You ain't very educated if you use ain't.

I have heard that it is not right to use ain't while writing or talking in a educated way. My friend would always give me heck after saying it the first time. I will use it now and then when talking to friends in a casual having fun way. This website says you ain't very educated if you use ain't. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/ain't.html I know I did not use it for work when talking to other employees in a business manor. I would throw it in if a couple of us would be chatting back and fourth having a little fun. I do know that I shouldn't use it in a business or academic way.

Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption.

I have read the reading, Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption. Authored by Diana Kendall. It is about the different social classes and how the media plays a part in the way they are seen by many people. Mainly the general public. The media has people thinking they can be rich and famous like the people in the television shows.
In the writing Kendall says that the middle and working class will not rise above where they are today. They will not see a great jump in the income that is coming into them. They are purchasing many large things like houses and cars. They are getting themselves into dept. Trying to keep up with the rich people they see on the television. (keeping up with the Jones)
Television networks do not want to cause any trouble in showing other classes differently. This would cause friction among classes.( Mantsios)
The last paragraph says that if the media does not change the way they depict each class, then we as individuals should take it on ourselves to break the frames that have been created. We all need to take a realistic look on our own situation.

Money.

Money by Dana Gioia is a poem that has different ways that we refer to money. The poem has a variety of words in it from years back to current hip ones. It is full of synonyms for the word money.
Some I recognize are cash, stash, greenbacks, and dough. I like the last paragraph. It is true, you do not know where it's been, and you put it where your mouth is. It does talk. Like the old saying goes, money talks, BS walks.

Serving In Florida.

I have read the writing Serving in Florida. By Barbra Ehrenreich. It is about a journalist that goes to work as a waitress for a investigation. In the first few weeks she figures she needs to take a second job. This is when she finds out that life is to hard, and two highly stressful jobs is to much for her. She walks out on the job and resumes her normal journaling career.
To me this piece is not true enough to really use it as a reliable source of information. Yes, the author has taken on one minimum wage job. Then she realizes that finances are not adding up and takes another job. As time goes on stress, body aches, and money get the best of her. She quits her jobs and back to her real life she goes. She does not stick with the job and try to get in the grove of things.
I like the way Barbara has wrote this to help young adults, or it could be anyone. The value of furthering their education is very important. Yes you might go to school and get a degree in whatever, but things don't go according to plan as far as a good job. If you keep trying you will be successful.

Grammer

When to quote someone has always been a pain for me. I would and still try to stay away from quoting others in papers that I write. At http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/quotations.html#2 it is taught that you should use quotes strategically. Do not use them to support your whole argument. Writers should keep the paper in their own words. It is their paper. On some papers it is necessary to use quotes, although you need to keep in mind the audience that you are addressing.

I Just Want To Be Average.

I have read I Just Want To Be Average, by Mike Rose. This writing is about a young man that goes from poor schooling to finding a mentor that changes his outlook on education. The young man starts high school with poor teachers that have not properly prepared classes or is not in tune to the education of students. Later in his high school years he has a English teacher that has a different way of teaching and seems to take interest in the students.
His vocational education was in a South Los Angeles school. Teachers would not be ready for the classes, or some would be undereducated for the job. He writes about reading and rereading Julius Caesar. After reading it once, the class would change parts and start reading it again.
In the writing he lets readers know that his father had died. Starting with arteriosclerosis, he landed up having his leg amputated. After that he slipped and broke his hip and eventually landed up in a rest home where he died.
After his father died he was put into Jack MacFarlands English class. Rose and others created a respect for this man. He was well organized, taught in a interesting way and seemed to keep the attention of the class. MacFarland would encourage Rose to write. He helped Rose with his first year of college by writing letters, getting a loan, and talking to professors in the college.
Rose felt like he had alot of knowledge at the end of the writing. He could understand things that may be complicated to others. He was thriving and maybe knew he had big things ahead of him.

Against School.

I have read Against School by John Taylor Gatto. It is about the education system and how the kids need to be taught in different ways to stimulate them to learn. Not the same boring subjects that they are taught everyday in a boring fashion. To Gatto, school buildings are like prisons. Forcing children in a institutionalized environment where they dare not go astray.
He writes how many well known people like Edison, Rockefeller, and Carnegie are unschooled but they are not uneducated. How many people throughout American history did not go to high school, but they were admirals, inventors, and captains of industries.
In the ending of the writing Gatto suggest that we encourage children to take on the serious material. Also, learn to like your own company. You don't have to be with other people all the time.
Gatto says in the last line that we should manage ourselves. Letting the people manage themselves would let them explore what they are interested in. Not what others may think someone needs to know. Who knows how the world would be if that was the way it was?