In the first 60 pages of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich describes low minimum wage workers who barely make their livings. Simultaneously, her point about “Someone ought to do the old-fashioned kind of journalism — you know, go out there and try it for themselves” (1) sparks my interest. Just learning the theory or hearing from others does not provide enough reality to the facts of something that we want to know. In order to explore minimum wage workers’ lives, the journalist in Nickel and Dimed puts herself in low wage workers’ shoes so that readers know how hard it really is to support housing, food, childcare, medical care, etc. In another case, the new generation after a genocide would not fully understand the awful emotional pain of survivors, including post-traumatic stress disorder. Is it always true that we need to experience a phenomenon in order to understand it?