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Group Work
We've all been there where you were assigned different members to work with that do not cooperate
or work hard enough. People around us believe that group projects are fun and can be exciting to
work with others, but this is not the case. I am strongly against group work, from the different
opinions, to the time management, and the slackers who do not do any of the work but still get
credit. The different personalities and opinions of the group members creates many complications
during the process of getting the work finished. Firstly, there are the different viewpoints in the
group that make it hard to cooperate with one another. In groups, there are different personalities,
making it hard to fit everyone's ideas into the project. The ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net
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"Slackers" are the people in the group who lack the effort to do anything in the group. These people
will just run around the room, acting like animals, and will not try to get any work done, thinking
that you will do it for them. These individuals will mess with your plans in anyway possible,
whether it be the construction of the project, or the pieces of the project you assign to each member.
These people will give you lousy excuses for not finishing their part of the project, and make the
rest of the group agitated. They will also ruin your grade on this project. Unless you want to stay up
all night to do their work to salvage you and your teammates' grades, you will not be getting a good
grade if you are missing things that the "slacker" decided they did not need to do. Even if you have
people who are frustrating, there are the people who will work with you and want a good grade as
badly as you do. These people will work with you to try to finish the project and cooperate with you.
But even if you have these especially exceptional people, there are still the people who will fight
with you with everything and will not work at all. Group work is the worst part of school, with the
people who do not cooperate and work, the time management, and the different opinions. I believe
that you should tell your teachers that you do not like nor understand the meaning of group work, so
that they may reconsider this teaching method. All in all, group work is horrible and not a great
system to work with the
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Summary on Waiting for Superman
Generation Anti– Slackers As an American we have taken pride in our steady advancement and
progression yet this generation have allowed technology to take the place of our desired
expectations in life. In this socialization people tend to slack off into a world of illusion. This era of
time from 2001 to the present time we should be named Generation Anti– Social Slacker. This
generation is notorious for having no sense of direction we are easily distracted by unnecessary
events and issues. Generation Anti– social Slackers lives in a fictitious world where we are allowed
to create goals. As a member of the Anti– Social Slacker Generation our goals of achieving the
American dream of fame and fortune are to idealistic and since we value ... Show more content on
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Social networking was created to help us make new friends and stay in touch with old friends.
Unfortunately people have misused the site for numerous inappropriate needs but more importantly
people practice bad grammar and slang. With these careless behaviors this generation and beyond
will be underachievers. The author asked and important question he said, "are we really networking
in a social sense, or are we just hiding behind our keyboards, and building list of virtual friends
rather than getting out there in the real world"?(Nickson1). We have become mesmerized by
technology and disconnected for reality. However if we keep up this behavior socially we will never
get ahead and we only have ourselves to blame. In conclusion as a member of generation anti–social
slackers our goals of living the American dream is inane but not impossible and our superficial
values are promising although we value our narcissistic attitudes it may sometimes get in the way of
our goals. We have become so disconnected from reality and allowed technology to effect our
growth. What could we do to snap out of these narcissistic, anti– social unsuccessful trends? How
can this generation transform from slacker to overachievers. No matter how hard it gets there is
always hope. We must stop living in our on fictitious world and frittering away our time with social
networking site and get out in the real world live our
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A Generation Of Slackers
Generation Y, also referred to as the Milennials, get so much criticism. Elders are quick to throw
young adults under the bus; they say that Milennials are lazy, and about how easy it is growing up in
this generation because of advances in technology. Anyone now and days can have information at
the tip of their finger all they have to do is open the internet up on their phone, go to google, and
type in what you want to know; all it takes is a click of a button. What elder people tend to leave out
is how well we work together and how fast the task gets done. Another thing that's left out is how
many more millennials have full time jobs while they're a full time college student, and how much
more we volunteer. In A Generation of Slackers? Not
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Character Analysis: A Reckless Slacker Drink
A reckless slacker drinks too much, but an acting class emotionally challenges her to get in touch
with her feelings and her inner pain. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: DANI HARRING (22) has just graduated
from college with a degree in communications. Her brother, PHIL (26) is there to congratulate her.
When she can't find a job and quits her job at a bar, she decides to go to New York to take acting
classes. In New York, she reunites with her friend JO (21), who introduces her to JAKE (22), an all
American type guy. They soon engage in a casual sexual relationship. Just as Dani begins to care
about Jake, their relationship takes a different turn, when Jake stops texting and contacting her. Dani
and her friends drink. She's drunk most of the time.
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Is Holden Caulfield Ignorant
Adolescence, this is a time where you figure out who you truly are. This soul searching leads to self
realization. Holden Caulfield from The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger, has trouble accepting
himself. Throughout his days he would put on a cap just to be someone else. It is his get away place,
a place of isolation. A way for him to seclude from the world and become someone he isn't. This is
relatable to numerous teens. Though Holden could be described using numerous adjectives,
Holden's character can be perfectly described as ignorant, a liar, and a slacker. He is ignorant
because he does not learn from his mistakes. He is a compulsive liar. Finally, he is a slacker because
he avoids work. Holden is just like countless people out there who do not apply themselves. You
see, Holden could be smart. He could be successful. He just doesn't have the motivation or ambition
to do so. Being ignorant means to lack knowledge or awareness; uneducated or unsophisticated.
Holden is known to be this way because he gets himself into the most severe situations. However,
once he is out of them, he will have the same issue later on. This is because Holden is not astute. He
repeats those mistakes because he does not learn from them. This makes him ignorant. An example
of a situation is when he gets in a fist fight with Stradlater. "I tried to sock him, with all my might,
right smack in the toothbrush, so it would split his goddam throat open," (Salinger, pg 43). From this
we know that
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Me and You and Memento and Fargo by J.J. Murphy
Structure in any form of narrative is vital, whether it be in films, books, theatre, etc. It is a frame for
a story to work within. While there is a traditional method and formula to structuring a film
narrative, filmmakers all over the world have experimented with breaking the norm and trying new
ways to structure a film. It tested the viewer's notion of what structure is and how a narrative can be
told. It was also new and something that audiences were not used to. Even now, a film that moves
too far away from the traditional three–act–structure, is highly experimental and usually only seen in
independent or student films. In this essay I will look at the film "Slacker" (Linklater, 1991) and see
how they structured the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
"Act I, the screenwriter sets up the story, establishes character, launches the dramatic premise (what
the story is about), illustrates the situation (the circumstances surrounding the action), and creates
the relationships between the main character and the other characters who inhabit the landscape of
his or her world." (Field,
2005:21)
At the end of the first act there is a turning point, also known as the 'inciting incident', that signals
the start of the second act which is what Field (2005:24) calls "Confrontation". While act one and
act three usually translates to about roughly a quarter of the story's length each, act two is usually
half of the entire script. "During this second act the main character encounters obstacle after
obstacle that keeps him/her from achieving his/her dramatic need, which is defined as what
the character wants to win, gain, get, or achieve during the course of the screenplay." (Field,
2005:25) "...resolution means solution." (Field, 2005:26) In the third and final act, the resolution, the
story and characters reach a climax. Here the character usually faces his fears, overcomes his
biggest obstacles and defeats the antagonist, though not always. There is a de–escalation in act three.
In the book "Story" (McKee, 1997:105–106) Robert McKee defines the function of structure and
character: "The function of STRUCTURE is to provide
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Analysis Of Mind Game Isn T Just A White Coat By Sandra...
To summarize "Mind Games: Sometimes a White coat Isn't Just a White Coat" article by Sandra
Blakeslee. The article is about an experiment where people pay more attention to a doctor with a
white coat then a painter with a white coat. It's not just the effect of knowing someone is a doctor.
The effect really occurs when that doctor is wearing the coat and knowing its symbolic meaning. Dr.
Galinsky said, our thought processes is based on physical experiences that set off associated abstract
concepts, and now it appears that those experiences include the cloths we wear. The study does not
explain why as humans we do thing it just proves that we do, do it. The study says if people carry a
hot drink others will believe they have a warmer personality,
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A Week I The Woods By Karl Maxwell Quotes
I really enjoyed the book A Week I the Woods by Andrew Clements. When a rich 5th grader, Mark
Chelmsely, realizes he must attend the field trip he decides that he is going to prove to his teacher,
Mr. Maxwell, that he isn't just a slacker. Instead he puts himself and Mr. Maxwell in a whole bunch
of danger. The main theme of this book is everybody deserves a second chance, because even when
Mark is very rude towards Mr. Maxwell they end up becoming friends in the end of the book. My
first quote shows that in the begging of the story Mr. Maxwell does not like Mark. The quote is "But
after 22 years in the classroom, Mr. Maxwell could spot a slacker a mile away. And by Wednesday
afternoon at the end of his third class with mark he reached his decision: This new boy was a
slacker" (Clements 22). In this quote it shows how Mr. Maxwell judges Mark and immediately
dislikes him because of his attitude. It only took Three days before Mr. Maxwell decides that he
dislikes Mark. This relates to the theme, everybody deserves a second chance, because it shows that
one may not like a person at first but it doesn't mean one should not give that person a second
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Maxwell knows about Mark Chelmsely before he decides that he is going to strongly dislike this
kid. The second quote is "When Mrs. Stearns told Mr. Maxwell the news, his attitude toward this
new boy changed instantly. But it didn't change for the better. Because the only kind if people Mr.
Maxwell disliked more than slackers were environmentally insensitive, buy–the–whole–world rich
folks. And the only people he disliked more than rich folks were their lazy, spoiled kids" (Clements
25). I chose this quote because Mr. Maxwell is judging Mark and his family again because of what
he heard. At this point in the book Mr. Maxwell has had very few actual conversation with Mark and
he hates
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Procrastination Research Paper
The procrastinator. The prioritizer. The slacker. Which type of studier are you? I believe that I am all
three. Procrastination is basically waiting until the last minute to do something. Prioritizing is to
arrange or deal with things in the order of importance. Last but not least, slacking is lacking in
diligence, care, or concern. Out of all three words, prioritizing sounds the best. Many kids at school
like to procrastinate, mostly with tests, I am one of them. This is why we need to form more study
habits that will help us excel as we enter higher grade levels. Have you ever thought of why you
procrastinate? Maybe it is because you spend multiple hours doing homework, watching television,
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The number twenty four says to study all day, every day. Lastly, seven means to study on all the
seven days of the week. Students test scores have augmented, when doing this process. You never
know, studying ten minutes a day may allow your test score to go from a sixty to a ninety. Study
habits not only involve you studying by yourself, but you should ask your classmates or teachers for
help. If you do not discern the lesson that was taught, pull your teacher off to the side and
respectfully ask them for help. Hang around people that do not know the same thing as you,
therefore you can help each other out. Helping friends study is always a benign act. Prioritizing is
always the best route to go. If you prioritize, you most likely will be less stressed when studying for
a test. As we enter high school, there are going to be multiple assignments and tests on the same day,
but if you prioritize you can execute your task very well. To exemplify for you, imagine next week
we will have three tests on different days. Also, that your teacher has told you two weeks before the
test. Most of us would probably wait until the last minute to study. After getting the results, you
have only passed one test. Wouldn't it have been better for you to prioritize, so you could have a
better outcome? As my saying goes, keep your eyes on the prize and
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Before Sunrise and Before Sunset
The films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are said to represent the so–called slacker genre.
Slackers are individuals in society who have no direction and no reasonable expectation or realistic
goals in life. This term is mainly used with Generation X'ers (people born between 1961 and 1981)
(Casto, "What's A Slacker Movie?"). Slacker movies are films that deal with the ordinary day–to–
day life of these people. In Before Sunrise and Before Sunset the characters sense of wandering and
the feel of aimlessness is what make them qualify as slacker films. It is a different story telling, not
the classical Hollywood story where boy meets girl, falls in love and lives happily ever after but a
real story with perhaps no happy ending or no ending ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
The difference is that nine years earlier, they were a twenty–something couple both single, which
represented the Generation X, people who "grew up in the 'me generation' of the [1970s and] 1980s
and now recognize that it was not all that it was cracked up to be" (Jochim, "Generation X defies
definition"). Nine years later, and in their thirties and both attached to other people, they realize that
they are constrained by the choices they have made and that "getting older means no longer having
the chance to realize ones potential through their free choice" (Wartenberg, "Before Sunset |
Philosophy Now"). At the end of the film Before Sunset Céline and Jesse are in her apartment
listening to music and she begins to dance reminding him about his flight. The camera turns to Jesse
where he is seen twirling his wedding ring on his finger. As a viewer the twirling of the wedding
ring is representing the uncertainty about his happiness in his marriage. This situation is very much
relatable to the audience as divorce and the struggle of marriage has become a common occurrence
in today's society. Both the films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are about Céline's and Jesse's
relationship and their mutual interest in conversation. They spend a lot of time talking about their
feelings yet never sincerely act upon them. The films can relate to the
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A Generation Of Slackers By Catherine Rampell
As generations go by, our predecessors assume we are skipping out on important aspects of life just
to get a few extra minutes on our devices. In Catherine Rampell's "A Generation of Slackers? Not
So Much", it is said the older generations believe Generation Y is "coddled, disrespectful,
narcissistic, and impatient" (Rampell 388). In all reality our generation is just doing what it has to in
order to thrive in the world we live in, where technology is one of the largest parts of our everyday
lives. If the older generations that criticize Generation Y had grown up in Generation Y they would
realize the world we live in requires the use of technology. The advancement of society with
technology has shaped Generation Y to be the people that they are, relying on technology; however,
older generations believe Generation Y is lazy. The world we live in today depends on technology to
run. We have phones that can practically do anything. That is where the older generations say we are
lazy, it is not that we are lazy, instead we are intuitive and resourceful. These words are viewed
differently by Generation Y as we are trying to simplify everything, allowing work to be done faster.
For example, in "A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much" it states, "College students also spend
fewer hours studying then their counterparts in 1961..." (Rampell 389). We no longer need to go to
the library because we can access the wealth of information on the internet, which is always at our
fingertips.
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Procrastinator And Slacker Analysis
All people spend at least a little time in the four of quadrants: procrastinator, prioritizer, yes–man,
and slacker. The quadrants represent your habits on importance and urgency in relation to your
priorities. Although I spend most of my time as a prioritizer, I can remove the yes–man from my life
by being a better prioritizer and learning how to say no to people. The first and fourth quadrants,
procrastinator and slacker, are the two worst quadrants to be in. Both leave you with low–quality
performance, stress, guilt, and a lot of wasted time. Procrastinators and slackers do not plan
anything out, nor do they worry about the quality of their work, only that it eventually gets done,
sometime in the future. At this point in my life, I relate
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Couch Potato Slacker
Imagine a world where everyone received the same exact amount of money every payday despite
the diverse career and job opportunities available. In a given neighborhood with equally nice houses,
heart surgeons and lawyers could be living right next door to garbage collectors and waitresses. No
matter how much hard work and effort an individual person puts into their job, that person will still
inevitably get the same paycheck as the couch potato slacker living right next door. Equally
upsetting is the lack of capacity to do something about this potential free–rider problem; the national
government is unlikely to even hear the case out, let alone do something about it. This theoretical
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Wescott had many extracurricular activities, most of which evolved around writing and receiving
letters to and from Bobbie, shopping, drinking, or gambling. Wescott spent a lot of time spending
and obtaining money while he was away from the United States. He spent money buying Bobbie
gifts such as China sets, pajamas, lipstick holders, and silver bracelets, just to name a few. When he
talked about the things he would buy for Bobbie or for himself when he was on liberty, he would
write in great detail about the items and the cost in yens and the exchange rate at the time (the dollar
had depreciated since he had last been to Japan). He wrote pages upon pages about playing poker,
blackjack, craps, etc. and how much money if any he would win. And at the back of the book, he
wrote out how much money he would gain and lose for different months and the overall effect on
his wallet. He put more detail into his drunken shenanigans than the events of the Korean
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Types Of Slackers Essay
When it comes to school every student behaves differently in the classroom. Once I reached high
school I realized that some students cared too much and some students didn't care at all; when it
came to their education. Everyone knows someone who would always come to class but never do
anything or someone who never missed a day of class and always participate in class discussions.
During my years in high school I've observed several types of students and how they behaved in
class. In my opinion, most students can be categorized as slackers, over achievers, or standards.
Slackers are the students who almost never come to class or doing any assignments. These type of
students usually just enough work to barely pass they class. A slacker never participates in any
group or class activities. I knew a kid in high school who was a slacker, his name was Billy. He was
a cool kid but sucked when it came down to getting assignments done. Billy barely came to class
and when he did all he would do was day dream and play games on his phone. He almost never
turned in any assignments and would always pass exams with a D average. Billy eventually dropped
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These type of students usually make C's, B's and sometimes an A on assignments. They might
participate in class and group activities every now and then. My friend Monica would be considered
as a standard student. If she received anything lower than a D average she might do a few extra
credit assignments to boost her grade a little. She'd always turned in her assignments on time and
was perfectly content with getting a C on anything. When it came to group activities, Monica
usually only did a section of it and let the other members handle the rest. She graduated with our
class, but there was nothing special about her grades. Standards are typically good students and only
do what is required to maintain a decent grade in
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Slack Off Research Paper
I am a slacker. There is no possible way I will deny that. In some ways, slacking off is both a good
thing and a bad thing. I will admit that I love slacking because I don't have to worry about anything
that is so important and that I can only focus on my video games. It's true. Every time I'm at home, I
play video games and slack off. Every time I am in school, I slack off and feel like that I shouldn't
do my work at all. That's what most slackers feel like. They feel like they shouldn't do anything that
feels important with the exception of video games.
What is my advice for future students? Do not become a slacker. That's the only advice I can give.
What are the main reasons? First, slacking off is not a good thing depending on how you look at it.
Slacking off can drive you away from your school work and you will definitely not graduate from
high school and you will most likely not get a good job because you didn't go to college. The second
reason is that slacking off will get you nowhere. School is the most important thing in your life and
slacking off will not help that in any way. You need to graduate in order to have a job and in order to
get money so that you can buy what every you want. Finally, slacking off will not help your family
members. Let's say that you have chores to do. You were asked to wash the dishes, cut the grass,
clean your room and many other things. You feel like the chores are of no importance so you slack
off and play video games all the long. If you slack off, you can't help your parents around the house
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My message is this: if you care about your life, if you care about your school work, if you care about
anything in your life that isn't about video games, you shouldn't slack off. Think about that for quite
a while and see if slacking off will do anything in your life, even see if slacking off will improve or
decrease your future in any way
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The Cult You're In
Everyone is in a consumer's hypnosis, even if you think you are not. When you go to a store and
pick one brand over the other, you are now under their spell. The spell/ hypnosis is how companies
get you to buy there things over other companies and keep you hooked. Either through commercials
or offering something that you think will make your life better by what they tell you. For example,
you go to the store and you need to buy water, once you get to the lane and look, there is 10 different
types of water you can buy. You go pick one either because the picture is better or you seen the
commercial the other day and you want it. During the length of this paper we will talk about two
important writers, Kalle Lasn the writer of "The Cult ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
To most people that do not like that person it might seem harmless but other children want to grow
up just like that so he/ she thinks it must have everything its idol has to be successful. But if you do
not like that rapper it's ok because your idol is promoting the same thing to you in a different way.
This might seem harmless but this "Dream" is very dangerous. Denizet–Luis explains how "There
are kids starving themselves so they can be the Abercrombie girl, and there are guys who think they
aren't worthy if they don't look exactly like the guys on the wall" (Denizet–Luis, 371). Children
don't know that it's bad for them to starve themselves to look like the idol they look up too. They see
those people and say "why can't I be like that?" and try so hard to do it and get sick or hurt. This
pursuit for the "Dream" is dangerous especially if it involves children because children are naive and
do not know the difference between what they can or can't do. This does not exclude the adults
because they too have the same dream and some are reckless to achieve it, some want to look like
the Victoria secret models and so they throw up what they eat or exercise too much which is very
harmful.
A problem with all cults
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What Is A Slacker In College
College is a very diverse place. You encounter all kinds of different people and their characteristics.
In every class you attend, you are most likely to encounter these three people. The slacker, the
overachiever, and the natural.
The one you are more likely to come in contact with is what we call the slacker. The slacker is a
person who does no work. They barely get by in class, do not study or complete class work and they
may even try to cheat off of another person. They are the ones who don't really want to be there but
need to be there to get their degree. The slacker may fall asleep in class, barely show up to class, or
joke around too much. The next likely one you'll come in contact with in college is the overachiever.
The overachiever
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Color Guard Research Paper
"Stay in your toaster!" With every move, the flag must stay right in front of our body and right
behind our backs. This one simple rule is embedded in every guard girl's mind. Color guard requires
to do various actions at once. For instance, we must remember the sequence of the choreography,
march in step, find the right drill spot, and smile. One simple mistake with a flag allows all eyes on
you. As the guard girls performs with flags, there's three different types of girls on the field. There is
the hard worker, the slacker, and the hardworker and the slacker combined. The hard working color
guard girls are the ones who put in the most effort into learning the choreography outside of school,
remembering the counts, and drill. They tend to
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7 Chinese Brothers Character Analysis
"7 Chinese Brothers", whose title suggests a gangster Asian movie or a martial arts adventure, is an
insubstantial American indie comedy, containing a few good, if immature, ideas that drive us into a
dead end. Jason Schwartzman, habitual presence in Wes Anderson's comedies and the star in the
astute comedy–drama 'Listen Up Philip' by Alex Ross Perry, who also appears briefly here as an
actor, bestows odd movements, imbecilic facial expressions, and a reckless posture, in a
performance that attempts to give shape to his character: Larry, the slacker. Fired from his job for
stealing money from the tips' jar, Larry, who often embarks in French monologues and nonreversible
chats with his equally lazy dog, finds another job in the Quick–Lube garage
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Before Sunrise and Before Sunset
The films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are said to represent the so–called slacker genre.
Slackers are individuals in society who have no direction and no reasonable expectation or realistic
goals in life. This term is mainly used with Generation X'ers (people born between 1961 and 1981)
(Casto, "What's A Slacker Movie?"). Slacker movies are films that deal with the ordinary day–to–
day life of these people. In Before Sunrise and Before Sunset the characters sense of wandering and
the feel of aimlessness is what make them qualify as slacker films. It is a different story telling, not
the classical Hollywood story where boy meets girl, falls in love and lives happily ever after but a
real story with perhaps no happy ending or no ending ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
The difference is that nine years earlier, they were a twenty–something couple both single, which
represented the Generation X, people who "grew up in the 'me generation' of the [1970s and] 1980s
and now recognize that it was not all that it was cracked up to be" (Jochim, "Generation X defies
definition"). Nine years later, and in their thirties and both attached to other people, they realize that
they are constrained by the choices they have made and that "getting older means no longer having
the chance to realize ones potential through their free choice" (Wartenberg, "Before Sunset |
Philosophy Now"). At the end of the film Before Sunset Céline and Jesse are in her apartment
listening to music and she begins to dance reminding him about his flight. The camera turns to Jesse
where he is seen twirling his wedding ring on his finger. As a viewer the twirling of the wedding
ring is representing the uncertainty about his happiness in his marriage. This situation is very much
relatable to the audience as divorce and the struggle of marriage has become a common occurrence
in today's society. Both the films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are about Céline's and Jesse's
relationship and their mutual interest in conversation. They spend a lot of time talking about their
feelings yet never sincerely act upon them. The films can relate to the
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Essay about Two Cheers for the Maligned Slacker Dude
Kiu Hifo
Stephanie Velona
English 101
9 March 2015
Rise at a Young Age Two Cheers for the Maligned Slacker Dude by Nathan Robin is an essay from
the Wall Street Journal on February 19, 2011. Nathan Robin is the head writer for "A.V. Club," the
entertainment section of the Onion (481). In this essay, Robin aims to convince his readers that men
in their 20's can accomplish great things. The idea of being young and creative is what Robin
emphasizes in the essay. It is interesting what Robin uses to persuade his readers about the idea of
being young and creative. Robin uses a movie, and four men, who are billionaires today, and his
own personal experience as examples to persuade his readers. In the beginning of the article, Robin
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The other three men is Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. These three men created
YouTube. The trio were too young and green, and wanted to share clips of T.V. shows and movies.
Piece those clips together in a video because it would be cool to share (482). YouTube then led to
success for other men in their late teens and 20's such as Justin Bieber and the Lonely Island. Mark
Zuckerberg, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim all share the same quality, creativity. That
is why Robin uses these four men as examples of his claim. These four men provide good examples
of his claim because of how young and creative they were, which then led to success and
accomplishment of their goals. Robin's last example of his claim is his own personal experience,
which also relates to the ethos of his argument. As a 22–year old college junior, Robin became the
first head entertainment writer of the A.V. Club. As I said earlier, the A.V. Club is the entertainment
section of The Onion. The Onion is a website based on entertainment featuring satirical articles
reporting on international, national, and local news. The founders of The Onion are Tim Keck and
Christopher Johnson. Both Keck and Johnson founded the website while attending the University of
Wisconsin–Madison as juniors. Keck and Johnson is another success story of men in their 20's
accomplishing great things. The three examples provided by Robin all have
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A Generation Of Slackers Not So Much Analysis
Nicole Stick
Prof. Ray
ENG 100
5 March 2016
Know–It–All Ne'er–Do–Wells In the article "A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much", by
Catherine Rampell, the author analyzes and challenges the popular stigma that Millennials are the
laziest generation to have ever existed. Rampell begins her article with a staggering fact: "The
unemployment rate for 16– to 24–year–olds is a whopping 17.6 percent" (Rampell 388). And
according to seventy–five percent of Americans, "Today's youth are less virtuous and industrious
than their elders" (Rampell 388). This may seem like an incredibly high percentage of Americans,
but you might be astonished to learn that even "Two–thirds of millennials said older adults were
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I personally work forty–plus hours every week, as well as attending classes for six to nine credit
hours per semester. I am actively involved in my community, as are many of my friends, and
between work, school, and volunteering, I find that leisure often gets pushed to the wayside. I am
sure that one of the biggest factors in this "lazy younger generation" belief is the technological
advantages we have at our disposal. The older generation views our willingness to use these
advancements as "working smart, and not hard", which in their minds, makes it seem like we prefer
to take the easy way out. This is more than often not the case! I am sure that if millennials did not
make use of our resources, some would consider us to be 'ungrateful'. This alludes to an air of
hypocrisy among older generations. Whether we utilize the advancements available to us or not, I
believe that generations before us will always view Millennials as ungrateful and
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On Laziness By Christopher Morley Summary
Generally, lazy people are not admired. Society, as a whole, prefers those who are willing and able
to actively and positively contribute to its progress. Effort is praised while indifference can typically
be seen as shameful. Christopher Morley understands this. In his short essay, "On Laziness," he
indirectly confronts the slothful in an effort to make them see the error of their ways. Morley deals
with the topic of laziness in a overly sarcastic and satirical tone to stress the absurdity of the trait.
Early in his essay, Morley utilizes irony that made it evident that his essay on the supposed benefits
of laziness is meant to be treated as a satire. He in no way is actually believing what he is explicitly
stating. The opening statement can only reasonably be viewed as an intentional joke. Morley claims
that he intends "to write an essay on Laziness but [is] too indolent to [even] do so." Yet, the paper
does not end here; he continues on and completes an entire academic essay, blatantly contradicting
his first sentence in it. If Morley stays true to his words and fully believes in the value of idleness,
no work would have been made to defend it. He makes the sarcasm even more obvious through his
deliberate choice of words. While criticizing activeness and energy, Morley spoke of having "a
determined effort to be more languid and demure." It is paradoxical to try to be lazy. Putting in
effort and making an attempt to be so goes against its basic definition. Morley provides examples of
where laziness was shown to be virtuous. However, he purposely makes them flawed and highly
debatable, forcing the slothful to consider if there is in actuality a strong case for their behavior.
Morley initially calls upon recent history for proof. He reminds the audience of the Great War– the
essay being written in 1920 shortly after it ended– and declares that "the world would have been
spared a great deal... if the Germans had been as lazy, as indifferent, and as righteously laissez–
fairish as their neighbours..." This is a bold claim. War is an atrocious ordeal whose causes are
complex and cannot solely be blamed on one group of people. Many including the toughest
advocate for indolence will not support the idea that the
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Home For Peculiar Children: A Comparative Essay
Most people feel categorized in some way. For example, if you were a carpenter, but you enjoy
writing, then you belong in both of those "worlds." While reading the books, Cinder, by Marissa
Meyer, and the book, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs, I found
myself asking the question, can you really belong in two places? In the book, Miss Peregrine's
Home for Peculiar Children, the story is about a boy who wanted to visit the place where his
grandfather's old stories took place, but when he got there, it was burnt down, but further inspection
he found his way to the house and lost himself in a world before his time, not knowing whether this
world, or the normal world, was the right one for him. And in the book, Cinder, it's about a cyborg
girl who doesn't know if she should be in the castle or in a workshop fixing up broken gadgets,
living as a test subject, or even on a different planet. Thinking further into this question, I pondered
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An example of this is when the text says, "I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town
full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never
once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it." However, in Cinder by Marissa Meyer, the author
developed the same question by doing the opposite, the main character struggled to get lost in their
world and made them see differences. An example of this when the text states, "I am not human. I
am a cyborg. I am a mechanic. That's all I am... right?" This quote shows the protagonist of the story
trying to decide what world she is from, even though she belongs in multiple. The two authors used
different ways to answer the same question that ended up the same in the
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Ronald Alsop A Generation Of Slackers
Throughout the "A generation of Slackers" by Ronald Alsop he explains and analyzes today's
current societal issues of being able to focus while the consent distraction of the smartphone. This
article completely hit the technology issue on the head in all places that is necessary. The article also
pinpoints major issues surrounding the how the smartphone can play a role in avoiding people and
procrastination in life.
Alsop's analysation and sources played a vital and critical role in his article. According to the article,
Millennials are more likely than Gen Xers or baby boomers to report that their productivity suffers
at work because of smartphone distractions and 'cyberslacking' on the Internet. While I'm not
surprised about this statistic,
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Co Workers Research Paper
Just about everyone will experience co–workers at some point in life, at their job. Some co–workers
can be a pleasure to work with, while others may be not so much. From experience as an employee,
I've had both excellent and poor experiences with my co–workers. I have had to learn how to handle
each of the different types of situations with them. When working, you have to know how to deal
with all types of co–workers. You should try and become aware of the type of employee the staff
member is and how they act. You can gain an enhanced understanding as to what will work great to
keep the work environment a pleasurable place. One type of co–worker you might have experience
with is a "workaholic". A "workaholic" is constantly busy at work and
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Analysis Of I Just Wanna Be Average By Mike Rose
We go to school day after day and see the same things happening. We never have the time to
question these things or to even stop and take a second to wonder, is this the right way to handle this
or is this what I am supposed to be doing with my life. From the moment we walk through those
school doors until we leave at the end of the day there is nothing but competition. There are many
different kinds of competition, whether it is in a sport for school or for who has the best academic
scores. A second in the day does not go by where there are not two students competing for the
winning spot. In Mike Rose, "I Just Wanna Be Average" we are able to see that there is no self–
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Many people believe that we need to have our children competing to be the best of the best when
they are young. Therefore, giving them a head start on a great future. In Rose he says, "Students will
float to the mark you set." (Rose 154) This means that if we set the mark at college, there are kids
that will compete to be the best out of their class and will strive to become the most successful.
Although we do not realize this, but by setting that mark it is giving the slackers something to aim
for even though they never seem to compete for anything. This means that by having an
environment that is willing to push even the slackers in school shows that they to can have
something to compete for in the future. The environment of students plays an important role in
helping students compete to become better. We tend to see better scores from students in private
schools rather than students in public schools, this is because students are pushed harder in private
schools and are competing to be the best because they know that if they start to fall behind they will
be left in the dust. These students become the slackers. Problems start to form when the parents of
the slackers start to shelter them and say that competing is not that important. Young adults are
smart and they see this as an opportunity to use their parents. When reading Katherine S. Newman,
"The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global
Competition" we find it interesting when she brings up the topic on how "Adult children are
migrating home or refraining from leaving in the first place, and there they stay for many years
longer." (Newman 91) With this being said we can right away notice that there is no motivation to
become better or to even compete in the work for to be able to be living on their
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Slacker By Nathan Rabin Summary
Many may view a "slacker" as one who will procrastinate on everything meaningful, one who is
ignorant, lazy, incompetent, or even uneducated. Nathan Rabin argues statistically that men ranging
from their late teens to late 20s happen to be in the prime time when "you're too young to realize
your limitations, or even to know that limitations exist" (Rabin 482). The author argues that no man
should have a "limit" but to realize our potential as human beings as a whole to perceive red lights
from green lights, and to keep going when someone else said STOP. This essay influences its
readers to believe Rabin's assertion that being a so called "slacker" is not so bad through its
anecdotal evidence, appealing to the opposition, and societal values. Nathan Rabin affectively uses
anecdotal evidence to make readers understand what he means when he says that no man should be
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Men are not created with the same mind–set nor the same motives as one another, but we all had the
same thought of becoming a billionaire at age 20. The author mentions Mr. Zuckerberg as "a 26–
year–old scruffily dressed Jewish kid who started a cultural revolution in his dorm room and
inspired a movie that may just win an Oscar for best picture"(Rabin 482). Also another way he
effectively appeals to the opposition by the opinion of other people, because no one in their right
minds would guess a person who dresses in their pajamas in the middle of broad day could be the
next 26–year–old billionaire. But that's the flaws of judging a book by its cover. One can say that
Mr. Zuckerberg had a clarity to be successful, there's a saying in which goes for everyone who is
striving to be successful "If you don't help build your own dream, someone else would hire you to
build theirs". Not all men are like Mr. Zuckerberg, but we sure can be inspired to be like
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Difference Between A College Scholar And A Slacker
Let's face it, not all who choose to continue school past the 12th grade made the choice with the best
intentions in mind. When it comes the college, the next level of education after high school, students
who choose to attend will come from different nationalities, religions, and financial backgrounds,
but can almost always be classified into two categories the will define them during the collegiate
journey. Those categories are the scholars and the slackers. A college scholar is one who makes the
best of their college experience and understands the main purpose of earning a college degree. A
college slacker is one who does not understand the main purpose of earning an education and does
not make the best of their experience. Scholars and slackers are hard to tell apart based on their
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When it comes to the time spent on preparing yourself to do well, for scholars it always seems like
there is never enough and every bit of time is precious and must be used to put together their best
approach for either an upcoming quiz or test. A slacker must put together their best approach for the
upcoming party or concert and can honestly care less about a test grade. Now when looking at a
scholar and a slacker there are some similarities, even though they aren't always easy to identify.
There is nothing wrong with attending a party here or there or even taking time to see your favorite
musician. Scholars and slackers are initially given the same resources and opportunities to do
exceptional in their educational craft. What they choose the do with those opportunities is what
separates the two groups. The key to what determines if you use your resources correctly and
become a scholar or incorrectly and become a slacker is one in the same. This key is the
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Summary Of We All Looked Up By Tommy Wallach
We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach there are a group of kids in their last year of highschool.
There was the athlete, slut, over–achiever, and the slacker. They received news that there was a
66.6% chance an asteroid will demolish the earth in 2 months. After that the city went into mayhem,
the government placed a curfew and the national police came. Criminals rose up and people stopped
going to work and school. SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT!!! Anita the
over–achiever and Andy the slacker wanted to celebrate the end of the world so they made a party
where anyone and everyone could come the night before the supposed asteroid would crash. One
day Peter the athlete needed to find his punk sister Misery and she was at this party and while he
was getting her the police came and luckily he escaped but they took all the teenagers to the police.
Eliza the slut was also brought to the police and she plotted a way to send a picture to her friends so
someone can get them. Andy the slacker knew where they took all the kids and Peter,Anita, and
Andy protested to let all the kids out and hundreds of people joined them until someone just broke
the wall and the police just let them out without any resistance. At the end, they had the party like
they planned and Anita and Andy performed in front of thousands of people and in that moment they
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They lived in an apocalypse situation and even as their impending doom was coming they still stuck
together and became something bigger and better. This compares to the Diary of Anne Frank
because in the holocaust it was too dangerous for Jews to go out and in We All Looked Up the
apocalypse many buildings were set on fire and hospitals are no longer functioning. Anne only lived
a whole lifetime in 12 years until she had to go in hiding and the teenagers lived for only two
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Analysis Of Claude Levi Strauss 's ' Black As Slacker...
Claude Lévi–Strauss was a French anthropologist who believed that the myths created and told by a
society could be a window into the beliefs and conflicts of that society. As a Structuralist, Lévi–
Strauss saw stories as language and sought to understand their underlying grammar. This he believed
centered on pairs of opposite ideas, held by the culture, but creating tension within it – the raw and
the cooked, the sacred and the profane, and so on. School of Rock, a 2003 film starring Jack Black
as slacker Dewey Finn, shows the tension between a truly American pair of opposites: laziness vs.
hard work. While in other mythologies it is a trickster character who mediates between these
opposites, the nature of this American pair, and the surrounding culture, make it necessary that the
trickster not remain so; he has to join one side or the other. Claude Lévi–Strauss sought a scientific
approach to the interpretation of the meaning of myths. To perform an analysis, he would first
collect every version and variant of a myth possible. Each version would be broken down into its
individual plot elements, and these elements were then plotted on a chart to show how they fit
together. The charts would be compared across variants, and eventually the true meaning of the
myth would emerge. Any scientist knows that a large data pool is indispensable for getting good
results. Unfortunately, there is only one School of Rock. Though I cannot be so thorough as he
would have liked, the
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Slacker Slob Dialogue
A slacker slob promises to change his ways by opening a food truck to impress a girl and show his
tidy roommate that he's responsible. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: CHIP and DEAN are roommates. Like the
Odd Couple, Chip is a slob and Dean is tidy. Dean is fed up with Chip's behavior and threatens to
move out. Chip secretly is smitten with his friend, LIZZIE, who has a boyfriend and only considers
Chip a friend. Chip vows to change his ways. He cleans up the apartment and makes a decision to
open a food truck. He convinces Dean he can do this and Dean supports him. Chip opens the food
truck, but his business doesn't go as well as he had hoped. No one wants to try his food samples,
never–the– less buy it. Everyone walks by the truck, and instead, they
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Big Five Surveys
I took the Big Five questionnaire and the LIFE survey. Both of these surveys collect self reported
data (S–data). Self reported data is very beneficial to researchers in that it allows them to gain
knowledge only known by the individual. Questionnaires and surveys which provide S–data are
limited by the answers provided. It is easy to lie or skirt the truth when self reporting data. In my
opinion, the Big Five questionnaire was a more accurate assessment of my personality than was the
assessment from the LIFE survey. The Big Five questionnaire measures personality factors in five
dimensions; openness, contentiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. The score on
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The LIFE survey was very similar to the Big Five in that it measures personality in multiple
dimensions and then gives a numerical score for each dimension. The dimensions on the LIFE
survey are suburbanite, cultured, slacker, and preppie. In the suburbanite dimension, I scored 8 out
of 13. According to the survey, people who score higher in the suburbanite dimension live a more
conventional life style and tend to be more family oriented and conservative than those who score
lower. I agree with this score. I tend to be more of a homebody and I enjoy cooking, which is a sign
of a suburbanite. I scored 2 out of 13 in the cultured dimension which I disagree with. The
interpretation of my low cultured score contradicts the interpretation of my low slacker score.
Cultured people try to better the world around them by attending museums, volunteering, and
writing letters. People who score low in this dimension as I did, are assumed to be the kind of
people who eat too much junk food and watch too much TV. The discrepancy probably arose due to
my introversion tendencies, as cultured people are purportedly expressive and vocal. I scored low, 3
out of 13, in the slacker dimension. I apparently relate better to other humans than I do to
computers, and I know that smoking and drinking in excess are bad for my health. People who score
high in the slacker dimension live unhealthy lifestyles, characterized by their excessive use of TV,
fast food, smoking, and drinking habits. I agree with my slacker score, but this assessment of my
personality in the slacker dimension directly contradicts the assessment in the cultured dimension. I
supposedly eat too much fast food and indulge in too much TV according to my cultured score, but
according to my slackers score I live a healthy life style characterized by my infrequent indulgence
in fast food, TV, smoking, and alcohol. The contradictment of these two dimensions goes to show
that it is
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Coworkers
Coworkers. These are the people that the majority of us have to deal with by the time we reach the
college level. Some can be a joy to work with, while others may not be as easy going. As an
employee, at my current job, I've had good and bad experience with my fellow coworkers, but over
the course of time I've learned how to handle this type of situation. At any job you will have to know
how to deal with different types of coworkers. To my understanding coworkers can be classified into
three major groups: slackers, overachievers, and neutral co–workers. The slacker is the one who is
unwilling to work or use energy and probably the worst one to work with. These sluggish co–
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This person is constantly busy at work and rarely takes a moment to relax. He or she is always
trying to impress the manager and tries to keep themselves occupied throughout their whole shift.
They usually only talk when customers are approching, but even then they tend to come off as being
snobbish. They are depicted to be bossy and love to take charge, but when they do something wrong
they wont hesitiate to throw you under the bus to save themselves. For example, during one of my
many shifts I had to work with one of my least favorite co–worker, Sabrina. That afternoon we
agreed to split the several task assigned to us in half so we would finish faster. During the time we
had to complete these task, we also had to be at the register attending customers as they approched
us. As the day progressed I have taken notice that all the items I have stocked up was rearranged, but
everytime I would reposition the item, it would change positions again or it would be relocated to
another section of the store. I soon found out that my co–worker was not just finishing her task but
changing what she believed was wrong with my display. Of course, I let this type of situation slide a
little because everyone knows how she is, however, soon after our manager approached us, and
politely asked who was the one that stocked up the items. Sabrina shot up and proudly announced
that she did it all by herself, which obviously was not true, and goes to show that everything she had
stocked up was not in the correct shelves. Although it was her mistake and I had nothing to do with
it, she tried dragging me down with her to save herself. In addition, our other fellow co–worker,
Dora, never talked to anyone else except for the customers, but she was not as nice and polite as
everyone may have thought. She acted like she knew it all and would try to consult the customers
about having their card or money
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Analysis Of Michael Francis Moore 's ' The Columbine High...
Born in 1954, Michael Francis Moore is an American documentary filmmaker. His opening
documentary, Roger & Me, "launched his career as one of America's best–known and most
controversial documentarians" (In IMDB). However, his documentary that studies the events of the
Columbine high school massacre is what put him on the map. Bowling for Columbine won the
Academy Award for Documentary feature in 2002. His notable films also include Fahrenheit 9/11,
the highest–grossing documentary of all time that presents a contentious view on the presidency of
George W. Bush. His latest documentary, Where to Invade Next, premiered in the US on October 2,
2015.
Apparent in all his films, Moore is unafraid to make use of entertainment to discuss political,
economic, industrial, cultural, and social concerns that informs, provokes, and sometimes,
manipulates its audience. Moore utilizes the documentary form of filmmaking that adapts to the
shifts in popular culture where entertainment value is crucial. Though his chosen subject matter are
commonly treated in a scholarly and profound manner, he remains critical by treating these topics in
a comedic and sardonic manner.
Apart from being a filmmaker, Moore is also a television screenwriter through his political comedy
show TV Nation, an author of eight books, journalist, actor, and a political activist. Perhaps
Fahrenheit 9/11 is considered Moore's most intriguing documentary. Premiered in the 2004 Cannes
Film Festival, Fahrenheit 9/11 is
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Volleyball Games
Going through our warm up, like all volleyball games start, Brenna and I get our arms loose and get
our brains ready for action. We throw the ball back and forth. We go through all the drills of our
warm up until the buzzer rings. Finally it is game time. The ball flies across the net to the other
team. We all stand in our positions waiting for the return. The ball comes and two of my teammates
go for the same ball. One yells, "Got it!" while the other just stand there assuming the other one
knows they are going to get it. The ball shanks off and hits the floor. My teammates and I come
together. Some yell at the others and say "Talk!" making the players that messed up feel like a puppy
that has just been scolded by its master. Others try to pick up the teammates by saying things like,
"It is okay. Get the next one." or "Believe in yourself and your teammates." If you have ever been
apart of a sport's team, you know every player has a different personality. Some may be uplifting,
and others can drag you to the ground. Every team strives to get along, but how is that going to work
when there is always a person who brings down everyone else? Fortunately, not all teammates are
rude and hurtful. There are some who try and help out to lift the spirits and encourage others. Teams
are only going to succeed when they're all able to find common ground and work together as
teammates should. According to Webster's dictionary, a teammate is a fellow member of a team, but
I see it as
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Slacking College Students
These days it's hard to find a good paying career without at least an associate's degree. This leads
many people to college. People are different, and although they all came with the same goal they
pursue it differently. College students can be organized into these three groups slackers, average
students, and the overachievers. The first group are slackers, and like the name suggests the slack off
in all things school related. They most likely don't have a clear goal for going because of this they
aren't worried about absences. In fact, they barely show up to class. They aren't worried about their
grades because they aren't trying to achieve anything special. Slackers never study, and if they're
given homework they don't do it.
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Waiter Analysis
you would think there would only be one type of waiter, the kind that does whatever they can to get
the best tip. there are three types of waiters the rookie, the slacker, and the veteran . no matter what
one you get, you're going to get your meal; the question is will the time in the restaurant meet your
standards. the type of waiter you get plays a huge roll in your dining experience, and can really
make or break your time out. the rookie; you can always tell who this is by the first couple of
minutes, they are very unsure of themselves and are shy and always seem scared by what could the
next question be. the service isn't bad when you have a rookie waiter, but you can tell they are
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you sit down and they are ready for you and don't even have to write down any drink orders and
have them out for you extremely fast. the veteran always seems to know when your ready to order
and has no problems with substitutions and gets everything done quickly and with a great attitude.
your food comes out and if something comes out wrong they quickly fix it and make sure to take it
off the bill. you never have to ask for a refill and they already have dressings out before dinner is
even served. they always have a happy face on and want you to enjoy your meal, you can just tell
they have been doing this for a while and know exactly what to do. the veteran is the waiter you
always hope to get, even on the busiest nights the service is still above average. no matter what kind
of waiter you are, being a server is a tough job and you have to put up with a lot of crazy people. in
a perfect world they would all be classified as a veteran but it's not, and unfortunately theres still the
slackers and the rookies that well all hope they turn into a vet some day. no matter what server you
have you should always leave a tip, cause remember thats how they make a
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Differences In Two Kinds By Amy Tan
In the short story, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, it explains the differences such as work ethic and
beliefs between the narrator, jing–mei or daughter and her mother. Jing–mei is a chinese american
that is the daughter of a woman who lost everything from her home to her to twin daughters and her
husband. The mother believes deeply in the american dream and her daughter finding her special
prodigy. The mother gave Jing–mei a test to help see where her talent lied but throughout the story
she failed. The daughter wants to be someone her mother doesn't. The mother's work ethic is for
more grand then the daughter's. The mother is a determined worker and the daughter on the other
hand was a very big slacker that believed she could get away with everything.
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Generation Anti-Slackers: How Millennials Can Achieve Success (39 characters

  • 1. Group Work We've all been there where you were assigned different members to work with that do not cooperate or work hard enough. People around us believe that group projects are fun and can be exciting to work with others, but this is not the case. I am strongly against group work, from the different opinions, to the time management, and the slackers who do not do any of the work but still get credit. The different personalities and opinions of the group members creates many complications during the process of getting the work finished. Firstly, there are the different viewpoints in the group that make it hard to cooperate with one another. In groups, there are different personalities, making it hard to fit everyone's ideas into the project. The ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... "Slackers" are the people in the group who lack the effort to do anything in the group. These people will just run around the room, acting like animals, and will not try to get any work done, thinking that you will do it for them. These individuals will mess with your plans in anyway possible, whether it be the construction of the project, or the pieces of the project you assign to each member. These people will give you lousy excuses for not finishing their part of the project, and make the rest of the group agitated. They will also ruin your grade on this project. Unless you want to stay up all night to do their work to salvage you and your teammates' grades, you will not be getting a good grade if you are missing things that the "slacker" decided they did not need to do. Even if you have people who are frustrating, there are the people who will work with you and want a good grade as badly as you do. These people will work with you to try to finish the project and cooperate with you. But even if you have these especially exceptional people, there are still the people who will fight with you with everything and will not work at all. Group work is the worst part of school, with the people who do not cooperate and work, the time management, and the different opinions. I believe that you should tell your teachers that you do not like nor understand the meaning of group work, so that they may reconsider this teaching method. All in all, group work is horrible and not a great system to work with the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 3. Summary on Waiting for Superman Generation Anti– Slackers As an American we have taken pride in our steady advancement and progression yet this generation have allowed technology to take the place of our desired expectations in life. In this socialization people tend to slack off into a world of illusion. This era of time from 2001 to the present time we should be named Generation Anti– Social Slacker. This generation is notorious for having no sense of direction we are easily distracted by unnecessary events and issues. Generation Anti– social Slackers lives in a fictitious world where we are allowed to create goals. As a member of the Anti– Social Slacker Generation our goals of achieving the American dream of fame and fortune are to idealistic and since we value ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Social networking was created to help us make new friends and stay in touch with old friends. Unfortunately people have misused the site for numerous inappropriate needs but more importantly people practice bad grammar and slang. With these careless behaviors this generation and beyond will be underachievers. The author asked and important question he said, "are we really networking in a social sense, or are we just hiding behind our keyboards, and building list of virtual friends rather than getting out there in the real world"?(Nickson1). We have become mesmerized by technology and disconnected for reality. However if we keep up this behavior socially we will never get ahead and we only have ourselves to blame. In conclusion as a member of generation anti–social slackers our goals of living the American dream is inane but not impossible and our superficial values are promising although we value our narcissistic attitudes it may sometimes get in the way of our goals. We have become so disconnected from reality and allowed technology to effect our growth. What could we do to snap out of these narcissistic, anti– social unsuccessful trends? How can this generation transform from slacker to overachievers. No matter how hard it gets there is always hope. We must stop living in our on fictitious world and frittering away our time with social networking site and get out in the real world live our ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 5. A Generation Of Slackers Generation Y, also referred to as the Milennials, get so much criticism. Elders are quick to throw young adults under the bus; they say that Milennials are lazy, and about how easy it is growing up in this generation because of advances in technology. Anyone now and days can have information at the tip of their finger all they have to do is open the internet up on their phone, go to google, and type in what you want to know; all it takes is a click of a button. What elder people tend to leave out is how well we work together and how fast the task gets done. Another thing that's left out is how many more millennials have full time jobs while they're a full time college student, and how much more we volunteer. In A Generation of Slackers? Not ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 7. Character Analysis: A Reckless Slacker Drink A reckless slacker drinks too much, but an acting class emotionally challenges her to get in touch with her feelings and her inner pain. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: DANI HARRING (22) has just graduated from college with a degree in communications. Her brother, PHIL (26) is there to congratulate her. When she can't find a job and quits her job at a bar, she decides to go to New York to take acting classes. In New York, she reunites with her friend JO (21), who introduces her to JAKE (22), an all American type guy. They soon engage in a casual sexual relationship. Just as Dani begins to care about Jake, their relationship takes a different turn, when Jake stops texting and contacting her. Dani and her friends drink. She's drunk most of the time. ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 9. Is Holden Caulfield Ignorant Adolescence, this is a time where you figure out who you truly are. This soul searching leads to self realization. Holden Caulfield from The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger, has trouble accepting himself. Throughout his days he would put on a cap just to be someone else. It is his get away place, a place of isolation. A way for him to seclude from the world and become someone he isn't. This is relatable to numerous teens. Though Holden could be described using numerous adjectives, Holden's character can be perfectly described as ignorant, a liar, and a slacker. He is ignorant because he does not learn from his mistakes. He is a compulsive liar. Finally, he is a slacker because he avoids work. Holden is just like countless people out there who do not apply themselves. You see, Holden could be smart. He could be successful. He just doesn't have the motivation or ambition to do so. Being ignorant means to lack knowledge or awareness; uneducated or unsophisticated. Holden is known to be this way because he gets himself into the most severe situations. However, once he is out of them, he will have the same issue later on. This is because Holden is not astute. He repeats those mistakes because he does not learn from them. This makes him ignorant. An example of a situation is when he gets in a fist fight with Stradlater. "I tried to sock him, with all my might, right smack in the toothbrush, so it would split his goddam throat open," (Salinger, pg 43). From this we know that ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 11. Me and You and Memento and Fargo by J.J. Murphy Structure in any form of narrative is vital, whether it be in films, books, theatre, etc. It is a frame for a story to work within. While there is a traditional method and formula to structuring a film narrative, filmmakers all over the world have experimented with breaking the norm and trying new ways to structure a film. It tested the viewer's notion of what structure is and how a narrative can be told. It was also new and something that audiences were not used to. Even now, a film that moves too far away from the traditional three–act–structure, is highly experimental and usually only seen in independent or student films. In this essay I will look at the film "Slacker" (Linklater, 1991) and see how they structured the ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... "Act I, the screenwriter sets up the story, establishes character, launches the dramatic premise (what the story is about), illustrates the situation (the circumstances surrounding the action), and creates the relationships between the main character and the other characters who inhabit the landscape of his or her world." (Field, 2005:21) At the end of the first act there is a turning point, also known as the 'inciting incident', that signals the start of the second act which is what Field (2005:24) calls "Confrontation". While act one and act three usually translates to about roughly a quarter of the story's length each, act two is usually half of the entire script. "During this second act the main character encounters obstacle after obstacle that keeps him/her from achieving his/her dramatic need, which is defined as what the character wants to win, gain, get, or achieve during the course of the screenplay." (Field, 2005:25) "...resolution means solution." (Field, 2005:26) In the third and final act, the resolution, the story and characters reach a climax. Here the character usually faces his fears, overcomes his biggest obstacles and defeats the antagonist, though not always. There is a de–escalation in act three. In the book "Story" (McKee, 1997:105–106) Robert McKee defines the function of structure and character: "The function of STRUCTURE is to provide ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 13. Analysis Of Mind Game Isn T Just A White Coat By Sandra... To summarize "Mind Games: Sometimes a White coat Isn't Just a White Coat" article by Sandra Blakeslee. The article is about an experiment where people pay more attention to a doctor with a white coat then a painter with a white coat. It's not just the effect of knowing someone is a doctor. The effect really occurs when that doctor is wearing the coat and knowing its symbolic meaning. Dr. Galinsky said, our thought processes is based on physical experiences that set off associated abstract concepts, and now it appears that those experiences include the cloths we wear. The study does not explain why as humans we do thing it just proves that we do, do it. The study says if people carry a hot drink others will believe they have a warmer personality, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 15. A Week I The Woods By Karl Maxwell Quotes I really enjoyed the book A Week I the Woods by Andrew Clements. When a rich 5th grader, Mark Chelmsely, realizes he must attend the field trip he decides that he is going to prove to his teacher, Mr. Maxwell, that he isn't just a slacker. Instead he puts himself and Mr. Maxwell in a whole bunch of danger. The main theme of this book is everybody deserves a second chance, because even when Mark is very rude towards Mr. Maxwell they end up becoming friends in the end of the book. My first quote shows that in the begging of the story Mr. Maxwell does not like Mark. The quote is "But after 22 years in the classroom, Mr. Maxwell could spot a slacker a mile away. And by Wednesday afternoon at the end of his third class with mark he reached his decision: This new boy was a slacker" (Clements 22). In this quote it shows how Mr. Maxwell judges Mark and immediately dislikes him because of his attitude. It only took Three days before Mr. Maxwell decides that he dislikes Mark. This relates to the theme, everybody deserves a second chance, because it shows that one may not like a person at first but it doesn't mean one should not give that person a second chance. ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Maxwell knows about Mark Chelmsely before he decides that he is going to strongly dislike this kid. The second quote is "When Mrs. Stearns told Mr. Maxwell the news, his attitude toward this new boy changed instantly. But it didn't change for the better. Because the only kind if people Mr. Maxwell disliked more than slackers were environmentally insensitive, buy–the–whole–world rich folks. And the only people he disliked more than rich folks were their lazy, spoiled kids" (Clements 25). I chose this quote because Mr. Maxwell is judging Mark and his family again because of what he heard. At this point in the book Mr. Maxwell has had very few actual conversation with Mark and he hates ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 17. Procrastination Research Paper The procrastinator. The prioritizer. The slacker. Which type of studier are you? I believe that I am all three. Procrastination is basically waiting until the last minute to do something. Prioritizing is to arrange or deal with things in the order of importance. Last but not least, slacking is lacking in diligence, care, or concern. Out of all three words, prioritizing sounds the best. Many kids at school like to procrastinate, mostly with tests, I am one of them. This is why we need to form more study habits that will help us excel as we enter higher grade levels. Have you ever thought of why you procrastinate? Maybe it is because you spend multiple hours doing homework, watching television, playing outside, or simply enjoying extracurricular ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The number twenty four says to study all day, every day. Lastly, seven means to study on all the seven days of the week. Students test scores have augmented, when doing this process. You never know, studying ten minutes a day may allow your test score to go from a sixty to a ninety. Study habits not only involve you studying by yourself, but you should ask your classmates or teachers for help. If you do not discern the lesson that was taught, pull your teacher off to the side and respectfully ask them for help. Hang around people that do not know the same thing as you, therefore you can help each other out. Helping friends study is always a benign act. Prioritizing is always the best route to go. If you prioritize, you most likely will be less stressed when studying for a test. As we enter high school, there are going to be multiple assignments and tests on the same day, but if you prioritize you can execute your task very well. To exemplify for you, imagine next week we will have three tests on different days. Also, that your teacher has told you two weeks before the test. Most of us would probably wait until the last minute to study. After getting the results, you have only passed one test. Wouldn't it have been better for you to prioritize, so you could have a better outcome? As my saying goes, keep your eyes on the prize and ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 19. Before Sunrise and Before Sunset The films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are said to represent the so–called slacker genre. Slackers are individuals in society who have no direction and no reasonable expectation or realistic goals in life. This term is mainly used with Generation X'ers (people born between 1961 and 1981) (Casto, "What's A Slacker Movie?"). Slacker movies are films that deal with the ordinary day–to– day life of these people. In Before Sunrise and Before Sunset the characters sense of wandering and the feel of aimlessness is what make them qualify as slacker films. It is a different story telling, not the classical Hollywood story where boy meets girl, falls in love and lives happily ever after but a real story with perhaps no happy ending or no ending ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The difference is that nine years earlier, they were a twenty–something couple both single, which represented the Generation X, people who "grew up in the 'me generation' of the [1970s and] 1980s and now recognize that it was not all that it was cracked up to be" (Jochim, "Generation X defies definition"). Nine years later, and in their thirties and both attached to other people, they realize that they are constrained by the choices they have made and that "getting older means no longer having the chance to realize ones potential through their free choice" (Wartenberg, "Before Sunset | Philosophy Now"). At the end of the film Before Sunset Céline and Jesse are in her apartment listening to music and she begins to dance reminding him about his flight. The camera turns to Jesse where he is seen twirling his wedding ring on his finger. As a viewer the twirling of the wedding ring is representing the uncertainty about his happiness in his marriage. This situation is very much relatable to the audience as divorce and the struggle of marriage has become a common occurrence in today's society. Both the films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are about Céline's and Jesse's relationship and their mutual interest in conversation. They spend a lot of time talking about their feelings yet never sincerely act upon them. The films can relate to the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 21. A Generation Of Slackers By Catherine Rampell As generations go by, our predecessors assume we are skipping out on important aspects of life just to get a few extra minutes on our devices. In Catherine Rampell's "A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much", it is said the older generations believe Generation Y is "coddled, disrespectful, narcissistic, and impatient" (Rampell 388). In all reality our generation is just doing what it has to in order to thrive in the world we live in, where technology is one of the largest parts of our everyday lives. If the older generations that criticize Generation Y had grown up in Generation Y they would realize the world we live in requires the use of technology. The advancement of society with technology has shaped Generation Y to be the people that they are, relying on technology; however, older generations believe Generation Y is lazy. The world we live in today depends on technology to run. We have phones that can practically do anything. That is where the older generations say we are lazy, it is not that we are lazy, instead we are intuitive and resourceful. These words are viewed differently by Generation Y as we are trying to simplify everything, allowing work to be done faster. For example, in "A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much" it states, "College students also spend fewer hours studying then their counterparts in 1961..." (Rampell 389). We no longer need to go to the library because we can access the wealth of information on the internet, which is always at our fingertips. ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 23. Procrastinator And Slacker Analysis All people spend at least a little time in the four of quadrants: procrastinator, prioritizer, yes–man, and slacker. The quadrants represent your habits on importance and urgency in relation to your priorities. Although I spend most of my time as a prioritizer, I can remove the yes–man from my life by being a better prioritizer and learning how to say no to people. The first and fourth quadrants, procrastinator and slacker, are the two worst quadrants to be in. Both leave you with low–quality performance, stress, guilt, and a lot of wasted time. Procrastinators and slackers do not plan anything out, nor do they worry about the quality of their work, only that it eventually gets done, sometime in the future. At this point in my life, I relate ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 25. Couch Potato Slacker Imagine a world where everyone received the same exact amount of money every payday despite the diverse career and job opportunities available. In a given neighborhood with equally nice houses, heart surgeons and lawyers could be living right next door to garbage collectors and waitresses. No matter how much hard work and effort an individual person puts into their job, that person will still inevitably get the same paycheck as the couch potato slacker living right next door. Equally upsetting is the lack of capacity to do something about this potential free–rider problem; the national government is unlikely to even hear the case out, let alone do something about it. This theoretical situation is a simplified version of a communist system of ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Wescott had many extracurricular activities, most of which evolved around writing and receiving letters to and from Bobbie, shopping, drinking, or gambling. Wescott spent a lot of time spending and obtaining money while he was away from the United States. He spent money buying Bobbie gifts such as China sets, pajamas, lipstick holders, and silver bracelets, just to name a few. When he talked about the things he would buy for Bobbie or for himself when he was on liberty, he would write in great detail about the items and the cost in yens and the exchange rate at the time (the dollar had depreciated since he had last been to Japan). He wrote pages upon pages about playing poker, blackjack, craps, etc. and how much money if any he would win. And at the back of the book, he wrote out how much money he would gain and lose for different months and the overall effect on his wallet. He put more detail into his drunken shenanigans than the events of the Korean ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 27. Types Of Slackers Essay When it comes to school every student behaves differently in the classroom. Once I reached high school I realized that some students cared too much and some students didn't care at all; when it came to their education. Everyone knows someone who would always come to class but never do anything or someone who never missed a day of class and always participate in class discussions. During my years in high school I've observed several types of students and how they behaved in class. In my opinion, most students can be categorized as slackers, over achievers, or standards. Slackers are the students who almost never come to class or doing any assignments. These type of students usually just enough work to barely pass they class. A slacker never participates in any group or class activities. I knew a kid in high school who was a slacker, his name was Billy. He was a cool kid but sucked when it came down to getting assignments done. Billy barely came to class and when he did all he would do was day dream and play games on his phone. He almost never turned in any assignments and would always pass exams with a D average. Billy eventually dropped out of ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... These type of students usually make C's, B's and sometimes an A on assignments. They might participate in class and group activities every now and then. My friend Monica would be considered as a standard student. If she received anything lower than a D average she might do a few extra credit assignments to boost her grade a little. She'd always turned in her assignments on time and was perfectly content with getting a C on anything. When it came to group activities, Monica usually only did a section of it and let the other members handle the rest. She graduated with our class, but there was nothing special about her grades. Standards are typically good students and only do what is required to maintain a decent grade in ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 29. Slack Off Research Paper I am a slacker. There is no possible way I will deny that. In some ways, slacking off is both a good thing and a bad thing. I will admit that I love slacking because I don't have to worry about anything that is so important and that I can only focus on my video games. It's true. Every time I'm at home, I play video games and slack off. Every time I am in school, I slack off and feel like that I shouldn't do my work at all. That's what most slackers feel like. They feel like they shouldn't do anything that feels important with the exception of video games. What is my advice for future students? Do not become a slacker. That's the only advice I can give. What are the main reasons? First, slacking off is not a good thing depending on how you look at it. Slacking off can drive you away from your school work and you will definitely not graduate from high school and you will most likely not get a good job because you didn't go to college. The second reason is that slacking off will get you nowhere. School is the most important thing in your life and slacking off will not help that in any way. You need to graduate in order to have a job and in order to get money so that you can buy what every you want. Finally, slacking off will not help your family members. Let's say that you have chores to do. You were asked to wash the dishes, cut the grass, clean your room and many other things. You feel like the chores are of no importance so you slack off and play video games all the long. If you slack off, you can't help your parents around the house or do ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... My message is this: if you care about your life, if you care about your school work, if you care about anything in your life that isn't about video games, you shouldn't slack off. Think about that for quite a while and see if slacking off will do anything in your life, even see if slacking off will improve or decrease your future in any way ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 31. The Cult You're In Everyone is in a consumer's hypnosis, even if you think you are not. When you go to a store and pick one brand over the other, you are now under their spell. The spell/ hypnosis is how companies get you to buy there things over other companies and keep you hooked. Either through commercials or offering something that you think will make your life better by what they tell you. For example, you go to the store and you need to buy water, once you get to the lane and look, there is 10 different types of water you can buy. You go pick one either because the picture is better or you seen the commercial the other day and you want it. During the length of this paper we will talk about two important writers, Kalle Lasn the writer of "The Cult ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... To most people that do not like that person it might seem harmless but other children want to grow up just like that so he/ she thinks it must have everything its idol has to be successful. But if you do not like that rapper it's ok because your idol is promoting the same thing to you in a different way. This might seem harmless but this "Dream" is very dangerous. Denizet–Luis explains how "There are kids starving themselves so they can be the Abercrombie girl, and there are guys who think they aren't worthy if they don't look exactly like the guys on the wall" (Denizet–Luis, 371). Children don't know that it's bad for them to starve themselves to look like the idol they look up too. They see those people and say "why can't I be like that?" and try so hard to do it and get sick or hurt. This pursuit for the "Dream" is dangerous especially if it involves children because children are naive and do not know the difference between what they can or can't do. This does not exclude the adults because they too have the same dream and some are reckless to achieve it, some want to look like the Victoria secret models and so they throw up what they eat or exercise too much which is very harmful. A problem with all cults ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 33. What Is A Slacker In College College is a very diverse place. You encounter all kinds of different people and their characteristics. In every class you attend, you are most likely to encounter these three people. The slacker, the overachiever, and the natural. The one you are more likely to come in contact with is what we call the slacker. The slacker is a person who does no work. They barely get by in class, do not study or complete class work and they may even try to cheat off of another person. They are the ones who don't really want to be there but need to be there to get their degree. The slacker may fall asleep in class, barely show up to class, or joke around too much. The next likely one you'll come in contact with in college is the overachiever. The overachiever ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 35. Color Guard Research Paper "Stay in your toaster!" With every move, the flag must stay right in front of our body and right behind our backs. This one simple rule is embedded in every guard girl's mind. Color guard requires to do various actions at once. For instance, we must remember the sequence of the choreography, march in step, find the right drill spot, and smile. One simple mistake with a flag allows all eyes on you. As the guard girls performs with flags, there's three different types of girls on the field. There is the hard worker, the slacker, and the hardworker and the slacker combined. The hard working color guard girls are the ones who put in the most effort into learning the choreography outside of school, remembering the counts, and drill. They tend to ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 37. 7 Chinese Brothers Character Analysis "7 Chinese Brothers", whose title suggests a gangster Asian movie or a martial arts adventure, is an insubstantial American indie comedy, containing a few good, if immature, ideas that drive us into a dead end. Jason Schwartzman, habitual presence in Wes Anderson's comedies and the star in the astute comedy–drama 'Listen Up Philip' by Alex Ross Perry, who also appears briefly here as an actor, bestows odd movements, imbecilic facial expressions, and a reckless posture, in a performance that attempts to give shape to his character: Larry, the slacker. Fired from his job for stealing money from the tips' jar, Larry, who often embarks in French monologues and nonreversible chats with his equally lazy dog, finds another job in the Quick–Lube garage ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 39. Before Sunrise and Before Sunset The films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are said to represent the so–called slacker genre. Slackers are individuals in society who have no direction and no reasonable expectation or realistic goals in life. This term is mainly used with Generation X'ers (people born between 1961 and 1981) (Casto, "What's A Slacker Movie?"). Slacker movies are films that deal with the ordinary day–to– day life of these people. In Before Sunrise and Before Sunset the characters sense of wandering and the feel of aimlessness is what make them qualify as slacker films. It is a different story telling, not the classical Hollywood story where boy meets girl, falls in love and lives happily ever after but a real story with perhaps no happy ending or no ending ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The difference is that nine years earlier, they were a twenty–something couple both single, which represented the Generation X, people who "grew up in the 'me generation' of the [1970s and] 1980s and now recognize that it was not all that it was cracked up to be" (Jochim, "Generation X defies definition"). Nine years later, and in their thirties and both attached to other people, they realize that they are constrained by the choices they have made and that "getting older means no longer having the chance to realize ones potential through their free choice" (Wartenberg, "Before Sunset | Philosophy Now"). At the end of the film Before Sunset Céline and Jesse are in her apartment listening to music and she begins to dance reminding him about his flight. The camera turns to Jesse where he is seen twirling his wedding ring on his finger. As a viewer the twirling of the wedding ring is representing the uncertainty about his happiness in his marriage. This situation is very much relatable to the audience as divorce and the struggle of marriage has become a common occurrence in today's society. Both the films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset are about Céline's and Jesse's relationship and their mutual interest in conversation. They spend a lot of time talking about their feelings yet never sincerely act upon them. The films can relate to the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 41. Essay about Two Cheers for the Maligned Slacker Dude Kiu Hifo Stephanie Velona English 101 9 March 2015 Rise at a Young Age Two Cheers for the Maligned Slacker Dude by Nathan Robin is an essay from the Wall Street Journal on February 19, 2011. Nathan Robin is the head writer for "A.V. Club," the entertainment section of the Onion (481). In this essay, Robin aims to convince his readers that men in their 20's can accomplish great things. The idea of being young and creative is what Robin emphasizes in the essay. It is interesting what Robin uses to persuade his readers about the idea of being young and creative. Robin uses a movie, and four men, who are billionaires today, and his own personal experience as examples to persuade his readers. In the beginning of the article, Robin ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The other three men is Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. These three men created YouTube. The trio were too young and green, and wanted to share clips of T.V. shows and movies. Piece those clips together in a video because it would be cool to share (482). YouTube then led to success for other men in their late teens and 20's such as Justin Bieber and the Lonely Island. Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim all share the same quality, creativity. That is why Robin uses these four men as examples of his claim. These four men provide good examples of his claim because of how young and creative they were, which then led to success and accomplishment of their goals. Robin's last example of his claim is his own personal experience, which also relates to the ethos of his argument. As a 22–year old college junior, Robin became the first head entertainment writer of the A.V. Club. As I said earlier, the A.V. Club is the entertainment section of The Onion. The Onion is a website based on entertainment featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news. The founders of The Onion are Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson. Both Keck and Johnson founded the website while attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison as juniors. Keck and Johnson is another success story of men in their 20's accomplishing great things. The three examples provided by Robin all have ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 43. A Generation Of Slackers Not So Much Analysis Nicole Stick Prof. Ray ENG 100 5 March 2016 Know–It–All Ne'er–Do–Wells In the article "A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much", by Catherine Rampell, the author analyzes and challenges the popular stigma that Millennials are the laziest generation to have ever existed. Rampell begins her article with a staggering fact: "The unemployment rate for 16– to 24–year–olds is a whopping 17.6 percent" (Rampell 388). And according to seventy–five percent of Americans, "Today's youth are less virtuous and industrious than their elders" (Rampell 388). This may seem like an incredibly high percentage of Americans, but you might be astonished to learn that even "Two–thirds of millennials said older adults were superior to the younger generation when it came ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... I personally work forty–plus hours every week, as well as attending classes for six to nine credit hours per semester. I am actively involved in my community, as are many of my friends, and between work, school, and volunteering, I find that leisure often gets pushed to the wayside. I am sure that one of the biggest factors in this "lazy younger generation" belief is the technological advantages we have at our disposal. The older generation views our willingness to use these advancements as "working smart, and not hard", which in their minds, makes it seem like we prefer to take the easy way out. This is more than often not the case! I am sure that if millennials did not make use of our resources, some would consider us to be 'ungrateful'. This alludes to an air of hypocrisy among older generations. Whether we utilize the advancements available to us or not, I believe that generations before us will always view Millennials as ungrateful and ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 45. On Laziness By Christopher Morley Summary Generally, lazy people are not admired. Society, as a whole, prefers those who are willing and able to actively and positively contribute to its progress. Effort is praised while indifference can typically be seen as shameful. Christopher Morley understands this. In his short essay, "On Laziness," he indirectly confronts the slothful in an effort to make them see the error of their ways. Morley deals with the topic of laziness in a overly sarcastic and satirical tone to stress the absurdity of the trait. Early in his essay, Morley utilizes irony that made it evident that his essay on the supposed benefits of laziness is meant to be treated as a satire. He in no way is actually believing what he is explicitly stating. The opening statement can only reasonably be viewed as an intentional joke. Morley claims that he intends "to write an essay on Laziness but [is] too indolent to [even] do so." Yet, the paper does not end here; he continues on and completes an entire academic essay, blatantly contradicting his first sentence in it. If Morley stays true to his words and fully believes in the value of idleness, no work would have been made to defend it. He makes the sarcasm even more obvious through his deliberate choice of words. While criticizing activeness and energy, Morley spoke of having "a determined effort to be more languid and demure." It is paradoxical to try to be lazy. Putting in effort and making an attempt to be so goes against its basic definition. Morley provides examples of where laziness was shown to be virtuous. However, he purposely makes them flawed and highly debatable, forcing the slothful to consider if there is in actuality a strong case for their behavior. Morley initially calls upon recent history for proof. He reminds the audience of the Great War– the essay being written in 1920 shortly after it ended– and declares that "the world would have been spared a great deal... if the Germans had been as lazy, as indifferent, and as righteously laissez– fairish as their neighbours..." This is a bold claim. War is an atrocious ordeal whose causes are complex and cannot solely be blamed on one group of people. Many including the toughest advocate for indolence will not support the idea that the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 47. Home For Peculiar Children: A Comparative Essay Most people feel categorized in some way. For example, if you were a carpenter, but you enjoy writing, then you belong in both of those "worlds." While reading the books, Cinder, by Marissa Meyer, and the book, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs, I found myself asking the question, can you really belong in two places? In the book, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, the story is about a boy who wanted to visit the place where his grandfather's old stories took place, but when he got there, it was burnt down, but further inspection he found his way to the house and lost himself in a world before his time, not knowing whether this world, or the normal world, was the right one for him. And in the book, Cinder, it's about a cyborg girl who doesn't know if she should be in the castle or in a workshop fixing up broken gadgets, living as a test subject, or even on a different planet. Thinking further into this question, I pondered how did both Marissa Meyer and Ransom ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... An example of this is when the text says, "I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it." However, in Cinder by Marissa Meyer, the author developed the same question by doing the opposite, the main character struggled to get lost in their world and made them see differences. An example of this when the text states, "I am not human. I am a cyborg. I am a mechanic. That's all I am... right?" This quote shows the protagonist of the story trying to decide what world she is from, even though she belongs in multiple. The two authors used different ways to answer the same question that ended up the same in the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 49. Ronald Alsop A Generation Of Slackers Throughout the "A generation of Slackers" by Ronald Alsop he explains and analyzes today's current societal issues of being able to focus while the consent distraction of the smartphone. This article completely hit the technology issue on the head in all places that is necessary. The article also pinpoints major issues surrounding the how the smartphone can play a role in avoiding people and procrastination in life. Alsop's analysation and sources played a vital and critical role in his article. According to the article, Millennials are more likely than Gen Xers or baby boomers to report that their productivity suffers at work because of smartphone distractions and 'cyberslacking' on the Internet. While I'm not surprised about this statistic, ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 51. Co Workers Research Paper Just about everyone will experience co–workers at some point in life, at their job. Some co–workers can be a pleasure to work with, while others may be not so much. From experience as an employee, I've had both excellent and poor experiences with my co–workers. I have had to learn how to handle each of the different types of situations with them. When working, you have to know how to deal with all types of co–workers. You should try and become aware of the type of employee the staff member is and how they act. You can gain an enhanced understanding as to what will work great to keep the work environment a pleasurable place. One type of co–worker you might have experience with is a "workaholic". A "workaholic" is constantly busy at work and ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 53. Analysis Of I Just Wanna Be Average By Mike Rose We go to school day after day and see the same things happening. We never have the time to question these things or to even stop and take a second to wonder, is this the right way to handle this or is this what I am supposed to be doing with my life. From the moment we walk through those school doors until we leave at the end of the day there is nothing but competition. There are many different kinds of competition, whether it is in a sport for school or for who has the best academic scores. A second in the day does not go by where there are not two students competing for the winning spot. In Mike Rose, "I Just Wanna Be Average" we are able to see that there is no self– motivation for Rose when he realizes his test scores have been mixed up ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Many people believe that we need to have our children competing to be the best of the best when they are young. Therefore, giving them a head start on a great future. In Rose he says, "Students will float to the mark you set." (Rose 154) This means that if we set the mark at college, there are kids that will compete to be the best out of their class and will strive to become the most successful. Although we do not realize this, but by setting that mark it is giving the slackers something to aim for even though they never seem to compete for anything. This means that by having an environment that is willing to push even the slackers in school shows that they to can have something to compete for in the future. The environment of students plays an important role in helping students compete to become better. We tend to see better scores from students in private schools rather than students in public schools, this is because students are pushed harder in private schools and are competing to be the best because they know that if they start to fall behind they will be left in the dust. These students become the slackers. Problems start to form when the parents of the slackers start to shelter them and say that competing is not that important. Young adults are smart and they see this as an opportunity to use their parents. When reading Katherine S. Newman, "The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents, and the Private Toll of Global Competition" we find it interesting when she brings up the topic on how "Adult children are migrating home or refraining from leaving in the first place, and there they stay for many years longer." (Newman 91) With this being said we can right away notice that there is no motivation to become better or to even compete in the work for to be able to be living on their ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 55. Slacker By Nathan Rabin Summary Many may view a "slacker" as one who will procrastinate on everything meaningful, one who is ignorant, lazy, incompetent, or even uneducated. Nathan Rabin argues statistically that men ranging from their late teens to late 20s happen to be in the prime time when "you're too young to realize your limitations, or even to know that limitations exist" (Rabin 482). The author argues that no man should have a "limit" but to realize our potential as human beings as a whole to perceive red lights from green lights, and to keep going when someone else said STOP. This essay influences its readers to believe Rabin's assertion that being a so called "slacker" is not so bad through its anecdotal evidence, appealing to the opposition, and societal values. Nathan Rabin affectively uses anecdotal evidence to make readers understand what he means when he says that no man should be declared a slacker because he's "dressed in a baggy ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... Men are not created with the same mind–set nor the same motives as one another, but we all had the same thought of becoming a billionaire at age 20. The author mentions Mr. Zuckerberg as "a 26– year–old scruffily dressed Jewish kid who started a cultural revolution in his dorm room and inspired a movie that may just win an Oscar for best picture"(Rabin 482). Also another way he effectively appeals to the opposition by the opinion of other people, because no one in their right minds would guess a person who dresses in their pajamas in the middle of broad day could be the next 26–year–old billionaire. But that's the flaws of judging a book by its cover. One can say that Mr. Zuckerberg had a clarity to be successful, there's a saying in which goes for everyone who is striving to be successful "If you don't help build your own dream, someone else would hire you to build theirs". Not all men are like Mr. Zuckerberg, but we sure can be inspired to be like ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 57. Difference Between A College Scholar And A Slacker Let's face it, not all who choose to continue school past the 12th grade made the choice with the best intentions in mind. When it comes the college, the next level of education after high school, students who choose to attend will come from different nationalities, religions, and financial backgrounds, but can almost always be classified into two categories the will define them during the collegiate journey. Those categories are the scholars and the slackers. A college scholar is one who makes the best of their college experience and understands the main purpose of earning a college degree. A college slacker is one who does not understand the main purpose of earning an education and does not make the best of their experience. Scholars and slackers are hard to tell apart based on their appearance, so to be able to tell which is which you would have to look at their educational ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... When it comes to the time spent on preparing yourself to do well, for scholars it always seems like there is never enough and every bit of time is precious and must be used to put together their best approach for either an upcoming quiz or test. A slacker must put together their best approach for the upcoming party or concert and can honestly care less about a test grade. Now when looking at a scholar and a slacker there are some similarities, even though they aren't always easy to identify. There is nothing wrong with attending a party here or there or even taking time to see your favorite musician. Scholars and slackers are initially given the same resources and opportunities to do exceptional in their educational craft. What they choose the do with those opportunities is what separates the two groups. The key to what determines if you use your resources correctly and become a scholar or incorrectly and become a slacker is one in the same. This key is the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 59. Summary Of We All Looked Up By Tommy Wallach We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach there are a group of kids in their last year of highschool. There was the athlete, slut, over–achiever, and the slacker. They received news that there was a 66.6% chance an asteroid will demolish the earth in 2 months. After that the city went into mayhem, the government placed a curfew and the national police came. Criminals rose up and people stopped going to work and school. SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT!!! Anita the over–achiever and Andy the slacker wanted to celebrate the end of the world so they made a party where anyone and everyone could come the night before the supposed asteroid would crash. One day Peter the athlete needed to find his punk sister Misery and she was at this party and while he was getting her the police came and luckily he escaped but they took all the teenagers to the police. Eliza the slut was also brought to the police and she plotted a way to send a picture to her friends so someone can get them. Andy the slacker knew where they took all the kids and Peter,Anita, and Andy protested to let all the kids out and hundreds of people joined them until someone just broke the wall and the police just let them out without any resistance. At the end, they had the party like they planned and Anita and Andy performed in front of thousands of people and in that moment they knew that ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... They lived in an apocalypse situation and even as their impending doom was coming they still stuck together and became something bigger and better. This compares to the Diary of Anne Frank because in the holocaust it was too dangerous for Jews to go out and in We All Looked Up the apocalypse many buildings were set on fire and hospitals are no longer functioning. Anne only lived a whole lifetime in 12 years until she had to go in hiding and the teenagers lived for only two ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 61. Analysis Of Claude Levi Strauss 's ' Black As Slacker... Claude Lévi–Strauss was a French anthropologist who believed that the myths created and told by a society could be a window into the beliefs and conflicts of that society. As a Structuralist, Lévi– Strauss saw stories as language and sought to understand their underlying grammar. This he believed centered on pairs of opposite ideas, held by the culture, but creating tension within it – the raw and the cooked, the sacred and the profane, and so on. School of Rock, a 2003 film starring Jack Black as slacker Dewey Finn, shows the tension between a truly American pair of opposites: laziness vs. hard work. While in other mythologies it is a trickster character who mediates between these opposites, the nature of this American pair, and the surrounding culture, make it necessary that the trickster not remain so; he has to join one side or the other. Claude Lévi–Strauss sought a scientific approach to the interpretation of the meaning of myths. To perform an analysis, he would first collect every version and variant of a myth possible. Each version would be broken down into its individual plot elements, and these elements were then plotted on a chart to show how they fit together. The charts would be compared across variants, and eventually the true meaning of the myth would emerge. Any scientist knows that a large data pool is indispensable for getting good results. Unfortunately, there is only one School of Rock. Though I cannot be so thorough as he would have liked, the ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 63. Slacker Slob Dialogue A slacker slob promises to change his ways by opening a food truck to impress a girl and show his tidy roommate that he's responsible. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: CHIP and DEAN are roommates. Like the Odd Couple, Chip is a slob and Dean is tidy. Dean is fed up with Chip's behavior and threatens to move out. Chip secretly is smitten with his friend, LIZZIE, who has a boyfriend and only considers Chip a friend. Chip vows to change his ways. He cleans up the apartment and makes a decision to open a food truck. He convinces Dean he can do this and Dean supports him. Chip opens the food truck, but his business doesn't go as well as he had hoped. No one wants to try his food samples, never–the– less buy it. Everyone walks by the truck, and instead, they ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 65. Big Five Surveys I took the Big Five questionnaire and the LIFE survey. Both of these surveys collect self reported data (S–data). Self reported data is very beneficial to researchers in that it allows them to gain knowledge only known by the individual. Questionnaires and surveys which provide S–data are limited by the answers provided. It is easy to lie or skirt the truth when self reporting data. In my opinion, the Big Five questionnaire was a more accurate assessment of my personality than was the assessment from the LIFE survey. The Big Five questionnaire measures personality factors in five dimensions; openness, contentiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. The score on the Big Five purportedly indicates how well a person fits into their ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... The LIFE survey was very similar to the Big Five in that it measures personality in multiple dimensions and then gives a numerical score for each dimension. The dimensions on the LIFE survey are suburbanite, cultured, slacker, and preppie. In the suburbanite dimension, I scored 8 out of 13. According to the survey, people who score higher in the suburbanite dimension live a more conventional life style and tend to be more family oriented and conservative than those who score lower. I agree with this score. I tend to be more of a homebody and I enjoy cooking, which is a sign of a suburbanite. I scored 2 out of 13 in the cultured dimension which I disagree with. The interpretation of my low cultured score contradicts the interpretation of my low slacker score. Cultured people try to better the world around them by attending museums, volunteering, and writing letters. People who score low in this dimension as I did, are assumed to be the kind of people who eat too much junk food and watch too much TV. The discrepancy probably arose due to my introversion tendencies, as cultured people are purportedly expressive and vocal. I scored low, 3 out of 13, in the slacker dimension. I apparently relate better to other humans than I do to computers, and I know that smoking and drinking in excess are bad for my health. People who score high in the slacker dimension live unhealthy lifestyles, characterized by their excessive use of TV, fast food, smoking, and drinking habits. I agree with my slacker score, but this assessment of my personality in the slacker dimension directly contradicts the assessment in the cultured dimension. I supposedly eat too much fast food and indulge in too much TV according to my cultured score, but according to my slackers score I live a healthy life style characterized by my infrequent indulgence in fast food, TV, smoking, and alcohol. The contradictment of these two dimensions goes to show that it is ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 67. Coworkers Coworkers. These are the people that the majority of us have to deal with by the time we reach the college level. Some can be a joy to work with, while others may not be as easy going. As an employee, at my current job, I've had good and bad experience with my fellow coworkers, but over the course of time I've learned how to handle this type of situation. At any job you will have to know how to deal with different types of coworkers. To my understanding coworkers can be classified into three major groups: slackers, overachievers, and neutral co–workers. The slacker is the one who is unwilling to work or use energy and probably the worst one to work with. These sluggish co– workers show up to work five to ten minutes late and have the nerve ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... This person is constantly busy at work and rarely takes a moment to relax. He or she is always trying to impress the manager and tries to keep themselves occupied throughout their whole shift. They usually only talk when customers are approching, but even then they tend to come off as being snobbish. They are depicted to be bossy and love to take charge, but when they do something wrong they wont hesitiate to throw you under the bus to save themselves. For example, during one of my many shifts I had to work with one of my least favorite co–worker, Sabrina. That afternoon we agreed to split the several task assigned to us in half so we would finish faster. During the time we had to complete these task, we also had to be at the register attending customers as they approched us. As the day progressed I have taken notice that all the items I have stocked up was rearranged, but everytime I would reposition the item, it would change positions again or it would be relocated to another section of the store. I soon found out that my co–worker was not just finishing her task but changing what she believed was wrong with my display. Of course, I let this type of situation slide a little because everyone knows how she is, however, soon after our manager approached us, and politely asked who was the one that stocked up the items. Sabrina shot up and proudly announced that she did it all by herself, which obviously was not true, and goes to show that everything she had stocked up was not in the correct shelves. Although it was her mistake and I had nothing to do with it, she tried dragging me down with her to save herself. In addition, our other fellow co–worker, Dora, never talked to anyone else except for the customers, but she was not as nice and polite as everyone may have thought. She acted like she knew it all and would try to consult the customers about having their card or money ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 69. Analysis Of Michael Francis Moore 's ' The Columbine High... Born in 1954, Michael Francis Moore is an American documentary filmmaker. His opening documentary, Roger & Me, "launched his career as one of America's best–known and most controversial documentarians" (In IMDB). However, his documentary that studies the events of the Columbine high school massacre is what put him on the map. Bowling for Columbine won the Academy Award for Documentary feature in 2002. His notable films also include Fahrenheit 9/11, the highest–grossing documentary of all time that presents a contentious view on the presidency of George W. Bush. His latest documentary, Where to Invade Next, premiered in the US on October 2, 2015. Apparent in all his films, Moore is unafraid to make use of entertainment to discuss political, economic, industrial, cultural, and social concerns that informs, provokes, and sometimes, manipulates its audience. Moore utilizes the documentary form of filmmaking that adapts to the shifts in popular culture where entertainment value is crucial. Though his chosen subject matter are commonly treated in a scholarly and profound manner, he remains critical by treating these topics in a comedic and sardonic manner. Apart from being a filmmaker, Moore is also a television screenwriter through his political comedy show TV Nation, an author of eight books, journalist, actor, and a political activist. Perhaps Fahrenheit 9/11 is considered Moore's most intriguing documentary. Premiered in the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Fahrenheit 9/11 is ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 71. Volleyball Games Going through our warm up, like all volleyball games start, Brenna and I get our arms loose and get our brains ready for action. We throw the ball back and forth. We go through all the drills of our warm up until the buzzer rings. Finally it is game time. The ball flies across the net to the other team. We all stand in our positions waiting for the return. The ball comes and two of my teammates go for the same ball. One yells, "Got it!" while the other just stand there assuming the other one knows they are going to get it. The ball shanks off and hits the floor. My teammates and I come together. Some yell at the others and say "Talk!" making the players that messed up feel like a puppy that has just been scolded by its master. Others try to pick up the teammates by saying things like, "It is okay. Get the next one." or "Believe in yourself and your teammates." If you have ever been apart of a sport's team, you know every player has a different personality. Some may be uplifting, and others can drag you to the ground. Every team strives to get along, but how is that going to work when there is always a person who brings down everyone else? Fortunately, not all teammates are rude and hurtful. There are some who try and help out to lift the spirits and encourage others. Teams are only going to succeed when they're all able to find common ground and work together as teammates should. According to Webster's dictionary, a teammate is a fellow member of a team, but I see it as ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 73. Slacking College Students These days it's hard to find a good paying career without at least an associate's degree. This leads many people to college. People are different, and although they all came with the same goal they pursue it differently. College students can be organized into these three groups slackers, average students, and the overachievers. The first group are slackers, and like the name suggests the slack off in all things school related. They most likely don't have a clear goal for going because of this they aren't worried about absences. In fact, they barely show up to class. They aren't worried about their grades because they aren't trying to achieve anything special. Slackers never study, and if they're given homework they don't do it. ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 75. Waiter Analysis you would think there would only be one type of waiter, the kind that does whatever they can to get the best tip. there are three types of waiters the rookie, the slacker, and the veteran . no matter what one you get, you're going to get your meal; the question is will the time in the restaurant meet your standards. the type of waiter you get plays a huge roll in your dining experience, and can really make or break your time out. the rookie; you can always tell who this is by the first couple of minutes, they are very unsure of themselves and are shy and always seem scared by what could the next question be. the service isn't bad when you have a rookie waiter, but you can tell they are flustered and have so much going on at that exact moment. you'll ask ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ... you sit down and they are ready for you and don't even have to write down any drink orders and have them out for you extremely fast. the veteran always seems to know when your ready to order and has no problems with substitutions and gets everything done quickly and with a great attitude. your food comes out and if something comes out wrong they quickly fix it and make sure to take it off the bill. you never have to ask for a refill and they already have dressings out before dinner is even served. they always have a happy face on and want you to enjoy your meal, you can just tell they have been doing this for a while and know exactly what to do. the veteran is the waiter you always hope to get, even on the busiest nights the service is still above average. no matter what kind of waiter you are, being a server is a tough job and you have to put up with a lot of crazy people. in a perfect world they would all be classified as a veteran but it's not, and unfortunately theres still the slackers and the rookies that well all hope they turn into a vet some day. no matter what server you have you should always leave a tip, cause remember thats how they make a ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...
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  • 77. Differences In Two Kinds By Amy Tan In the short story, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, it explains the differences such as work ethic and beliefs between the narrator, jing–mei or daughter and her mother. Jing–mei is a chinese american that is the daughter of a woman who lost everything from her home to her to twin daughters and her husband. The mother believes deeply in the american dream and her daughter finding her special prodigy. The mother gave Jing–mei a test to help see where her talent lied but throughout the story she failed. The daughter wants to be someone her mother doesn't. The mother's work ethic is for more grand then the daughter's. The mother is a determined worker and the daughter on the other hand was a very big slacker that believed she could get away with everything. ... Get more on HelpWriting.net ...