Katy Curry English 102‚ Section 601 Dr. Jun Zhao First Draft of Rhetorical Essay 23 July 2009 Rhetorical Analysis of “Idiot Nation” When thinking of the United States one would[may?] conjure up imagines of happy people‚ greener grass‚ freedom‚ and of course‚ opportunity. However an uncommon thing that one would think of America is a land of dumb people.[little confusing word choice] Yes‚ that’s right‚ Americans having less than average intelligence. In “Idiot Nation‚” Michael Moore offers
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E-105 09.06.12 Submitted by; C. Giuliano Answers to questions 1-4 in the Close Reading “ Sister Flowers “ 1. Paragraph #1. “ Then‚ I met‚ or rather got to know‚ the lady who threw me my first life line” The dominant Impression was that she intends on describing the person in her life that saved her from a traumatic event by mentoring her and that she highly respected and looked up to her which made it that much more gratifying. 2. She admires her‚ educated tongue‚ her graceful walk
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qualify for cash assistance. In the expo‚ Nickel and Dime‚ Barbara Ehrenreich questioned the “uplifting benefits” of unskilled adults working in a low-wage economy. Ehrenreich’s undercover journalism was her scientific methodology of choice to capture firsthand the experience of poverty in order to prove her theory that it is mathematically impossible for welfare recipients to survive in the low-wage workforce. While following Barbara Ehrenreich journey in “Nickel and Dimed” I realized how certain
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on their own or with their children. It may come in the form of saving money and buying cheaper food or receiving help from the government for a small amount of time. People in these conditions struggle each day to feed and shelter themselves. Ehrenreich has a Ph.D. in biology and is an experienced writer. This would cause her to earn more than the average person on the street. She would not automatically know the struggles of the people around her‚ but she would have an insight on it. She does
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Introduction Barbara Ehrenreich began her research to explore how people attempting to move from welfare to work are managing—if at all. This exploration also extended to those who are apart of the working class and having not been on welfare. Attempting to place herself in the position of her subjects‚ Ehrenreich strived to see if she were able to survive on the minimal income provided by a series of low level and low paying jobs. In was her foreknowledge of laws and the inclusion of these laws
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Barbara Ehrenreich and Lewis Lapham asked themselves how anyone lives on the wages available to the unskilled. (Introduction: Getting Ready) Roughly four million women were about to taken off welfare reform programs to get jobs that paid $6 to $7 an hour; how will they survive? Barbara wanted to see how the 5 division of Dennis Gilbert and Joseph A. Kahl’s (1993) 6 part class structure handled everyday life without government assistance that she left her regular job and sat out on the journey. Although
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When Barbara was working in a restaurant‚ she has to move fast so that customers do not wait for a long time and ironically‚ she only received the minimum wage. She has to deal with her bosses‚ who always kept an eye of the workers‚ even though the restaurant is empty. In addition‚ there was trouble when Barbara knows that the manager was using the restaurant’s phone in the restaurant to obtain marijuana.
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Matthew Crawford and Barbara Ehrenreich both obtained a higher education; Crawford with a PhD in political philosophy and Ehrenreich in biology. The two are very educated individuals who were now experiencing‚ "lower class jobs" yet they have very different attitudes toward the line of work that they pursue. Barbara enrolls in working at a restaurant named Jerry’s‚ she tells the reader all about her horrid experience. She applied to work at a restaurant like Jerry’s as an experiment‚ to see how others
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States. Lacking money and basic necessities like food‚ shelter‚ clothes‚ education and healthcare are the goods necessary to live a decent life; however not everyone has access to these luxury. In Serving Florida‚ Barbara Ehrenreich goes undercover as a waitress and housekeeper in Key West Florida‚ and to live the life of a low socio-economic class. She discovers that it is not financially viable to live off just the minimum wage. She even had to get two jobs to survive. In On Dumpster Diving
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Barbara Ehrenreich gives us a somewhat warm welcome to cancerland in her article. Her writing gives her readers a different mindset on cancer. She raises different points about how cancer is objectified‚ considered beautiful‚ infantilized‚ as well as how it robs patients of their autonomy. People think cancer and they think chemo or death. Ehrenreich focused much of her writing on reminding us of the ways that‚ breast cancer specifically‚ is objectified by society. In her article “Welcome to Cancerland”
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