An Argumentative Essay On Chris Collibee's Life

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Chris Collibee is a boy born in New Hampshire. Right now, he is a freshman in the University of Arizona. His major is computer science, he is friendly and honest to everyone. For this draft, I introduced the process for his first job interview – to be a shop assistant in a Stadium when he was 16 years old, and he got this job by his
He found this job by a coincidence. Summer vacation always long and boring. One day, he was walking on the street with his friends, they would go to the park to play basketball. ‘Hey Chris, look at that board!’ His friend Nick patted his shoulder and asked him looking a board in the corner ‘The DAC is hiring new shop assistant. ’ Follow Nick’s hand, Chris found there is a large board in a corner at
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He took a coin from pocket, let this coin help me making this decision. ‘If it is positive side of coin, I will go apply.’ Before throwing, he talked to himself by this. He threw the coin and handed it. When he move away his right hand, the coin is positive. He jumped from the bed and ran to the phone. He called to the phone number he wrote. After a little while, someone picked up the phone. ‘Hello, this is the office for DAC,’ A lower male voice come from the phone, ‘What can I do for you?’ ‘Oh, Hi, I am Chris, Chris Collibee.’ Chris was a little excited. After a deep breath, Chris was calm down. He used a proper modal: ‘I found DAC was hiring a shop assistant in Popcorn shop, is that true?’ The office person used a happier tone:’ yeah, of course, we have an interview for all person applying for this job on this Saturday. It will hold on the second floor in DAC. You can come here and talk with us.’ Chris was glad to hear this information, he answered ‘thanks, I will be there on …show more content…
Chris push the door and walked into the room. There were two interviewers in the room, everyone dressed formally. Both of them wore a black suit. After one interviewer’s gesture about sitting down, Chris knocked head to show respect and then sat down. ‘Nice to meet you, can you introduce yourself?’ The other one talked to Chris when he was putting his hands crossed. ‘Hi, I am Chris, Chris Collibee.’ Chris began the introduction by his name. ‘I am a student in high school, I found the hiring announcement from an advertising board.’ The younger interviewer knocked head to Chris, and then he asked, ‘Why you want apply this part-time job?’ After a deep breath, Chris began to answer ‘I am an enthusiasts for basketball, I bought popcorn some times when I came here and watch basketball. I found some times, the popcorn shop was overload. It made the guests need wait a long time. This would give guest a bad impression.’ Right here, Chris had short break, when he looked to the interviewer, they were looking at him. It looks they interested about Chris said. The older one asked Chris a question: ‘Should we hire two shop assistants to avoid this problem?’ Chris answered:” It required two more assistants for weekend because there will be more guests come to DAC watching basketball matches on the weekend. For week days, two shop assistants are enough.” The interviewer looks agreed with Chris’s opinion. They wrote down some notes on the

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