I think the authors of Some Lessons From The Assembly Line Andrew Braaksma, was trying to reach his audience by utilizing his life experience. Overall, his article was very direct on relaying his message where I was able to relate to the article. Having an education is important and will give you a better quality of life because you will broaden your options for jobs with ones that have better working hours, less strenuous work, and lower your chances of being laid off due to outsourcing. He was able to continue this point throughout his article on how education was important for a better quality of life. The writing was easy to dissect and analyze due to the author's explaining his points so anyone would be able to understand. I agree with the view of the author about his claim that having an education will bring forth more opportunity for a better life. When the author stated that blue collar jobs could be easily shipped overseas. The reading has a quote from a coworker backing the author's point. "Issues like downsizing and overseas relocation had …show more content…
He expresses his point by giving the time he has to be in at work. I agree with the author point as white collar jobs allow more flexibility. But there are some disadvantages as well. You can become less physically fit, work pressure increase and you are always in close proximity to everyone. I think the author has met his goal by directing the audience attention to the hours he awake for work. He was very direct in giving a great description of what his job consists of in the morning as well. He explained how the first thing he see is rows of machinery and how it has all been replaced by college. In closing, I agree with my claim that an education will give you a better quality of life. You can see from the key points that without an education you may be susceptible to factory jobs with harsh hours and intense
I think people who didn’t get much schooling didn’t mean they are not intelligence. Intelligence can’t use to measure a person schooling. In the old generation, parents don’t have much money to support all their child’s go to college because of the tuition fee and they had a lot things need to support. For example, my parents didn’t go to school, doesn’t mean they are not intelligence or not smart, their family can’t give them that much tuition fee and not much money to let them go to college, however now they still have a job to work on and keeping it. However people don’t go to college doesn’t mean they can’t get a job or can’t survive. So I agree with the author, intelligence can’t use to measure a person schooling. Also I believe that can’t go to college doesn’t mean you can’t get success in other way. The god is fair for you close a door at the same time will open another door for you but you need to be confident.
“…they have generally focused on the values such workers exhibit rather than on the thought their work requires” (Rose 276). Being a person that works those jobs isn’t easy work. I remember when I was young my Great Grandpa worked as a machine operator for any kind of road commission work. He had to be very skilled to work all of the machines. In my opinion, in certain jobs, you can learn more by doing, than by being taught in a classroom. Yes, a doctor needs to go to medical school and other jobs like that. But some jobs will teach you more by doing them, then by learning how to do it. Jobs like these are important because you’ll needs these skills eventually. I’m glad that I was, not forced, but pushed, to work a ‘blue collar’ job before and during
Some people may have decent jobs, but the bills and other expenses people may have make it harder on people than those who are in the same class but don’t necessarily have to go through the same thing as others. The chapters that I read in this book broaden what I said to a better, more clear understanding. In chapter 6, "The College Dropout Boom" talked about the idea of how higher education, meaning college, and how it should be the ticket to success in America.... ... middle of paper ... ...
It’s considered a rarity now days to walk down a major city street and not come across a single person who is fighting to survive poverty. The constant question is why don’t they go get help, or what did they do to become like this? The question that should be asked is how will America fix this? Over the past year, Americans who completed high school earned fifteen point five percent more per hour than that of dropouts (Bernstein, Is Education the Cure to Poverty). According to Jared Bernstein, in his article “Is Education the Cure to Poverty”, he argues that not only do the poor need to receive a higher education, but to also maximize their skill levels to fill in where work is needed (Is Education the Cure to Poverty). Counter to Bernstein’s argument Robert Reich expresses that instead of attempting to achieve a higher education, high school seniors need to find another way into the American middle class. Reich goes on to say “the emerging economy will need platoons of technicians able to install, service, and repair all the high-tech machinery filling up hospitals, offices, and factories” (Reich, Why College Isn’t (and Shouldn’t Have to be) for Everyone). Danielle Paquette, though, offers an alternative view on higher education. Paquette gives view that it doesn’t matter on the person, rather it’s the type of school and amount of time in school that will determine a person’s
As mentioned before, he based all of his facts off of his own opinions. Dale uses only 2 pieces of statistical evidence to backup his claim. If this assumption were to become something that everyone believed, people would not get the education they would need to have a successful career life. A lot of people would become jobless because all the low level jobs would not need anymore employees. The higher up jobs would be lacking in business because no one would meet the requirements to work for the companies. Reviewing the article, Dale forgets to point out that a lot of people that go to college become successful. Yes, college isn’t right for everyone, but most of the time, the only way for people to have a successful lifestyle is to go to college.
A college Degree used to be an extraordinary accolade but now its just another thing that we need in order to be successful, at this points its nothing more than a paperweight to some. Mike Rose states, “Intelligence is closely associated with formal education—the type of schooling a person has, how much and how long—and most people seem to move comfortably from that notion to a belief that work requiring less schooling requires less intelligence” (Mike Rose 276). In other words the author of Blue-Collar Brilliance, Mike Rose, believes that blue-collar jobs require intelligence as well. I agree that those who work blue-collar jobs need to be intelligent, a point that needs emphasizing since so many people believe that those who work blue-collar jobs aren't intelligent and that why they have them. Although I also believe that
Imagine being employee number 101 out of 1001. Now imagine working on an assembly line in a hot room filled with 1000 other women frantically assembling products for first world countries to use for ten seconds before discarding for a newer version. This job pays enough for you to get by but living in a third world country with low pay isn’t easy. What many people don’t understand is that the cost of production in a third world country is more inexpensive than it is in America. Hiring women to work in horrid conditions decreases employee loss because they are not rambunctious like men. “Life on the Global Assembly Line” by Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes clearly illustrates the hardships women go through for U.S. corporation production. Corporate powers have resorted to building production plants in third world countries to save money. U.S. corporate powers take advantage of third world
In "Are Too Many People Going to College?" by Charles Murray is not that too many people are attending college but that people are going for the wrong reasons. People ought to head off to college to become "capable and cultivated human beings" and get a liberal arts education, but should not wait until school is over to do so. You ought to know your aptitudes and shortcomings before picking a job just to get a degree in view of the amount of money you will make. Murray utilizes the electrician and the business manager scenario for a young male to demonstrate this point. The young man could be a successful electrician in light of the fact that he would be the best at what he does and that would secure professional stability. Then again turning into a business manager wouldn't be his best
The essay starts off with Murray saying of course more people be encouraged to go to college then countering with a yes and no to the question. He agrees that yes getting a education is important but majority of people are going for what they should have learned years before reaching the college level. The way people see college as a way to be success doesn't sit well with him as he gives many reasons to why this is false. The statement "college is seen as a open sesame to a good job and desirable way for adolescents to transition to adulthood." proves this point. He argues that yes getting a education is important but it's not always the best way. The hypothetical example involving a student choosing to go college for business or becoming a electrician. Then giving a example of why he would be probably be better off becoming the electrician rather than going to college to do something he may not be as successful as he could've been if he worked as a electrician helps prove his point. Murray continues to argue that the view about college is flawed that many are better off looking for better options rather than following the crowd and going to college.
This makes the paper very ineffective because to parents and other adults, these facts would not apply to them. His article has the potential to become much more effective if he also targets parents, teachers, and counselors because those adults are major influences in a student’s life. If he targets the teachers and counselors, they can start teaching the students that it is okay not to go to college. By integrating this idea into the school systems, the social norm would begin to change and many employers would possibly start looking more closely into the individual potential employees, not just their
Having myself learned these same lessons at a later point in my life, there is no greater value of that than an education. I personally have gone through the hardships that Braaksma points out that the factory workers face at various point in my adulthood, if i could have gained the insight on the importance of a college education at a younger age I may not have had to face some of the struggles I did in the past.
Rodney K. Smith’s mere opinion of his publication is that children with a higher level are more like to secure a job rather than those with no or little education. His view is upheld by the statistics of bureau that gives a clear statistics of the percentage of the salary earned by students with higher education and that of lower education. This makes his claim more reliable and credible because the bureau of labor and statistics is a reputable institution in the United States that deals with the percentage of people who work in United State. Smith’s own personal anecdote appeals to the feelings of the audience in which it ignites them with feelings of possibility.
He says that it is hard to get students to learn because they have more freedom than they had when they were in school. Students do not have their parents with them to motivate them. Students are more focused on having fun than they are with learning. If students do not learn then they will struggle when it’s time to actually get a job. The author says that they will exhibit the same lack of motivation in their careers. If students do not go to college to learn, then it will actually be a waste of time and money, and they will not get anything out of their career.
Throughout human history, there have been many people who could not resist the jaws of greed. Even today, many wealthy businessmen just want to make more and more money, even if it affects other people. Assembly Line is a short story about a businessman's trip to the Republic of Mexico. This businessman, named Mr. Winthrop, intended to profiteer off of a poor Indian that he met on his travels. In this essay, I will be exposing one of the themes this short story displays.
These things are job and mass education. In real life, we cannot survive without these things. Without one thing, you cannot do the other things. If you need a good job to survive, you need a better education. Because good jobs, give us lots of new opportunities comparable to any bad jobs. Good jobs give lots of benefits. As a mention in the book that how we have to face the difficulties with the bad job so it is really good if we have good job for our surviving. For example, the MacDonald employee. So it 's really good that if you are working in a profession that really interest you compare to do any other jobs that did not interest you and you are doing those jobs just for your