Statis Quo

The two readings this week were Serving in Florida by Ehrenreich and Framing Class by Kendall. In Serving in Florida, The author writes in a first person perspective telling us about her experience working as a low class citizen in some diners and hotel. In Framing Class the author takes a research perspective of analyzing the medias influence in framing the social classes in the US.
In Serving in Florida the author trys this experiment it seems to see if she can actually live as a low class citizen. She tells her story very well expressing the harsh environment in which she ends up working with a managment making the waitresses go there whole shift without even a break. The waitresses try and help each other out by covering for them if they have to excersise their personal privilages that have been taken away from them so they don't get caught. She finds herself seeming to change while working there over the weeks. In one example she said she usually has courage to stand up for something she beleives in but ends up not because of her experiance there at the diners. Near the end she ends up just walking out of the diner as the horrible days she keeps having their stacks up and thinks she has failed in her experiment. There is a lot that can be learned from this as the managment tends to take advatage of their employees you can tell that the management is hard nosed and doesn't care for the employees but only about then next dollar that comes in. In her situation it seems obvious that that is just a horrible place to be employed. Her portrayal of the low class laborers of our society is very effective of what the low class has to endure.
In Framing Class, the author uses a lot of logos in the paper giving a very good description of each class of people and then how the media portrays them. Several things stuck out to me in this essay. One was the fact that the overall reason why we know about a difference in class is because of the media. The fact that media sees the public as their product they do all they can to just get the viewers attention so they can sell to the public even if the shows they portray the class in are skewed and biased. The reason why media shows the rich in such a spotlight is because it is the rich people who are running the media and they need to keep their "Status Quo" So they hardly want to dirty their image.