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    That’s the stereotype about the blue collar workers. However, this is not the case. The blue collar work force might be just as intelligent as the white collar work force. In Mike Rose’s essay he addresses the topic of the intelligence of the blue collar workers. To prove the point of Rose, he uses great techniques in his essay. Also, the essay flows smoothly through topics. Mike Rose’s essay, “Blue-Collar Brilliance” successfully persuades me that the blue collar work force is very intelligent.

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    Blue-Collar Brilliance, a short story written by Mike Rose, a professor at UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Rose takes his audience on a tour of the blue-collar experience, for those who may not know, blue collar is the hard labor, on the line, punching in at five in the morning and punching back out at close. In this case, it was his mother’s hard work he let the audience see, Rose Meraglie Rose, the waitress. Rose helps the audience gather a mental image of what he experienced

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    In his article, “Blue Collar Brilliance,” Mike Rose, a professor at UCLA, exemplifies that your education level should not define your level of intelligence. Rose also discusses blue collar jobs and the stereo types that follow. He gives examples to support this argument by introducing his own family members. First, he gives the anecdote about his mother working as a waitress. He then tells the story of his uncle and how he worked his way up the General Motors Industry with little schooling. He gives

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    being successful. In addition, “Blue Collar Brilliance” written by Mike Rose, introduces the same themes. In “Blue-Collar Brilliance” Rose wants to demonstrate to people their common sense is wrong about blue collar intelligence. On the other hand, in “Mother's Tongue” Tan wants to demonstrate the limitations of imperfect English is acceptable in our society and the richness of English that is brought to writing. Mike Rose wrote this short story “Blue-Collar Brilliance”, to argue intelligence associated

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    and Nicholas Carr, in their articles “Blue Collar Brilliance” and “World and Screen” respectively, emphasis how the benefits of working, physically as well as mentally, are often forgotten. On the other side, however, Tim Freider in his work “The Busy Trap” contends that leisure is just as neglected in our fast paced world. Despite these seemingly different statements, these works share quite a lot on when looks just below the surface. In “Blue Collar Brilliance” Mike Rose describes his appreciation

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    A Summary of “Blue-Collar Brilliance” by Mike Rose. In his essay, “Blue-Collar Brilliance,” Mike Rose reports that blue-collar workers have a powerful capacity to develop their jobs in order to get significant results, and it is not related to what level of education those workers have. Rose´s statements show narrative examples of how collar workers are facing in their daily routine, how smart they are, and how those people give reasons to change the thought of our society. Rose begins with narrative

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    Blue Collar Brilliance and Hidden Intellectualism Many people consider book smart the only form of intelligence, but a lot of people who attended college and obtained a degree can’t perform a basic task of changing a flat tire. So does that make those people unintelligent? Mike Rose explains in “Blue Collar Brilliance” and Gerald Graff explains in “Hidden Intellectualism” that there are many different forms of intelligence. In Rose’s article, he explains how he observed his mother along

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    In “Blue-Collar Brilliance” Mike Rose argues that although blue-collar jobs require less schooling, they require just as much intelligence as white-collar jobs because they must learn on the job and deal with different people every day. Rose supports this argument by discussing his mother and uncles’ lives, explaining how intelligence is gained through blue-collar work and showing the similarities and differences of blue-collar work and white-collar work. Rose begins his essay by writing about how

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    In the essay, “Blue Collar Brilliance” the author Mike Rose interprets how difficult blue-collar jobs are when telling the experiences from the 1950’s of his mother that was a waitress at coffee shops and family restaurants, and his uncle that worked his way up to a manager for a general motors department. Rose really emphasizes how those without the proper amount of education can achieve an acceptable amount of intelligence in the blue-collar workforce by observing how his mother uses her knowledge

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    Neha Sampat Professor Urbanic College Writing I 13 September 2017 "Blue Collar Brilliance" By: Mike Rose   In this story, “Blue Collar Brilliance” the author Mark Rose protested that intelligence can be consistent by the amount of education a person has done. Rose advises that blue collar and service jobs lacks more intelligence. In the essay, Rose talks about “how he grew up observing his mother as a waitress in coffee shops and restaurants” (1034, Rose). He describes his mother as charismatic because

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