Beth’s office is through the kitchen in the back of the store. The Paradiso’s mission statement is “To build a lifelong partnership of raving guest, associates and stockholders”. Her job is to order supplies, doing schedules, hiring employees, cooking, serving, counting the register at the end of the day and taking care of the store. Beth says her least favorite thing about her job is the turnover never having enough people to run the store. There are times that she has to be the manager and the cook at the same time.
All are white. The one man of honor in this phantasmagoria is 'Nigger Jim' as Twain called him to emphasize the irony of a society in which the only true gentleman was held beneath contempt.”-Russell Baker of the New York Times, 1982. This quote emphasizes the greatness of this book as an anti-racist and anti-slavery book. Anyone that thinks that Huck Finn or Twain are racist needs only to read this quote and their beliefs will immediately change because they will realize the context in which Twain was writing, and the point he was trying to emphasize; slavery and racism are horrible. They will only be able to do this if they think for themselves and challenge themselves to be open to new ideas.
“Each morning our mother and father trudged wearily down the dirt road and around the bend (Pg50).” The parents did everything they could to support the family. They worked from morning till night just in hopes that their family will prosper. “I scrambled to my feet and just stood there and stared at her, and that’s the moment when childhood ended and womanhood began (pg 58).” Even though Lizbeth is experiencing conflict she is forced to become an adult. She did things
Vinton E. Breedlove Western Governors University American Me, by Ninfa Miranda-Maloney, is about an immigrant from Mexico who comes to America searching for the American dream. She shows a racial aspect when she says, “kissed your white land, broke my back, sweat a few tears for a piece of the dream”, (Maloney, n.d. lines 27, 28, 29). The Mexican worker is working extremely hard for a white man on his white land. The line, “Fifty years of American me, still smell the onions on my fingertips,” (Maloney, n.d. lines 31, 33, 34), shows social aspects. The worker still works in the onion field 50 years after he came to America.
Not everyone can be rich like Bill Gates, but not everyone wants to be. All families want in America are ways to allow food to be put on the table without having to work 2 or more jobs, which now a days is hard to find. Danny and his family deserves ways to help their daughter who is sick. Way to put food in the mouth of their other family members and they deserve an understanding. Danny you deserves a raise, more than just ten cents but a raise that will actually help your family make it day to day.
After purchasing this book, I read the back of the cover and was intrigued and interested by the noble idea Barbara Ehrenreich sets out to investigate –the many trials and tribulations of low-income workers in America. It’s easy to watch any mainstream television show such as “The OC,” and get a false perception of the American Dream. But rarely do people get to see the true American Dream – Joe the Plumber, err… Landscaper, making minimum wage and trying to keep his 1983 Honda Accord running properly day after day, all while trying to scrounge up enough money to make his monthly rent. With that being said, I believe that anyone can overcome economical difficulties, if they put forth the hard work and manage their budget correctly. Ehrenreich’s egotistical perceptions compromised her investigation, and failed to change my opinion on poverty and prosperity.
Lotishia Edwards Adrienne Vivian English 1101 September 26, 2012 Don’t Blame the Eater After reading “Don’t Blame the Eater”. I was really concerned, from my understanding most people get obese at a very young age, most time because parents are too busy to just take the time out and cook something for themselves and their kids. Kids spend most of their time and money at a fast-food place because that’s the way they grew up, after eating at a fast-food place all your life it’s really hard to just stop. For Example: if your mother works seven days a week and you have to go to school, when your mother gets home you would have already ate junk food. The best thing for parents, who works long shifts seven days a week, is cook a large sum of
Dictator speech People of Netzlechik, look at your lives’, what do you notice about them, are you swimming in money, are you able to provide your families with enough food and necessities or are you barely making it. Yes, most of our lives are spent struggling to feed our children, (most parents go starving just to accomplish this almost impossible task) . Most of you can’t even afford to put your children through school. What will you tell little José when he was so excited about learning a new word in his English class, or little Maria who begs you to let her go back to school, because she loves it so much . How does it feel to deny education to your children, deny the key to their future, the key to a better life.
They were living their American dream. One day they had jobs and homes, the next they found themselves unemployed and homeless. Although, among them were truly homeless individuals. Some of them living within tent city were those who were battling alcoholism or drug abuse. I feel that if there would have been only “truly” homeless people living in Tent City, a story would not have developed, but since some of these people were once middle-class individuals, I think this story seemed to hit closer to home.
Parents spent most of their time for their jobs and conducting business, leaving less time for their children. Some reasons mentioned above could make it impossible to generalize about the typical American family. The culture has been changed largely, because Americans have so much freedom and they don't care for each other like in the old days; American family becomes less communication. We are living in the twenty-first century, where the typical American family may consist of divorced parents, three kids that live with mom during the week and stay with dad every other weekend. Often, at least one parent has remarried, and lived their own life.