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What can you get with 25 dollars and a fantasy? Adam Shepard graduated from school sense disillusioned by the apathy around him and was then incensed after reading Barbara Ehrenreich's famous work Nickel and Dimed- a booklet that provided him a sense of hopelessness about the working course in the us. He attempt to disprove Ehrenreich's theory - the notion that those who start in the bottom stay in the bottom - by causing something out of little or nothing to attain the American Aspiration. Shepard's plan was simple. Which has a sleeping bag, the clothes on his backside, and $25 in cash, and restricted from using his contacts or school education, he headed out for Charleston, South Carolina, a randomly picked city, with one objective: to work his way out of homelessness and into a life that would give him the opportunity for success. His goal was to have, after one year, $2,500, an operating automobile, and a equipped apartment. Scuff Beginnings is the earnest and keen accounts of Shepard.