Broad Summary

I think I'm going to write my paper on the Barbara Ehrenreich "Nickel-and-Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America". I think I can relate to this paper more in the sense that I know what its about and the issues are everywhere in America. it would be easy to explain the same situation she was talking about in her essay and give present day issues and facts to go along with it. I believe it will easiest to explain to an outside reader, easy to summarize and give view points on it as well.

Assignment #2

I think I'm Going to use the cocktail waitress essey for my paper. I have insight in this topic since i have doned some waitressing. The author uses a lot od decriptive words, which i picked up on. The author is really tring to get the reader to get a feel for the job. I <3 decriptive writing. However Im not exactly sure how to go about this paper...

I think....

I'm not really sure what I think. I am thinking about "Passport Photos" and I am thinking about "Nickel and Dimed Cocktail Waitress." If I talk about the passsport story I know what I say and think will be different then what other people think. If I choose the cocktail waitress I could be more pesonal using examples of regular waitresses and experiences I had. Those are my ideas that I have but I'm still thinking.

The other side to work

I want to write my paper on work. I have been working since the age of fourteen and now that I think about it has made the strong person that I am. My first job was not just a fast food restuarant but it was in a completely different atmosphere. I worked at HersheyPark's Boardwalk fries stand and it changed my view on the whole park and just people in general. I could now see what the workers go though as well as the customers everyday. I was an experience that showed me how some days people were nice and mean at the next minute. But the whole time I dealt with the attitudes of the customers and employees, I had to keep a Hershey Park happy attitude and smile on my face. So I wanted write a story that would get my readers to understand the change.
Bracee

rhetorically speaking

I'm going over the syllabus trying to get an idea for assignment 2, but am having trouble. We are told to write about a rhetorical conversation involving public opinion. But I'm finding that most of the stories we have read are tied so closely to political issues that this rhetorical debate is lacking the authors own feelings. Anybody can find an issue online then find other peoples opinions about a particular political problem and simply rhetorically analyze it until your blue in the face. The problem with this assignment is that it lacks personal direction. When talking about something that nobody can fully understand like these universal issues we tend to tie radical positions to personal experience, whether maybe having extremist parents, or simply not being tipped often as a waiter at applebee's. Without speaking in a biased voice during this assignment, after it's completion each of our papers will share the same run on voice that's used by backwards politicians who talk them selves in circles about the same problems.

passport

dont ridicule people, dont judge a person on their personality or their behavior, or the way they look. Just becuase they dont seem to be a good person on the outside doesnt mean they arnt a good person on the inside. When people move hear or come hear doesnt mean they should be disrespected. Give them a chance because maybe they come hear for a better way of living so they can get through life and get a better paying job.

passport photos

I didn't like this essay as much. It didn't make me want to come back and read it again. Infact I'd be glad to never read it again because I found it extremely boring. The story has been done a million different ways. It teaches and shows the same message over and over. The theme is that judging people by their cover is a world wide issue. Each country looks at foreigners as just that, foreigners. They think they are lesser beings. It also spoke of the fact that immigrants coming into this country should infact have to speak our language. It actaully angers some people that there are others living in our own country who don't even know how to speak its home language. Although this topic can be controversial to some I believe it to be futile because there is always going to be prejudice everywhere you go.

All those terms

• authoritarianism
• romas
• afro-descentents
• burakumins
• food sovereignty
• WSF
• agro-ecological production
• neoliberalism
• G8
• ideological
• Mr. Lee
• mercantilization
• agrarian reform
• GLBT
• embargo
• GMO foods
• IMF
• WTO
• apartheid
• refusnik
• ecological debts
• sexual tourism
• latifundarios

Passport

This essay teaches to not judge a book by its cover just because someone is different does not me there are a good or bad person. you should always get to know someone before you pass judgement on them.

passport photos

when looking at a person do not judge them just because they are different than what your comfortable of... different does not always mean something negative... immigrants are people just like me and you... they deserve as much respect as a human being that is a citizen... most of the time, its not even their faults for the language they speak or having to come here... they are just trying to make a decent living just like me and you...

After reading these two essays, I've decided to marry rich.

living on hardly anything

After reading the nickel and dimed essay makes me thankful that I don't have to live like that. Sure Americans our age work low wage jobs when in school. Yes, there are people in the real world who make a living off 7 dollars a hour but some have could of done alot better. I'm sure nobody has a dream of living out of a van all their lives. Some people say once your rich you stay that way and if your poor you also stay poor. I don't agree with that statement, you always hear the rags to riches stories that get you pumped. Overall I say that if your on the bottom you can improve yourself to make a name for yourself.