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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

reading response non fiction trying times

  College graduates are having more difficulty then ever find jobs. We are still recovering from the recent and still recession, It's not just college graduates having trouble finding jobs, although they do have more difficulty then others, everyone who is out of work is struggling. More and more people are getting in debt.

  Why are more and more people loosing jobs especially ones with college education. One example is Kacey   Herring. She has resumes,worked at a law firm  but no jobs have come around for her. She has all this experience but no job. She is highly qualified for a job, she has alot of experienece. Is it because the economy? It might be.

  Also so many college students need to pay off their debt. Many Americans in general need to pay off debt because they have been out of work for so long. The unemployment rate has gone down since 2009 but still 12 million are unemployed. People are in more then 50,000 is debt, You can't really spend much money, and some things you really need to buy, so it can really put a hardship in peoples lives.

 Sp many people have been dealing with debt and unemployment. Yes, it has gotten better but not good enough, these people need jobs to support themselves or others like their families. This could raise the poverty level, and it probaly already has. Many graduates can't get jobs no matter how qualified for a specific job they are, they just can't hire. All that work and talent to waste.
 
 

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Fiction Book Reader Response

    Fifteen year old Craig has just got excepted to the high school of his dreams. Finally all of his hard studying has finally paid off. His friend Aaron has a party to celebrate the acception to the school. There's drinks drugs and girls, Aaron gets with Nia (the girl Craig likes) and ever since then he is sadder then usual. Next when he finally starts his new high school  he stresses himself to the max, stop eating, sleeping and basically living. One night he decides life isn't worth it and decides he will jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, but he decides against it and checks himself into a mental hospital. He meets and makes some unlikely friends.

   When Craig first checks him self into the mental hospital it seems he has given up but he has these small specks of hope. Like when he wasn't gonna try to eat, sleep he lost hope. He is under all this stress and it's because of high school, the high school process is stressful I know this because I recently just went through it and I really hated it and I was so relived when it was over, and I know when I get into high school it's gonna be even harder then middle school academically and socially.

  When Craig finally gets out of the mental hospital he's a new man. He's met new people. He has found his anchor. In the beginning he goes to the therapist and she tells him to find an anchor somthing he can relie on make him happy. He finds art. He ends up switching schools.

  Craig has been on a roller coaster, and he has been through alot, at war with his emotions, his friends and his family. It's a big decsion especially if it deals with taking a life. Alot of teens struggle with high school and finding themselves and sometimes they get very sad and stressded out so they make poor decisons