Riis only wanted to call attention to the horrendous conditions a large portion of the population of New York City lived in. I felt this book was very difficult to read and the message Riis was giving his readers was unimaginable. ... Hard working immigrants lived in filthy, dangerous, cramped areas because there was no other place to live. ... If it weren't for flash-photography Riis would have never been able to capture people in their so-called "homes." ... The walls were deteriorating and the room seemed smaller than my room at home; that one room was their entire home. ...

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When I finished the book, I looked at it as what I only can call loathing. ... Ehrenreich's book is a success. One thing I did mind about the book was that is was not totally focused on the experiences of the working poor, but often the experiences of someone trying to find a cheap place to live on short notice while she cleanses her system of various chemical substances. ... Ehrenreich chose not to examine statistics from the comfort of her own home or by interviewing unskilled laborers. ... This gave her a first person analysis of what she saw and experienced in her work place am...

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In his book, Urrea goes into tremendous detail about his life living in those slums and the images he saw growing up on the other side of "the wire.... After a while, slums will just form due to such a large unemployment rate and people needing a place to go. ... Urrea explains why these migrants are moving at such an alarming rate when he states, "Imagine how bad things must get to make you leave behind your family, your friends, your lovers; your home, as humble as it might be; your church say.... I cannot lie; reading this book at times was hard. ... Urrea's book Across the ...

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In 1999 and 2000, Ehrenreich worked as a waitress in Key West, Fla., as a cleaning woman and a nursing home aide in Portland, Maine, and in a Wal-Mart in Minneapolis, Minn. ... I personally have worked in many places similar to the ones discussed in this book. ... Although required by law, some places do not even have common things such as a bathroom, or sink to wash your hands. ... So what does this book show about our great country. ... This is not fair, especially in the "land of opportunity", as we call ourselves ...

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First I will speak on the way gender plays a role in the differences in wages in our market place. ... As David Leonhardt brought up in his article "Wage Gap Between Men and Women Shrinks", in the Book of Leviticus it is said "the value of a man's life was put at 50 shekels and a woman's at 30 shekels." ... He stared a company called Cobra Golf. ... This is means that a person which grew up in an upper middle class home has more incentives to be successful than someone who has grown up in the slums. ... While the upper middle class see people with nice cars and homes and people w...

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I then inquired if he had a place to stay for the evening and he informed me that if he didn't get to Parkersburg he would go to a friend's house. ... Baumohl declares in his book Homelessness in America "The lives of all people, disabled or not, are embedded in circumstances shaped as much by structural factors as personal and biographical ones" ( 26). ... Baumohl states in his book Homeless in America that "According to this perspective, people were homeless because something was wrong with them- (25). ... Others simply define homelessness as the condition when the person or famil...

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That is far from the truth, some of the so-called "lazy" people do have jobs, but most are stuck with low-paying jobs. ... According to the Legal Information Institute, "Among the services that Medicaid covers are: in-patient hospital services, out-patient hospital services, laboratory and x-ray services, skilled nursing home services, physicians' services, physical therapy, hospice care, and rehabilitative services." ... (Medicaid Web Page, www.hcfa.gov, 1999; Legal Information Institute, www.law.cornell.edu, 2002) Book Views The New Class War by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. .....

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For the next few years, Riss had numerous occupations in the United States ranging from manual laborer to a book salesperson. ... The other causes for overcrowding were economic, one being the cheap rent and another being their close proximity to the work places of the lower class. ... In his book Jacob A. ... It is important to note that Riis places the blame on the Italians not their environment or greedy landlords, claiming that they themselves reproduce the conditions they faced at home. ... (Riis, 95) Italians at this time were quickly gaining what some may call close to a monopoly of...

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• Grade Level: High School