Friendless in North America By Ellen Goodman 1. Lynn Smith-Lovin was listening in the back seat of a taxi when a woman called the radio talk show hosts to confess her affairs with a new boyfriend and a not-yet-former husband. The hosts‚ in their best therapeutic voices‚ offered their on-air opinion‚ "Give me an S‚ give me an L‚ give me a U." You can spell the rest. It was the sort of exchange that would leave most of us wondering why anyone would share her intimate life story with a radio host. Didn’t
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Ellen Goodman’s attitude toward Phil in her column‚ The Company Man‚ comes off as a bit mocking. The use of repetition allows her to clarify her tone toward Phil even further. She conveys this attitude specifically when she uses quotations and explanations of his family members. Goodman’s constant repetition of the phrase‚ “He worked himself to death‚ finally and precisely at 3am Sunday morning‚” implies her sarcastic attitude which is apparent throughout the piece. What she is trying to say is
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makes an argument from the author on how you are supposed to behave. The story discusses the issue in modern society with the relationship of the television. Both texts are strong cases on the way people are supposed to act. In Primal Screen‚ by Ellen Goodman‚ the makes a stand on the effects of television in modern society. In the story‚ the family drawn in by the television have no communication whilst the t.v. is on. They only have words to speak to each other during the commercial breaks. The t
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Analysis of The Company Man In the essay “The Company Man”‚ by Ellen Goodman‚ she argues that life shouldn’t be separated by work and one’s personal life‚ because work never finishes‚ and life can be taken at any time. Phil in the other hand was focus on getting recognition on his hard work‚ ending up as just “the company man” when he passed away. Goodman repeatedly says in the essay “This man who worked himself to death finally and precisely at 3:00 A.M. Sunday morning – on his day off.”(18)
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In "Dispensing Morality" (2005)‚ Ellen Goodman asserts that she wants people to have strong moral grounds ("To each his own conscience...") but they have to understand other people’s moral grounds and priorities and not meddle into other people’s personal lives ("But the drugstore is not an altar. The last time I looked‚ the pharmacist’s license did not include the right to dispense morality."). Goodman illuminates how conscience clauses starts to increasingly empower and gives people opportunities
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1995 Question 2 Rewrite Throughout reading‚ “The Company man”‚ we can conjure a sense of Goodman’s attitude towards Phil and his busy work schedule. To convey this attitude‚ many rhetorical strategies were utilized‚ including repetition and restatement‚ appeals to emotion‚ and the implementation of sarcasm‚ coupled with an almost dark and sorrowful tone. Over the course of this piece Goodman makes it no secret that Phil was overworked and had actually‚ as she believed‚ “worked himself
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“The Company Man‚” Ellen Goodman uses stereotypes about an average man to convey her attitude towards Phil. Phil is a character who works himself to death in his corporate job. Goodman reveals in her article that in order to be a “company man‚” Phil sacrifices his everyday life. Ellen Goodman uses diction‚ syntax‚ and characterization to create a piteous tone in her essay “The Company Man.” Ellen Goodman uses diction to appeal to the readers’ emotion to create a piteous attitude. When Goodman states
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The protagonist‚ Phil‚ of Goodman’s “The Company Man” lives a bittersweet life. He is described as a man who overworks himself six of seven days a week and has no hobbies whatsoever. He doesn’t have a life for himself anymore‚ and had taken his job as priority‚ to the point where he became one of six vice presidents‚ and was one of three possible people to take the President’s chair. Within the essay “The Company Man” written by Goodman‚ demonstrates a critically detached attitude towards Phil using
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Rebecca Casarez Caddell Comp. 1301 9/23/12 The Company Man In “The Company Man” by Ellen Goodman‚ Phil is a fifty-one workaholic who lost everything to his job. He had lost connection to his family and had no outside or extracurricular activities. In the story‚ Goodman uses repetition‚ precise statistics‚ irony‚ and different viewpoints from his family to show and describe Phil’s life. Once you read the
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ANALYSIS 7 Essay: The Company Man The typical business man involved in corporate America works anywhere from six to ten hours per day. Phil‚ “the Company Man” worked six days a week sometimes until eight or nine at night‚ making himself a true workaholic. Using his life story before he died Goodman is able to convey her liking toward Phil but her dislike of what the business world has turned him into. Not only does Goodman use a number of rhetorical devices but she also uses Phil’s past as well
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