Blue-collar worker

If you have an option, would you invest all the money that is put towards education or would you rather have a college degree with an enormous student loan debt? Do you think what you learn while attending college is going to help you have a certain skill that will be used often in your future career? In today’s society with the economic status being in a recession, companies will not hire someone who is not beneficial for their corporation. The companies base their hiring criteria on people’s…

The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich, Hidden Intellectualism by Gerald Graff, and Nuclear Waste by Richard A. Muller are all pieces of literature in the book They Say, I say by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. These pieces give readers an example of different types of college level writing samples with the purpose providing them with a source of influence to assist in further developing their own skills. Just by looking at the titles you can can tell these writings…

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…

2001 motivated the author to write this article. She wrote this article because she felt like the decrease in jobs is happening at an alarming rate and not only for the blue-collar workers but now white collar unemployment is becoming a normal trend as she says “And while blue collar poverty has become numbingly routine, white collar unemployment and the poverty that often results remains a rude finger in the face of the American dream.” The author wrote this text because she felt that people…

Proposed Research: Resilience and Positive Psychology My proposed research is a dual study, that will measure the effects of positive psychology protocols on participants that are in health crisis, and participants that are healthy in the workplace. I theorize that the development of a basic protocol can effectively prove beneficial in both applications. Whereas, the core components of the research are identical, the varying aspect is the content of the positive psychology intervention.…

achieve success without a college degree. At least, that’s what Charles Murray in his article “Are Too Many People Going to College?”, Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill in their article “Should Everyone Go to College?”, and Mike Rose in his article “Blue-Collar Brilliance” argue. They acknowledge that college has its benefits, but they also realize that it has some drawbacks. These authors believe that college promotes social inequality,…

Little Miss Sunshine starts off with the Ms. America beauty pageant. A young child name Olive Hoover, is watching the pageant on the television, fascinated with the events taking place. This film starts to address the idea of if there is only winners and losers, and how to be a winner. The point gets strongly put across as the father believes that you have to think you will win, and that is how you become a winner. The film becomes an eye opener for the viewers because it shows the amount of…

Many people believe that you are a product of your environment, and that you don’t have any choices in what you believe or the paths that you take in life. I believe that you make your own choices in life, and can really be successful in any situation if you set your mind to it. You are your own person, and can make your own decisions. Throughout the readings you can see this over and over again. In “Don’t Blame the Eater” you see a young man make positive choices in his life after being dealt a…

I chose to interview my aunt; she has been a teacher for about 15 years. She taught kindergarten for 11 years and 2nd grade for 4 years now. As many of you know being a teacher is a well-rounded job with multiple simple and yet difficult tasks. A teachers’ main responsibilities are to make sure the children are safe during school hours, while teaching the students the required material throughout the school year to prepare for the next grade. The reason behind why I chose my aunt to interview is…

Learning Gender Roles through Toys Gender roles, what is that? Well it is social and individual, they decide how guys and females ought to think, talk, dress, and cooperate inside the setting of society. Many people may not know this exist in the 21st century. Well in-fact it happens right in front of you every day, for example, babies being teached what to like and dislike, kids being influenced by television, adolescents following others, and adults following along what to do because of the…