Barbara Kingsolver

Demise of Chumash came at the hands of a "military expedition led by Pablo de la Portilla negotiated the return of this group to the Santa Barbara Mission"(Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz). Consequently Father Vicente Sarria, who was Prefect of the Missions, helped to bring the revolt to an end by convincing the Chumash rebels to return to the Santa Barbara Mission is a fact that had long been acknowledged Further details involving the end of the Chumash insurrection can be best…

Nickel and Dimed, written by Barbara Ehrenreich, is about a middle-classed woman who does an experiment with the poverty in America. Barbara Ehrenreich workers as an author, but also has a Ph.D. With roughly 45 million Americans living below the poverty level, Ehrenreich attempts to work in three different states, at different jobs working for only minimum wage. She sets a few rules for herself that she is not allowed to break to keep her living situation as minimalist as possible and save…

a) What was your personal response to reading the book? My personal response to Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich is that it was an excellent read and an interesting one. I for one have never given much thought about the struggles of working low wage jobs. And since I haven't worked yet in my life or had any money issues. Thus, to understand what it means to truly struggle and have to work day in and day out at a job that pays barely enough to feed and shelter you is an alien thought. Not…

Most people dread going to their jobs. They hate putting on their plain uniform, and dealing with crabby and ungrateful people, not to mention the drive to work for these people is almost as terrible as work itself. I am nothing like this. Every day before I work, I put on my athletic shorts, t-shirt, socks, and I am excited to start my job. I enjoy my drive to work, and when I get there I am greeted by a few co-workers. I then put my bags in the office, and make my way to the gym. The other…

thought working retail is interesting and thought if my mom could do it then I can as well. Until I got my first dose of reality when I accepted a temporary position for Black Friday at the store my mom still works. Something similar is addressed in Barbara Ehrenreich 's article “Selling…

talk about how we can go about the situation and how we can find a balance between technology and life. Throughout the article Levy uses three main references Barbara Mcclintock, Vannear Bush, and Joseph Piper. He uses them to make Levy purpose even stronger.…

Also, they measure their success on their actions and not on the environment. Barbara Ehrenreich essay, “Serving in Florida”. "I can do this two-job thing, is my theory, if I can drink enough caffeine and avoid getting distracted by George 's ever more obvious suffering”.(277) The author infers that with perseverance she can accomplish…

and manipulate the opinions of the target audience. Whether the objective is to create an emotional connection with the audience or create trust with a speaker or writer, rhetoric is used in almost all of these situations. In “Nickel and Dimmed” by Barbara Ehrenreich, Ehrenreich employs rhetoric to create logic and reasoning, to create an emotional connection with the audience, and to build trust with the audience in order to support the claim that it is basically impossible to live off of…

Nickel and Dimed recounts Barbara Ehrenreich’s objective attempt to live as an unskilled minimum wage worker in Florida. She rents a trailer for $500 a month and she works as a waitress at Hearthside as her first job. As she describes her first workday, Ehrenreich does an amazing job intertwining the sad, tough lives of the workers with the monotonous tasks of her job. She also highlights that she misses her competence most (Ehrenreich 1998). The managers of the establishment do not try to help…

Gaelle Medidor Civil Rights Activist February 22, 2017 Ruby Bridges Ruby Bridges is famous for doing something most of us take for granted today: going to elementary school. But that simple act by one small girl played an important part in the Civil Rights Movement. Ruby Nell Bridges was born on September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi, and grew up on the farm her parents and grandparents sharecropped in Mississippi. When…