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    In the three essays that we were assigned to read have connections. In “Serving in Florida” by Barbara Ehrenreich‚ she decided to work in low paying jobs that pay minimum wage. An example of this is when it states “the multinational mélange of cooks; the dishwashers‚ who are all Czechs here” (364). This example relates to Diana Kendall when it states‚ “The working class and the working poor do not fare much better than the poor and homeless in media representations” (428). These quotes express how

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    the use of literary devices and the clever use of structural elements as depicted by Barbara Ehrenreich in her excerpt “Serving in Florida”. As displayed by Ehrenreich‚ authors of articles use these devices to display their effectiveness. Ehrenreich has successfully employed a variety of structural elements to depict the horrid situations of laborers all over America. One of the most outstanding ways that Ehrenreich successfully makes the article readable is through the adoption of literary devices

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    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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    society and even the government‚ it is unfortunately false. The idea that everybody has equal individual opportunity is a myth because social classes and social inequalities restrict individuals from pursuing the American dream. Barbara Ehrenreich‚ in her text “Serving in Florida‚” highlights the inequalities and

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    "Serving in Florida" by Barbara Ehrenreich‚ is an effective essay derived from Ehrenreich’s book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. This essay is a personal reflection of Ehrenreich’s experiences working "under- cover" in low paying‚ blue collar jobs in Florida. This essay is a descriptive narrative that shows how hard it is for low paid‚ working class Americans‚ to make it in the world. Ehrenreich vividly describes her experiences and sends a message to the reader that many working

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    Serving in Florida is an essay written by Barbara Ehrenreich that is a first-hand experience by the author in the world of working minimum wage jobs. The author tried to balance two low paying jobs in order to make ends meet. Ehrenreich mainly uses pathos‚ or the emotional appeal‚ in her essay to persuade young adults to go to college and strive for high paying jobs and uses ethos‚ the ethical appeal as the secondary rhetorical appeal in her essay to convince her readers that she is indeed a credible

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    Barbara Ehrenreich I could drift along like this‚ in some dreamy proletarian idyll‚ except for two things. One is management. If I have kept this subject on the margins thus far it is because I still flinch to think that I spent all those weeks under the surveillance of men (and later women) whose job it was to monitor my behavior for signs of sloth‚ theft‚ drug abuse‚ or worse. Not that managers and especially "assistant managers" in low-wage settings like this are exactly the class enemy. In

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    and water-logged toast crusts; sounds like the typical garbage can. Would anyone believe that these phrases apply to a run-down restaurant in the middle of Florida? Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover at a local fast food diner known as Jerry’s to investigate life as a blue-collar laborer‚ serving to customers arriving in “human waves” (Ehrenreich 180). It is throughout her journey working for both Jerry’s and a factory known as Hearthside that she learns the difficulties faced with minimum wage and

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    It is my belief that the author‚ Barbara Ehrenreich does put forward an objective plan. Although she is a journalist‚ she acts as if her true profession is a scientist. She does this by having only one goal set‚ putting rules and boundaries in place for herself‚ and recording and analyzing the data she has collected. She decided to completely change her lifestyle and learn how many Americans live their lives. Ehrenreich tries her hardest to enter this experiment with neutral‚ unbiased ideologies

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    aftermath of an historical hurricane….”the smell of a dead city”…para. 6 ”this new urban landscape”. 2. Urban floodplain depicts the initial encounter to what the author sees and of which is just the surface of what to come in the latter part of the essay and segways into the “ Life after Katrina “. 3. In “ Starting Again “ he depicts how the most basic necessities are being established

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