Jill Lepore’s article “Richer and Poorer” talks about effective methods of making an argument and persuading an audience; these techniques can be seen in Barbara Ehrenreich’s novel Nickel and Dimed. To start‚ Lepore presents two different paths an author can choose when writing as she claims‚ “Some people make arguments by telling stories; other people make arguments by counting things” (Lepore 9). Telling a story allows an author to convey his ideas through complex plots and characters; furthermore
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Hups 1 Amber Hups Mrs. Clinton AP Language 11 September 2014 Nickel and Dimed: Summer Reading Choice Novel Barbara Ehenreich‚ in the book Nickel and Dimed‚ argues that America’s working poor need to be paid higher wages. Ehenreich supports her argument by using precise details and unique point of view to present her experiences as a low paid‚ low class worker. The author’s purpose is to suggest no one can survive on minimum wage in order to gain support for raising the current standard salary in
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1 SOC 310 12/03/12 Nickel and Dimed Book Analysis Looking at whether or not individuals living in poverty are considered to be a minority group by our contemporary culture is an interesting scenario. I’m a social work major so of course I want to think‚ yes‚ individuals living poverty are most definitely an oppressed group in society. Minimum wage is nowhere near to what could be classified as a living wage‚ and these positions often have little room for career advancement within the company
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Rhetorical Strategies Chapter 1 She appeals the the reader’s emotions when she describes her plight and that of others of her position on page 26 and several other places. She uses logos when she does the number-crunching that shows that financially she won’t be able to just have one job on page 28. She Uses ethos in the beginning (mostly the introduction) when she tells about her success as a writer (this also makes it more dramatic when she fails at unskilled labor later.
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of this new phenomena when she used E-mail to organize five continents into signing a treaty. This idea of “super empowered individuals” falls short when actually applied to “real life” circumstances‚ as Barbara Ehrenriech‚ author of‚ “Nickel and
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John Doe Mr. Teacher Nickel and Dimed Summary Barbara Ehrenreich‚ author of Nickel and Dimed‚ is an award winning columnist and author of twenty-one books. Although she has her doctorate in science‚ she is well known as a journalist and muckraker. She has been featured in The New York Times‚ The Washington Post‚ and many other publications. Ehrenreich pondered how unskilled‚ uneducated‚ and untrained workers can survive and thrive in the American workforce with minimum wage incomes. She was
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In the book Nickel and Dimed on (Not) getting by in America‚ the author lived a life of a low wage worker. This experiment‚ while deemed insightful by some people‚ was considered dull and unrealistic to one of my classmates. In response to the question‚ “What parts of the book made Ehrenreich’s experience unrealistic?” my peer said‚ “She didn’t experience what low wage workers really went through. In Into the Wild‚ McCandless really went into the wild and experienced everything‚ but Ehrenreich didn’t
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Life Struggle on Minimum Wage Sometimes life isn’t always as easy as getting a job‚ making money and paying you bills. In her fascinating book on extended essays Nickel and Dimed‚ Barbara Ehrenreich poses as an unskilled worker to show the struggles encountered everyday by Americans attempting to live on minimum wage‚ "matching income to expenses as the truly poor attempting to do everyday." (6) Ehrenreich gave herself three rules she had to live by and they were: 1. She could not use her education
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to make the News”‚ she investigates a phenomenon that has been swept away by the waves of media headlines about “middle class cutbacks” and “the super-rich giving up private jets”. (pg 322) She talks to people she met while writing her book “Nickel and Dimed” and uncovers stories of people whose ends could not be met before the recession‚ and are even less likely to be met now with increasing layoffs‚ foreclosed homes‚ and unavailable loans. She describes the problem well‚ and provides several sad
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By reading “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich‚ I learned being a minimum wage worker is extremely difficult. I wouldn’t recommend it. It’s hard for a minimum wage worker to find a place to live because they can’t pay the security deposit so they get stuck staying in a hotel or moving in with a friend or a family member. For example‚ Tina and her husband don’t make enough money so they had to stay in the Days Inn paying $60 a night. Getting stuck paying this every night would be impossible.
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