I've never read one of Barbara Ehrenreich's books but I might have to check one of them out after reading Nickeled and Dimed. I admired the argument, actually enjoyed reading for a change, and also learned a lot from every page. When I finished the book, I looked at it as what I only can call loathing. Writing up for the rich the results of an upper class essayist's anthropological mission to see how the other half live is worthwhile. It is part of the task of affiliating the comfortable, which needs to be carried out much more strongly if we are ever to have a better society. The point of Ehrenreich's rapiers of intellect, art, and wit are ever more prevalent when she points out that even so-called "unskilled- work "is demanding and challenging: the memory skills required of a waitress, the physical labor of a house cleaner with a vacuum on her back, and the patience of a wal-mart "zoner- hanging up the same blouse for the ninth time can push human capacities close to their limits "and for the truly lousy pay. .
I feel that the focus or purpose of her writings were to remind her readers that every job is worth doing well, and that people who do it well deserve respect: " when I wake up at 4 A.M. in my own cold sweat, I am thinking of the table where I screwed up the order and one of the kids didn't get his kiddie meal until the rest of the family had moved on to their Key lime pies."" That is something that her readers need to hear more often. So maybe the next time their (the readers) order isn't perfect they'll show a little patience and understanding, with their waiter or waitress. .
Mrs. Ehrenreich often found it a struggle to make ends meet even though she was working two jobs, seven days a week. Something is terribly wrong with this picture. A white, middle aged, capable woman with dependable transportation can't support herself working two jobs. Even she admits that she had it easier than most of her new coworkers, who were single uneducated parents with no transportation.
When we think about capitalism we usually are either for or against it. You believe in it or you do not. However, we seldom think about how capitalism has changed the entire world. It has caused dramatic changes in traditions, cultures, and much more. These changes is something that has been referre...
The Bible Code -A Book Critique- Drosnin, Michael. The Bible Code. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 264 pages. Imagine everything that has ever happened, from the time Moses received the Ten Commandments, to the end of time as we don't yet know it, was written down in vivid detail over 3,...
Web Site Critique Writing critiques on a web site that uses good design skills and one that is poorly designed web skills was not an easy task. ... For my first critique I have chosen the web site from the magazine, Rolling Stone to which I have subscribed to for over 20 years. ... My second critique was not as easy as the first critique. ...
Initially, one is led to believe that to critique something accurately, whether it is political or not, one must be presented with the facts. ... These facts are equally important as dates and names as they too provide an insight, something essential to critique. ... The poetry and prose that was produced at this time is equal to any reportage and non-fiction in providing one with the ability to offer a political critique of the circumstances. ... This, whilst being emotionally and personally based, much like the poetry of Langston Hughes that can be compared to these speeches, still offers a ...
He first published the Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 and added a new preface in 1787. ... Later in the critique Kant adopts this definition as his own. ... This tribunal is none other than the critique of pure reason itself" (635). ... Kant advertises his critique to be a success. ... Appropriately, comprehensiveness is Kant's goal in the critique. ...
This essay is a critique of two topics that I have selected from the student workbook. ... Lastly, the goal of this critique is to give the reader my opinions on the subjects presented, and ultimately try making sense of the two topics in an attempt to cross there intended ideas. ... The next article I will critique is a chapter taken from The Subcultures Reader, a book written by Gelder, K. and Thornton, S. ... In the rest of this reading, Clarke et al. identify the working-class subcultures and critique this culture from an array viewpoints. ... This paper was a critique of two differe...
Art Critique: Ned Dameron My piece was done from a scene in the Stephen King book, "The Wastelands", that depicts a young boy and his discovery of, preliminarily a key, and a rose. Observations: This piece relays a feeling of mystery and intrigue through its use of color and actual objects i...
Taking Saussure's linguistics as our point of departure and bringing to bear Derrida's critique of the metaphysics of presence, we can begin to raise epistemological as well as political questions about language's epistemic status as a lens through which we may access reality. ... It is important to note that Derrida's critique of structurality applies not only to the metaphysical interpretation of language, but to all of the West's theoretical systems: of morality, of political ethics, of religion, of science, of philosophy. ... In the man-centered epistemic structu...
