Gonzalez Professor Brock ENC 1102 Multiple Source Argument April 26, 2024 Word Count: Burnout In the poem “Thanksgiving” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox she wants people to have gratitude for the environment around them. The claim of “Thanksgiving” is to be thankful for the here and now. Throughout the poem, Ella mentions all the beauty we miss in everyday life. Some of the beauties that were mentioned are starry fields of white, joy that often appears, and the gift of life. Thanksgiving was written in 1903, but nowadays society has grown into a fast-paced, work-focused society. Overwork in America is a main contributor to all the reasons mentioned in “Thanksgiving”; but now it is more prevalent because society has quickened so fast. In 1903, the family …show more content…
Some of the mental health issues of overworking are depression, anxiety, work stress, and stress from family balance. According to PubMed Central, there is a link between depression and long hours at work. Working from 34 to 55 hours per week increased the chance of experiencing depression and anxiety for many of the volunteers. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, “Nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness. Workplace stress has been reported to cause 120,000 deaths in the US each year. Approximately 65% of U.S. workers surveyed have characterized work as being a very significant or somewhat significant source of stress in each year from 2019-2021. 83% of U.S. workers suffer from work-related stress and 54% of workers report that work stress affects their home life. For every $1 spent on ordinary mental health concerns, employers see a $4 return in productivity gains.” “Workplace stress and poor mental health can negatively affect workers through, job performance, productivity, work engagement and communication, physical capability and daily functioning.” …show more content…
is the only country in the Americas without a national parental leave benefit. The average is over 12 weeks of paid leave anywhere other than Europe, and over 20 weeks in Europe.” Now comparing American workers to the rest of the world with statistics from OECD stats, “U.S. workers worked an average of 1,811 hours per year. This is 470 more hours per year than German workers, 279 hours per year than the United Kingdom, and 300 more hours per year than French workers, and 204 more hours per year than Japanese workers.” To put into context how work focused our society has gotten, “the productivity per American worker has increased 430% since 1950.” There is also the issue of the cost of living going up, so people must work 4 times harder to get the same amount of space their parents would have, but that is just another factor of overworking just like inflation is. Arriving at a manageable solution is assessing what you can and cannot do. Try to decide what best fits your situation. In America it is so easy to be overworked from the myriad of issues today, but it’s even more important to not let the effects of overworking take a toll on your mental, physical, and family relationship
Stackhouse 1 Stackhouse 2 Cole Stackhouse Hensley Honors English/ Fourth Period 27 January 2016 Three Thanksgivings When the short story Three Thanksgivings begins, Mrs. Delia Morrison, a fifty year old widowed woman, finishes reading two letters. One of the letters is from her son Andrew, and the other from her daughter Jean, both inviting her to have Thanksgiving dinner with her. Along with this request, they mention her selling her house, however, each child has different ideas for where the money will go.
Kim Addonizio’s “First Poem for You” portrays a speaker who contemplates the state of their romantic relationship though reflections of their partner’s tattoos. Addressing their partner, the speaker ambivalence towards the merits of the relationship, the speaker unhappily remains with their partner. Through the usage of contrasting visual and kinesthetic imagery, the speaker revels the reasons of their inability to embrace the relationship and showcases the extent of their paralysis. Exploring this theme, the poem discusses how inner conflicts can be powerful paralyzers.
As one of America’s leading contemporary poet’s, Sharon Olds is known for the intense personal and emotional poetry that she writes. Her ability to intimately and graphically divulge details of her personal life allows readers to delve into the deepest parts of not only her mind, but of their own as well. Sharon Olds uses her writing to allow readers to experience the good and bad of life through her eyes, yet allows readers the interpretive freedom to define her works as they fit into their own lives. Olds’ ability to depict both wonderful and tragic events in stories such as “First Thanksgiving” and “Still Life in Landscape”with beautifully gruesome clarity allow readers a gritty real-life experience unlike any other.
Common curtesy has us saying “Thanks” to the point that we may have lost the intentions associated with the response. W.S. Merwin sums up this anomaly in his poem “Thanks”, saying “with nobody listening we are saying thank you” (Merwin 29). We say thanks for so many meaningless things that it no longer carry’s the true intent of the speaker. Instead it is a response to acknowledge the receiver rather than giving true thanks. This repetition allows for questions regarding what are we truly thankful for, and how we make this known to the receiver. Carl Dennis, in his poem, “Thanksgiving Letter From Harry”, struggles with this question. Not seeing himself thankful for all the negative atrocities around him, he tries to find something he can stand up and be thankful for with limited success, “I’m, thankful today I don’t reside in a country/My country has chosen to liberate” (Dennis 2-3). Generic overuse of such a simple, but meaningful word, has made saying “thanks” somewhat mundane, making it harder to express their gratitude to the receiver seamlessly.
Work related stressors: Psychological ill health due to the demands of work such as long hours, work overload, pressure, and complaints.
Physical symptoms can include, but not limited to: insomnia, increased illness, loss of appetite, and chronic fatigue. Psychological symptoms are symptoms of depression, guilt, feelings of worthlessness, anger, tension, isolation, pessimism, and anxiety (Carter, 2013). APA (2007) found that around ½ of Americans say that stress negatively impacts their professional and personal lives, 1/3rd of Americans have difficulties managing work and family responsibilities, and 54% of Americans have stated noticing a correlation of increased stress causing them to fight with those who are intimately close to them. In addition, 8% of Americans connected burnout from work as the cause of their divorce or separation. Experiancing difficulty falling asleep at night due to stress has impacted 48% of Americans, and over 50 million prescriptions were filled in 2008 for sleeping aids. Burnout appeared to cause havoc in at least 3/4th of working Americans. In comparison the leading cause of death of heart disease (covering all heart problems combined) causes 1 out of every 4 Americans deaths or 25% (Center of Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). Burnout can lead to physical cardiovascular problems and people
As one grows up and experiences the taste of life, opening one’s eyes to both negative and positive aspects of the world, it is common that one starts to lose their innocence little by little throughout one’s journey. The title of novel, The Catcher in the Rye (1952) by J. D. Salinger, signifies the desires of Holden Caulfield, the narrator, to preserve innocence, and the allusion to the Robert Burns poem “Comin Thro’ the Rye” further emphasizes his desires and also represents his innocence.
Working in a fast-paced environment and being on their feet can really take a toll on a person. In addition they have to be prepared for anything to happen during their shift. A study of overworked and stressed nurses found that nurses are overworked suffered from physical sickness like type two diabetes (Stress and overworked 2006). For most nurses, their work week consists of more than sixty hours. Working that many hours can double their chances of sicknesses. When they compare the working week hours of nurses who worked the normal 21 to 40 hours with those that work more than 40 or 60 hours a week, they found that in comparison the ones who worked 40 hours or more a week increased the risk by almost 50 percent for type 2 diabetes (Stress and overwork 2006). If nurses were to work their normal work hours without mandatory overtime, then their health would improve.
Experts say that being chained to desks or offices for long periods of time, can damage your health. Having 40 hour working weeks means that the typical worker is over worked and stressed which increases the chance of having a stroke by a whopping 33% and a 50% chance more likely to fall into depression. Having a shorter week will increase the focus levels for the next week / minimize stress levels and give you more time to yourself.
Human resources will need to place emphasis on employee wellness my initiating programs that “include work-life balance processes, stress management, and therapy programs, and facilitating an open dialogue about mental health and illness to remove much of the stigma that plagues the conversation and ailments (Guppta, 2016).” By utilizing flexible work schedule options, demanding jobs with high-stress levels are possible because employees’ free time does not have to be sacrificed.
Occupational stress is strongly associated with health complains more than financial or family problems. Psychological demanding jobs that allow the workers little control on the process of work increase risks of cardiovascular disease, job stress also increases the risk of back and upper musculoskeletal disorders. The article shows that the employees who have high stress levels have a substantial health service utilization.
Long – term stress can even require the brain, leaving you more vulnerable to anxiety, and depression; it can be a main cause of moodiness and frustration. Many of us are aware of the physical symptoms of stress-muscle pain, rapid breathing or an increased pulse. At the same time, they also suffer from emotional of stress which can be like roller coaster of highs or lows. emotional effects rang from emotional overeating to a feeling of being overwhelmed and pressure. stress impact many other components, which leads to difficulties in making decisions, loss sense humor, poorer concentration, negative thinking. As can be seen, stress nearly brings serious effects to people. Apart from the effects above, it can be the main reason which creates your decreased productivity at work. stress makes people less control their pace work, which leads to dissatisfaction. about 40% employees said that they are burned out because of work-related stress and loss $300 billion each year in the workplace . In addition, your relationship with people around also become worsens because of your stress. In fact, stress makes people puzzled and their life can undergo a considerable
The structure and meaning of George Herbert’s poem “A Wreath” is based on frequent use of repetition. The most prevailing figure throughout the whole poem is anadiplosis, which involves repetition of the end of one line at the beginning of the other. It is used from the very first lines of the poem: “A wreathed garland of deserved praise / Of praise deserved, unto thee I give” (1-2) Whereas anadiplosis is used throughout the whole text, it can be identified as gradatio, which is a complex form of anadiplosis. Another figure which can be observed in these lines is antimetabole (repeatin...
Everyday, there are workers who come home from their jobs with a high amount of health issues. Headaches, aching muscles, exhaustion, and many more health issues have workers wondering why this is happening. All of these symptoms can be linked to stress in the workplace. Job stress has become more of a problem than ever before. Numerous studies show that job stress is the major source of stress for American adults and that it has escalated progressively over the past few decades (“Workplace Stress,” 2004).
Research indicates that long working hours contribute largely to stress and stress related diseases. Currently, employees are being put on pressure by the organization in order to achieve the set goals. Nevertheless, the employees are willing to work for longer hours in order to earn more money to satisfy their increasing needs (Gullotta et al., 2003:23). On the other hand, the organizations have been compelling their subordinates to work for longer hours as a way of punishment or increasing the possibility of achieving the set goals within the stipulated time. This aspect has increased the number of depressed people in the population. With many people being unaware of how to deal with depression, they are turning to smoking. As a result, long working hours have been associated with smoking behaviors (Burke & Cooper 2008:46). The most affected people are the young people. This behavior has increased the number of people suffering from cancer and other respiratory related diseases in the world. In addition, it has increased the number of people suffering from heart and lung diseases.