Today I had an interview over my Multi Genre Projects and I got to say the interview was good, I was a bit nervous but it was good. The interview was a great experience to say what I learned in my project. Really this Multi Genre Project should be given out more because it really allows you explore a lot of information about their topic.

Multi Genre Project 8

Short Scene from a Play with Notes for Stage Directions

Dennis Parks

5/5/14

ACT I  SCENE I

Set in 2008, during the economic downfall, in present day Australia. GERALD is sitting in a chair in the unemployment office. He is filling out a form for unemployment.

Enter DRAKE, MARTIN, and STACY

DRAKE:         Hey Gerald, how you been holding up?

GERALD:      Hey guys, I have been well tired of this form, geez how can a young guy like me not find a job.

MARTIN:       Victoria is a place where young people can hardly find jobs here. I just got out of college and I can’t even find a job.

STACY:         I know what you mean Martin; I can’t even deal with the mess that is going on with this young people getting unemployed and stuff.

GERALD:      (goes towards a drink machine with MARTIN, DRAKE, and STACY) Out of all the people it happens to us.

GERALD drinks the soda while he is walks towards STACY

STACY:                     (sits near DRAKE next to the window) Really I don’t see how we could still be unemployed I have a master' and I can’t even find a job that pays minimum wage.

MARTIN:       Well we are part of the group of young people that are unemployed in Australia.

DRAKE:        (wipes his hands off with a Kleenex) you have a point, but it still isn’t fair.

GERALD:      Nothing is fair. It’s just how it works ‘round here.

DRAKE gets up and starts to leave

DRAKE:        Well you are right but gosh why is it like this?

Exit DRAKE

GERALD:      (facing STACY and MARTIN while he is taking his form to the desk) really this is so stressful I have graduated from college at the top of my class and I still have fill out measly unemployment forms just so I can live, what a bunch of crap.

GERALD, STACY, and MARTIN walk outside to their vehicles

MARTIN:       (unlocking the car door for STACY) look on the bright side, I mean there will be jobs to come. Just have faith buddy it will all work out.

GERALD inside the car

GERALD:      I hope so, this is ridiculous, how can I pay my bills or my loans off? I ope something comes up.

Exit GERALD, STACY, and MARTIN

End of ACT I Scene I

Multi Genre Project 7

Song Lyrics

Dennis Parks

5/5/14

Unemployment Line

By: Dennis Parks

Verse 1:

Prices are rising

Jobs are hard to find

How can we survive when the economy’s falling

Money’s getting low

There’s no place to go

So someone please help me

Chorus:

Losing my mind

Tryna make it on my own

Life’s  going bad

Make me feel so alone

Trying to keep head up

But it aint working

Standing here wondering

In the Unemployment Line

Verse 2:

Need gas for my car

Need food on the table

It’s like sailing on boat

But it’s hard to stay afloat

Time is winding down

People hurting all around

Why is it not making sense

Chorus:

Losing my mind

Tryna make on my own

Life’s  going bad

Make me feel so alone

Trying to keep head up

But it aint working

Standing here wondering

In the Unemployment Line

Bridge:

Hard for person to live in this world

Making our lives being so much worse

Stimulus Plans aint helping out

These jobs are going out

Is it just time for us to give up now

Desperately waiting

For a breakthrough to come

Hard to be here with no job, no cash, no food, no home

Chorus:

Losing my mind

Tryna make on my own

Life’s  going bad

Make me feel so alone

Trying to keep head up

But it aint working

Standing here wondering

In the Unemployment Line

In the Unemployment Line (Repeat for 6x then end)

Source Citation

Woodhill, Louis. "The Economic Stimulus Plan Is Increasing Unemployment."Unemployment. Ed. David Haugen and Susan Musser. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2011. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "More Stimulus Equals More Unemployment." Real Clear Markets. 2009. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 5 May 2014.

Multi Genre Project 6

Tabloid Article

Dennis Parks

4-30-14

Machines… Are They Increasing Unemployment? Or Nah?

Jobs in the U.S. have been lost this year, why is that? Expert John Clint says machines that are being placed in jobs are making unemployment higher than before. Machines seem to run faster than humans and gets the job done in seconds, but how is this helping the people who losing these jobs to technology. Technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and software automation applications will increasingly enable computers to do jobs that require significant training and education. College graduates who take "knowledge worker" jobs will find themselves threatened not only by low-wage offshore competitors but also by machines and software algorithms that can perform sophisticated analysis and decision making.

Manufacturing workers who work at the jobs that build things may be threatened the most because mostly all manufacturing jobs have machines that do most of the work. Workers may have to push themselves to the limit to compete with technology but may fail in the process. As unemployment rises and wages fall, consumer spending will likely fall because of unemployment which will have affect on most of the companies because of money that isn’t coming in. How can we survive this situation? How is technology helping unemployment? As technology rises in jobs, workers may find themselves in the bleak of unemployment.

Ford, Martin. "Technology and Automation Increase Unemployment." Unemployment. Ed. David Haugen and Susan Musser. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2011. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "The Truth About Unemployment—And Why It May Get Worse." Huffington Post. 2010. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 30 Apr. 2014.

Tim Blake

3456 Oracle Ave.

Detroit City, Mi

April 11, 2011

Mrs. Tara Coleman

2378 Rochester Dr.

Seattle, Washington

Dear Mrs. Coleman

Hello, my name is Tim Blake; I am attending the Columbia Prep High School, which I’m a junior there. I am writing this letter because I am doing an assignment. I have to pick an expert on our topic and ask a few questions so we can understand more about it. So if it isn’t a bother, I would like to ask you about children with unemployed parents.

The question I want to ask is how are children affected by their parents being unemployed? I have tried searching for information about this, but found little info on this topic. The Information I found out here is that in 2011, Unemployment averaged 9.0 percent, leaving 12.7 million Americans out of work. This is a distressingly high rate. Also the children are impacted by the recession we are in, even though this country is getting better. There are many American children in poverty because parents lose their jobs. Parental Job loss can harm a kid in a number of ways, like a sharp declines in family income which may cause less buying of foods, which can cause a kid to starve, can affect a child’s future goals, like children who are in poverty may not be able to get into good schools, and most importantly, cause parents to harm their child in if the parents have undergone psychological distress because of being unemployed. Also there are about 6.5 million children under the age of 18 living in families with an unemployed parent and also 1 million of these kids are from California, which has the second highest rate of unemployment.

Mrs. Coleman, I would appreciate if you can help me with this topic by supplying me with more information about children with unemployed parents. This would help me in my further assignments, too. If you would like to contact me about my topic; my email is blake.tim36@gmail.com or contact me by phone at 1-456-4789-2468. 

Sincerely

Tim Blake

Isaascs, Julia B. “The US Recession Continues to Impact Children.” What is the Future Of the Us Economy? Ed. Ronald D. Lankford, Jr. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2013. At Issue. Rpt. From “The Recession’s Ongoing Impact on American Children.” Brookings. Vol.  3. 2011. Opposing  Viewpoints in Context. Web. 3. Apr. 2014.

Multi Genre Project

Diary Entry

March 13, 2014

Dear Diary,

Unemployment has been a real pain lately. In Greece, the unemployment rate rocketed to 27.7 in November. Really this is 10 times more than the United States and more than twice the euro zone's record-high average percent. On www.nytimes.com, the unemployment stood 12.1, a high level rate in unemployment. I feel like that even though Europe is struggling from unemployment. The United States is recovering but may still be a problem but it is just not the top idea as it was in the past years. So basically unemployment is being a problem in the world and needs to be dealt with. Some people with degrees are finding a hard time to find jobs as well. Maybe a reason for unemployment is less jobs being offered to people. I feel; like there should be more jobs in the United States and Europe. Unemployment is costing government money and really it needs to be prevented. As of right now, I want to see a change in employment and the rate also.

Dennis

Multi Genre Project

Short Story

Topic: Unemployment

One day a man named John Reed, who was an African American (Appositive), was an experienced worker who worked at Steel Corp., and always got the Job done every time he got to work. That morning when he got to work, a big argument was heard through the halls of his job. He ran toward his boss’s office and opened the door. When he opened the door, he saw people arguing and throwing things at their boss.

“What is going on here?” John asked.

A man who stood beside him looked towards him with an angry look, “The boss sold the company and now they are talking about getting rid of us.”

John walked through the crowd of people who were all angry about this. John looked at his boss with a disappointed look. The boss saw him and jumped down from the table he was standing on.

“Oh John, am I glad to see you, how are you doing?” the boss said with a nervous tremor.

John gave the boss an angry stare. “Don’t try to change the subject. Why did you sell this company? Why did you let them fire all of us?”

“O’ John (Apostrophe), now this is just business, this-(Aposiopesis).” The boss said as he was interrupted by John.

“Well I hope you are happy,” John said as he walked off.

As three months passed, John was unemployed. He had no money to buy him nothing. All he got was unemployment checks that he barely could cash. In the year of 2010, in November, unemployment has reached a rate of 9.8%. People said that mostly minorities are the cause of the unemployment. John was devastated, and couldn’t bear this burden of being unemployed. John tried searching for jobs all around his city and his state. The only thing he didn’t have for some of the jobs was his college degree; he never finished college because of money troubles. John had just given up on his life and just lived on the streets.

“Well although I’m unemployed and out on the streets, I have faith that a breakthrough will come (Antagoge),” John said while he was looking up at the bright sky (Assonance).

A year had passed and John still was unemployed, and had no one to call to help him. As John was walking, he spotted a flyer that said “Help wanted. Need an experienced worker.”

“I can’t believe it- maybe this is my breakthrough (Anacoluthon),” John said.

That day John went through the doors of the place that the flyer came from. He walked towards the desk where an assistant was sitting. The assistant looked up at him with a disgusted gaze.

“I am here for the job opening,” John said.

“Ok… the boss will be with you shortly,” said the assistant.

A few hours had passed and the boss came to see who was next for the job. He looked and saw a man with a shaggy beard and a nappy afro.

“Is this the last one?” the boss asked.

“Yes sir.” The assistant replied.

The boss walked up to the man and introduced himself. “Hello, my name is tom Bradley.

John stood up and shook his hand. “Nice to meet you; my name is John Reed.”

John and Tom went to the office. After 3 hours, Tom told John that he will be in touch with John. John looked up and nodded. After 2 months had passed John was sitting on the sidewalk until a yellow cab pulled up. A man with a black trench coat ran up to him.

“Are you John Reed?” the man asked.

“Yes I am,” John answered. “You must be Tom Bradley from that job.

“Yes, I’m glad you still remembered, I just came to say you got the job John,” Tom said.

John’s eyes widened and he jumped around with joy.

“Thank you, Thank you,” John said happily.

“You are welcome, work starts tomorrow,” Tom said.

John was so happy that he couldn’t do nothing but cry. Tom shook John’s hand and left. John walked away in happiness.

“No more unemployment,” John said walking into the sunset.

Rethorical Devices

• Parallelism

Is a recurrent syntactical similarity; It expresses similarity to show that the ideas in the sentence are equal in importance.

Ex.

She likes to cook, jog, and read.

• Parataxis

A successive independent clause with coordinating conjunctions, or no conjunctions.

Ex.

The Starfish went into the dry-dock, it got a barnacle, it went back to work.

• Parenthesis

A form of hyperbaton, and consist of a word, phrase, or whole sentence inserted as a aside in the middle of another sentence.

Ex.

My umbrella (which is somewhat broken) can still shield the two of us from the rain.

• Personification

It metaphorically represents an animal or inanimate objects as having human attributes—attributes of form, character, feelings, behavior, and so on. Ideas and abstractions can also be personified.

Ex.

The ship began to creak and protest as it struggled against the rising sea.

• Pleonasm

Uses more words than required to express an idea; it is mostly being redundant. Normally a vice, it is done on purpose on rare occasions for emphasis.

Ex.

That statement is wtong, incorrect, and not true at all in anyway, shape, or form.

U.K v.s. U.S.

The U.S. and Rome are alike in many ways. One reason why the U.S. is like Rome is our government setup; we have a senate like Rome; the word Senate came from Rome. Another reason why the U.S. is like Rome is our security. Just like Rome's soldiers being stretched throughout Hadrian's Wall, our army is strong and is spread out, or scattered, over Iraq and other areas. Also Rome had a huge mass of land it controlled. Like Rome we control a huge area of land. We also live in opulence like Rome did centuries ago. Like Rome, we have all the characteristics and lifestyle that makes us compare to them.

        In contrast to Rome, however, the U.S. will never fall like Rome did. Our technology is constantly growing and evolving throughout the years. Our industries also grow; we have jobs and transportation, and also we make products that continue to be important in our lives.  We are now developing high-tech weapons to protect ourselves from enemies and other dangers. Our country also is becoming more and more dominant each passing year.

          In comparison to Rome, for instance, if the U.S. ever does fall, as a result, we will regress back to a traditional economy like Rome did when it fell. We will not have any name brand clothes we wear like Polo, Nike, or Aeropostale. Our lifestyles will change from having nice products to making our products from wood or grass. We won't be living in big, extravagant houses anymore; we will be living in mud huts like the Anglo-Saxons. Our civilization will also go back to a point of hard labor and hunting and fighting for our survival.

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Topics

Really I want to know how do we prevent these unemployments in the use???