Cubicle

This past October, I applied to be a tutor for both The Study and Student Athlete Support Services here at Loyola. As a tutor, I spend about 3-6 hours a week in The Study, located on the 3rd floor of Jenkins Hall, helping fellow students and student-athletes better understand their class material. However, The Study is also used as a workspace, utilized by Loyola students for individual studying, group projects, as well as tutoring sessions. Students that are together in The Study at the same…

Communication is unavoidable in the workplace. It 's involved in everything you do in the workplace, whether it 's giving a presentation, or speaking to the person at the front desk. Communication determines how enjoyable a workplace will be. Another very important, but, often not discussed part of workplace communication are the do’s and don’ts of firing someone. Firing someone is a very difficult task; because, there are about a million things that can determine whether a person ends their…

Discovery the act of finding or learning something for the first time, therefore this image represents how discovery can be unwelcome, similar to the text, where the persona’s discovery results in a mental breakdown. This image was chosen to write ‘Lost’ because I believe that one of the most confronting types of discovery is self-discovery. The mirror represents what we discover about ourselves, but the cracks depict a skewed perception, just like the persona in the text. Both the character in…

to live a healthier life. Room for a large bed for example, a place to keep and organize my things, and room for company and visiting family. In addition, it is well-known in the corporate world that spending excessive time in small spaces such as cubicles is damaging to a person’s mental health, causing stress and anxiety. Having a nice, quiet room free of distractions is vital for me to study and knowing I always have that place gives me peace of…

“You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream,” quote coined by Michael Dell ensuing that college doesn’t always have to be pounded in a student’s head throughout their schooling. While college is always looked at as admirable, college isn’t always the key to life for everyone. People enjoy hands on work, the financial crisis that follows college limits ones abilities, and the decrease of hourly wage for young…

it is boring. “I was never comfortable for a minute” indicates that in the narrator’s point of view, she feels that everyone is watching her and looking for the queer things she does. To get rid of this insecurity, she goes to her safe boundary, cubicles, where she becomes friends with Mary Fortune “Can they not smell it “signifies how the author is afraid of Mary Fortune’s smoking, however, this changes when they start to communicate with each other. “I felt the acute phase of my unhappiness…

Financial management is often seen part of the “adult life”, and that is what those expensive universities make the students experience. Still, the essay describes how the debt from university will make the diploma holder “toil faithfully in your cubicle year after year” and follow the individual to his or her death, and passed on to the children, in other words, a miserable adult life (par 11). The writer uses these descriptions to preserve her argument against student debts, albeit she cannot…

Both physical and psychological control of the protagonist by dystopian societal leaders are presented in 1984 by George Orwell and The Circle by Dave Eggers. In 1984, the reader follows the story of Winston Smith and his anarchic battle against the omnipresent Big Brother and the merciless fate that he receives. In The Circle Dave Eggers whimsically guides the reader through Mae Holland’s new occupation at the ever developing internet company called ‘The Circle’. Eggers explicitly describes how…

Aggression and Racial Ingroup and Outgroup Ostracism Belonging was necessary for the establishment of mental health, reproductive success, and security in human (Baumeister & Leary, 1995). The advantages in establishing and maintaining social connections were numerous, for example obtained social support from groups, accessed critical resources and potential mates, and protected from environmental dangers (Buss, 1990). In fact, Baumeister and Leary (1995) suggested that belonging to social…

Peter feels trapped in this “iron cage” which can be symbolized by the cubicle he works in and the job he absolutely hates. Bill Lumbergh, one of eight bosses, takes advantage of the system through rational-legal domination by making Peter come in on Saturday and Sundays. Bureaucracy has given Lumbergh the power that allows…