How can education influence a young pregnant woman's socio- economic status?

Juliane Harms

Period: C

English: 3

From page 145: questions 3 and 4.

From page 158: questions, 1, 2, and 4

3) Ehrenreichs and Eighners stories are both very similar, because they are both connected with people who have problems in their live. Ehrenreich is sill a waitress and can buy some food and Eighner has to find food in dumster which is much harder. I think Eighner has much more experience how to survive with no home. Ehrenreich has more to do with other people and there backgrounds. I think everybody can go to school and try to get good grades. Everybody can get at least a job in a restaurant like Ehrenreich is doing it.

4) EH= Ehrenreich

     EI= Eighner

EI: Hello Miss Ehrenreich, I think it was great to work for a while in a low wage job, to get more experience as a well educated woman. Most people with high wage jobs can’t even imagen how it is to live like that and how to deal with this little amount of money.

EH: Thank you so much. It is my honor to meet you personally. It was really interesting to jump into another life for a while. Of course your way of life is completly different. I could go home whenever i couldn’t be there anymore, but I praise you for being like that for such a long time.

EI: Thank you! When you are doing something like that you should come with me me and I show you how it was form me to dumster dive everyday.

EH: I will! Thank you so much for taking time to talk about your experiences with me.

1)           Scrounging: To obtain (something) by begging or borrowing with no intention of reparation

Dumster Diving: looking in trash for food that you can still eat

Foraging:  The act of looking or searching for food or provisions.

Bohemian: Person who can to what every he/she wants, living free with no rules

Scavenging:  Person who prefers to use rather than Dumster Diving

2.  Eighner has some much experiences dumpster diving that a person with higher wage never could imagen. I personally could never imagine that you have to pay attention to so many things. When he starts talking about that he could never imagine that he is going to eat garbage and he is doing that in the night so nobody could see him. It is embarissing for him to eat other peoples trash. He tells us so many about what things people are throwing away, even if you still can use them. He tells us that we should look twice what we are throwing away and why?

4) I feel like I should start taking care about what I am actually throwing away and the peopele around me. I think the society from today is very wasteful. For example my grandmother had times were food weren’t enough there all the time. She tells me how it was to not live in plenty of food.

I think with grab fort he gaudy bauble he means that people like him see food in a different way, it is kind of holy for them and something special. Today I see sign’s: It is ok to waste the food and I feel bad about it.

Socratic Seminar

1    Why is Willy asking Carley for money and then Charley offers him a better job and he don’t accept it, because he says that he has a great job.

2.     Why is going on between Linda, Willy and Howard?

3.     Why is Willy so akward when Linda his doing the stockings?

4.     Do you thing that Willy is making a much bigger deal out of the meeting with Oliver than Biff? They haven’t seen each other for so long, why wouldOliver give him so much money?

5.     What exactally is Howard thinking out of Willys sons? Why does he things that they have money?

Serving in Florida Barbara Ehrenreich

Juliane Harms

Period: C

To Mr. Cronin

Serving in Florida

1. Why is Ehrenreich working as a waitress?

She wants to tell her experiences as a waitress to other people and tell them about how it is to live with a low-paying job.

2.  By looking closely at on of the stories she tells about her experiences and the experiences of the men and women she works with, describe How Ehrenreich uses specific stories about individuals to serve as examples of the difficulties of living on very little money.  One example is not enough.

She describes her experiences that she had more about the people that she met there and their experiences and not really about what she experiences there.

Her first experience is when she has a job in an restaurant and meets Gail another waitress who trains Barbara. She finds out the real world under what conditions people have to live, for example like Gail who has to live in her truck. Her boyfriend was killed in prison and another waitress called Joan has to raise three children in a mobile home by herself.

On problem of the low-wage world is that Gail can’t afford the two month’s down payment in rent it would take to get an apartment.

At another restaurant the customer volume is much higher and she mets George there. She tries to teach him some english, that shows how bad the education of the people is. While she is working there she takes another job in a hotel next door. The other worker at the restaurant are impressived, because they coudn’t manage another job at the same time.

It all ends when the manager throws a fit and Barbara walks off the job.

Juliane Harms
Period: C

Socratic Seminar:

1. Why does Ben knows so much more about their father than Willy?
2. What is the reason that Willy doesn't takes the job that he could take?
3. Why are Happy and Biff not changing anything about there situation?
4. What does Linda thinks about her sons? Is she proud of them?
5. Why did Willy didn't do anything out of his life like Bernhard?

Happy

Biff

Juliane Harms

English 3

Mr. Cronin

I’am confused about ... Why is it so difficult for Willy to find a job close to his house? Is it hard to become a job at his age in this time period?

It is easy to get a job at this time period, because the economic situation in the United States is very high. I think I doesn't gets the job that he wants close to his house, because he is to old or not a good worker. 

I have a question about... Why is Willy driving sixty miles and can’t remember the last five minutes? What happened in the last five minutes? Why can he remember everything else?


I think we will find this out later in the play, but I personally think that he was so depressed in this moment that he was in his one world.

I think that means... Linda takes care of Willy and helps him a lot with his problems. I think that she shows him her love and that she his a really honest wife.


It is true that she takes care of him, but she is easy to convince, because her husband thinks that he always says the truth. For example when he is talking with her about their son, that he is a good or lazy worker.

Do you think... That Willy has mental problems and is depressing? Why does his wife says that he has to rest his mind? 


He is definitely mentally ill. He has to rest his mind to get clear in his head to think.

What does it mean when the author says...“As more light appears, we see a solid vault of apartment houses around the small, fragile-seeming home“ 


He and his family live in the middle of a city in a house and around the houses are many apartments, so it is hard to have some real sunlight in the middle. But when some light appears you can see the apartments very good around the house in the middle.

Homework Period: C

Juliane Harms

English 3 Homework

1. It is better to live a poor life but live your dreams.

I agree with this statement, because living a life that you enjoy with no money is better than living a life with money that you do not enjoy. A poor person is able to live out his or her dreams, because a poor person has dreams. A rich persin might don’t even have any dreams, because he or she has already everything. And I think that is a sad live, because it is more important to be happy than rich.

2. Lying is ok when trying to keep a good reputation.

I disagree with that statement, because it is never ok lie. People who like to keep a good reputation are trying to hide something and don’t have a good reputation. They want to cover the truth and they will never have a good reputation.

 3.    Disillusionment can lead to distrust.

I agree with this statement, because disillusionment often leads to distrust because if someone did something wrong and is disappointed from that, distrust ist the reason why disillusionment even happens.

4.    Flashbacks are a way to relive the past.

I agree with this statement, because there are not many other ways to relive the past. Flashbacks are only happening certain times in your live, it is impossible to relive yor past physically. For Flashbacks you don’t have to be on the place where something happened.

5.    Forgiveness leads to peacefulness.

I agree with this statement, because it is true. For example when I and my best friend are fighting about something there is no peace between us. But when somebody of them apologize after some time forgiveness will come and when can start to built up the friendship again. And this is finally leading to peacefulness. The Forgiveness made it possible to re-build our friendship and start new to live in the peace that was once present.

 6.    It is better to ignore something unpleasant than to face reality.

I disagree with this statement, because I think that it is better to face the reality and hide this and ignore something unpleasant. Facing to the reality is better, because you feel better by this and don’t have to ignore it. You can change this they way that you want, because it is your future and you make your own changes.

7.    Happiness consists of having financial stability.

I disagree with this statement, because you don’t need money to be happy. Happiness comes from your family, friends and from your own. You can be rich and still sad, because you are unhappy with yourself.

Often poor people are happier than rich people!

8.    The life of a salesman leads one to be financially stable

I disagree with this statement, because not all salesmen in this world are successful and have enough money to be financially stable. I all denpends on who much the salesmen is working, how and what he sales. I also depends one the location, where he sales his things. But often this people are financially stable, but it is false to say it about all of them.

9. Determination always leads an individual to live his/her

I agree with this statement, becuause determination is a key  to lead an individual live with his or her own dreams. They can change their lives, when they are not happy with it. But if they don’t make there own decisions, they can’t change anything and can’t lead individual.