Thursday, May 28, 2009

Thoughts about work

Before I did the research paper, I thought immigrants were supposed to live blissfully without pressure. Actually living in foriegn country was not prepect as I thought it would be. Immigrants should work much harder than the natives. And I am a member of immigration group. If I need a well-paid job and stable life, I have to step into American society. Studying, working and socializing with others in English are nice ways to make my dream come true. As long as be into society, immigrants will find their ideal jobs and live happily.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

The greatest wave of labor unrest in American history

Fortunately, I take history class in this semester. I have learned a lot which are about Americans how to fight for their liberty, especially African Americans, immigrants, women and so on.
In 1919, over 4 million workers engaged in strikes---the greatest wave of labor unrest in American history. The strike wave reached its peak in the era's greatest labor uprising, the steel strike. Centered in Pittsburgh and Chicago, this united more than 360,000 mostly immigrant workers in demands for union recognition, higher wages and an eight-hour workday. Before this strike, the steel mills were autocracies, where managers arbitrarily established wages and working conditions. They even suppressed all efforta at union organizing. In order to get freedom for everybody, steel workers held this great strike.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Bonus Post 1

There was the budget hearing last Thursday. Before I went to this hearing, I haven't known anything about the government will cut education budget.
It is the depression. Thousands of people lost their jobs!!!!!Some of them need to look for jobs. However, I think few and few people find jobs at this terrible period.
What do they do if they don't have jobs? I think that going to school and get higher educaiton is the nice idea for the unemployed. At this time, the government should support them to go to school but cutting the budget!
It is unfair for students, especially the poor!!!! Students need the financial aid to pay their higher and higher tuition. Government should take action to help students in studying!!!!!!

Someting new about Essay #3

I would like to interview the woman who is immigrant and has worked a varity of jobs, such as a seamstress, a cashier, a teacher assistant and so on. During she worked as low-wage jobs, she belived that as long as improving herself jobs skills, she would get higher-position jobs. Therefore, she study at a college after work. However, her ex-husband didn't think that women should go to work and get high-educated. There were quarrels between them so that they divorced finally. She didn't give up working and studying. Eventually, she got a master degree. She is a teacher in a primary school now.
My research questions are how immigrant women solve their hardship when they in foreign countries and how they fight for freedom with their husbands and what difficulties they meet when they want to get better education.

Interview questions:
1. What did you feel when you just came to the United States? When did you have homesick?
2. Why did you think that you should go to work?
3. What happened when you work in service industy?
4. Why did you decide to go to college ?Tell me something when you were in college.
5. Your husband didn't agree you go outside to work and study. Did you try to talk with him?What happened when you were talking about this problem?
6.Why did you decide to divorce with him? After that, how is your live when you had to work as well as study?
7.Do you enjoy studying? Why?
8.How about your jobs?
9.What are the difficulties you met when you decided to work as a teacher?
10. What are the differences between working in service industry and in education?

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Post 6: Essay 3 Questions Renew

I would like to interview the woman who is immigrant and has worked a varity of jobs, such as a seamstress, a cashier, a teacher assistant and so on. During she worked as low-wage jobs, she belived that as long as improving herself jobs skills, she would get higher-position jobs. Therefore, she study at a college after work. However, her ex-husband didn't think that women should go to work and get high-educated. There were quarrels between them so that they divorced finally. She didn't give up working and studying. Eventually, she got a master degree. She is a teacher in a primary school now.

My research question is whether immigrants have good jobs or nor when they live in the foreign countries.
1. What did you feel when you just came to the United States? When did you have homesick?
2. Why did you think that you should go to work?
3. What happened when you work in service industy?