Mr. evans feels that no matter what he does, he will be unable to convince his boss that he deserves a promotion. he also feels that it doesn't matter who his boss is, he still would not receive a promotion. these feelings represent what overmier and seligman called

learned helplessness                          

Explanation:

Learned helplessness: In psychology, the term learned helplessness is defined as an organism's (human beings, animals) mental state in which the organism is being forced to deal or bear with an unpleasant, aversive, or painful stimuli and becomes unable to ignore those stimuli subsequent encounters, even when the organism can escape because they believe that they can not.

In the question above, the given statement represents the learned helplessness.

south, because if you took a map you would see texas is directly in the middle of east and west, but it is also downwards towards mexico, therefore it is south