what is the point of living?
well i got an F in my english class and it was because i didn’t do well in my project the ***** gave me an F. can you tell me what wrong with the essay
Minimum Wage Life
Most people believe that poor people don’t work and they live in welfare. Well that might not be true. People who earn minimum wage are just surviving to make ends meet. These days their day’s pay check can go to fill up there tank of gasoline. The minimum wage should be raised at least to $9.75 an hour. There is a lot of evidence why it should change.
There’s always a debate on how much the minimum wage should increased. The federal minimum wage increased to $6.55 an hour on July 2008 (Wage and Hour Division). The inflation-adjusted value of the minimum wage has fallen to a fifty-year low( Bernstein and Shapiro). Many members of Congress say that this means low-income worker’s wages have failed to keep up and that Congress needs to raise the minimum wage (“Democrats Fight” ). The members of congress increased the wages by $35,000 in nine pay raises (Increasing minimum pay won’t cost jobs). If people work hard they should be able to build a better life for their families. If congress can get a rise, we should be able to give a raise to working families (Democrats Fight). Why should elected officials only care about themselves, and not care about the working poor.
It’s not the case that the minimum wage jobs are the first rank on a career ladder that soon leads to higher paying jobs. Most minimum wage jobs will always pay the same, therefore someone will not be able to advance in life. Senator Kennedy implies that hundreds of thousands of low-income American workers have gone nine years without a raise (30 Days ) .
One of the reasons the minimum wage should increase is because the cost of living is increasing. Someone who works full time and earns minimum wage will earn $1048 a month. A studio apartment in Washington D.C cost $600 dollars a month (rent.com). A person earning minimum wage will only have $448 dollars left before taxes to pay for food, gas, power, and others things they might need. The cost of living had gone up by over 34 percent (Center for American Progress), But the minimum wage went up only 22 percent since 1997. People of the United States should support raising the federal minimum wage because observed evidence proves that it does not lead to job loss. (Sweeny)
What do real people that earn minimum wage say about it? My friend Gloria said “I worked at Popeye’s. I earned $6.60 an hour I can barely get by making that”. She lives in a small bedroom and barely makes the rent “It used to be worse. I used to work at Burger King and earned $5.75. I need to feed six children. In fact my oldest one drop out of school when he was sixteen just to help out”. (Ortega). Beth Schuler in her book The Betrayal of Work, talks about Cynthia. Cynthia works in a nursing home where she needs to turn the residents every two hours, because if she doesn’t they might get a bedsores. She must also wash the wheelchairs, clean up the dining room and mop the floors and scrub the refrigerators, closets, and drawers doing her shift is hard work, she not lazy. Cynthia makes $4.37 an hour after taxes while she works as a nursing assistant at a nursing home in Alabama. (Schuler 3). She is a single mom and needs to pay rent which is only $150 but it takes her two weeks to pay for it, the other two weeks she must pay for water and the electric bills. It’s very hard to feed her children and she is still paying for some bicycles she brought for her children in Christmas is now June. They’re hard workers they work like everyone else. People might think there lazy but is not very easy for some people to find a job that pays a lot more then minimum wage.
People also think that low wage workers are teenagers or high school drop outs. But that is not true(Schuler 90). Some people had a bad life and something might have happened to them so they cannot get a better job. They can’t make ends meet with making minimum wage. They need to work in additional jobs just to get by, “It effects e veryone even educated white people are just getting by which minimum wage,” declares Morgan Spurlock, (Thirty days television show). Even the working poor making just above minimum wage are just getting by. People might think workers working minimum wage are high school dropouts. However that is not true, as over fourty percent of workers earning minimum wage have high school diplomas. (Katel) Around Thirty-eight percent of workers earning minimum wages have some post secondary education. (Katel) Even five percent of those people have college degrees. (Katel)That proves that not everyone working on a minimum wage job is lazy or dumb.
Some states don’t even have a minimum wage laws. Other states have minimum wage laws that are lower than the federal minimum wage law. Many states have made their own minimum wage laws. (
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most people do not want to read something this long…w8 wat grade are you in? i need to know that first. cause if ur in college, then it is the right type of essay, but in m iddle school! humph. i almost dozed off in the middle of it.
Never bad-mouth your teachers. They know what they’re doing! Although I have no clue why he/she gave you an F… it’s not horrible
- Avoid using personal pronouns (ex. I )
- Your paragraphs are all over the place
- Try to make 5 paragraphs ( Intro, b1,b2,b3, conclusion)
- Your ideas are scattered.
I agree with you.
Unless you failed to follow the rules of the assignment, or if you’re majoring in English at Harvard or Yale, I think this deserves a passing grade.
wow my reason is the hope that i do everything im supposed to being there for friends and family such as that then the treasures i will inherit when i leave this place
TIP: Use the *** approach in every paragraph.
P - point - make a statement.
E - evidence - use a quote from a source or something.
E - explanation - explain your statement.
eg:
(P) Mary was a very quiet girl. (E) Many of her friends had said so. “Mary likes to keep herself to herself”, says Jennie. (E) I believe Mary is quiet because she has had a bad past and she can’t trust people due to her father.
Get it?
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Not to badger, but this doesn’t sound like an english paper, it sounds like an economics paper, very dry, what was the subject?
It’s great that you site your sources but was it a requirement to sit them inline with the text? Also, you may wish to refrain from using 30 days as a source, it is great, but it is severely bias, it’s on the same level as siting Michael Moore (post Fahrenheit 911).
It doesn’t seem very organized, each paragraph should have its own theme, and it should flow from paragarph to paragraph as well. To help, it’s best to draw up an outline first and organize your thoughts.
I hope these tips helped.
Well I don’t think it deserves an F. But it really wasn’t that spectacular. Your sentences were very simple and straightforward which doesn’t always work. And I think that you should have made the essay more emotional rather than factual and you might have made a greater impact.
An F was a bit harsh, it isn’t very well written and you generalise a lot.
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