Busboy

healthy work environment where every employee was working at their highest level. Recently, however Mr. Volkov has had some motivation issues with his employees. Alexei has worked at the restaurant as a busboy for a few months but he has grown frustrated with his lack of promotion when other busboys working the same amount of time have moved up. The cook, Viktor has been with the restaurant for years and he expects that if he starts working extra hours he will receive a pay raise. Whereas the…

Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz’s ethnography Labor and Legality uses a mixture of narrative, interviews, and observation to educate the reader about the lives of undocumented workers in the United States. Gomberg-Muñoz focuses specifically on a group in Chicago called the Lions and describes how this small group has managed to create their own culture made up of language, social structure, kinship, gender roles, and authority. Often the Lions have to navigate between three different cultures: the one they…

Immigration has always been a part of American culture, in fact, it is the basis of how our country was formed. Immigration, both legal and illegal, has become a key focal point in today’s society- especially with presidential elections looming in the near future. In a collection of essays titled “Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrant and What It Means to Be American,” Jamar Jacoby has a piece titled “The New Immigrants and the Issue of Assimilation” published in 2004. In her piece she…

If success is what you seek child, then let me enlighten you with some advice, some advice on how to be successful in your life. In the Mock Economy it can get pretty cutthroat. People will try to kill you for your money, you’ll get fired and it definitely won’t be pretty, your friends will become your rivals in one transaction, and if you slip you’ll be stuck with the Donkeys. It sounds pretty bad, and it was. If Mock Economy is an accurate representation of the real world than I’ll no doubt be…

Cage a seemingly normal employee at Pops Barber Shop in Harlem New York. Cage is portrayed as being a quiet person who keeps to him self for the most part. When he’s not working at the barbershop he works at Harlem’s paradise a local nightclub as a busboy trying to lay low and go about his regular job. When one of the bartenders at the nightclub doesn’t show up to work Cage is asked to fill in. There he catches the attention of detective Misty Knight, who is undercover investigating the shady…

In to kill a Mockingbird there are bizarre types of families in the town of Maycomb. Their are the Finches, Cunningham's, Ewells, and then there is the Black community. Atticus and his family lived on the main street in Maycomb. The finch house has steps leading up to a wooden porch with a swing. Atticus and his family have a Black maid and cook named Calpurnia. Their cook and maid does not live with them because she is Black. Atticus would sometimes give Calpurnia a ride home and she would have…

Langston Hughes is an African American poet, novelist, playwright and more. He was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902. He was raised by his grandmother until he was 13 years old, because his parents divorced when he was still young. He then “moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her husband”. Eventually they settled in Cleveland, Ohio. His full name is Jame Mercer Langston Hughes. He published his first poetry book in 1926, wich was called “the weary…

Black boy is a memoir written by Richard Wright describing his childhood all the way to his adult life. He begins his memoir with his earliest memory of setting his grandmother 's house on fire with a broomstick. Shortly after they move to Memphis,Tennessee to a new house. Richard’s father leaves them for another woman and after that Richard and his brother only see their father a couple of times. After their father leaves Richard’s mother is forced to work to provide for them. While his mother…

The famous author Langston Hughes, born James Mercer Langston Hughes, was one of the most influential writers during the Harlem Renaissance. The life of Langston Hughes has influenced many people throughout history and his story is still changing lives. Hughes is one of the most influential writers of the Harlem Renaissance and possibly of all time. He was the voice of many African American people at this time. Their voices were not being heard, so he spoke out for them; through songs, novels,…

Identify two central ideas Ehrenreich writes about; analyze how she develops these ideas as she writes chapter 1 (include how the ideas interact and build on each other). One of her main ideas that she shares are how she paced herself. She described how she plans out her budget (page 27), balancing the rent, groceries, and emergency money. Ehrenreich also shares her struggles with getting a second job to keep up with the rent (pg 28). She starts out saying that she can work with the two jobs (pg…