can remember a similar
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frequently expect that manual laborers are less educated‚ therefore making them less smart. Mike Rose was brought up in a group of blue-collars. Both of Rose’s folks scarcely had educations‚ as they were early dropouts. Rose grew up watching his mom tend to tables‚ and learned at an early stage that blue-collar workers possessed an important set of abilities. In the article‚ “Blue-Collar Brilliance‚" author Mike Rose stresses his belief that blue-collar jobs must not be seen as illiterate jobs‚ but rather
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The title " Blue-collar Brilliance" used by author Mike Rose in his writing reveals what he is going to talk about and more precisely the opinion he will have. The author starts his writing in a powerful way by using a relevant anecdote of his mother Rosie‚ waitress in a restaurant. He explains to us how his mother should know not only how to work efficiently but also in an organized way. How she should memorize every single order and to whom each order was. How she should understand and respond
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often worked or tended to children and household chores. Mike Rose‚ author of I Just Wanna Be Average‚ was born in Los Angeles. He worked as a professor at UCLA and advocated for proper school placement after enduring a rather challenging circumstance while attending school (345). Rose outlines several of issues with the educational system‚ that society still sees today. While students today do not directly have the same issues as Mr. Rose‚ they do experience several other harsh aspects throughout
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Average”‚ Mike Rose tells the story of his high school experience and how his Stanford-Binet IQ test score got mixed up with another guy with the same Sir name; he was subsequently placed on a vocational track; which was the lowest class placement you could be assigned. We hear about a few of the classes he took over the four years‚ English‚ PE‚ Spanish‚ and Voc. Ed. Rose tells us about one teacher in particular‚ Mr. MacFarland‚ his senior year college prep English class‚ and how he insured Rose that
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Scenario: Mike‚ the young boy seems rational enough to comprehend possible treatment goals. While this is in due part because of a child’s ability to be conditioned more so than an adult who becomes headstrong with age. The client‚ Mike‚ would be less resistant when concerning change. Thus the target behavior (s) in relation to Mike’s possible fear of contamination would be: 1. Have Mike acknowledge what he is afraid of out loud before he begins any avoidant/unconventional behaviors. I.E (Mike states
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