Orozco Orientation Summary

During a meeting, Ehrenreich expressed her complaint about the vacuum; however, when she looks towards the other employees, she notices the silence of the other employees. Ehrenreich looked towards the other employees for some support in the concerns expressed in the meeting, but instead finds them silent in their own world. She describes one of her fellow waitresses, Gail, as her role model, but at a meeting, she “stares sorrowfully at a point six inches from her nose” (pg 131). Though Ehrenreich viewed Gail as someone she can look up to and model after in her current occupation, Ehrenreich observes a moment where Gail is detached from the meeting’s concerns. Ehrenreich uses her observation of her fellow employees to strengthen her appeal to pathos. She builds her focus on pathos by describing the situation where she experienced the lack of support from her coworkers. Ehrenreich looks for support from her coworkers to help enforce the concern amongst everyone, but finds that everyone impartial to what is being discussed. Even her coworker Gail, who she views as a role model, did not offer her support for the concerns

“Bartleby” begins in an older office at the start of the industrial age, and Office Space begins in an office during the compelling cubicle employment days. In the beginning of “Bartleby”, the narrator, whom is the lawyer in the book, introduces the characters early to allow an understanding of the characters and what to expect during the reading. Mirror this to Office Space as the characters are also introduced early on in the reading. The working atmospheres for “Bartleby” and Office Space are occupied by employees who seem to repeat the same work over and

The hierarchy Cabral describes in the poem tends to see the workers, but not as people. Immediately as it begins, the audience gets an insight of “the wrong office” (1) being described when Cabral writes, “not a soul knew me / but they said: Sit Down” (3-4). The authority developed by the word “they” concentrates on a grouping of administration that directs the speaker’s

The author creates a mood of being irritating by her “…awful grandmother…” and brothers “…Alfredito and Enrique…” who are occupied playing outside as “… a B-Fifty-two bomber…” [paragraph 5] and her grandmother with a “… long, long list of relatives … names of the dead and the living into one long prayer…” [paragraph 10]. Including, the imagery provided in the short story described the character’s actions by watching her grandmother pray while she counts her grandmother’s mustache hairs. Later, an unknown lady and man start talking to her brother asking if she could take a picture, than judging by their looks, they assume they do not speak English but only

describes the young Dominican American man who is looking for to date either a Latina girl, black girl, white girl or half girl how to judge and approach girls from various social classes and ethnicities differently based on his opinions. Throughout the story, the author uses the second person omniscient point of view to make it easier for the reader to relate to the story and assimilate the case because it’s the referring to something we have all done no matter what our ethnicity is. This point of view is necessary to the story because both he is talking to himself and giving advice to himself by using “you/your” throughout the text, therefore, as a reader, I personally, can easily put myself in the narrator’ shoes and, also, the author addresses the reader or listener directly as if he were talking to them by sharing his observations.

Individuality is essential to expressing our desires, passions, and talents to those around us, and the lives of Turkey and Nippers, two of the lawyer’s other scriveners, possess none. For example, in describing Nippers, the narrator includes he suffers from “a certain impatience of the duties of a mere copyist, an unwarrantable usurpation of strictly professional affairs.” Since the characters never express themselves, they can never begin to understand each other, a process that is essential to forming meaningful relationships. Furthermore, the lives of Turkey and Nippers, are dictated by submission to the rules and expectations of the Lawyer. Turkey even begins any questions addressing the narrator with the preface, “with submission, sir.” Working in an environment requiring one to solely follow the orders of a superior inevitably initiates dissatisfaction with one’s inability to ever voice their opinion and feel they’re a meaningful part of their community. As a result, the breakdown of the office community, or the nonexistence of community altogether, is

In John Updike’s short story “A & P”, a dynamic and round character expresses his subjective attitude towards his views, a plot twist causes him to realize his future. Sammy an opinionated cashier at A & P grocery store does not agree with his Lengel, his manager after he reprimands a particular group of customers at the store. Sammy’s further actions cause him to face the true reality of his future.

The case is about Melissa Richardson, middle manager (sales manager) of the multi-cultural organization, who’s been promoted and is challenging a number of factors at the workplace, that affects her and her team’s ability to perform well.

In this text, Rose eloquently utilizes pathos to create an emotional connection towards the blue-collar workforce. Rose also writes about his family members to try to establish a connection between readers and his memories, so that the reader could relate and begin to understand the requirements of such careers. These experiences demonstrate how passionate workers like Rosie and uncle Joe are about their careers, and how their passion encourages them to seek further ways to learn and improve. Throughout his article Rose vividly recalls the stories for the audience, “Rosie took customers’ orders, pencil poised over pad, while fielding questions about the food. She walked full tilt through the room with plates stretching up her left arm and two cups of coffee somehow cradled in her right hand” (Rose 3). The reader is better able to grasp the fact that blue-collar careers require more intense cognitive abilities than other social classes give them credit

And yet Gittes is at the mercy of the young man working the front desk. Gittes does not like the shift in authority from himself to the young records worker. Consequently, as a viewer you can feel the awkwardness of the situation, as tension begins to rise as the battle of authority seems to weirdly escalate between the men.

In “A&P”, John Updike uses compelling diction, language, and description to enhance the perspective of Sammy within the story and his final decision to quit his job. The use of imagery within the supermarket develops the environment Sammy worked in to a greater extent and painted diverse pictures of the customers. The derogatory descriptions of Lengel and some customers was also significant in terms of revealing Sammy’s emotions about his job at A&P. The nature of the situation with the girls and descriptive language of the customers and environment were also significant factors.A spontaneous effort to portray Sammy’s power and independence was a significant aspect Updike made more interesting by implementing dialogue, diction, and theme.

Theme of the story: The conditions of a character's life has a direct influence on how they act in the novel.

In John Updike’s story “A&P,” we are treated to the scene of an ordinary store as told through the eyes of the narrator, Sammy. Throughout the story he looks upon the aisles with a dour eye, even going so far as to call the occupants “sheep” (Updike 164). The exceptions to this contempt are three girls that are obviously from a different, more affluent town, whom Sammy immediately takes a liking to upon seeing them. When Sammy’s manager, Lengel, comments that they are indecent, Sammy decides to quit his job to “…be their unexpected hero.” While this decision may seem, and is, incredibly childish, it is more layered than a simple act of amorism. Indeed, Sammy’s decision to quit his job in “A&P” is one that is

In the Romano Pitesti case, Tickton-Jones’ Management Team is faced with a situation that is not altogether uncommon in the business world, in that some employees feel that members of the Sales staff are being given “special” treatment by the company. Romano’s actions have probably not been as bad as what has been described to Management, but due to the fact that employees are still trying to find their place in the new, combined company, any hint of “unfairness” is immediately put under a microscope by other employees, and therefore, Management will have to take some sort of action, in order to show the other employees that their concerns are being taken seriously.

Her lack of response to the clerks advances along with her depiction as “hardly aware of her departed lover” (250) reveal how sex is not associated with love in her mind. Perhaps most importantly, the action shown in the phrase “smoothes her hair with automatic hand” (255) epitomizes this detached and passionless sexual encounter. With this automatic hand we know that this encounter is not anomalous, but routine--as everything in the typist’s life has become mechanized. The degrading effect of this mechanization is the loss of meaning in life which has extended from her job as a typist to her relationship with a lover. No thought is put into these actions, just as no thought is put into a meaningful connection between the two.