How Barba Changed My Life

In my opinion I thought that this book was a very good book. In this chapter I will describe the setting, theme, plot and conflict etc. This book had a few different settings like

In my personal opinion, this book was very hard to read and follow. At certain times I had a hard time figuring out who was talking in the book. I really wanted to enjoy this book and it’s “case studies” but I simply could not get past the confusion and enjoy this like I would any other book. I feel like the author wrote a lot of the situations for shock

I think it is because you imagine what this person is going through. I may state what happen when one of the women broke their foot and she had to keep working in addition it didn't faze her boss various. I think my perspective about if men which should be lower in order raised haven’t changed. I think if ironic because the people making minimum wage would trade places with Barbara in a heartbeat. I think that minimum wage should be raised because there’s so much evidence to prove that it's unlivable but then again there's also the contradicting evidence as well. Before started reading I didn't know that minimum wage jobs are what people live off of because in my household I you worked at McDonalds it was because you were a minor and after McDonalds you would get a better job. For example my dad always talks about how you can work at McDonalds for certain amount of time but then you have to get out of there

The book was very well put together and organized with documented evidence and interviews from important people. A lot of research was put into this book and all the research used is cited in the back of the book. Since the topic is such a controversial topic I understand that all the information had to be correctly used which is why the research was so in-depth. The book was easy to read there was a few words I was unsure of and had to define in order to better understand them. The situation itself brought up other issues of that time such as: social, economic, and politics. The conclusion at the end really helps by summing up some main points considering there is a lot of information throughout the reading. The drawing and pictures included in the text are very interesting and it is really cool to get to see

Besides a check, that she had to turn right back over to pay rent and buy few groceries in order to live for the next day. In turn, that same above described situation is the depressing truth about the cycle of poverty and the experience of one woman who placed herself in a project in order to relate the desperation of minimum wage workers of America.

What are your thoughts on the text so far, based on your perceptions of poverty do you think the author illustrated it accurately? I believe that she did a good job illustrating the ways she was dealing with poverty. She also gave great example on the different jobs and things she had to overcome so she could get a better life.

A deeper thought about the judicial laws by Courtney Sherman Police Brutality People would be in high speed police chases and it could possibly end in a result of someone being killed. Personally I feel that if you can’t catch someone just get the tag number and try tracking them down but physically chasing them would cause them to become scared and nervous and can cause them to wreck. Not only can high speed chases affect the driver being chased but also innocent bystanders can be harmed. There have been more than 5,000 bystanders and passengers killed in police high speed chases since 1979. Not only had that happened but tens of thousands more were injured and the officers continued to chase the car in hazardous conditions

questions and found out from the people who were living this life first hand what it was like. She states that all her colleagues spent their lives from graduate school to retirement studying the problem of poverty. She didn’t just study it from the outside, she went in and interviewed and got her questions answered.

I recall growing up when my mother would lecture me prior entering a store. My mother would say, when we go in the store, do not touch anything because she did not have money to pay for broken items; or do you have the money to pay for it? I grew up poor, on welfare, and lived in the projects, so I can relate to Sylvia. However, my mother instilled in me that being poor do not define me, but that education is vital for survival. Just because one the lack resources for a better education, do not mean one must give up; perseverance and determination make you strong. If you think it, you can achieve it was my mother’s motto.

Often throughout the book she mentions that it is said that "you're paid what you're worth", saying that little pay results in you not being to good of a person. With that label they were looked down on and viewed kind of as untouchables. They had low pay, long hours, no overtime pay, and no benefits which leads to low socio-economic-status a job that no one wants to pursue. She stressed that poverty wasn’t a sustainable condition, it's a state of emergency. Citizens in the lower classes are left to fend for themselves and the ten, eight, or six dollar jobs are all that's there for them. What she would encourage them to do is to demand to be paid what they're worth because in the end they will be better off.

Evidently, her life exemplifies the overcoming of poverty and how it really is possible as long as you stick to education and persevere through life.

I really liked the book. It was very enjoyable to read. I would recommend it to my friends, because I think they

I instantly imagine everyone barefoot, no actual floors in the houses and take a long time to cook food. This young girl just wanted a simple education, and there could have been so many things to hold her down such as living in poverty, not having clean clothes, a place to shower but instead she fought through and still desired a basic education instead of letting all these things hold her down which I think is really inspirational because she kept going and even drank from a dirty puddle when she knew it would make her sick. She risked her mother getting in trouble and her own health just to get an

I did actually really like this book. I was not sure if I was going to enjoy it when the project was first assigned, but after reading for a while, I became really interested

     While reading this book I found myself making notes on how I disagree with certain topics but I didn’t realize until I was about half way through that there were many good points made. Some of the good points I did notice can be found in every chapter