Blues

traditional music. The main research focus is on the historic, geographic and musical aspects of the North Carolina Appalachian Mountains. The Appalachian Trail passes through western North Carolina, and the Blue Ridge Mountains are part of the Appalachian Mountain range. Throughout the section of Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, there have been “trails” made, one highlighting the music of that region, and another, the heritage. The heritage sites not only represent the history of living…

Blue-Collar Workers in My Family? In the article, “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” the author Mike Rose explains to us that just because workers do not have so much schooling, it does not mean that they do not have the intelligence for their field of work. Rose goes on to tell us about what he has observed and analyzed through the years about blue collar workers. Rose gives us two main examples of this argument and how he has come to a conclusion of what he thinks of blue collar workers. Rose starts…

non-academic learning can be more valuable in the society, we found many facts that tell us how society can respect you if you are an educated individual. “Blue-collar Brilliance”, Professor Mike Rose address that society’s blind views on the intellectual ability of the people operating jobs related to serving or manual workers. Rose indicated that blue collar workers miss focusing on the intelligence needed in their businesses. Besides, he stated that the relationship between certain never…

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, that title explains well what the author the exactly is going to talk about in this book. There are two different categories in business markets which are called red ocean and blue ocean. According to the book, “Red oceans represent all the industries in existence today. This is the known market space, but it is not a completely new market. Blue oceans denote all the industries not in existence today…

Mike Rose’s article provides the reader with an excellent representation and description of the true value of a blue-collar worker. Stereotypically, this group of people is not seen as being very bright, since intelligence is often measured by the number of years of education that a person has. However, the article explains many examples of how blue-collar people must constantly use their brains while on the job. Throughout this class, we have read many books that explain just how important this…

Mike Rose was and American teacher and writer. He has wrote eleven books in his life time; most of them focused on literacy and language, and he received several awards. In his passage, Blue-Collar Brilliance, Rose delivers his message excellently about the intelligence and skills of blue collar workers through stories, research, and his presentation on the topic. The first way Rose backs up his claim is through personally stories about his relatives. His first story describes his mother…

Personal Analysis of Blue Winds Dancing The short story, Blue Winds Dancing by Tom Whitecloud is about a young Native American’s struggle to exist in both the white mans world and the Native American world. The narrator of the story perceives these two different worlds as the civilized and uncivilized America. This short story is an example of a human existence and communicates the importance of young Native American’s cultural struggle to fit into the white world within the history of America.…

to understand the difference between college life and blue collar life. He wanted to let them know from his own experience in the blue-collar life, although financially rewarding it was also a very hard life. His intentions, I feel was to prove to readers that a collage education can mean a huge difference in how hard one might have to work. The first point he wanted to make was, I think would be the moment they describe the hard life of a blue-collar worker and, how they look forward to the…

Main Concept In the Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, they discuss the concept of “blue oceans”. A blue ocean is created when an organization decides they don’t want to compete with other organizations in the same market. So they create a new market where there is no competition. Then markets that have competition are called “red oceans”. Red oceans are the markets that have a lot of competition, there’s nothing really special about them. During a ten year study of 108…

Mike Rose’s standpoint and approach, to a job like of his mother having intellectual importance. Mike Rose goes deeper into his observations and claims at the restaurant while he was a kid as he states, “I’ve since studied the working habits of the blue-collar workers and have come to understand how much my mother’s kind of work demands of both body and brain.” (Rose 1034). The workload that Mike Rose’s mother was able to adjust and balance while still maintaining a healthy and welcoming…