Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Blue Collar Brilliance by Mike Rose.
As I read the article by Mike Rose, I noticed that he described situations very vividly so that the reader could visualize what the scene he was talking about looked, sounded, and felt like. By focusing on his mothers hard working skills of being a waitress, he goes in to detail of what she actually accomplished from shift to shift. Rose's theory of how writers and scholars focus on the value of hard work rather than focusing on the value of the thought of the hard work makes a lot of sense to me by shedding light on what he is trying to say. He is trying to persuade people to think cognitively while working and value the thought that goes into working, not the actual hard work.
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This is a very informative response piece. I would ask, how do you feel about what Mike has stated? Did Mike appeal to you any when he said "but gradually I began to see formal education as a means of fulfillment and as a road toward making a living"? I ask that because remember when we talking about "Are too many students going to college"? This statement is similar to the situations stated in that chapter. Im my response to the post, this was one thing that stood out to me as a college student. How do you feel about some of the points Mike made?
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