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    definitions are no longer valid. Thoreau’s Walden, penned in 1854 as a recount of his departure from ‘civilisation’, shows us the fallacy of working hard to improve your quality of life, only to have to work harder to emulate it. Ehrenreich’s struggles in Nickel and Dimed, published at the turn of the millennium, highlights the severe lack of opportunities that millions of Americans have access…

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    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,”…

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    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…

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    A Battery (Electricity) is a device that makes electric current through motion of cells which are the components of the battery. They are devices that convert their inner chemical energy into electrical energy. A battery has of two or more cells which are connected together in order to give out electricity. Batteries are commonly used in single cells such as the ones used to power radios, watches and small electrical appliances that are used in everyday life. They are also used to supply energy…

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    Product Review Summer Infant In View Digital Color Video Baby Monitor comes with a dynamic monitoring system equipped with a 5” flat-screen color display, a digital zoom camera and rechargeable batteries. This digital technology provides handheld portability which gives parent a secure and private connection with their kids at all times. Summer infant is the number on brand for baby monitors in the market today. They have a wide range of baby monitors from audio, video to internet baby…

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    Micra has created the smallest pacemaker yet. It is 93% smaller than any conventional pacemaker, which makes it about the size of a large vitamin capsule which is about 1.75g, compared to a 44 x 52 x 6mm, 23.5g pacemaker. Unlike most pacemakers that are placed in the patient's chest with leads running to the heart, Micra is implanted directly into the patient’s heart. Some of the impact on society are: Its less invasive as the Micra is placed in the heart via a vein in the leg, which therefore…

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    is used to convince 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…

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    Ehrenreich moved from Florida, to Maine, and then to Minnesota to prove if a person could really live on a low wage salary. Maintaining the expenses below her income was more challenging than she predicted. She documented her journey through the book Nickel and Dimed, where she discovered various themes of low wage workers. One theme, is the difficulty of exiting poverty on a low wage salary. The cost of everyday life creates an impossible scenario for low wage workers to escape poverty.…

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    Nickel And Dimed Summary

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    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…

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    which sought to terminate welfare. Examining the act’s harm on the working class - and especially the poor working class - Barbara Ehrenreich lived for three years working low-wage jobs. By both taking on low-wage jobs and receiving no welfare, in Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich learns about the physically and mentally tolling aspects of these jobs, the costs of living with little income, and the barriers to entry of these jobs. Because she must work long…

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