Comparing Dignity Of Work 'And Warren Pryor'

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In life everyone grows up trying to decide what to do when it comes time to take on a job or a career. They take in factors of what would make their friends and family proud of them, or what kind of job to achieve to make them seem vital to society. In both Charles Finn’s essay “The Dignity of Work” and Alden Nowlan’s poem “Warren Pryor,” they go into the different aspects of how “work” is viewed. They also point out a very important lesson that people should do what they enjoy in life without regard of others expectations. In the essay “The Dignity of Work,” the author talks of a construction worker in a drugstore having a realization of how society views work. His “greasy coveralls and thick fingers confirmed [he] belonged to the dented

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