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.