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to mix Education, skill, and work ethic into what you do, to be the best at what you do. All types of people that work and those that do not work, are grouped into certain social classes such as; Lower, middle, upper, wealthy, blue collar, white collar, and pink collar. As with any job you need to have a basic standard of knowledge, that you receive at a young age up until…

consider to be dangerous is white-collar crimes. According to the article How White-collar Works, Jane McGrath mentioned, “Another kind of crime is much easier to rationalize to ourselves. Committing it doesn't require a gun or a knife. You may not see an apparent victim. It's easily covered up. It can secure your financial future for life and ­you may have ­plenty of opportunity. (HowStuffWorks, 2008)” The author brought up a great detail regarding to white-collar crimes. This type of crime can…

have been supplanted by both artificial intelligence and cheap foreign labor. These jobs were a safety net for decades for many who didn’t pursue a college education. A college education was not necessary to live an ordinary life, innumerable blue collar jobs were available to ensure one didn’t slip into poverty. This is no longer the case.…

Whether at a job, at home, or in between, any experience can be just as educational as a class at a university. In “Blue Collar Brilliance”, the author, Mike Rose, uses anecdotes from his family’s experiences to prove how although his family members might not have had much formal education, they all were “intelligent” due to the lessons they learned at work. Given my family’s own experience, I can attest to that. Throughout all of the generations of my family, half have attended a traditional…

There has been an unprecedented amount of evidence that our Earth is heating up due to global warming causing hard to repair damage to the world. According to Van Jones, author of The Green Collar Economy we must take action now. The rising temperatures are melting the ice caps at alarming rates they are also allowing there to be a rise in bacterial plant diseases that ruin crops, and disease carrying insects. These insects can ruin more crops, as they are active for a much longer time. We…

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…

some of the most important skills to have. They are used not only in work, but just in life in general, and just because someone goes to college, it doesn’t mean they have them. This article, by Mike Rose really points out the importance of blue collar…

schooling or even none at all they are labeled most of the time as uneducated or dumb even though that is far from the truth. A person doesn’t need to have a high school or college degree to be considered smart in my opinion. There are many blue collar workers who use their brains just as much as their brawn. This is something that Rose would agree with and that is the main argument in the article. There are many who would say that having a good education is the foundation to a bright future…

traditional, moderate Republicans (“Mods”) and more conservative, Pro-Choice Republicans (“Cons”). Among these two branches lies a stark difference in economic status. The Cons tend to live on the impoverished side of Johnson County, working blue-collar jobs, with a staunch Christian background. The Mods exist within the other side of Johnson County, full of country clubs, mansions, and top-tier bussniessmen. The distance between the two classes is magnified in each position’s primary focus. The…

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 are…