Case Study Where Did The Cleave Go
#1) Hyperbole, #2) Distinctio, #3) Hypophora, #4) Synecdoche, #5) Hyperbaton, #6) Understatement
Leah Dancz
Mrs. Irish
AP Composition
19 February 2010
Wherever Did the Cleavers Go? In the early 1960’s, the average family was depicted on television by the Cleaver family. Ward, the father, went off to work while June, the mother, stayed home to take care of the household and children. Dinner was a home-cooked meal with all family members in attendance and parents helped children with homework and talked through their #1) millions of problems. Wherever did this lifestyle go? Today, it has completely vanished, along with its poufy hair-dos, colorful clothes and antique cars. The world is a different place, #2) and by different …show more content…
O’Toole and Lawler note that today corporations provide higher levels of sales or services, but employ fewer people. This down-sizing, or reduction in employees, has resulted in frightening job insecurity and intensified levels of stress for employees as they pick up the additional work. Another demand stems from pay-for-performance programs implemented to get more productivity out of employees. These programs provide fixed, but decreased, salaries and put the remaining portion of pay at risk and dependant upon performance (O’Toole and Lawler 69-70). Globalization has broadened the marketplace but introduced varying time zones and language barriers, requiring the man who once had to market simply to his community to exert more precious time and effort in order to complete his job. A report done by The Families and Work Institute discovered that the forty hour work week no longer exists, as one out of every four American workers works at least one additional day on the …show more content…
It provides opportunity for workers to be connected almost anywhere and anytime. A daddy at his young daughter 's ballet recital is distracted by his phone, as he checks to ensure that he isn 't missing any important work updates; and a mother reading her child a bedtime story is frequently interrupted as the computer alerts her of a new work email. Technology has blurred the line which divides work time and personal time, making it unclear where one ends and the other begins. Mainiero and Sullivan point out changes in technology are a large factor in the increasing number of work hours and the decreasing time available for family and
Leah Dancz
Mrs. Irish
AP Composition
19 February 2010
Wherever Did the Cleavers Go? In the early 1960’s, the average family was depicted on television by the Cleaver family. Ward, the father, went off to work while June, the mother, stayed home to take care of the household and children. Dinner was a home-cooked meal with all family members in attendance and parents helped children with homework and talked through their #1) millions of problems. Wherever did this lifestyle go? Today, it has completely vanished, along with its poufy hair-dos, colorful clothes and antique cars. The world is a different place, #2) and by different …show more content…
O’Toole and Lawler note that today corporations provide higher levels of sales or services, but employ fewer people. This down-sizing, or reduction in employees, has resulted in frightening job insecurity and intensified levels of stress for employees as they pick up the additional work. Another demand stems from pay-for-performance programs implemented to get more productivity out of employees. These programs provide fixed, but decreased, salaries and put the remaining portion of pay at risk and dependant upon performance (O’Toole and Lawler 69-70). Globalization has broadened the marketplace but introduced varying time zones and language barriers, requiring the man who once had to market simply to his community to exert more precious time and effort in order to complete his job. A report done by The Families and Work Institute discovered that the forty hour work week no longer exists, as one out of every four American workers works at least one additional day on the …show more content…
It provides opportunity for workers to be connected almost anywhere and anytime. A daddy at his young daughter 's ballet recital is distracted by his phone, as he checks to ensure that he isn 't missing any important work updates; and a mother reading her child a bedtime story is frequently interrupted as the computer alerts her of a new work email. Technology has blurred the line which divides work time and personal time, making it unclear where one ends and the other begins. Mainiero and Sullivan point out changes in technology are a large factor in the increasing number of work hours and the decreasing time available for family and