"Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich: Chunk 2

Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed" explores the life and condition of working as a maid in Maine. She uses her experiences to tell how hard its also to work as a maid, come on barbara was picking up pubes, the detail she used made it seem it was disgusting. She struggles in this chunk of trying to maintain who she is, but people critisize her and loses her ability to stay in control and breaks off. She finds the "working poor" to be difficult because people believe their pain is solved by taking Excedrin and Advil everyday, when she said this her tone is frustrating and mad because she's tired of the owners of the hotels she has been working at. Her purpose is to make an impact and help the "working poor" be looked upon in a different point of view because they work hard, but get payed a pretty low wage barely surviving in society. Her audience is the general middle class and high class worker because they need to see that their are people with worse jobs than them and at least have pity for them.

1.Does Barbara wants us to show pity towards the "working poor" or change the system?

2. Do you think Barbara can survive because she seems to be struggling trying to survive?

"Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich: Chunk 1

"Nickel and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich explores the life of the low wage poverty of Americans. She joins the low wage poverty and disquises her identity in order to see the lives of many hardworkers that are in the struggle of surviving with their low pay of $6-$7 an hour. She keeps the reader attention by actually being a worker in a hotel or waitress and going through what these workers go through to feel the vibe that people in America are being taken by advangtage. She uses life experiences to prove that the working system is unfair and corrupted. She explains the lives and goes through every moment a disadvantage worker would go through trying to survive in the world.  She doesn't enjoy what she is doing going through this prosses( everyday) but is urged to reveile and help this people. She has in mind to the general worker because she is informing the workers about places/ jobs that are in harsh living wages that are tough to survive in. Her purpose is to enlighten the reader about these jobs that don't care about how much or who works and are being payed only about $6-$7 an hour. 

1. How does the author show she cares about changing the system?

2.How will Barbara change the way we see low wage workers now?

Television Outside the Box

Josh Levin's 2009 article,''Television Outside the Box", from the Atlantic monthly, he exhibits the new way of seeing things in the: big screen; tv's; computers; and gaming in the near future. "3-D" its called-the new dimension- of enjoying media. The author introduces the reader with the 3-D commercial of Sobe that was played during the Super Bowl. He then states that 3-D was not the thing back in the days every decade it would come out, but then disappear until it shows up again. Now that the media has brought it out again, DreamWorks and Disney’s Pixar will be releasing all of its features in three dimensions. He concludes by saying that once 3-D gets its real attention then people will be on their way to the big screens and 3-D entertainment at home sooner or later. I'm so great that they will be coming out with this huge new technology, basically modify it to surpass and get the audience attention. His purpose is to give the reader the idea that 3-D is not dead yet, but rising from its tomb to please the audience.He seems to have an audince in mind who enjoy technology or enjoy the media out in the world because he seems all hype up all about it.

1.Are YOU ready for the change?

2.How will this affect people in a negative way?