Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Serving in Florida
This story "Serving in Florida" by Barbara Ehrenreich is an all to common account of the working conditions of a lot of American people. This to me is a stern warning of the things you will have to face without proper education or specific talent/ training. This story gets you very emotionally involved by describing the overall conditions of the people and the surroundings that she dealt with on a daily basis. I thought it was interesting that she basically did this as an experiment. She moved into a trailer park and the whole nine yards. I t grabbed me that she dealt with it and even worked two jobs, that is crazy. Really I think that this should really hit the high school age kids the hardest, because they are getting ready to be thrown out into the real world. This can be a chilling reminder that the world is not a bowl of cherries and higher education is something to be cherished and not taken for granted.
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This piece actually hit me pretty hard because I'm in college. It gave me that extra push I needed to keep working hard the rest of this semester. However, I think you're totally right that this would give high schoolers a reality check.
ReplyDeleteJames, I totally agree with you that the essays this week were a good reminder of how important and education is. I needed the pick-me-up related to my school work, especially around mid-terms. :) These were two great peices of writing this week.
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