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'Making Sense of La Difference' by Barbara Ehrenreich

writers point of view; as straightforward as this concept might appear, the author duly notes how there are myriad variables that ...

Book Review of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

been hired, almost on the spot. Her "almost on the spot" hire is a job with a hotel restaurant, from 2:00 to 10:00 p.m. for $2.43 ...

Reviewing Feminism's Evolutionary Nature

until the womens liberation movement of the 1960s. As women focused on greater political, social, and economic equality, however,...

Ehrenreich's Attitude in "Nickel and Dimed"

routinely refuse to raise the minimum wage, allowing business to get away with its perpetual whine that if they increase their wor...

Evaluation of Barbara Ehrenreich's The Road to Equality

In eight pages this paper evaluates the writings contained within Barbara Ehrenreich's The Road To Equality Sorry Sisters This i...

Critique of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

text is a virtual diary of her experiences and observations. The text is effective in that the author is never condescending to t...

Barbara Ehrenreich on the Working Poor and Not Getting By in America

could earn $7/hour, she could perhaps afford something that cost $500/month, or $600 with "severe economies," but anything else wa...

The Literature as a Lesson in Community Health Care

Effective community nursing demands a familiarity with the culture, subculture, and/or socioeconomic group being attended....

Welfare Reform Issues and Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

In five pages this essay discusses U.S. welfare reform in a consideration of the working poor observations made by Barbara Ehrenre...

Summary and Review of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed

for contemporary social issues has been reflected in her thirteen books. In 2001, her text Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By ...

Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and Michael Zweig's Working Class Majority

and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" Ehrenreich takes on a new identity to secure work in the blue collar workforce fulfilli...

The Necessity for Labor Unions and Women's Place in Them

a woman named, Mother Jones, who was well into her sixties when she embraced the cause, continued to fight for womens rights in th...

Working Poor According to Beth Shulman and Barbara Ehrenreich

addresses in her book, which also deals with the plight of the working poor. Like Ehrenreich, Shulman argues against American soci...

Workplace Freedom of Speech

logos of their choice or, for that matter, to raise the occasional question about management priorities," she adds. The pr...

David Brooks's Bobos in Paradise

In three pages the reader's reaction to Brooks' book after reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich is considered. Three so...

An Analysis of the Text The Sexual Politics of Sickness

growing fears about it; and potential illness as a result. The standard birth takes place in a clinical hospital where the patient...

Is America Still America the Beautiful

This paper considers the words to the patriotic song America the Beautiful then compares Katherine Bates ideas enunciated in the s...

A Celebration of Los Angeles

to come to terms with the exoneration of the policemen who beat Rodney Smith during the riots of the early 1990s, but in a complet...

A Critical Look Into The Los Angeles Mass Transit System

thousand riders stepped up to take the car-less journey, significantly cutting back on the amount of vehicle emissions and traffic...

Spanglish en Espanol

instrucci?n del vocabulario para los lectores inesperados est? a a) inculca un sentido del encanto y el entusiasmo y b) establece ...

La Belle Epoch and Decadence in Against Nature by J.K. Huysmans

In six pages this paper examines the novel in a discussion of its portrayal of decadence and its impact upon La Belle Epoch....

The Persian Gulf War and U.S. Involvement

This 7 page paper outlines the factors behind the Persian Gulf War and the U.S. military strategy during the conflict. The writer ...

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Referring to Void Where Prohibited by Marc Linder and Ingrid Nygaard

in many workplaces, especially those that involve continuous process manufacturing, or factories doing meat and poultry packaging ...

The Depiction of Troy in The Iliad and in Film

is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...

Jean M. Twenge, Generation Me

This book review pertains to Jean M. Twenge's text Generation Me, which is a study of the differences between the attitudes and se...

Barbara Ehrenreich and Learning from Men

great writer who not only talks the talk but walks the walk. She is the author of Nickel and Dimed, about surviving on minimum wag...

Analyzing Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

anyone would offer her. She claimed to be an inexperienced homemaker returning to the workforce (Clayton, 2002). What ensues is ...

'Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America' by Barbara Ehrenreich

handle on that ever elusive definition of class. Each new work pursuit, however, reveals a startling similar answer to the questi...

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

there are few who are literally starving to death--there is AFDC, shelters, charities--there are two classes in society which are ...

Classical Sociology and Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

apartment or services, they end up on the streets living on wages equivalent to five or six dollars per hour. As if that is not ha...