Don't you ever wish that you could just punch someone directly in the face? Well I do, every time I go into work at Dunkin' Donuts. There is a lot customers don't see, unless you are one of those rude, arrogant, customers that I would like to punch in the face.
The overall work of Dunkin' Donuts isn't too bad most of the time, the worst part is dealing with the people and that is what you have to get the most used to. For example, this past Sunday, Mother's Day, I of course spent my entire day working, I unfortunately had the task of running the drive through by taking orders and making the coffees. For a good two and a half, three hours STRAIGHT of cars coming through the drive thru, I finally got to take my break after being there for 6 hours already. Just hearing the little beeping noise that our headsets make when a car arrives at the drive thru was beginning to drive me up a wall. It's something little like this that is extremely annoying to one working, but is not even considered by the public.
So when someone comes to the drive thru after I have already taken countless orders, and had an order like "Hi..... Um can I have one second please?!" "Sure, take your time." "Okay! I'm ready." "Okay what can I get for you?" "okay um, can I have 4 chocolate glazed munchkins, 5 egg and cheese wraps, a bacon egg and cheese on a plain bagel NOT toasted, a medium iced with extra milk and 18 Splenda... actually make that 19 Splenda, and actually could I change those 4 munchkins to regular glazed? And change my iced coffee to a hot coffee?!" ...... It is orders like these that make me want to just walk out the front door of the restaurant and just go home.
Each and very day at Dunkin' Donuts is different, and I try to be as nice and polite as possible to each customer, but that sometimes becomes hard when they do not treat you with the same respect. They act like I actually wanted to get out of bed at 630 on a Sunday after going to school all week, cause you know they're right there is nothing I would rather be doing than I don't know, SLEEP. I don't need the attitude from an old man at 730 in the morning when all I want to do is sleep in my bed, but I'm in Dunkin' Donuts serving inconsiderate customers all day long.
I really appreciate those customers that are not rude and actually appreicate the things we do, and tip us a little bit more than most. Even simply letting us keep your change from the three dollars you used for you medium iced that cost you two dollars and fifty-one cents.
Sofia Vergara portrays a lively Gloria Pritchett,
on the new hit television comedy Modern
Family, by utilizing her boisterous
voice, Colombian accent and inarticulate
English to provoke a comedic effect to her character.
By Gloria being so loud
and obnoxious give the audience something to look forward to throughout the
show. Every single thing that comes out of Gloria’s mouth, gives the viewer something
to giggle about. Once instance would be when Gloria is telling the family about
her dream and that “it’s a mouse, they don’t know how to talk! …. Black mouse
in dream is a BAD omen”, as she describes the death of one of the other
characters after he took a trip to the doctors and was awaiting a response. Her
tone of voice gives this serious, realistic topic a sense of humor and gives
the family something to laugh about.
Another aspect of the show is the patriarch, Jay, exerting authority and
a ‘know it all’ attitude on Gloria by exploiting her country of origin. Accents
are not usually something to poke fun at... Well okay, maybe they are. But,
Gloria’s accent is so thick, giving it another side of humor. Between her
loudness and her accent, she is always the center of attention without even
having to try to be. Her personality overall, makes the character of Gloria
that much more memorable.
Gloria is further personified due to her lack of speaking English. If
Gloria could speak flawless English with no accent, she would obviously lack
some of her comedic effect. Without her broken English, Gloria would then
understand everything that everyone says, and what she says would not be as
funny if she were to say the same thing in an accent and with broken English. Her
character would be nothing without these aspects of her character.
Gloria is personified in multiple ways throughout the series, leaving her
character to be a very round character. Various situations that Gloria is put
into are so funny just because of the mere fact that she can’t speak/understand
the English language very well, still even having lived here for a while
throughout the series. If Gloria were to be lacking any of these aspects, she
may not be as funny as when she did contain all of these characteristics.
Overall, Gloria is a very complex character to pull apart and look at in a more
detailed fashion.
So the apocalypse… We’re getting
very close to what the Mayans predicted would be the end of the world, December
21, 2012, a day most are dreading and do not want to talk about. I, unlike that
large majority, believe this very scary, yet realistic idea. There are various
signs of why I believe that the world is going to end. Maybe if the students of
Norton High School actually experienced a snow day all year, I wouldn’t be so
inclined to thinking that global warming is going to kill us all. But because
we did not, and one of the only days we actually accumulated snowed occurred in
March, gives me reasons to believe the global warming mayhem.And no, I’m not one of those crazed people
who run around trying to save the trees and “go green” necessarily, but I do
think that global warming to going to have an impact on if we see the years to
come or not. I don’t know it the day the Mayans predicted is actually going to
be the day the world ends, but I do believe it will be someday soon. I could be
tomorrow for all we know. Maybe we should take matters into our own hands. . .
When people ask me, “do you really
believe the world is going to end in 2012?” I respond with, “well, yes actually
I do.” And when asked what my reasoning for this belief is, I tell them, just
think about it. It goes from being freezing to being 70 degrees and sunny the
next day it’s in the lower 80’s the day before spring starts here in New
England as it’s snowing in Arizona during the same time. I really believe that
this will be the year when we get a foot of snow in the middle of August, and if
so, we’re all, unfortunately, done for. I do not tend to look at the negative
side of a situation but in this case, I think it is better to somewhat humor
the idea rather than avoid talking about it at all costs. With all of the hype
in the media and the movies and documentaries that have been done to showcase
the idea that the world is going to end on December 21, 2012, has people scared
of the topic and don’t want to even fathom the idea because of similar scares
in past years, that clearly did not happen because we are all here today.
You could die, anywhere at any time
due to any cause imaginable. So the idea that we will one day all die at the
same exact time on the same day is not that scary to think about because, well
we will no longer be here, unless you’re Will Smith of course. But wouldn’t you
rather die with everyone you know and love than to die suddenly and leave all
of your loved one behind? For example, next period someone could get their
finger caught in the pencil sharpener, not realizing it and continue to sharpen
it until they die instantly due to blood loss or a girl could be walking
through the hallways and accidently walk out the back doors into the
construction zone just to be run over by a bulldozer… You never know, these are
the things we should be scared of, not the world blowing up into a million pieces
so there is not one ounce of human life is left in existence. We live our lives
every day not even thinking about the possibility that we could die in the next
second, but when someone poses the idea that we could all die together on the
same day when the world blows up, no one believes it. Why?
I’m not insisting that we all live
in fear until we get past the day that the Mayans predicted our world’s destiny
to be, because for all I know it won’t happen. But when I’m out and about with
my friends and I see something very odd occurring, all I can think to say is,
“that’s definitely another sign that the world is going to end” and I say this
to get a comedic response but when in reality it could be true. It is a
situation like this where we don’t think about everything that goes on around
us every day, there are people dying every second and we’re all worried about
when the whole world blows up, what’s going to happen? NOTHING IS GOING TO
HAPPEN BECAUSE WE WILL ALL BE DEAD! Not just the civilians of the United States,
the ENTIRE WORLD will be gone; which for some is hard to wrap their heads
around. The idea that EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING in the entire planet will be
completely vanished, weird right?
In the past few years, you may have
noticed, the new “eco-friendly” water bottles, the new cars trying to cut down
on the amount of gas we used and using reusable shopping bags in order to help
our planet, but clearly none of these things are doing anything for our climate
change. I give people credit for at least attempting to change things in our
world to increase how long our environment can put up with us. But I honestly
don’t think that any of those things have made a significant difference,
whatsoever. No one wants to believe it or admit that they believe it, but at the
same time there are millions of people trying to conserve energy in various
different ways, but does anyone see these things making a huge impact? I don’t.
And do you think little things like these are going to save the world from
blowing up someday, probably not considering that people are still continuing
to litter daily and also the pollution poisoning our air, will sadly, most
likely, never be resolved.
What
I think that is what people really don’t think about and understand that there
is much more going on around us than what we see in the United States every
day, people are dying due to many different causes every second, and those
people suffering now will be dead along with the rest of us, come December of
2012. One major concern of scientists about the issue of global warming is
water vapor. The amount of water vapor that is produced is the Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95%of Earth's greenhouse
effect, the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere
due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the
sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface. Human activities
contribute slightly to greenhouse gas concentrations through farming, manufacturing, power generation, and
transportation. However, these emissions are so dwarfed in comparison to
emissions from natural sources we can do nothing about, that even the most
costly efforts to limit human emissions would have a very small perhaps
undetectable effect on global climate. So something such as this, is something
that us, as the human race occupying our beloved planet, is something that we
could potentially help fix, but will we ever get to that point? I guess we’ll
have to wait and see.
Going about solving this universal
issue, is difficult. One solution could be if we just went about ending the
world ourselves and just blew up the entire planet as a joined force. It would
be much better and easier; we could plan it out so everyone does it at the same
exact time, leaving no one left in the world. Just imagine if there was some
possible way for a single red button, think like the overly obnoxious Staples
‘easy button’, where once someone, somewhere on this plant touched this one
button, the entire world blew up from the inside core out, killing all of us
before global warming suffocates our land any longer. Going about this and
getting the entire planet to get
involved and end it sooner, rather than later. We would first need to form a
committee to get this process underway, and decide exactly how we would pull
this off, we need to do it in a timely fashion before Mother Nature does her
job and does it before can even finish planning how we will. The internet has
become a way of life in every corner of the world, in some way or another, even
in third world countries, there is a way to make it possible for them to access
other parts of the world, it might just be a little harder to accomplish. But taking
advantage of what we have, putting out a mass Service Announcement to get this
idea out to the world and get as many people involved as possible. And we know
that we’re going to many people that will be again this idea and try to protest
it and say that it is unrealistic and ridiculous. I would say, that based on
the weather we have been experiencing lately and the economic downturn in the
past few years… IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN SOON ENOUGH PEOPLE, so let’s go and get
it over with now so we know when it’s coming, can say goodbye to those we love
and be done with it, this would kill the anticipation, pun intended. Instead of
anticipating the day Mother Nature is going to choose for us, we can choose it
ourselves and have power over the world for just one second before it all
crumbles down.
Balancing
between a morbid and sarcastic tone in A
Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift employs obscure sarcasm, sardonic satire
and pragmatic inflation to depict the idea of overpopulation throughout the
world is due to the fact that people are irresponsibly having “bastard
children.” And Swift’s solution to this problem is to eat the unwanted “infant
flesh.”
Swift
further depicts the problem of overpopulation with both statistical information
and a sarcastic undertone to get his arguments across and his exaggerated
solution to this international issue. By talking about such a serious topic in
a very comedic way gives the reader a way to view this issue in a much
different way rather than just preaching the face that we are overpopulated.
Swift points out very obvious things that most people may think but don’t want
to be the ones to say out loud, in fear of pissing society off. The type of
sarcasm Swift employs to convey his theory is used in a very obscure way
because the things he says does have a comedic tone to them but at the same
time, the reader can hear the seriousness throughout the piece. By pointing out
“infant's flesh will be in season throughout the year, but more plentiful in
March, and a little before and after”, is a statement that would be taken as a
joke to most, yet may irk the other half of society.
The
use of sardonic satire future enforces Swift’s point because he takes a topic
that is very serious, and then ridicules the problem in a very bitter and under
toned fashion. If Swift had gone about this solution in a more “essay-like”
response, it may have not been taken the way he had intended it to, so by him
writing it in more a satirical way, gives it that sense of humor and
seriousness that he clearly meant to incorporate. Swift is mainly concerned
about how “some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that
vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed” and we are
bringing in more babies every year that, aren’t necessarily, “unneeded” but at
this point in time, the economy was not equipped to provide for all of these
“bastard children.”
Swift’s
use of pragmatic inflation makes his proposal more realistic and understandable.
By taking this situation and blowing so much out of proportion opens people’s
eyes to make his readers realize what is really going on around in the world. Without
exaggerating this problem, this topic is a rather difficult topic to discuss.
But by approaching this in such a humorous and outrageous fashion, makes it
easier to relate to. Using this writing technique makes the piece much easier
to read; even though the language may be hard to understand but the topic
itself is easy to interpret.
Over
population is a economic downfall, but by depicting in it such a comedic way,
leaves the reader thinking about this problem and what can be done about it,
besides eating these unneeded babies. Well that could be a solution, but it
probably would not be at the top of everyone else’s list, of how to control
this exaggerated issue.
By producing a comic effect in the British novel, Kiss and Tell, Alain de Botton utilizes perspective characterization to embody the idea that no matter how much we want to be disjointed from our parents and be nothing like them, there will always be a part of us that mirrors that of our parents.
The narrator further characterizes his girlfriend and her parents by illustrating them as he saw them, when he and Isabell spotted them in the theater. By the couple coming in contact with her parents is ironic because it shows that even though Isabell will do everything in her power to prove she is nothing like her parents, she is in regards to the fact that they are both at the same play, on the same night, due to common interests. When Isabell first realizes that her parents are there, she can predict what they are doing just by looking at them from across the theater, “this is prime argument territory for them, Mum will be asking Dad where he put the car park ticket and he’ll get flustered because he’ll just have dropped it into a bin by mistake” and once her parents notice their daughter and her boyfriend in the venue and go over to talk to them, what Isabell predicted, is right on point. This further implies the characterization of the family because it depicts the relationship ties between the family and just how predictable they may be. One particular conversation between mother and daughter about what Isabell was wearing, “oh, well, it’s very nice, pity you don’t have more of a cleavage for it, but that’s your father’s fault”, this suggests the certain type of conjunction between the two, which presents what seems to be a rather unrefined relationship.
Shifting from an austere to a commanding tone in “Naked Lunch”, Michael Hollinger employs explicit irony, designated characterization and “cataloging” imagery to illuminate the disturbing reality of male dominance within a relationship can simultaneously cause the female to feel inferior.