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    In the NBC television show The Office camera crews follow a group of employees who work for a paper company called Dunder Mifflin. One of the main characters Andy Bernard most of the time is a very calm but very outgoing guy. Usually he along with everyone else in the office can handle the all of the pranking that goes on in the office. Until one day Andy has enough and becomes very angry due to the fact that Jim and Pam hid his phone in the ceiling tiles of the office. Jim and Pam repeatedly…

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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…

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    Jim Halpert: A Tragic Hero

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    Comedy movies or even heroes found in your everyday life. Each hero is different and fall into one of the following categories; modern, conventional, tragic, and byronic hero. Jim Halpert from the show The Office is a paper salesman working at Dunder Mifflin. Jim Halpert is a conventional hero who has shown us that patience is the key to success. Jim Halpert has all the characteristics of a conventional hero. He is self-sacrificing, appreciated, and acts for the good of all throughout the…

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    organization among coworkers. The show displays romance, documentary type conversations, as well as interviews with the camera, all with an overall comedy vibe. The setting is most commonly taped in an office building for the paper supply company (Dunder Mifflin) which is overseen by Michael Scott who is the boss of the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch. Throughout the branch, there are different levels of work as well as different positions, all of who typically work in the same building. Within…

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    Gregory D: Client shared with the group that he knows Mike S. already and has gotten a job offer at Ametek where he will be machining metal parts starting at 18.00/hour. Ultimately, he would like to get rehired at Deka and mentions that 6/16/18 will be 2 years since he was let go and can then reapply. Beginning with an unclear concept of the difference between Spirituality and Religion, he believes he now understands, but finds spiritual things to be “hokey” and states that perhaps aliens are…

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    Dwight Schrute is a character from the television show, “The Office.” The show simply follows the daily lives of the people who work for a paper company, Dunder Mifflin at their branch in Scranton, PA branch. All of the workers know they’re being filmed, but don’t find out until the very end that they are actually going to be a part of a TV. Show (it’s like a show within a show). Dwight is the top salesman at the Scranton Branch and a few daily struggles. For example, he is never given a real…

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    The Office Satire

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    A perfect example of the satire used in The Office, is an episode title Women’s Appreciation which occurs in season 3 episode 21. The episode is opened with the character, PhyllisVance (Phyllis Smith), walking in to the office of Dunder Mifflin with the most devastating look on her face. Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer) the secretary of the office approaches Phyllis asking basically what’s wrong and that is when Phyllis reveals that she had been flashed by unknown man on the way in to work that…

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    Inevitable Death Inside “The Masque Of The Red Death” written by Edgar A. Poe he uses certain symbols that allow the reader to understand the point he trying to prove, which is nothing is promised except death. In doing so the whole story shows one of the main characters Prince Prospero attempting to avoid death however possible, by excluding the sick and inviting the healthy. So that point is going to be shown throughout the story by Poe using his descriptive wording to help explain the story.…

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    absorbed the iconography of Hinduism, the smell of incense. The foundations of his Hinduism were planted. ’’A germ of religious exaltation, no bigger than a mustard seed, was sown in me and left to germinate’’ (Martel, Yann. ’’Life of Pi’’ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. p. 36) Hinduism was an integral part of Pi’s growing up. What attracted him the most was the iconography of Hinduism, the…

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    through 12th grade, 2-year college, and 4-year college, including graduate school. According to Houghton, Mifflin, and Harcourt (2016), the WJ III DRB clusters show strong reliabilities, most at .90 or higher. Scores obtained by using the WJ III DRB: AE, GE, instructional zone, RPI, PR, SS. And optional scores: W score, T score, NCE, Z score, Stanine, and CALP. According to Houghton, Mifflin, and Harcourt (2016), the WJ III DRB assesses specific attributes of reading achievement and…

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