Essays Tagged: "waitress"

The realization of a man that life changes over time, and that all things that go around come around and how your worst enemies can become your best friends

and turned to the side to see a rather nice looking woman standing before me, too nice to be a real waitress."Is your name Roger by any chance?" she asked me."Yes." I responded, looking rather confuse ... o get into his wheelchair which had been parked in the bathroom hallway while they were eating. The waitress ran over and started picking up the broken dishes and I listened as Tony and his wife tried ...

(4 pages) 57 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The misconceptions many people have about gay males.

and ordered a large chai with extra spice as I took a seat beside the poetry stage. The thin, perky waitress soon came over and started a conversation with me. She asked where I was from and what I wa ...

(4 pages) 94 0 4.8 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

"As Good As It Gets" and discusses his OCD(Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) problem.

er use the same bar of soap twice. When he eats out he has to have his own specific table, specific waitress, and he always brings his own plastic utensils.Melvin has an abrasive personality. He freel ... social life consists of only a few acquaintances. His small social circle consists of the tolerant waitress Carol Connelly, his frustrated neighbors and his publisher. Otherwise he spends most of his ...

(2 pages) 146 0 4.3 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Tell a man there are a billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he must touch it to know. Why?

re justified?"Hot plates have to be touched. It is common knowledge that no matter how many times a waitress tells you that the plate is hot; you have to touch it to make sure. This is an example, alo ...

(5 pages) 68 1 4.0 May/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

An analysis of the Maya Angelou poem , "To a man".

itten by Maya Angelou, whose first novel was anautobiography of her varied life, (activist, singer, waitress, dancer etc.)called 'I know why the caged bird sings'. She has written two collectionsof pr ...

(5 pages) 111 0 1.7 Sep/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

A book report on Nickel and Dimed By Barbara Ehrenreich

nd live like someone without an education. Ehrenreichan attempted to do this by getting jobs such a waitress, house cleaner, and even as an employee at Wal-Mart. The question now becomes can she do it ... e, and Minnesota. At each location, the author takes a different type of job. In Florida, she was a waitress, in Maine, she was in the House cleaning profession, and in Minnesota, she worked in retail ...

(4 pages) 197 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

AS Good as it Gets and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

hing the movie As Good as it Gets, starring Jack Nicholson (Melvin Udall) and Helen Hunt (Carol the Waitress), I was left with the impression of a very peculiar man who had some very strange habits. D ... minated". He also would sit at the same table everyday at the same restaurant, and demands the same waitress. Melvin wears gloves to touch anything outside his apartment. After he has to pick up Verde ...

(7 pages) 159 0 3.7 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

Green Day Band Bio

truck driver and sometimes jazz musician who died when Billie Joe was just ten. Billie's Mom was a waitress and a diehard country music fan. At age eleven, Billie Joe got his first guitar, a blue Str ... st gig that same year, playing in the lounge of Rod's Hickory Pit, the joint where Billie Joe's mom waitressed and Mike worked as a cook. The Sweet Children name didn't last long. In 1989, the boys re ...

(6 pages) 37 0 2.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

The Redneck Mystique

chair comes into the restaurant, is shown to his table, whereupon he recognizes Jesus, and asks the waitress to send over a cup of coffee, from him. Next comes in an Englishman with a pronounced limp, ... om him. Next comes in an Englishman with a pronounced limp, who also recognizes Jesus, and asks the waitress to send over a "cuppa" tea from him. The third man to enter the restaurant is a redneck, wh ...

(4 pages) 81 0 4.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in "As Good as it Gets"

he follows a routine, from sitting in the same seat at the restaurant, to demanding Carol to be his waitress, and even scaring away those who may be sitting in his spot when he arrives. It isn't until ...

(5 pages) 113 0 5.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

Book report on Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich for Social Anthropology.

o find work and a place to live in three different cities. Key West, Florida finds her working as a waitress, and a second job as a housekeeper in a hotel. In Portland Maine she works as a nursing hom ... uproar in the upper middle and wealthy communities.As a teenager, I worked the usual low wage jobs, waitress, clerk and baby-sitting. I only worked one day as a waitress; in fact I think it was only t ...

(5 pages) 53 1 3.7 Mar/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Nickel and Dimed! The book on how to get by in AMerica while making no more than $8/hour.

onditioned office and beautiful house.Ehrenreich works three non-consecutive months in Florida as a waitress, in Maine as a housekeeper and a made and in Minnesota in retail Wal-Mart, receiving minimu ...

(7 pages) 69 0 3.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Friendship in the real world

ery least just survive day to day. During her project Ehrenreich was a Wal-Mart worker, maid, and a waitress. Along the way she would become close to a few of her co-workers. She had not planned on do ... reward from all of their hard work During her project Ehrenreich was a Wal-Mart worker, maid, and a waitress. Each experience very different from the last but still had the commonality of all being a ...

(5 pages) 36 1 3.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Writing prompt for nickled and dimed

book, Nickel and Dimed, Barbara takes on many jobs that require some sort of skill. She worked as a waitress for a restaurant called the Hearthside, she also worked as a maid for a company called The ... on skills, math skills, memorization skills, and some time managing skills.When Barbara worked as a waitress at the Hearthside restaurant, she had to use her people skills most often. People skills he ...

(2 pages) 27 0 3.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Career Theories. Choose one career of your choice and compare it with any TWO career theories.

done previously include cashier at Guardian Pharmacy, marketing executive at Astraway Sdn Bhd, and waitress at a Taiwanese Restaurant.Traditionally, careers were thought to evolve within the context ...

(10 pages) 205 0 5.0 May/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Job Analysis.

ants diary logs, and quantitative job analysis techniques. For the selection process of a waiter or waitress, the best job analysis method is a combination of the interview and the observation.The use ... scover important activities that may only occur in a few situations. With the position of waiter or waitress, there are never two situations that are the same, so by gathering information through the ...

(5 pages) 210 0 0.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Poverty in Amercia.

o government regulations, low income jobs and lack of affordable housing. When she was working as a waitress in Florida. Enrenreich realizes from her co-workers of the poor living conditions that low ...

(4 pages) 130 0 4.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

"My Big Fat Greek Wedding."

aurant. Toula is a woman who is lost in life, and feels that she will never be anything more than a waitress at the family restaurant. Toula's parents are upset that she is not married like her sister ...

(2 pages) 23 0 3.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Physical biases: Plastic Surgery

Such examples of these advantages may include relationships, marriage, and career. The good looking waitress makes a better tip, the shapely cheerleader is more popular then the homely band student, a ...

(3 pages) 51 0 3.7 Jun/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Can Customer Service Affect the Business a Restaurant Has? A Debatable Issue Which Can Be Solved

erviceb) Definition of customer servicec) Main goals of the paper2) Main body - Analysisa) Waiter / waitress importancei) Appearanceii) Serviceiii) friendlinessb) Foodservicei) Qualityii) Quantityiii) ... appearance of the food, the appearance, service and friendliness towards the customer of the waiter/waitress, the general appearance of the restaurant, the cleanliness and finally the organization of ...

(27 pages) 154 0 5.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers