Hyndman High School
Hyndman, Pennsylvania
Teacher: Janet Phillips

  

Unemployment and the Future Generation

By Beth Shroyer

Grade:  11

 

Unemployment, a growing problem in America, is increasing everyday. With the vast amount of students graduating every year, fewer and fewer of them are continuing their education, making it harder for them to acquire a job because in the new millennium computers are taking over jobs people thought could never be replaced by machines. I like computers, but they are making it easier for people to become lazy.

           

If someone wants to set a goal and actually accomplish it, they almost have to continue their education. The children of the future have a lot to look forward to, but when I sit and think about it they really don’t. Simple little chores that have to be done daily can be done in thirty seconds with the push of a button. 

           

Welfare is making things easier for the children of the future, also. If people have parents that are on welfare that do nothing with their everyday lives then their children aren’t going to strive to be much either. My parents have been working since they were first married, making me want to strive to be the best person I can be. Unemployment is a serious matter and no one seems to care, not even the government. I know the amount of people on welfare is decreasing, which makes me feel better. 

           

I have never been on welfare and I hope I never am, but I think there should be a policy. Losing  a job and having a family is a tough situation, being on welfare won’t help in  getting  a decent job because it makes people lazy. I think that is why people are so lazy because they don’t even get jobs; they just sit at home watching Oprah and eating chips, waiting for their check to come in the mail.

           

It is a horrible thing to lose a job, but to give up trying when times get tough is even worse. The future children will have nothing to look forward to if they can draw for unemployment that easily. It may seem as though I have something against welfare [recipients]. I don’t. It just aggravates me to see people buying cigarettes, when they have a baby on their shoulder and a toddler at their knee, who is in dire need of clothing. 

           

Welfare is a great help to those who are temporarily out of a job. Today it is very easy to get on welfare or file for unemployment. It needs to be stopped because the government’s money is being sucked up by people who need it but don’t use it to buy essentials that are desperately needed such as: toilet paper, toothpaste, toothbrush, shampoo, healthy food, clothing, soap, and other important items. 

           

Welfare can only take people so far. Someday they will have to get your feet planted back into the ground, working harder to fix the mistakes that they made before. It is sort of a “pick-me up” if you think about it. 

           

The unemployment rate, to me, will increase drastically in the future because of the amount of lazy people in the world.  My theory is “Good better best never let it rest until your good is better than your best”. I am saying this because I am a somewhat of an extrovert. My classmates are also out-going. This may have nothing to do with the subject of unemployment but I believe that my class will be successful in the future.

           

The only advice I can give is never give up until you really can’t pursue anything anymore. The skills we learn in school come from the time and effort of the teachers. When I graduate, I’m quite sure it would disappoint many of my teachers if I became unemployed.  Jobs are a privilege, which shouldn’t be burdens that we become better at as we continue in the process of working.

           

The future is becoming more complicated with computers taking over the job world. I’m not all that “down to earth” with computers, but I do know a little about them.  I understand that it can be complicated to get a job, but they should try. The unemployment rate can decrease or increase; the decision is in the hands of the future generation.

 

SINGER ESSAY QUESTIONS

 

           

Q1.  In the U.S.A. couples invest in the stock market.  In Manus they base their marriages on betrothals, which is basically their stocks.

           

Q2.  I asked ten married couples what they thought the key to a strong marriage was and this is what they said: 

(couple 1) 48 years-never-ending love and affection.                

 

(couple 2) 32 years-TRUST!! 

 

(couple 3) 15 years-Intamacy. 

 

(couple 4) 11 years-communication. 

 

(couple 5) 2 years-kindness.

           

Q3.  That we should dematerialize society without reducing quality of life.

           

Q4.  A goal for my community would be to become more involved with the community.  Do more things for the community and the people in it.

           

Q5.  Tomorrow’s child depends on today’s parents.  My generation is the crew that is coming of age to have children.  We need to stand strong, get our education and be great parents to help tomorrow’s child become the futures greatest adults.

           

Q6.  Lawyers bring a form of public responsibility and accountability that would not happen in an untrammeled democracy. Diversity helps with religion, race, and national origin. Wealth has to be maintained by someone.  Size.  We are a large          territory that needs laws to keep it under control.

           

Q7.  I think it is punitive damage that is doing the most harm.  Bad practices can only be changed if you want to change them.

           

Q8.      1.  More mentors.

2.  Less pressure for young people to succeed.

            3.  More students continuing their education.

           

Q9.  I agree with the anti-poverty program because there are to many homeless people in the world that do try to make it. 

                      1.  The world needs this

                      2.  The less poverty there is more work can be done.

           

Q10.  Both men came from poverty stricken childhoods that made them want to become some-thing.  Cathy and Lewis, both strong-willed, wanted to help children like themselves make and reach their goals.