Michael Jennings Mrs. Strange ENG 102 November 27, 2012 “White Lies” by Natasha Trethewey and “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes were both poems wrote to express some racial issues that the authors went through. In “White Lies” we see that Trethewey went through some racial identity issues. She felt as if she had to lie to blend in with the rest of the whites, which was easy for her because she was mixed. To understand the full meaning of this poem you must first know that Trethewey was the product of an interracial marriage.
Beth’s office is through the kitchen in the back of the store. The Paradiso’s mission statement is “To build a lifelong partnership of raving guest, associates and stockholders”. Her job is to order supplies, doing schedules, hiring employees, cooking, serving, counting the register at the end of the day and taking care of the store. Beth says her least favorite thing about her job is the turnover never having enough people to run the store. There are times that she has to be the manager and the cook at the same time.
After believing that his race is inferior for so long, Mike Pedro has finally discovered that being Filipino is not so bad after all. Ever since his friends mocked him at school for packing “Asian” food for lunch, he started feeling insecure about his ethnicity and even his own identity. Who is he, really? That is the question he asked himself every day from then on. The thoughts of his friends degrading him for eating “Asian” food for lunch dwelled in his subconscious for months, or perhaps even years.
Put simply, it is when you walk into a store and evaluate how good or bad the employee treated you, but have you ever thought about how the employee feels. Let us look at how retail employees become bitter and cynical through working at retail stores. For the sake of confusion, and the attempt to alleviate it, we are going to call our employee Dan, and the wonderful establishment he works at Walgreens. Dan, within his first few days of working for Walgreens has learned about the policies, his responsibilities, and given a few lessons on how to give good customer service. Dan is now facing his first customer and asks, “How can I help you?” the customer responds yes and asks where she can find the hair coloring.
Barbara was outraged about what she was hearing and was determined to do something about this injustice. She always was known for speaking her mind so she decided to put this talent to good use and began to protest with the mob. Coincidently, one morning she chose to eat breakfast at Jimmy’s Café, a local diner. Still angered by the morning’s events, she thought this would be a good place to gather her thoughts and come up with a plan. She had just ordered coffee and scrambled eggs when she noticed a man who was familiar to her in a booth in the back of the diner.
The family moved to Queens, New York in the 1980’s. Kim had difficulty adjusting to the American culture. She didn’t even know how to speak English language. The supporting details are that in the essay (pg. 63), it states she watched “Three’s Company” in an attempt to learn English.
For example, seeing a morbidly obese woman would hardly be as much of a spectacle in big and busy city like New York. This certainly would affect how the mother viewed herself, and interacted with society. Thus the role of environment in development is
the main character Mac is an employee in a burger joint. Him and his wife have been working there for a long time and still have gotten nowhere. One day while working his shift some teenagers cause trouble and Mac is the one to throw them out. This gets him praise but not a raise. Later he gets told by his bestfriend Banco that his manager has been stealing money from the register for awhile.
When Da-Duh’s granddaughter talks about the tall buildings, she brings up a postcard. Da-Duh’s granddaughter asked Da-Duh if she wanted her to send a postcard with a picture of the tall skyscrapers. That postcard could have been a slight step towards living in the moment but her life in Barbados restricted her from the step because she was internally attached to Barbados and could not let go. Da-Duh has lived in Barbados her entire life, and change in her attitude would have made little to no difference now because her culture has become her life. In the end though, Da-Duh did ask for the postcard.
Nguyen’s father was desperate to raise high achieving children, believing the sacrifices he and his wife had made were far too great for them not to be. From a young age the Nguyen children were brutally caned and publically humiliated for anything below a report card “A”. Their lives revolved around working seven days a week in the family restaurant, stopping only to complete homework and household chores, and scrabbling desperately to live up to the tremendous pressure their father placed upon them. Nguyen’s father controlled every hour of her and her siblings lives and when any situation fell out of his control, they were forced to suffer the full force of his anger. However, as a very young woman Nguyen recognised the injustice she had been dealt and acknowledged that she deserved better, she ran away from home and went into hiding, never to have direct contact with her father again, despite the ultimate shame it would cast over her family.