Blog Post due Tuesday 11:59PM or in class on Wednesday at 9:05AM

Homework due Tuesday Nov 30 11:59PM:

Read Barbara Ehrenreich's “Maid to Order: The Politics of Other Women's Work” 479-495 and compose a blog response based on ONE of the following prompts:

1. Consider what audience this piece was written for. What assumptions does Ehrenreich make about this audience?

2. Consider Ehrenreich's ethos. What is the central argument of this piece? In what ways does her personal experience build her case?

3. Ehrenreich incorporates a range of research and statistics into her essay. Which statistical examples surprised you? Which are most persuasive? Least persuasive? Why?

Sunday, September 26, 2010

What it Means to be Educated.

What does it mean to be educated? I think that being educated means that a person achieves a certain level of schooling before going into his or her career. I do not think they should have to go into college if their career does not require a college education but they should at least have a high school diploma. I think that the career that he or she enters is what can determine wether they are educated or not. If they are not well educated then they will not be able to fulfill the requirements in that career therefore showing that either he or she is not educated enough to be within that career.
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  1. Taylor GillieSeptember 29, 2010 at 11:14 PM

    Like you said education depends greatly on what you want to pursue as a career. Obviously some careers require more or less education, and just because you do not pursue a career that requires an education does not mean that you are any less vital to the work force. Some of the most important jobs out there are jobs that many of us think are below us, some of the hardest workers are the people who do not necessarily have an education (or what we define as an education).

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