Barbara Ehrenreich tells the reader how the idea for this book came about: when Ehrenreich begins writing, in comparatively sumptuous circumstances.” Then she described a $30 lunch at a French-style restaurant with the editor of Harper’s magazine discussing future articles “Lewis Lapham” who, when Ehrenreich casually mentions that someone ought to investigate the consequences of welfare reform by going out and trying the low-wage workplace “for themselves”, jumps on the idea and beckons Ehrenreich to take the dive. Barbara Ehrenreich comes from a family who are familiar with low-wage work, her father and other relatives of her were miners, while her husband was a warehouse worker when they just met, and her sister has moved through different…
Christian Raschke’s article is all about the time that one person puts in while preparing food with taking a deeper look at how food prepping affects people below the poverty line. The author’s purpose for this article was to see what factors lead to people using their food stamps for quicker easier meals than buying the ingredients and taking the time to prepare the meal and make it. Raschke’s intended audience for his article would be scholarly people who want to take a look into certain aspects of people who are a part of the SNAP program and what might cause some of their choices. Raschke assumes that his audience has a basic understanding of the food stamps system and knows what may lead some people to make the decisions they make. In…
Mike Rose, the author of “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” argues that intelligence is not something that is defined by formal education, but rather the use of critical thinking and experience. In his essay, Mike Rose uses a plethora of examples ranging from personal experiences, historical examples, and visual content to support his assertion. The argument that education does not equal intelligence leads to an important question: how can intelligence defined and quantified? Mike Rose disputes the notion that blue-collar jobs are simple and mindless in his essay.…
Historical Fiction: 9/11 “Hello?” I answered as I flipped my phone open, pulled the antenna out and held it up to my ear. “Mom?” I responded again because nobody answered the phone the first time. “Oh, hey!…
In this article “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?” Mark Bittman discusses how people think that fast food is cheaper than home cooked meals. Bittman purpose of this paper is to persuade people to stop buying fast food every so often and consider cooking home cooked meals. In this article, people who feel that fast food is cheaper and people who feel that they are “too busy” to prepare home cooked meals are the anticipated audience.…
In the documentary Super Size Me, narrated and directed by Morgan Spurlock, Mr. Spurlock sets out to see just what effect eating fast food can have on a person’s health. Numerous questions are posed during the film, so it is difficult to determine the exact thesis of the argument. After filtering through all of the information, I determined the main point of the argument to be that McDonald’s knowingly provides unhealthy food to Americans and wants us to eat as much of its food as we can, therefore making us fat. Mr. Spurlock sets out on an experiment with himself as the subject, in which he eats nothing but McDonald’s food for 30 days. Although Mr. Spurlock does present evidence that fast food is unhealthy, I am going to focus on all of the inconsistencies and fallacies in his argument.…
Consumers today don 't directly see the behind the scenes actions and grievances of workers and employees within franchises and companies. Though on the surface raising wages does not seem problematic, if one were to put on the hat of an economist they would see the significant repercussions that could result. James Surowiecki and Michael Saltsman both present ideas regarding the complex topic of how to properly improve the lives of those in the workforce in an economy that is suffering in their articles “The Pay Is Too Damn Low” and “To Help the Poor, Move Beyond ‘Minimum’ Gestures.” Surowiecki believes that though there are other ways to fight poverty, simply raising the minimum wage will help drastically. In contrast, Saltsman believes that…
Barbara Ehrenreich’s bestselling book, Nickel and Dimed, is not only an excellently portrayed book for the classroom, but also a studious book to advocate for a social issue. The advocacy related in the book blends well with the societal campaign for a living wage. Ehrenreich’s book has created a lot of momentum for the workforce and how difficult it is to live life with a low-wage. For Ehrenreich, she could not just simply explain the statistics of how gruesome life is this way, but to experience in full. Thus, Ehrenreich throughout the book visits various parts of the country with a disguise of a low-wage worker.…
He also mentioned that lack of alternatives for teenagers, and low income families. Zinczenko backs up the lack of alternatives by stating, "Drive down any thoroughfare in America, and I guarantee you 'll see one of our country 's more than 13,000 McDonald 's restaurants. Now, drive back up the block and try to find someplace to buy a grapefruit" (2). There 's only two choices to pick; it 's either to search far and wide or go to the McDonald 's around the corner to get a cheap meal. Zinczenko addressed these rhetorical appeals to create a connection with the…
Minimum Wage Controversy In America, working is supposed to keep individuals out of poverty, not place them in it. With current minimum wage at nine dollars an hour, families are struggling to live an optimal life. The people who are employed under minimum wage are struggling to pay their bills, buy goods for themselves, and even support a family. Minimum wage in the bay area is insufficient due to the high cost of living and therefore should be increased.…
Fitchen talks about malnutrition in the United States, a country, which most people expect that it feeds its citizens well. She elaborates the cultural values and meanings that are attached to the opposition rich-poor on the image of a poor person buying a steak with a food stamp. She shows that domestic hunger often goes unnoticed, because those people who are poor enough to qualify for government food stamps, may be seen in grocery stores, purchasing not only basic food stuffs, but also popular items, such as potato chips, desserts, and beef steaks. With such purchases, low-income people may seek to affirm that they can live like other Americans, and thus attempt to hide their hunger from the public. At the same time, these foods contribute to their malnutrition, and the public concludes that if poor people can eat steak, they must be neither poor nor very hungry.…
According to the recent news in Japan, there is a sushi restaurant with conveyor belt. It lays out in an “E” shape, allowing more dinners to be served with a conventional loop arrangement. The restaurant can serve 196 customers, with kitchen staffs no more than 50 and there are no chefs. Everything is automatic, provides everything high quality at low price. The kitchen receives a personal order from a dinner, it is delivered along a high speed lane straight to the table.…
1. You may ask what McDonaldization is. McDonaldization is defined as, “the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world.” This paper will discuss two different cafes which conduct the same matter of business, however one business conducts more like the principles of “McDonaldization” compared to the other business which is a local café in Dubuque that is more traditional (has a less emphasis on the formal rationality). So my one McDonaldizated café is “Starbucks” and my other café is the “Rubix.”…
THE ARAVIND EYE HOSPITAL The Aravind Eye Hospital was established in 1976 by Dr. Govindappa Venkataswsamy. Dr. G. Venkataswamy started the hospital with one goal to provide quality eye care at reasonable cost. He started a hospital with 20-beds in Madurai, India and now owns seven hospitals with 4,000 beds in total. He achieved this through adopting the characteristics of fast food restaurants in America. George Ritzer named this process of adopting characteristics of a fast food restaurant as "McDonaldization" in his book The McDonaldization of Society.…
Human resource management (HRM) It is the management of the staff of a company it involves making sure that the business uses its staff effectively, in order for the business to run the best way possible and to be a successful business. The key among them is deciding what staffing needs you have. Weather to use independent contractors which the company does not withhold taxes, or hire employees which the company withhold income tax you need one of them to fill these needs. Training the best employees.…