Two Weeks Notice

LucyÆs final campaign is to save the Coney Island Senior Citizens Center, a hub of culture in the area and a historic landmark. With this appeal shaping up like another failure, she makes a desperate move; she accepts a job working for a character played by Hugh GrantùGeorge Wade, the head of the company that plans to tear the center down. Wade promises her that if she comes to work for him, he will keep the community center intact. She soon becomes indispensable to Wade but finds that in this situation too, she is unable to communicate effectively. Although she tells Wade many times in many ways that she cannot be at his beck and call 24 hours a day, she fails to get through to him, and he calls her in the middle of the nigh

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wrecking ball. This is LucyÆs attempt to communicate that the building is too valuable to tear down. This tactic does not work either, however, and she and her friends are jailed for the protest. LucyÆs communication moment fails miserably, and it serves as a lesson in how not to communicate. Although LucyÆs heart is in the right place, and she is earnest and passionate about her cause, her demonstration makes no impact and fails to affect the culture as she intends. The truth is that although her motivations are good, Lucy is unable to effectively communicate them to anyone else or arouse the same sentiments in them. No one who can stop the demolition understands or cares about her perspective, and everything she says and does seems to fall on deaf ears. LucyÆs failing in this area stems from the fact that she attempts to persuade people to agree with her by communicating her own point of view without showing concern for theirs. This tactic fails, because people generally do not become engaged unless there is some impact to themselves. The second big communication moment comes when Lucy gives her two weeks notice. She has tried repeatedly to get George to stop calling her and interrupting her life at all hours of the
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Approximate Word count = 1437
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)

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