Analysis Of Mike Rose's Blue Collar Brilliance

Her job requires a considerable amount of physical and mental work. She has to remember many information such as the order belongs to whom and how long it takes a dish to be ready (Rose 274). In his mother’s job, she learned how to be smart at doing her job, how to make a sequence plan of things she has to do, and how to solve problems (Rose 274). His mother said that she learns new thing every day in her job (Rose 275). After he finished his mother’s story, he starts talking about his mother brother Joe Meraglio. Joe quit school when he was in the ninth grade. He works at General Motors as a supervisor of the paint-and-body department. His job was like a school for him where he learned things that school did not provide such as being able to use his body in a proper way to do tasks faster and save energy (Rose 277). Although he had lacked of knowledge, he was successfully able to initiate the redesign of the nozzle on a spray paint sprayer and lower the energy costs on the banking ovens without reducing the paint’s quality (Rose 277). Also, his work helped him to learn about budget and management. We can conclude from Rose’s stories that college is not necessary to be

In the article "Some Lessons from the Assembly Line", Andrew Braaksma is talking about how important your education is, and how he had wished he would have went to college much sooner than he did. Also, he wouldn 't be getting underpaid at work as hard as he does. I believe, he is wanting a better future for the kids that 's soon to be in college, and he is wanting them to see how hard it is a struggle of being underpaid. He is wishing he would have went to college much sooner than he did, and he would have a good paying job because, he could have already had his degree, and he wouldn 't be getting under paid. His goal is him telling students how important their education is. The authors tell them they would understand it more due to him giving his personal life habits, of working hard and getting underpaid because maybe lack of experience or not having a certain degree.

I think Mike Rose was successful in being persuasive when he wrote this. I think he was successful because he not only states the jobs that require extra learning in the essay but he uses his own connection. He put his mother in the essay and talks about her work life and he puts in his uncle’s work life and talks about his transition to a higher position and the problems he had.

Yes, a career that raises one out of poverty is an undeniably positive achievement, but the benefit of knowledge as the end goal should not be discounted and can surely be prized regardless of the possible resulting income bracket. He goes on to ask the question "what if encouraging students to take a shot at the college track - despite very long odds of crossing its finish line - does them more harm than good," but fails to answer that question by naming even a single harm that college aspirations cause. This is because there isn't one. Encouraging students to continue learning is only beneficial and college assists people in that

Both articles, “Are Too Many People Going to College?” and “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” differ in many ways from each of the author’s own experiences. The first article “Are Too Many People Going to College” argues a bachelor’s degree is a necessity and your ticket into the working world. If a person doesn’t get a 4-year-college degree society will judge him or her as being not as smart or less than someone who possesses a bachelor’s degree. However, “Blue-Collar Brilliance” argues that while it’s still important to get a bachelor’s degree, there are still some good high paying jobs that don’t require any college education at all. And by working a trade job,

Daniel James Brown, the author of The Boys in the Boat, uses Joe Rantz’ story to symbolize the way America was able to find hope in a time of hopelessness and despair in the world-the Great Depression, and Nazi Germany. Joe Rantz was kicked out of his home at a very young age, even though he hadn’t done anything wrong. Joe’s mom, “Thula exploded in the face of what she saw a lax discipline...she would not live under the same roof as Joe...went back upstairs and told [Harry’s] only son he would have to move out of the house. Joe was ten” (Brown 36). Joe’s life had changed right before his eyes, just like a lot of Americans lives and the Jews in Germany during the early 1930s. Millions of people were displaced during the tumultuous times of the

Mike Rose author of “Blue Collar Brilliance” he reminisces about his childhood and how he was observing his mother at work and how much she multitasked and how he experienced the blue collar work. His purpose was to describe how people integrate physical and mental work is in the field and supports people in the blue collar field.

    The boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown, takes the reader through the life of one of the main characters named Joe Rantz. The reader follows Joe through his highs and lows he endures throughout the story. Joe is a very determined, strong, and eager young man. He is six feet and two inches, a freshman, strongly built, blonde, with gray-blue eyes (Brown, 12). Joe continues to pursue in rowing even though he had to undergo some treacherous weather during his rowing practices. Determined, focused, and brave, Joe continued on with rowing. “The girls in the library lawn who had glanced appreciatively his way had had to overlook what was painfully obvious to him: that his clothes were not like those of most of the other students..” (Brown, 13). Based off the quote you can conclude that Joe didn’t have the newest clothes but he continued to go to school despite the fact he was a little different from his peers.

The author sets up a picture of himself as a student and a factory worker. The story shows us about what happens when a student decides to take a part-time job in the summer while continuing his education. Andrew Braaksma makes some great points in his article. The three main points in the article are to express the importance of education. We need to appreciate the value of being employed. The lack of people not being taught about working hard and the neglect of our education. These points are the driving force of the article. It shows us about learning life 's lessons and appreciating the value of employment when you have it. The author 's primary focus in “Some Lessons from The Assembly Line” is to bring out the situation he went through during his time at work and helping us appreciate education. In his award-winning article, “Some Lessons from The Assembly Line”, Andrew Braaksma tells you how important going to college is, getting a good job, and working hard.

All around the United States, there are people who probably never got the chance to go to college, not because they didn’t want to or weren’t motivated enough, but instead they couldn’t afford to go. In his book, The World Is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman talks about globalization, which means that the world is being flattened. What this means is countries are now able to compete with each other. One solution that would help people in a flattening world is free community college for two years. A majority of people have given up on the idea of college simply because it’s too expensive. What if community college was free for two years? Now people wouldn’t have an excuse to not go to college. But will students be as motivated and not slack off

Delbanco explains how students have changed their reasons for attending a college when he states, “...yet on the assumption that immersing themselves in learning for the sheer joy of it, with the aim of deepening their understanding of culture, nature, and, ultimately, themselves, is a vain indulgence” (222). Secondary education has become too expensive for learning to be an indulgence. Students only go to college to get a degree in order to gain a high paying career. Davidson explains how dire the situation with low paying job is by saying how the process should work, “Only through productivity growth can the average quality of human life improve” (339). Unfortunately, the productivity growth only leaves a bigger pay gap. The factory workers are still low paying jobs. According to Davidson, their paychecks should grow as productivity grows, but of course the companies are going to be greedy with their money and take the extra cash for themselves. These low paying jobs will never change and that is why a higher education is important in order to get a well paying job. This cycle is hard to break and many do not. FOr this to change, companies need to be less greedy. Factory workers should be paid more with productivity growth and universities should make the tuition more

If education is not teaching you how to use the knowledge, the diploma would be the most useless stuff in the world. While, the common sense of people still tend to believe education means smart, vice versa. “You got college degree, you, you must be smart!” that’s many people may say to a college graduate several decades ago. However, are the graduates really as smart as people believe? Are intelligence positively associated with education or practice? Do the blue-collar workers are more stupid than white-collar? Who told you that? In the article “Blue-Collar Brilliance”, Mike Rose believes that education is not able to bring us the intelligence, while the society and environment, where we live affect our mind the most, after combining what

The “gross” jobs are going unloved in this world today. Blue-collar jobs are the same as white-collar jobs. Blue-collar jobs use the same skills. If you work hard at your job you can get anywhere with this job. Pay may be low at your starting point, but as you work harder and longer you could become a millionaire. This is the blue-collared struggle.

Through hard work and determination one can get themselves through college. That’s exactly the kind of opportunity the book Ragged Dick or Street Life in New York talks about. The little Ragged Dick is influenced the wealth man and his child to wisely spend his money so he can start going to school and making something better of himself. He also charitably gives the little boy to help him out with his present impoverished predicament. Though his opportunity was dramatic decreased from the world that less opportunistic than their one job. So from both point of view of success it seem that the real measurement was not the characters and their opportunity that could open up a better life for themselves. Success was really in the hands of the people

The traditional student is coming straight at of high school and obtaining a lot less life experiences with them. On the other hand, the non-traditional student would be going back to school because of financial hardship or wanting to enrich their lives on their own accord. Thus, there is a significant difference between the two kind of students that can be in a college university. Amy Strage tackles this topic in more detail in her article titled Traditional and Non-Traditional College Students’ Descriptions of the “Ideal” Professor and the “Ideal” Course and perceived Strengths and Limitations. Strage does a quantitative study with the use of surveys with Likert-style/open-ended questions to students that are both traditional and non-traditional.