Nickel and Dimed In Barbra Ehrenreich’s novel Nickel and Dimed she gives you a play-by-play analysis of her life as a low-income working. She is setting out to reveal whether it is possible to be a single parent, with a low-income job, and kids. She feels the best way to do this is not to just spit out the already published statistics, but to go on a little adventure and actually becomes a person with a minimum paying job. Nickel and Dimed is her whole experience as an unskilled worker first-hand
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Mississippi / second grade / Math Content Strands: Number and Operations, Data Analysis and Probability, and Measurement, Algebra Number and Operations 1. Understand and represent relationships among numbers and operations 9 addition, subtraction, multiplication ). Compute fluency using effective strategies or rote memory. a. Recall addition and subtraction facts. ( DOK 1 ) d. Round up to three digit whole numbers to the nearest hundreds. ( DOK 1 )Determine and compare the value of money up
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demonstrate and explain how they got their answers. Process Questions-- 1. How much is 1 dollar bills, 1 quarter, 3 dime, and 4 pennies? ($1.59) 2. How much is 2 five dollar bills, 4 dollar bill, 3 quarters, and 1 penny? ($14.76.) 3. How much is 1 ten dollar bill, 2 five dollar bills, 6 dimes, and 4 nickels? ($20.80) 4. How much is 1 twenty dollar bill, and 1 dime? ($20.10) 5. How much is 1 twenty dollar bill, 1 dollar bill, 8 pennies, and 3 quarters?
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For my experiment, I used American coins dated after 1982. The metal compositions of the coins are as follows according to The United States Mint. The penny is 2.5% CU/Balance zinc (copper plated zinc). The nickel is 25% nickel/balance CU (cupronickel). The dime is 8.33% balance CU (cupronickel). The quarter is 8.33% Balance CU (cupronickel). Tarnish on coins happen when the metal combines with oxygen. Oxidation, which causes tarnish, is a chemical reaction. Oxidation also happens with reduction
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Name Date MTH156 Final Exam Chapters 1-7 50 problems – 5 points each 250 points possible Solve all problems and attach your solutions document in your Individual Forum (IF). Remember to show all steps and check your work carefully. |Correct |Appropriate Steps Shown? |Credit Earned per Problem | |Solution? | |
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FLM 100: INTRODUCTION TO FILM HISTORY FLM 100: INTRODUCTION TO FILM HISTORY Author Note This paper was prepared for FLM 100: INTRODUCTION TO FILM HISTORY, MODULE 1, taught by MARC THOMSON. Directions: Using word processing software to save and submit your work, please answer the following short answer questions. All responses to questions should be one to two paragraphs, composed of five to seven sentences, in length. Your responses should include
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Lesson Title: You, Your Best Friend and the School Store! Grade Level: Third Subject/Topic Area: Mathematics Designed by: Time needed: 50 minutes Key Vocabulary: Money, Coins, Pennies, Nickels, Dimes, Quarters, Combination, Total, Determine, Pictorially, Scenario, Purchases, Journal Lesson Summary: The purpose of this lesson is for students to use number, operation and quantitative reasoning skills as well as demonstrate the ability to determine the value of a collection
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Saving The Penny One Cent At A Time Imagine living in a world without out pennies; it just doesn’t make sense! We should save the penny from extinction. This statement is true because the penny is important to our country's history. Some people also think that riding the United States of pennies will affect charities. Lastly, getting rid of the penny would make the United States currency even more complicated. Let’s start by discussing the problem for charities. First, many people are more willing
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What are the elements in PVC? Answer: Carbon, hydrogen, chlorine. If it's flexible, there's probably some oxygen in there as well. Rigid PVC is poly(vinyl chloride), where vinyl chloride is ethene with one of the hydrogens replaced by a chlorine atom. Flexible PVC ... sometimes called simply "vinyl" ... has additives like octyl phthalate (which contains carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen) that keep the polymer swollen and flexible. What elements are electrical wiring made out of? Answer: Almost
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In an excerpt from “Serving in Florida,” a chapter in Nickel and Dimes: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001), Barbara Ehrenreich suggests that the low-wage American workplace strips people of their courage and character until they are nothing but a shell of themselves, working shift after shift in a Zen-like emptiness. Ehrenreich supports her claim by describing her experience working at Jerry’s under stringently cruel management to illustrate how she felt “stripped naked by [her] crazed enforcer[s]”
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