Summary Of Generation Free Lunch

First of all, the writer seems to be afraid of future parents might give their children that from the early adulthood are encouraged to work and earn own money. On the one hand, it is implied to be really good as the children learn how to be self-disciplined, motivated to earn own money and to become a good team member when it is required doing a certain type of work together with other colleagues in a fast food sector, such as McDonald’s, for instance. In working process these children pick up a certain set of skills for relatively short period of time and they know how to use it and manage in a difficult situation, if any.

about the reasoning she is providing the audience with. In her beginning paragraph, there does

Effective uses of appeals to logic are made through insightful parallel structure and an oxymoron, both of which demonstrate the unjust truth. Kelley ensures her audience that the growing rate of working children is indeed overpowering the rate of working adults when she states, “Men increase, women increase, youth increase, boys increase in the ranks of the breadwinners; but no contingent so doubles from census period (both by percent and by count of heads), as does the contingent of girls between twelve and twenty years of age.” The parallelism depicts how there was a normal flow of growth for all men, women, and boys, yet the growth rate of

Many teens work to help their family. For example, teens such as Eddie work to help their parents even though they do not get paid for what he has earned. “Eddie Ramirez, 16, recalls summers when he worked in the tobacco fields. Contractors often take advantage of young workers, he says, recounting times when he wasn't paid what he earned. Yet for four years, he kept going back to help his mother pay the rent” (Potenza 1). They work in many dangerous places just to get some money to help their families out. “Although families may rely on this

In the article The Intellectual Free Lunch, the Wall Street Journal focuses on a middle-class group of white men that are mad at welfare and lobbyists. The thesis “Washington should stop sending money aboard and instead zero in on the domestic front”. The thesis explains that the Americans government need to spend more money on our own country and less on foreign aid. Basically, stop sending money out of our country or giving free handouts. Instead we need to focus on our own nation and help build our economics first, before giving money and resulting us to overspend our budget.

Without a college degree, it is very difficult to get a financially stable job. To get a college degree you need some sort of income to pay for your schooling. She did not have a degree and ended up working for 7 dollars an hour or less. The work was both stressful and degrading.

The speaker begins her speech with introducing the topic of child labor by stating powerful facts that support her case and using poignant diction to create sympathy; these devices work together to bring attention to the problem of children being overworked from very young ages, and attempt to win the audiences allegiance to her cause. Kelley refers to a census regarding the different groups of people making up the “wage earning class,” and saying that “no contingent so doubles from census period to census period…as does the contingent of girls between twelve and twenty years of age.” The rate of young girls working, earning a living, increases faster than any other group of people. The reference to a census, tells the audience that, not only has the speaker done research on her topic using credible sources, it indicates she is serious about it. Utilizing the census’ data, the speaker does well. In addition to using fact, the speaker also uses diction to reveal that she would like to make a

     Jobs won’t only support teens for the things they want, but it can help benefit for the things they need. The first things teens think of for their future are going to college and getting their first car. But, let’s say there’s a well educated thirteen-year-old, raised in a low-income family, who has plans on going to college.

Initially Kelley conveys her message about the corrupt child labor laws by criticizing the practices of the states in a way that incites change by using examples and rhetorical devices. She begins by providing specific evidence of child labor statistics to add to her credibility. Explaining that “two million children under the age of sixteen” are working just to survive, alludes to the

At age of 10 Chris got her first summer job as a babysitter, so she could earn a little money and buy clothes for herself. Clothing was the third largest category of spending for a household in the 1950s, requiring 11.1% of all household income (Chao & Utgoff, 2006). As a teenager she decided to work after school to start saving money: she was selling ice cream in a cousin’s dairy shop, and, later worked at the local grocery store. Even though her generation—the Baby Boom Generation— had a big impact on overall labor force participation of teenagers and young adults according to Hipple and Mosisa (2006), her personal agency and not parental urging contributed to these choices. None of her siblings worked until coming of age, even though according to Chris, ”it was easy to get a job.” At age of 18, her sister was offered

sentence we know it is the narrator’s story as she describes her experience and conversation with

By having a job a teenager can save up for college, to buy a car, to buy a stereo, etc. Teenagers feel 'free' when they have a job: they can spend their own money on whatever they want without feeling guilty. In addition to helping his family, having a job at an early age can help for future jobs.

“Take This Internship and Shove It” by Anya Kamenetz is about the declining state of jobs for new college graduates or current college students. Anya Kamenetz is attempting to prove that internships, particularly unpaid internships, are part of the problem of new graduates finding employment in their field of study. Kamenetz is also trying to prove internships are harmful to the job market in general. Kamenetz describes internships as “fake jobs” and states internships cause low wages and decline in young workers being part of a union. When an employer can hire someone for free he or she is more likely to do so instead of spending company money on a paid employee. Employers get away with these practices because with an already

When I first started reading about the summer jobs question on NYTimes, I was confident that summer jobs should be available for teens if they want one. I said “having a summer job teaches teens about the real world and prepares them for it. It also lets them rely less on their parents to buy them things.” After reading the two articles, my ideas weren’t changed but instead strengthened. The author from “Expanding Economic Opportunity for Youth through Summer Jobs” strengthened my opinion that we need more summer jobs available by analyzing the percentages of people in different subjects, for example the employment to population ratio decreasing. The author from “Universal Summer Jobs For New York City Youth” sort of strengthened my opinion. The article explained how the SYEP program wasn’t doing it's job to help students prepare for the real world. Then the article proposed a new program to really help students prepare them for their skill oriented jobs.

Her statement is a prime example of philosophy. The content of her testimonial consisted of many supported ideas and thoughts. Yet, at the same time, the statement