Barbara Kingsolver

It is really easy to blame your financial difficulties on money. Yet what some people forget, is that this medium of exchange allowed us to create what we have today. Without something to use as currency there would be no society. A society consists of a group of people working together to create an orderly community. The creation of which would not be possible if the basic things that humans need are not satisfied. Money helps create stability by setting a certain value on all the commodities…

Nickel and Dimed on (NOT) Getting by in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich, is a journey into the low working class in the United States. Ehrenreich leaves her “normal” life in the upper-middle class, to investigate poverty by entering the low-wage class. Throughout the book, she moves city to city, with just enough money to get her started, and a desire to work. She discovers that many of these low paying jobs are “physically demanding, some of them even damaging if performed month after month,”…

look down on people who work lower level (and therefore lower-income) jobs. Although jobs are often seen as an extension of a person, the connotations associated with certain career choices should not define an individual. In “Serving in Florida,” Barbara Ehrenreich explores the lifestyle of lower-working class America. Through personal anecdotes, Ehrenreich allows members of the middle and upper classes to understand the difficulties employees suffer while working at the poverty level.…

Barbra McClintock was born June 16, 1902, in Hartford, Connecticut (Editors). The third of four children born to physician Thomas McClintock and wife Sarah, McClintock was christened Eleanor, though her parents soon began to call her Barbra believing the nickname better suited her pragmatic demeanor (“Barbra McClintock”). Barbra demonstrated an interest in science from a young age, perhaps influenced by her father’s profession (Editors). At the age of seventeen, she graduated from high school…

Trevor Lynskey is a very joyful and easy-going dance teacher at Lincoln HIgh School. He is an alumnus of the University of Santa Barbara, majoring in dance. Mr. Lynskey is a quite cheerful and relaxed person. He was quite enthusiastic while talking about his time in college. He is the type of person who likes to focus on the good times even when a situation is looking like it’s going down. He is very encouraging to his students and loves to help them better themselves. Growing up isn’t exactly…

Executive Summary Dershane’s Assisted Living Center, Inc • Established in 2010 by Dershane Alexandro, President and Danika Elizabeth, Vice President • An assisted living community for the mature population Mission Statement • We take a robust posture in commitment to our mission, value, and goals of our residents • We are an active assisted living center, determined to meet the needs of each and every one of our residents while providing a valuable service and promoting integrity…

Nickel and Dimed: Stratified American Society According to Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, the common belief that hard work leads to a successful life in the United States of America, regardless of one’s cultural and economic background, is only an encouraging fabrication. Gender inequality is only one specimen demolishing the manifest American Dream by, for instance, the lack of women in managerial positions, as well as gender-neutral performance…

Women face many challenges in a male-dominated world. One in particular being finding employment to support their family that comes with a livable paycheck. Barbara Ehrenreich’s book “Nickle and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America” was mainly focused on poverty in the United States, but her experiences with low-wage employment display many struggles women have succeeding in our currently sex-stratified labor market. Her experiments in Florida, Maine, and Minnesota demonstrate how women’s work…

Ehrenreich and Co-workers In the novel, Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, she leaves her life as a well off journalist to become a low- wage worker. Throughout her experience she comes to realize it is much tougher to maintain herself with minimum wage, than she thought it would be. At first she doesn’t see herself the same as the other blue collar workers but then realizes she has become exactly like them. Although Barbara Ehrenreich begins her journey as a low-wage worker with advantages…

Authors employ rhetoric in their writing by implementing a variety of writing techniques and styles, but they all use them with one goal in mind: To persuade the target audience. In the books Scratch Beginnings by Adam Shepard and Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, there are several instances in which both authors use specific styles of rhetoric to persuade the audience to side with certain issues endure throughout their books. The goal of each author is to get the target audience to…