Essay Assignment 1: Summary
In his essay, “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” Mike Rose shows us that even though there are jobs that do not require lots of studies, that does not mean that people who perform in those fields are not as intelligent as those called “white-collar” in other-word, well-educated people. He states what his mother and uncle does as examples to describe the value of a blue-collar worker performing what they know in their jobs.
His mother, Rose Meraglio Rose (Rosie) worked as a waitress in a Coffee Shop in Los Angeles. She quit school at an early age in order to help her siblings. As a waitress, Rosie performed the role very well because she not only was able to maintain the rhythm of the restaurant but also developed memory strategies
In his essay, “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” Mike Rose shows us that even though there are jobs that do not require lots of studies, that does not mean that people who perform in those fields are not as intelligent as those called “white-collar” in other-word, well-educated people. He states what his mother and uncle does as examples to describe the value of a blue-collar worker performing what they know in their jobs.
His mother, Rose Meraglio Rose (Rosie) worked as a waitress in a Coffee Shop in Los Angeles. She quit school at an early age in order to help her siblings. As a waitress, Rosie performed the role very well because she not only was able to maintain the rhythm of the restaurant but also developed memory strategies