Armstrong COLL101-1103A-07 6 June 2011 What I learned from the Discovery Wheel Once I finished filling out the Discovery Wheel I noticed that the three highest scores were in Purpose‚ Attitude and Diversity. While the lowest scores where on Money‚ Notes and Tests. I started with the highest scores first but my favorite are the lower scores since they make me practice positive thinking. Purpose As an IT Representative for a company in Puerto Rico‚ I have acquired lots of knowledge in the Information
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journalist‚ Barbara Ehrenreich‚ in her article‚ “It Is Expensive to Be Poor”‚ expounds on the repercussions the lower-class face on a daily basis. Ehrenreich’s purpose is to educate the audience about the reality the poor face day-to-day. The author creates a formal tone in order to have middle-class and older Americans understand the unfortunate reasons as to why the lower class is in their position and the difficulties they face to move on. In the beginning of the article Ehrenreich begins to
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Barbara Ehrenreich‚ an essayist and investigative journalist‚ wrote “The Roots of War” in hopes of showing the act of war as a kind of living parasite on human societies. Through several modes of development and logical and emotional appeals‚ Ehrenreich states her main claim while forming an effective and persuasive essay by using credible resources to support her claims. Ehrenreich’s logical reasoning is based on war throughout recorded history. She states that one can “find a predilection for
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Global woman is a chapter by Barbara Ehrenreich which gives a consider the challenges and obstacles present in the lives of women which pursue migrant work. Many women which live in poverty stricken countries are faced with the challenge of providing for their children financially without the assistance of a man. This is not to say that men within the country are so well off that their assistance would solve the problem‚ but when poverty is common within a nation‚ daily life can be challenging.
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question counts for one-third of the total essay section score.) The passage below is from The Worst Years of Our Lives by Barbara Ehrenreich. Ehrenreich is writing about life in the 1980s. Read the passage carefully and then write an essay in which you support‚ refute‚ or qualify Ehrenreich’s assertions about television. Support your argument with appropriate evidence. Only after many months of viewing did I begin to understand the force that has transformed the American people into root
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Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich takes a comical look at the troubles that plague "white collar" unemployed. This book offers an in-depth view of the Barbara Ehrenreich’s struggle to get a "good job‚" which she defined as a job that would provide health care and an income of $50‚000 a year.(6) This book was written in 2005 and is still up to date with the current unemployment problems. She uses her own experiences and observations for the reader to get an accurate picture of how hard it is for
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of different types of workplace and position written by Barbara Ehrenreich‚ it saddens me but also makes me angry on how people are mistreated because of their social status and gender. I have experienced working for retail and as a dental assistant. I wanted to have some type of education because I was under the impression that having some type of education will lead me to a better profession and that I will have better treatment. As I learned‚ working for a big corporation and working for a wealthy
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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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I believe having the FYI class before starting other classes was a helpful tool in determining my college success. There are many reasons why it was helpful‚ but I am only going to analyze four in this document. One of the main reasons contributing to its success was adjusting waking waking up earlier. This may not have been something we directly learned in class‚ but it proved to be very helpful for the next week. Another reason why this course was successful was it enhanced my note taking abilities
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All Holocaust survivors suffered during and after the horrid event. Whether they lost their families‚ or their riches‚ every survivor has a story to tell along with something to learn from it. This specific survivor was a girl named Charlotte Guthmann Opfermann whose family was captured and deported when she was seventeen. Her family was sent to a concentration camp and her father was killed upon entry because he was a well known Jew. Her brother survived many camps and was finally killed just before
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