The book Nickel and Dimed is about a woman who does undercover research on the subject of living the life of a low-wage worker. Ni divided into five parts including an introduction and epilogue sort of chapter. The idea for this book is excellent. Being able to see myself standing in another persons shoes added an effect of not only pity but I also felt embarrassment for being a person who "has- the ability to buy things I want. It introduces a class of people that many forget about. There was insight to the fact that maybe a person on welfare needs to be there not because they do not work hard enough but because the way society is setup they were doomed to fail from the beginning. For example, her personal experiences described give the reader knowledge that unless you are "Superman- you can almost never work enough to get ahead in life, and you would not have enough time to "go to college- to gain the education for a higher paying job. The first person point-of-view personalizes the book and that allowed me to be drawn into the storyline and plot completely. Some ways she handled some situations angered me and there were parts of the book that I did not like but all these attributes in the end showed a human spirit flaws and all.
Things that I liked about the first three chapters were human characteristics that allowed me to identify and or pity certain parts. First, when she became indignant when her boss suggested that she actually do the research instead of some lowly young writer. It said to me "Hey, I am human and I have my pride and I have worked hard to be better than others."" I liked that she had vanity. Reading a book where the writer takes on the part of a Mother Theresa would have made it hard to believe. Another thing I liked about the book was that it introduced the coworkers with not only a physical description but habits, flaws, and other characteristics like "George is a perfect straight arrow--crew-cut, hardworking, and hungry for eye contact.
Nickel And Dimed Nickel and Dimed The United States of America is the richest nation in the world. ... These ideas are very scary but they are reality. ... The idea that if they work hard, they will be accepted and advanced in today's society does not hold true for many of the minorities. ... One main idea in American Culture is that if we work hard, we can make it in the world. ...
I Work for a Living Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is the tale of a middle-aged professional (with Ph.D.!) ... Somehow, the author's idea: to send "some hungry neophyte journalist" on an experiment in impoverished living conditions, turned on her and became a personal challenge/New York Times Bestselling book deal. ... Two years ago I wrote a story for The Siskiyou Newspaper, an "old-fashioned journalism" story (not unlike Nickel and Dimed). ... Consequently, Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed holds a special place in my heart. ...
The reaction from the Feminine Mystique closely paralleled some people's reactions to the book Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich. ... At first the book Nickel and Dimed left me with a bitter taste. ... But she got her hands dirty and wrote this book so people could get an idea of the situation the of the low wage earners life. ...
The book Nickel and Dimed was by Barbara Ehrenreich was a phenomenal read, it opened my eyes to the dark corners of the world that are so close yet so far from me. ... The book showed the idea that workplaces can pose hardships to the employees that are physical and even mental to a point. ...
Summary Barbara Ehrenreich has an idea for a book, to go undercover and see how a person can live on six or seven dollars an hour. ... Questions I/1 After reading Nickel and Dimed I felt very differently about the average Blue-collar Americans who work for very low wages. ...
In Chapter 4, Gatsby drives over to Nick's house to take him out for lunch, and Nick encounters Gatsby's car: "It was a rich cream colour, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes and terraced with a labyrinth if wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns. " (pg.64). ... One of the many elements that he uses to show his idea of the concept in depth is setting. At the beginning of Chapter 2, Nick describes the place that is between West Egg and New York: "This is a valley of ashes- a fantastic farm where ...
Last semester, Barbra Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed, came to campus to speak. ... I was one of the few people in the room not considered an "authority"; however, I had sound reason to challenge her and the faculty members that supported her ideas. ...
This concept was shown clearly in Nickeled and Dimed (Ehrenreich, 2001). ... There must be allowable both in mainstream society and in political venues a idea of family being a support structure that can be maintained with many different combinations of genders, ages, and ideals. ...
William helped open up the idea of a carbonized filament, a carbonized material drawn into thin wire, to Edison which Edison had not tried. ... Platinum was also very expensive though so Edison tried to steer around that idea. ...
