Research Questions for Essay # 3

My essay title is " Emotional labor affects workers within the health care industry particularly in nurses'.Here are some research questions.They may relate to my essay topic.

What skill do you have for this specific job?

What do see as the negative and positive features of this specialty?

What is your greatest strength and weakness, and how will these affect your performance here?

How do you get along with patients?

What are you doing now in your life that you hope to continue doing?

What differences do you see between the health care system in this country and that in your country/

The Most Dangerous Job

What is Kenny's attitude on his job? How does it compare to your experience and/or people you know?

Kenny's life as a Monfort employee for almost sixteen years was awful.He worked so hard for the company.But the company didn't care for what he did.Even he got work related injuries,there was no worker compensation for Kenny.He still worked in that company for his family and got no benefit at all.Kenny felt a strong loyalty to Monfort.After I read the story,I can't believe their lives was so terrible to survive. This job situation was causing great pain and suffering to a lot of workers by physically and emotionally.
Writer visited a slaughterhouse, one of the nation's largest somewhere in the High Plains.Nobody saw what happened inside the building.There were different kind of work related issues within the building.Most workers are illegal, uneducated immigrants.They don't know their future working like this way.Also,employer speed up and force to work for their profits.Workers don't know the value of union and how to protect their safety during working hours.Working hour s was long and didn't get over time payment. There were no benefit after long time worked in factory. During his trip, writer met dozen of workers who had been injured.Each of their stories was different.Also, workers struggle to receive proper medical care. They were afraid to speaking out. They couldn't argue with their supervisor or manager.Why didn't workers challenge that situation? They didn't want to lose their job or didn't have enough information.I felt so bad for their lives.America has long been known as the "land of opportunity," and hundreds of thousands of people come to live here every year, seeking better life.So, what should we do for those workers?

Essay #3 first paragraph

(Emotional labor Affects Workers Within the Health care Industry Particularly in Nurses )

I will use this sentence as my essay title. Here is my first paragraph.


Today most jobs are service jobs. Workers deal with people rather than with things. Some jobs especially in the health care industry are more correlated and demanding with emotional management.When employees control their emotions in other to display the emotions that are expected of them in workplace, they are performing emotional labor. They may do this by suppressing or hiding their real feelings and/or expressing emotions that they do not actually feel. In another words, employees may express socially accepted emotions at work. If these emotions don't fit with situational requirements and expectations, employees may be engaging in stressful condition.In long run,employee's daily physical and mental activities will deteriorate. Even after finishing work, Camelita Lester, practical nurse from Studs Terkel's book, mentions that "The works don't leave my mind. I have been so long with her that it became part of me. In my mind it's always working (502). In physical labor, workers don't need to worry except for finishing on time and making sure a good has been produced. Within the health care field,employees,especially nurses have to put on a nice smile and be compassionate to patients because nurses have to deal with humans, not machine.Nurses have to create emotion for someone Else's benefit. Nurses take their place as distinct members of the health-care team. They are in a unique position to observe patient need.

P0ST # 5 step 2

Before I was preparing for this blog, I chose the topic from contents of Terkel's working book which I wanted to write. I was curious about a life of practical nursing in America because it was part of my life.I had an experience in medical field in my country,Burma. After I read the "Practical Nurse, Old People's Home",I felt as same as Carmelita Lester. Also I heard about nursing home from my friend,who works at nursing home.In my country, the old people stay in the home until they die. Even they are old,they still get a respect and lead as a head of household.Family members follow their advice respectfully.Most old people in America stay and end in their old age alone at nursing home.In the interview,Carmelita Lester showed how's a relationship between her and an old lady whom she took care.They looked like family members and worried each other even after work. She feels sorry for everybody who cannot help themselves.Also she mentions that many of these patients,they need help, but they don't have enough help.Some patients cannot take care by themselves even for meal.All these people in nursing home are not helpless.But just the family get rid of them.Moreover, plenty of nurses don't care. If they get the money,forget it. Carmelita herself had an experience as a patient. She believes god. Got cures her illness.She really wants to help and enjoy her job. Sometime she was tired because of work overload.She cannot help everybody by herself alone. She devotes her life to patients.She doesn't expect a reward. All good and bad things exist in the world because of mind. People who offer sacred hospitality are rewarded in the same way.I am buddhist.In buddhism, if youhelp someone,god will give yourewards. The good things will come back to you.I believe in this concept and I help peoplealways when have a chance. Compassion is very important during caring patients.

How does emotional labor affect workers within the healthcare industry?

Overview of archive material

From some documents of archive,I chose an oral interview with Mr.Tony Avena,a long time Queens resident and Queens merchant and businessman. Interviewer asked the family background and origins and the beginnings of working life in America of interviewee's father. His father was an Italian emigrant and first went into business in Manhattan.Interviewer tried to figure out as an immigrant how to survive and success the businesses and raise his children in New York. As an immigrant, I am interested that oral interview because I came to America at 1998. So we could see and compare what were the differences of economy,education and transportation.On that time, people could do everything. It seemed finding a job was more easy.Interviewee' father worked hard and finally owned stores. If you worked hard,you could have everything. Interviewee liked his school. I thought public and private school was not much different at that time.Therefore, we can conclude that the possibilities are there, they exit, they are difficult to achieve, but not impossible.

post # 4 ESSAY #2

This is my first part of essay#2

According to "Confronting Inequality" Paul Krugman describe that the America I gerw up in was a relatively equal middle class society.Over the past thirty years, all economic benefits in America have been fallen into the rich families. Most lower and middle classes try to overcome the inequality even they have little progress of economic growth(Krugman 322).It makes more economic inequality and segregation of people between a society as a whole. Also a lot of reasons such as lack of universal health care, unequal education and opportunity continue to inequalize among the poor and rich people.It is leading to social inequality. Especially poor and middle classes have been suffered the effects of economic inequality.So, we have to concern about the negative consequences of economic inequality among different social classes.

Class and Identidy Question 2

At the beginning of his essay, "Confronting Inequality,"(They Say, I Say) Paul Krugman asks "Why should we care about high and rising inequality? In his answer is the matter of living standard in the United States. The economic growth in America over the past thirty years has gone down. All economic benefits have been fallen into the rich families. Latest data from Congressional Budget Office shows that lower- and middle- income families' annual income is 384% different from rich families.This is a big gap between social classes. Economic inequality affects our society and our democracy.I agree with his response because today people from most of lower and middle class have been suffered the effects of economic inequality.Such as most workers get minimum wages,work more hours and spend less time for their family. People cannot afford health care for them and family members. Also they cannot give the basic education for their children.There are unequal opportunities among the rich and poor families. Finally,unemployment rate is increasing among poor- and middle- income families.

Inequality in the United States ( Extra credit )

The effects of economic inequality is growing more than three decades ago in the United States. According to "In Health Bill, Obama Attacks Wealth Inequality"," most of three decades,government policy and market forces have been moving in the same direction, both increasing inequality.The pretax incomes of the wealthy have risen up,but their tax rates have fallen more than rates for the middle class and poor. However the health bill pushes in the other direction. Many people cannot afford their medical care.The health reform bill will reverse that trend and everybody should have some basic security. It will also reduce a different kind of inequality but health reform hardly solves all of the American economy's problems.However Obama administrations have tired to balance between the market and the government.We,all expect to become different on that trend. We will understand how's important of his health bill soon.

A Paragraph from my draft post #2

Here is the beginning of essay

According to "Up Against Wal-Mart" from Karen Olsson, Wal-Mart makes their shareholder richer and attracts their customers with some words like "We sell for less" or everyday low price". However, Wal-Mart does not share its wealth with its workers.Wal-Mart's employers want to keep more profits and expend their businesses. Employees still get low pay.Workers are not allow to have a union. Also, employees in some states especially female workers are discriminated by denying promotions and equal pay. Wal Mart treats badly to its employees by different ways.

But,"Progressive Wal-Mart. Really."by Mallaby Sebastian describes the different aspects. So, which is the real effects today's workers face to?

About me

One day I saw a poster of LaGuardia College in the train. In the poster, a lady said "Now I'm

confident to become a Pediatrician because of LaGuardia College". This poster encouraged me to

become a student at LaGuardia College.I believe this will lead to my career.If you have

perseverance, you will be crowned with success sooner or later. I should do my best to Master

English, it is spoken all over the world. While there is life, there is hope. My father said someone

who wants to get to the forefront in life needs to work harder than others. I always remember

these words in mind.

Thinking about work

My name is Khin Phu, and I’m a student a LaGuardia Community College. I come from Yangon, a city in Burma in South-East Asia.After I married to my husband, I came to the United States in May 1998. Then another story started when my new life began. After the age of forty, I started my first step towards a career in this college by majoring in Liberal Arts. Actually, my major is nursing, but my ACT score was not good enough to take nursing classes. English is my second language. As you know, I face a lot of troubles with the language. I’m not familiar with the use of computers either.

I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in my country from a medical college eighteen years ago. Now I work part time at a Chinese Clinic in Chinatown. It is related to my medical field and I hope to get lot of experience and opportunities. I take my responsibilities very seriously. I am proud of myself for doing this job. I never thought about living in American, even in my dreams. In the United States, most students work their way through college.Sometimes, I am depressed because it takes several years to acquire a good command of English. After

two years, I am enjoying my life at LaGuardia Community College. I like studying English, learning about computers.

All my classmates come from different countries and careers. We have difference reasons to come to college, but

we walk the same way for the future.

One day I saw a poster of LaGuardia College in the train. In the poster, a lady said "Now I'm confident to become a Pediatrician because of LaGuardia College. This poster encourage me to become a student at LaGuardia College.I believe this will lead to my career. If you have perseverance, you will be crowned with success sooner or latter.