The story I listened to on NPR’s Morning Edition is titled “Veterans
Struggle to Find Jobs, Peace of Mind” and was hosted by Rachel Martin. This
called my attention because many of my family members are deployed and I could
relate to the story through them and also through myself because as a college
student have also been having a hard time finding a job. In this story the host
talks about how difficult it is for returning veterans to find jobs and get
used to their new lives away from the battlefield. She uses an interview as her source and asks a
veteran about their lives during deployment and after they come back to their
civilian lives. While analyzing this story I looked at the different aspects of
it and found out this is an informative essay that provides information on the
lives of veterans who come back home and have to make the transition from a
soldier to a civilian.
[cambridgema.gov]
The
story is organized in the way that most news articles are formatted. It starts
by the host who gives some back up information about the issue. Then she speaks
about the man who she is interviewing and talking about the men and women who
have come back from deployment who they have been helping in their series “Home
Front.” The host, Rachel Martin, introduces her interviewee, Brian Cannava of
the National Guard’s 182nd Infantry Regiment. She then continues to talk about how hard it
is for veterans to come back to their lives and find a job. When she is talking
about this she brings up a statistic when she says “The unemployment rate for
veterans who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan currently stands at ten percent
despise all the programs out there designed to find work for vets.” This
evidence shows us how this issue is affecting many people and it helps her
become a credible source. The only thing she is missing is the place where she
got her numbers from, this is what prevents the speaker from being completely
credible. After she introduces the issue, the host then starts the interview
which is another type of evidence she uses in the story. In her interview she
backs up her numbers when she asks the veteran about his experience in job
hunting. The veteran mentions that he
has applied to “hundreds of jobs” and that many people are not interested in
his stories and experiences from his deployment. This proves to us that
veterans like Cannava are really struggling in getting their lives back
together after the war.
Even
though this story is not completely reliable it does show us a struggle that a
lot of veterans face through the eye of a veteran. This audio essay is formal
and structured just like a written informational essay would be written.
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/11/164894057/veterans-struggle-to-find-jobs-peace-of-mind
This audio essay I listened to inspired me to make my audio essay on student unemployment. Im not sure who I would interview yet so I am not sure about my topic! Any ideas??
This audio essay I listened to inspired me to make my audio essay on student unemployment. Im not sure who I would interview yet so I am not sure about my topic! Any ideas??
This would be a very interesting story. The fact that you are relating it to to your own life gives you more to work with and should be easy to write about. You could definitely interview someone who is currently unemployed and someone who is. You could ask both of the students what special actions they took to get/try to get a job and compare the answers to see if they relate in any way. Just an idea but it would make for a more interesting story! This is a great idea and you will do a good job.
ReplyDeleteI think that this would be a great topic to cover in project three and I think that I would like to read/hear what you come up with considering I have been looking for a job and I have yet to land one. I mean if you want you can interview me and I can tell you exactly how hard it is to find employment especially since I am going to school at the same time. I also think that you should talk to employers on campus and gather information about what it takes to get employed and also talk to those who have jobs and ask them if they had any difficulty finding a job. I also suggest that you talk someone in the student involvement center because they give many students jobs and it would be great for you to learn about what they do. Great choice and I wish you well with everything.
ReplyDeleteI think this could be a very interesting topic for project three. After looking at a lot of other ideas this one is pretty unique, which is a good thing. I think you should definitely try and find an unemployed student, but that gives you a pretty broad selection. I think it would be important to find not just any unemployed student, but a student that tried hard to find a job or maybe a student that got fired from their job to make it even more interesting. Or another idea is maybe you can find and student who found a job a find out what it took for him or her to get that job, so more the steps from unemployment to employment. I hope I was able to help I was nto able to attend class on monday going over this project so my ideas could just be completely off but good luck.
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