White-collar worker

The Wolf of Wall Street with the highly talented Leonardo DiCaprio as the notorious Jordan Belfort. The wolf of Wall Street can be used as a visual to show the different topics we talked about in class. This movie is based off of Jordan Belfort a white collar criminal on the streets of long island. There are many instances where what we discussed in lecture/discussion. Crime is now a big seller at the movie theatre and I believe that it can have an impact on a youths mind. The wolf of Wall…

Extent of white-collar crime in the United States One of the biggest problems in understanding the extent of white-collar crime is access to data. Gathering data can be very difficult to do, as there are so many different types of white-collar crimes. Estimates of the cost also vary greatly depending on which crimes are included in the list. These crimes are also increasing when compared to street crime. (Desilets, 2014) The skills required to commit these crimes are becoming more common.…

During Industrialism the entire face of the United States changed, from the landscape of cities and towns, to the political machine, to foreign policy. One group holds major responsibility for this changes, the common working man. These people, built this country from the ground up. Not only with manual labor, but with a declarations for fair treatment. The Labor Union was the creation of the working man’s answer to big business and the Robber Barons. In There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story…

can attract anyone to a product. That is what the beer company Keystone is going for in their commercials. Their commercial usually consist of a beautiful girl and a blue collar looking man saying something nice to the beautiful girl ultimately sweeping her off her feet. The commercial I watched used a figure head of a blue-collar man. They used a beautiful woman in distress and shows their product helping them win the beautiful woman over and the use of comedy with the weird situations. I…

company was the standard for how raw meats would be processed and distributed amongst the nation. It was the head of the meat industry; with the meatpacking industry thousands of jobs were available, yet it was because of monopoly capitalism that the workers of this company were afraid. Wages…

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…

The politics of The Martian present a powerful counterpoint to the rise of anti-intellectualism in the United States. Whereas the heavy majority of big-budget space adventures set in present day or the near future pay little attention to scientific accuracy in the name of entertainment, The Martian is, at its core, about science. It is about the triumph of the scientific method and the value of education. Trapped alone on Mars, astronaut Mark Watney has to conduct what are essentially a series…

In his essay “Blue-Collar Brilliance”, Mike Rose discusses the many aspects of intelligence required to be successful in jobs or careers that are often less than glamorous. There are many jobs in our society that do not require a college degree, sometimes they don’t even require a high school diploma, yet they do require various kinds of thinking and different skill sets that are often more complex than some people give them credit for. Rose does an excellent job of dissecting what kinds of…

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 easy…

be attributed to greed for higher wages or to trying to gain the “rights at work that they already had as independent citizens” (Domhoff). The labor unions were not solely about wages. Contrary to popular beliefs the unions held the rights of the workers in the highest regards. Without first affirming the rights of citizens the unions would not have developed to be a powerful institution in American cities. Due to unionization, labor songs took hold during this time period to show the masses…