Business 1050
10/9/15
Assignment 13
“Mike LeFevre” by Studs Terkel
Vocabulary
1. Chewed- yelled at
2. Bonderized- A machine that will coat steel with a corrosive preventing substance
3. Effete- decadent
4. Foreman- a man in charge of other workers
5. Muses- to think of something in a deep serious or dreamy way
6. Poke- some money
7. Posterity- generations that come after someone
8. Pseudo- not real, pretending to be real
9. Shrinker- psychologist (shrink)
10. Smashed- to get drunk
Standard six questions
1. The reading “Mike LeFevre” was written by Studs Terkel. Terkel was an American author, actor, broadcaster etc… other works of his includes: “The Good War”, “Touch and Go” and “The Great Divide: Thoughts on the American Dream”. …show more content…
This text is about a steel worker. It discusses the thoughts that go through the workers minds what he wants to do/what he aspires to do. It talks about how the worker views the job and a little on what they think of the bosses.
3. This text was written in 1972, a mayor event at the time was the Munich Olympic terrorist attack.
4. This text was written in the United States, ideas around that time were the equal rights amendment.
5. This text is relevant to modern business because it shows us into the mind of a physical labor worker. It shows us their point of view and their thoughts.
6. This text was not too hard and it was very interesting it highlighted things that I have heard from other people before. This text helped broaden my views on the different levels of jobs.
Study questions
1. Doctor spock was a pediatrician who wrote about babies and childcare. He was the first pediatrician to study psychoanalysis to understand childrens needs. When the daughter dr. spock’d something what it meant was that she showed what she needed in her life by showing what she lacked.
2. Mike finds it hard to take pride in his work because he makes steel and therefore he doesn’t ever get to actually build anything and so he will never really get