Edited by author 05-17-2002 03:27 PM
Well, I thought I liked the text, "American Families" more than "The Way We Never Were," but I am now convinced I don't. The essays are one-sided and unfair the way they are written. As we mentioned before, Coontz knows a lot about this topic, but pushes her own personal view onto the reader too much. As for the test essay, I wrote on the way America is changing in the workplace. I understand the points of the workers interviewed, and how they want to protect their jobs. However, I have traveled overseas quite a lot, and I have dealt with people in the business industry to see how they conduct business and observe their work ethic. It is by far, better than what I have be subjected to here in the states-especially in the United Kingdom. I personally feel America has become lazy, and we need to take a hard look at some of the immigrants that come here with nothing, and prosper. I recall many times getting on the phone to call a company pertaining to business, only to be bounced around ending up on some answering machine. Furthermore, I have worked in offices where people purposely set the answer machine to say they are out of the office so they don't have to be bothered. We in America have lost that professionalism, not only in the workplace, but in our colleges and schools. I think we need to wake up and take notice of what is happening to out ethical views, and not go off complaining about finding an Indian here, and and Asian there, but look at ourselves and ask how we can do better. I still remember JFK's words, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," and believe we need to apply this kind of philosophy to our to our inner self