Name of Book: Nickel and Dimed Author: Barbara Ehrenreich Plot Summary: The author‚ Barbara Ehrenreich‚ works for the prestigious New Yorker magazine. One day over lunch with a famous editor discussing possible stories to write‚ she comments that the minimum wage is too low. She thinks someone used to more money should try to live on this pittance. The editor‚ Lewis Lapham‚ assigns her the story. This is not good news for Ehrenreich. Having spent her childhood with middle class struggling
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26 April 2010 Nickel and Dimed – Book Report America encourages the value of self-reliance to achieving one’s goals and dreams. There is a common belief that poverty can be defeated with hard work and that the poor are simply too lazy to earn a better living. The idea of self-sufficiency is the cause of controversy for welfare programs. Poor single mothers were looked down upon for having the option to be unemployed and living solely off welfare. When President Clinton’s 1996 Welfare Reform was
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In Nickel and Dimed‚ Barbara Ehreneich states the tolls on low-wage workers but not how poverty correlates to their mental illnesses. An increase in money provided to low-income workers can help their health and state of mind. Mental illnesses prevent parents from raising their children well and could result to having a child with mental health problems‚ learning disabilities‚ and behavioral deficiency. It is because low-income families that are in poverty are stressed from only making minimum wage
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They are common in the low wage market and they hinder potential applicants while violating freedoms and having little perceptible and positive impact on work performance. In chapter three of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America‚ Ehrenreich comes to her realization how much real low wage workers are required to act (Ehrenreich‚ Barbara‚ & Christine 13). She is seen to be distressed by the difficulty of the personality test. She describes
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Summer Reading Project Nickel and Dimed Journal Before: Prepare to read list Title- I would believe " Nickel and Dimed" stands for the amount and or wage per hour one person receives at work. "Nickel and Dimed’’‚ might mean a low salary or wage‚ considering the fact that is change. I could only infer that it will be a low amount of money. Possible themes - I can infer that by reading the title‚ poverty would be one of many major themes of this book. Also by reading ’’On (not) getting
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Why Should We Care In her expose‚ Nickel and Dime‚ Barbara Ehrenreich shares her experience of what it is like for unskilled women to be forced to be put into the labor market after the welfare reform that was going on in 1998. Ehrenreich wanted to capture her experience by retelling her method of “uncover journalism” in a chronological order type of presentation of events that took place during her endeavor. Her methodologies and actions were some what not orthodox in practice. This was not to
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Rhetorical Style Analysis of Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Nickel and Dimed on (not) Getting By In America. It is about how lower class people cannot make it in America because they do not make enough money to provide for themselves. If anyone could interest a reader it would Ehrenreich because of her style. At times she can be offensive with her hyperboles‚ satire and metaphors but I could not help my self from turning page after page. Ehrenreich paints a vivid picture
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In my opinion‚ I feel that the author of “Nickel and Dimed”‚ Barbara Ehrenreich‚ had ethical intentions when making the decision to investigate “poverty” by emerging herself in the “low-wage lifestyle”. The ethical concern‚ however‚ is with her approach. I feel that the way in which it was conducted could be viewed as degrading to those who do not have an alternative to this way of living. True‚ hopeless poverty does not have those “reassuring limits” that Ehrenreich had the ability
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America In the thought provoking novel‚ Nickel and Dimed‚ Barbara Ehrenreich explores the life of low-wage workers in America’s society. While speaking with an editor one day‚ the question of poverty and how American’s survive off six and seven dollars an hour played in Ms. Ehrenreich’s mind. So as a journalist‚ Ehrenreich goes undercover working several minimum wage jobs and tries to survive off the earnings. Seeing and living the lives of these poverty-stricken
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work as a journalist and author‚ moved‚ and lived as a member of the working poor. She job searched‚ house or hotel searched‚ food searched‚ and friend searched. She worked multiple jobs in 3 different states‚ and in 2001‚ she published her book Nickel and Dimed‚ documenting her experiment and its results. Barbara hoped to show people what it is like to work in the low-wage workforce‚ honestly revealing the injustices‚ trials‚ and hardships. While Barbara did reveal these issues‚ she also started her
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