Five Cents Lodging Bayard Street Analysis

Many human resources don’t acknowledge resumes anymore. In fact, many of the companies offer survival jobs instead of the job you’re actually applying to, therefore causing downsize. I know you may be thinking what’s a survival job? A survival job is any job you can obtain in order to put food on your table. Housekeeping, taxi driving or car detailing to name a few, are survival jobs that offer minimum wage or tips and no source of benefits.

In the essay, The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, written by Barbara Ehrenreich, she discusses her observations and experiment with “White-Collar” workers in America. White-Collar workers are known as the “Middle Class” people of America. They are classified that way by the amount of income they receive. A short definition of “White-Collar” is making enough to live off of and having a little extra money on the side. Barbara thinks that, “While blue-collar poverty has become numbingly routine, white-collar unemployment-and the poverty that often results-remains a rude finger in the face of the American dream.” What I believe she is getting at with this quote, is no matter what class you are rated as, unless you are the highest class, you are going to fail. I might be reading too much into that quote and the rest of the essay, but that is the vibe I get from the text. I do not particularly agree with that, but it is her opinion.

In a span of 10 years, the Holocaust killed over 7 million people, that’s just as much as the population of Hong Kong. In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel shares his experience on how he survived the Holocaust and what he went through. How he dealt with the horrors and even to how he felt of his dad’s death and how he saw himself after it was all over. As he tried to publish it he was constantly turned down due to the fact of how horrid and truful it was. He still tried and tried until it was finally published. This book shows how the Holocaust should be taught and not be forgotten, due to it being a prime example of human impureness. Humans learn off trial and error, how the Jewish population was affected, decrease in moral, and the unsettled tension are prime examples of such mistakes.

Toni Cade Bambara creates a character that is way too smart to ignore what is happening around her in the real world. Throughout the story story, she learns that there is a difference between the rich and the poor, and even though it isn’t fair is not fair, it is very real. By the end, Sylvia, a rebellious, “terrorize the West Indian kids and take their hair ribbons and their money” (625) kind of girl with terrible people skills, living in a typical African American neighborhood finds she experiences a huge attitude adjustment in regards to her outlook on not just money, but life in Bambara’s The Lesson.

Like anything else you love. Comparing to places that you love, can be complicated. I spent the better part of my life at Ft. Hood Texas. During that time, five of those years was spent, overseas fighting in the war. The two places I will compare are Iraq and Ft. Hood Texas. I will attempt to give you a synopsis of how they both affected different areas of my life. The first area will be Travel. How I traveled and what it was like. The second area will be living, the standards and how it affected me. And the last area will be the holidays. What and how it was celebrated. If there is one thing I learned through all of this; to be happy, you have to make it you 're own.

R/s Lavette leaves Kenidre (13), Chrishonna (11), Keausha (9), and Adrianna (5) in the care of legally blind mother, Carrie while she comes out with her boyfriend. R/s Chrishonna has to watch her younger siblings. R/s the children have to eat ramen noodles and Beefaroni. R/s seven to eighty to live in the home. R/s the house is very old and has mold. R/s there is a hole in the celling and the floors are bucking up. R/s Chrishonna, Keausha and Adrianna don’t have a bed, they sometimes sleep on the floor and chair. R/s Kenidre sleeps in the bed with his uncle Anthony and Lavette sleeps in the bed with her mother, Carrie. R/s Lavette verbal abusive to child.

“Meat," he said. "Potatoes, bread, coffee. One dollar, even… "They're a-workin' out there. You let me have some sugar an' I'll bring the slip in later."… "I can't do it, ma'am. That's the rule. No slip, no groceries… "For anything, ma'am." He looked pleadingly at her. And then his face lost its fear. He took ten cents from his pocket and rang it up in the cash register. "There," he said with relief… You bring in your slip an' I'll get my dime back." (Grapes of Wrath 393)

In “Living like kings” I strongly believe the homeless are misrepresented to be helpless and needy. They show us footage of how one of the men used to sleep on a piece of cardboard, on

After reading the novel, and viewing the life of low wage workers it is upsetting to see how so many people live with housing instability, food instability and lack of access to health needs. In the novel Barbara and her coworker work long hours in multiple jobs but they can’t still feed themselves with what they are being paid. In the novel when the author states, “After polishing off the first house, no problem, we grab “lunch”- Doritos for Rosalie and a bag of Pepperidge Farm Goldfish for Maddy…” (pg80). This quote reveals how Rosalie and Maddy are living on a bag of chips. When we eat a bag of chips we just eat as a snack. However, these characters in the novel eat chips because that’s what they could afford with $6 or $7 they make an hour.

In society, people tend to hide their feelings, if they are too difficult to accept or will emotionally hurt them. In the excerpt, “Mausoleum”, Ray Bradbury emphasizes the death and unhappiness in Montag’s life in order to reveal his true feelings of unhappiness and disconnection that he has from his wife in her superficial world.

There is very little cell phone service in the area so it might come in handy to bring games and activities to keep yourselves occupied during downtime at the yurt. The town of Durango is closeby and offers a variety of stores and restaurants if you are in the mood to be out and about on the

Russ Kramer’s painting Far From Home of a small sailboat all alone on the open water can be seen in many different ways, some better than others. In Dorothy Allison’s essay she talks about people hiding their “secret selves” when they look at paintings and how each person has a certain “version of reality” that makes their “secret selves” (595). I agree with Dorothy Allison that everyone sees things differently based on their own personal “version of reality” that is determined by their past experiences.

We told the people that everythings is top notch secret. So far, it’s staying that way. Today we are officially announcing war against Paytonia. I can’t wait. My hair and make-up’s done. Emeralda already put my outfit on. Everything is perfect. Sorry if I’m speaking in clipped sentences. It’s all I have time for. Okay. The Royal Train has arrived. It’s filled with the softest silk blankets and pillows. It has exactly 10 bedrooms, 5 with lofts, 2 each. Each loft has a white swing under it with a mini fridge and personalized snack basket. Every single bedroom has 2 pillows in the shade of white, a white comforter, a private bathroom, and a private closet. Everyone can do up their room to match their personality. The other bedrooms consist of 1 queen sized bed and a mini fridge and a snack bar. I, of course, have a loft and am currently sharing it with Emeralda.

Intro: “Nouveau Poor: Immigrant Poverty” is a 2011 film by Lathika International Film & Entertainment about how immigrants live in poverty and what they have to go through and the sacrifices that they make.

The picture of this family is sad and impoverished. For example, the overall feeling of the picture is desperate and impoverished. The room only has one bed , none of the family members are wearing shoes and then little boy doesn 't even have pants on. They are dirty and their faces are grim, the living area is very small and it appears to be a shack. The only thing covering the walls are three tiny pictures ,in very small frames. The father looks very frail and it looks as he may not be eating or eating less, in order to feed his family more. The windows are dirty and dusty and haven’t been cleaned in a very long time. The wood floors are unkept and have many stains, the bed sheets look ratty, torn and grimy. The picture of Bud Fields and