It Is Abusive To Be Poor Rhetorical Analysis

With Ehrenreich’s limited amount of resources, the world seems to be larger, as making her way around becomes more difficult. Throughout her journey, Ehrenreich argues that individuals working at a low wage experience the struggles of living in poverty, the degradation associated with these jobs, and intensive and physically demanding jobs. One of Ehrenreich’s most prevalent arguments is the reality that living on minimum wages is nearly impossible. Without savings, she tells how she is unable to afford an apartment because she has no money for a down payment. This requires her to live in a more expensive motel where she is also forced to buy unhealthy fast foods because she does not have a kitchen to cook in.

Edwidge Denticate has highlighted the corrupt, severe, oppressive and barbaric situation of the common people and the life that were leading in Haiti. The characters depicted echo the estrangement and wants of human nature. Edwidge Denticate has described her characters in a manner to create an effect of defective hopes, aspirations and isolated expectations. The characters have fallen prey to a meshwork of endless desires. Not only they symbolize lost hopes, but also a limited horizon of human being.

She can’t keep a job for long and it is very tough to get one, and even when she gets it, racism and her status as an illegal immigrant limit her wages compared to normal U.S. citizens. Although she can send some money home to help Enrique her earnings are so low that she has to turn to a form of prostitution to boost her income. Though Lourdes

Black people struggled with getting high-paying jobs because of racism, and without money, they aren’t able to pursue a lot of their dreams. It’s sad to see an old woman say that she and other people of her color cannot obtain their dreams. Another example is when Walter says, “I’m thirty-five years old; I been married

This informs the reader about the state of mind present in those who are homeless. This purpose is present in “Why Beggars are Despised” because Orwell provided information on the ideas that result in the hatred of Beggars. He explains how the working class despises those who beg because the working class feels that they have all this work to do while beggars just ask and receive. The next purpose that is represented is to Persuade. Both authors use their informative ways in order to create an essay that would push the reader into agreeing with a certain side.

Shame and guilt can go hand in hand, as seen in; Flight, The Glass Castle, and The Joy Luck Club. As the three novels progress, many of the characters suffer with inner shame and guilt. While the characters suffer with these things, it somehow seems to shape and change them. Through the characters hardships and struggles, the theme of shame and guilt emerges. In Flight, Zits, the narrator, greatly struggles with shame and guilt.

They were also oppressed because America viewed them as poor from all the hours they had to work to get little money. Plus, with them being undocumented, it was like they were invisible. Both poems talk about immigration where people from other countries would come the United States to change their lives because their country could not offer them a better future. Both poems had a representation of a light house. In Alabanza, it was the light house in Fajardo, which lights up the most wretched parts of the sea.

The effectiveness of a writer’s work plays a key role in the ability to keep the reader involved. Swift uses a Pathos based form of persuasion based on emotion. He describes the poor with sarcasm, anger, and resentment. This is evident when Swift writes, “It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags,” (385). Then he shocks them with fear, savagery, and inhumane ideas.

In the passage Nancy Mairs calls herself cripple. She uses different rhetorical mode and devices such as similes to the reader an emotional appeal. In the passage cripple is used to symbolize handicap and disabled. This gives the reader an emotional appeal to how she’s feeling. Nancy Mairs being called handicap lowers confidence, making her feel weak.

To add, the wife works at a minimum wage paying job, and the husband has recently been laid off from his job. While I do not know much about the whole divorce process, I have learned from a friend that it can be a very costly process. So, while the presenting problem is that the couple’s marriage is in shambles, and both parties would like a divorce, there is now a financial issue that becomes a major part of the planning

The first, is interim improvements, which provides up $2,500 in housing repairs for things that put the homeowners and residents of the house in danger. The second, repairs and renovations, HIP provides up to $35,000 for repairs and renovations so that the homeowner can reach their goal of getting up to the standard building code regulations. The third, replacement housing, HIP will actually grant an American Indian or Alaska Indian with a new home. In order for this to happen their old home must not meet the standard building regulations and their renovations cannot exceed $35,000. The last, new housing, which HIP will grant you a new home if you do not have one.

On the other hand, some may argue that the economic state during the Depression is not accurately represented due to how seemingly fair the characters are living. Yet, many of the character complain about their financial situation, such as when Atticus tells Scout they are indeed poor or when on chapter 24 page 312 Mrs. Merriweather exclaims about her maid Sophy, “It’s never entered that wool of hers that the only reason I keep her is because this depression’s on and she needs her dollar and a quarter every week she can get it.” These moments in the book sublimely point out the effects of the recession, such as low wages. On average during the 1920’s, maids made around twenty-five cents per hour, adding to a total of seven to twelve dollars a week (‘Monthly Labor Review by United States’ v11 no5. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Pg 976).

People who have low wage jobs live paycheck to paycheck and rely on public assistance as a supplement. Poverty has a negative effect on families such as access to resources, school choice, and social mobility. Minimum wages have been stagnant since 2009 Congress refuses to increase the wages. A solution to end poverty is to increase wages and create jobs. Most Republican politician agrees on cutting public assistance programs.

Once they get to America, they realize that life here was not all that it was cracked up to be. They get mistreated, and their daily lives become very challenging. It is very hard for them to find jobs, and once they do, they get paid little to no money at all. Both the Flint Water Crisis and The Jungle have many similarities. They both are real life stories on how government officials let many people suffer due to corruption in the government.

Many migrants put their lives in danger just to have an opportunity at a new life. Supporters, likewise, feel that the dangers these people undertake to arrive are extremely extraordinary. Those advocators feel the United States government is regulating these individual 's lives by using laws on their migration. One approach to comprehend what these outsides go through is by imagining what they go through daily. Working under cruel and unsafe conditions that numerous Americans decline to do, as well as getting paid the lowest pay allowed, is how some manage to survive.