The Office Tv Show Analysis

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The office is a tv show that takes place in Scranton Pennsylvania. The show is about a failing branch of the Dunder Miflin Paper company. The show revolves around Michael Scott who is the regional manager, Dwight Schrute who is the top salesman, Jim Halpert who is the office funny guy and Pam Beasley the uncomfortable recipcinist. The first concept is Race and Ethnicity. The first example is a part of an episode where Michael holds a meeting where he has everyone put a card on there head with a different race and the other people in the office need to describe that person's race. It doesn’t go well when someone in the office gets offended by it. Another example is when Michael is about to leave for a trip to Cancun and he tries to learn

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