They also worked at night when all the .
other food places were closed down to make extra money. In Octavio Paz's essay .
"Hygiene and Repression he says that we are impregnated with Puritanism, meaning that .
we love to work. And in Jackie Chan's Essay "A Dirty Job" he says that" I threw myself .
into my work, putting every last bit of energy in to providing that I had the spirit of .
dragons and tigers".
These three essays are telling 3 different stories but yet they agree on the point.
that we love to work, and we give it our best. What I found really amazing is that Jack.
Chan is from Hong Kong, but yet he has adapted to American culture, and the way.
he describes his work in his essay really touched me. I found him to be the most .
interesting one out of all the writers because I can really understand him, and .
the way he writes shows he is really passionate about his work. I would have to agree .
with all the 3 writers, because they are all correct, and they are saying the same thing.
but in different ways.
We as Americans work hard most of our lives. Some of us work 40 hours a week .
or more just to be able to live a decent life style. We wake up at 8 a.m. and leave homes .
go to work and stay there till about 7 p.m., and by the time we come home we only have .
an hour or 2 to ourselves before getting ready to go to bed to repeat the same thing the .
next day. Who has time to cook a nutritious meal when they come home from a hard day .
of work, and who really wants to spend an hour cooking over a hot stove. We have many .
take out options to choose from, and many fast food restaurants that we can pick up a hot .
meal, without having to strain ourselves. .
Fast food restaurants like McDonalds, and Wendy's began advertising that they .
will be open very late. The reason they chose to do that is because people work long .
hours, and by the time they come home they do not want to start cooking over a hot .
stove, so they will go buy a Big Mac meal.
