Alan Wurtzel, chairman of Circuit City, a chain of electronics stores based in Richmond, Virginia, says that when his stores hire new cashiers and stock clerks, specific skills are unimportant. “The most important thing we’re looking for is attitude and energy. We want people who are reliable, presentable, clean shaven, honest, can get along with coworkers, and can follow directions.” When a new store opens, Wurtzel says, 10 applicants have to be screened for every one hired; people with these basic skills are apparently not easy to find (Wildavsky 287).
In the 1970’s in the U.S., bilingual schooling was popularized. Many bilingual educators of today said that children would lose individuality by assimilating into public society. Rodriguez opposed this thought because he thought that the bilingualists did not value the necessity of assimilation. In his understanding, “while one suffers a diminished sense of private individuality by becoming assimilated into public society, such assimilation makes possible the achievement of public individuality” (Rodriguez 318). In other words, the separateness from the crowd is a prerequisite for individuality only in private area, whereas in public full individuality is achieved by assimilation in the membership of the crowd (Kim 4).
Let’s take a look at the different types of students before judging Neusner’s and Zinsser’s opinion of these students. Lazy students procrastinate on assigned work. For example, a person in my living quarters, Bob, shows how a person avoids doing his assignments. Bob likes to go outside to take a cigarette break, but it happens that he never comes back to do his work. By putting his papers together at the last minute, he writes a paper that is not well thought out. An overworked student, on the other hand, completes his assignments on time.
