Nickel and Dimed

is used to convince and manipulate the opinions of the target audience. Whether the objective is to create an emotional connection with the audience or create trust with a speaker or writer, rhetoric is used in almost all of these situations. In “Nickel and Dimmed” by Barbara Ehrenreich, Ehrenreich employs rhetoric to create logic and reasoning, to create an emotional connection with the audience, and to build trust with the audience in order to support the claim that it is basically impossible…

It is really easy to blame your financial difficulties on money. Yet what some people forget, is that this medium of exchange allowed us to create what we have today. Without something to use as currency there would be no society. A society consists of a group of people working together to create an orderly community. The creation of which would not be possible if the basic things that humans need are not satisfied. Money helps create stability by setting a certain value on all the commodities…

Barbara Ehrenreich wrote the book Nickel and Dimed, which was about her experience as being a low wage worker in the United States. The authors’ argument in the book, was that minimum wage workers are being treated unfairly by the higher class society in the United States. The purpose of her going through the experiment was to examine the way low wage workers able to live with the salary they are given, “How does anyone live on the wages available to the unskilled?”(1). Ehrenreich wanted to see…

title of “The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell. The reason why I have chosen this photo is because the book has taught me that the little things around us can make a big difference. The seventeenth photo I had taken is a photo of a book called Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich. The reason why I have chosen this photo is because it shows how many people who live in the U.S work full-time are receiving poverty- level wages and the author is just mentioning how can people survive under these…

sought to terminate welfare. Examining the act’s harm on the working class - and especially the poor working class - Barbara Ehrenreich lived for three years working low-wage jobs. By both taking on low-wage jobs and receiving no welfare, in Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich learns about the physically and mentally tolling aspects of these jobs, the costs of living with little income, and the barriers to entry of these jobs. Because she must work long hours in…

Considering our world today a huge percentage of people truly is living on low wage salaries. Barbara Ehrienreich came up with the book Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting by in America in the most paradoxical way. She was in a French country-style place that offers $30 for lunch with Lewis Lepham. They were talking about the future articles that she may write for especially in the side of poverty. Considering that price of $30, that is not really the best price for lunch so that made her tell the…

An emergency is a serious, unexpected, often dangerous situation that requires immediate action. In her book, Nickel and Dimed, writer Barbara Ehrenreich uses the term emergency to describe how low-wage working Americans should be seen: “…we should see the poverty of so many millions of low-wage Americans-as a state of emergency.” (214). Workers are in this desperate situation due to low-wages and long hours, unaffordable housing, as well as an employment system that succeeds in keeping workers…

Ehrenreich Is It Now a Crime to be Poor?, is an article by Barbara Ehrenreich that discusses the manner in which poverty has been criminalized in the American society. The main technique that Ehrenreich uses to make her argument that on the topic under discussion is the provision of real life examples. The approach has a great impact in convincing the reader that the delivered arguments and information are factual. In the article, Ehrenreich provides numerous examples of individuals who have…

The book, Nickel and Dimed, is well-crafted masterpiece that features the author as an undercover worker to experience the life of low-wage workers and the struggle they have to undergo to make ends meet in the face of poverty. The book is a great read as it provides insight through the eyes of an expert disguised as a worker going to Key West, Florida experiencing the same problems low-income Americans go through with an income of between US$2.43 and US$7 an hour. The book majors on the theme…

1. Set up the author’s experiment. What are the three rules the author sets for herself at the beginning of Nickel and Dimed? Does she ever break them? If so, why does she do so? The author sets rules for herself at the beginning of Nickel and Dimed as a guard toward the steps she is yet to take; plunging herself into the real working world and its fates. She decides on the parameters and rules in the spirit of science after all she has studied it at depth. The first rule the author sets was on…