Book3Unit6 Employment and Career.pptxVIP

Employment and Career;Structural analysis;Structural analysis;Detailed Reading!? ;Growing Up;Russel Wayne;She wanted me to “make something” of myself and, after a level-headed appraisal of my strengths, decided I had better start young if I was to have any chance of keeping up with the competition. ;make something of oneself: to achieve something successfully;The flaw in my character which she had already spotted was lack of gumption. ;gumption;Dick Tracy Meets Stooge Viller;Repose: v. 1) be lying, situated, or kept in a particular place: the diamond now reposes in the Louvre. 2) lie down in rest: how sweetly he would repose in the four-poster bed. 3) (repose something on/in) literary lay something to rest in or on (something): Ill go to him, and repose our distresses on his friendly bosom.;Despise: feel contempt or a deep repugnance for ;Seeing me having a good time in repose, she was powerless to hide her disgust. ;Because of this defect, however, the best she could hope for was a career as a nurse or school teacher, the only work that capable females were considered up to in those days. ;This must have saddened my mother, this twist of fate that had allocated all the gumption to the daughter and left her with a son who was content with Dick Tracy and Stooge Viller.;She was practical and knew very well how difficult it was to raise me to be a useful man ;When I burst in that afternoon, she was in conference in the parlor with an executive of the Curtis Publishing Company. ;;My mother replied that I was blessed with a rare determination to make something of myself.;He eyed me silently for a long pause, as though weighing whether I could be trusted to keep his confidence, then spoke man-to-man. ;… we were also familiar with those two monthly pillars of the magazine world, the Ladies’ Home Journal and the Country. ;;He had brought the canvas bag with him. He presented it with reverence fit for a chasuble.