Scratch beginnings : me, $25, and the search for the American dream / Adam Shepard.
Shepard, Adam.
2008
HC110.P6 S465 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Scratch beginnings : me, $25, and the search for the American dream / Adam Shepard.
Author Shepard, Adam.
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
ISBN 9780061714368
0061714364
Imprint New York : Collins, c2008.
Language English
Description xvi, 221 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HC110.P6 S465 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.5092
Summary Recounts the experiences of the author, a college graduate, as he spends one year living as a homeless person and learns valuable lessons about what it takes to break out of the cycle of poverty in the United States.
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Introduction : July 24-setting up
Welcome to Crisis Ministries
EasyLabor
Another day, another dollar
Big babies
Sundays with George
Hustle time
Job hunting 101 with Professor Phil Coleman
Put up or shut up
"First and last day"
Adventures in moving
Movin' on up
Workers' consternation
Winter with bubble gum
Culture shocked
Fighting for respect
One last move
Epilogue : a year later: a didactic look at what I learned and where we go from here.

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