Mehreen 1 Mehreen Rahman ENG 101 27 January 2014 Blue-Collar Brilliance Blue collar workers are the backbone of America. In the article‚ “Blue-Collar Brilliance”‚ author Mike Rose emphasizes his belief that blue collar jobs should not be viewed as mindless tasks‚ but rather should be acknowledged for the amount of skills and intelligence these tasks truly require. What the author essentially means is that blue collar workers acquire knowledge‚ intuition‚ and skills from the social dynamics of
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file:///E:/Geographic Research/Topics/1 Introduction/Introduction_Blue C... AUTHOR: MIKE ROSE TITLE: Blue-Collar Brilliance SOURCE: The American Scholar 78 no3 43-9 Summ 2009 COPYRIGHT: The magazine publisher is the copyright holder of this article and it is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction of this article in violation of the copyright is prohibited. To contact the publisher: http://www.pbk.org/pubs.htm My mother‚ Rose Meraglio Rose (Rosie)‚ shaped her adult identity as a
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English 1100 The Working Class In the essay “Blue-Collar Brilliance” written by Mike Rose‚ he begins to talk about how Blue-Collar workers are smarter than what society put them out to be. Rose talks about his mother and how she has to member a lot of martial during the work period. Rose also talks about his uncle that started as a regular worker and worked his way up to supervising the paint-and-body line. This is where Rose came to see that Blue-Collar workers are smart they aren’t just given the
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BLUE COLLAR BRILLANCE Are blue collar jobs less appreciated? Mike rose‚ thinks there are no fair share of recognition among people in the working class society. Rose was stressing his point to say that‚ in as much as the white collar job (workers) are perceived in the society as higher educated people it brings conflict among us. Also making the minimal jobs look less valuable and cripple our ability to talk across cultural divides. Blue collar jobs
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learn how to actually use the skills and apply it to life later on. Also‚ the expectation that they need to work really hard and do a white-collar job is also dangerous. Students should 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
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Blue Collar Brilliance Mike Rose describes in his essay how it was growing up and watching his mother as well as his uncle working a blue collar job‚ but being very nifty and clever in executing the job. He himself after finishing college work multiple different teacher jobs before beginning a study about the thought processes involved in blue collar work. There are always exceptional examples that are more intelligent than other working blue collar jobs‚ however‚ a big percentage of workers are
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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 must be recognized for the amount
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In the 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‚
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intelligence. Every person is put in a category that labels them. If she or he has a white-collar occupation within an office or something as such‚ she or he is labeled as hardworking‚ intuitive‚ and smart. Adults working in cafes‚ construction‚ or other blue-collar jobs are classified as thick‚ lazy‚ and unintelligent. In “Blue-Collar Brilliance” by Mike Rose‚ he retells how his mother and his uncle worked in a blue-collar job‚ or working class job‚ but does not just see them as mindless for their lack
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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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