Riis Pride And Prejudice Chapter 3

Ehrenreich’s housing situation also makes her stand out from the real poor working class. Ehrenreich (2002) states "As it turns out, the mere fact of having a unit to myself makes me an aristocrat..." (p. 70). Almost every other person she has met has to live with another person. A hefty security deposit is required to get an apartment which many people are unable to pay so they are forced to live with family, friends, or pay for a hotel room. Cohabiting is another system the working poor faces. Ehrenreich does not have to endure the hardship of living with another person.

During life, birth, and death, a family is one of the few natures of life that are present throughout. Often times, the value of family is taken for granted, and people tend to disregard the importance it carries. Due to the power present in the nature of a man, often times it is challenging for women to establish a firm independence, in distinction of the common norms inaugurated in society and in family. In both A Thousand Splendid Suns and Pride and Prejudice, men are the dominant figures in all households, as they have control over their financial status, who their children marry, where they live, and create means in which the females of the family must follow. The inferiority that women face leads to an inquiry of an immense pride

2002 - Morally ambiguous characters -- characters whose behavior discourages readers from identifying them as purely evil or purely good -- are at the heart of many works of literature. Choose a novel or play in which a morally ambiguous character plays a pivotal role. Then write an essay in which you explain how the character can be viewed as morally ambiguous and why his or her moral ambiguity is significant to the work as a whole. Avoid mere plot summary.

In How the Other Half Lives, the author Jacob Riis sheds light on the darker side of tenant housing and urban dwellers. He goes to several different parts of the city of New York witnessing first hand the hardships that many immigrants faced when coming to America. His journalism and photographs of the conditions of the tenant housing helped led the way of reformation in the slums of New York. His research opened the eyes of many Americans to the darker side of the nation's lower class. Though it seems that he blamed both the victims and the board forces of society, I believe that he placed more of the blame on the board forces for the conditions that many immigrants faced.

In Li’s commune, the housing was not up to today’s standard. They lived in abject poverty. There was barely any available space in the house to accommodate everyone.

The fear of not knowing if there will be enough money to make rent each month is something than many people experiencing poverty are forced to deal with. However, in Ehrenreich’s case,

- Not only that, back then so many poor Englishmen were willing to trade several years of labor in exchange for a passage to

As the author moved from locale to locale she identified a variety of recurring hardships faced by the working poor. The chief concern for many was housing. Finding and maintaining economical housing was the principal source of disruption in their lives. For many of the working poor it’s not uncommon to spend more than 50% of income on housing. These leaves a scarce amount of money left over for anything else and creates a situation where the person is always worried about losing their shelter. In a nutshell, it’s Ehrenreich’s conviction that wages are too low and rents are too high. She does speak with many individuals who simply cannot afford the high rental rates and are forced to live with family, friends, or in some

The basic cost of living; housing, food, and transportation, can’t even be properly attended with low wage jobs, without sacrificing one for another. Ehrenreich proceeds to describe not only her poor living situation, but also her co-workers, based off of information that she was able to gather while working with them. She states, “housing, in almost every case, is the principle source of disruption in their lives”(139) In her co-workers case’s that she presents, a unburdensome stable place to live is a luxury that they don’t have, nor can afford, “Tina, another server, and her husband are paying $60 a night for a room at the Days Inn. This is because they have no car and the Days Inn is in walking distance of the Hearthside”(139) With the minimum wage between “$6 to $10”, she has to make a little above $7.50 just to pay for their housing expense, not including food nor transportation. This is not a efficient way to live. She goes on to stat, “Joan, Who have fooled me with her numerous and taste for outfits…, lives in a van parked behind a shopping center”(139) This shows people can work minimum wage job and still be homeless. She also describes another one of her co-workers living conditions, “Claude… is desperate to get out of the two-room apartment he shares with his girlfriend and two other, related people.”(139) In all three of these living situation it is clear that if they are living in a home, it

It may be considered rude to talk about religion, the mafia, politics or personal family matters.

But, the wages for such labor were quite minimal. African laborers were also employed to construct roads and railways for communication, and even yet these jobs provided very inadequate funds for living expenses and decent survival.

the essence of man - that Jane Austen portrays in her novel “Pride and Prejudice”. Through a

	Self-respect and all the related values such as pride, dignity, modesty and honor are very important in Italian society. Witness Bruno, whom at a young age, works full time at a gas station. Bruno's contributions to the Ricci family make him a "man" and strip him of his innocence. Being able to work is an optimistic endeavor which Bruno wholeheartedly engages in.

Roy links yellow to disgust, which creates a sense of foreboding in the reader’s mine when Estha first meets the Orangedrinklemondrink man who later molests him. Objects meant to disgust the reader are associated early on with the color in yellow in phrases like, “[Baby Kochamma] was wearing a limp checked seersucker nightgown with puffed sleeves and yellow turmeric stains.” and, “A yellow brook burbles through a mountain pass”. Later, when Estha meets the Orangedrinklemondrink for the first time, the scene is bathed in yellow, which mirrors Estha’s disgust. His teeth are, “ like yellow piano keys”, and the man’s name is usually forgone is favor of referring to him by his teeth. Even before Etha is molested, the author uses a tone of foreboding by introducing the color yellow.

In various societies, individuals are treated differently depending on a number of factors like race, ethnicity, where they live or migrant status, sexual