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The Decline of the American Tenagers Summer Job-Paragraph 1- Lexington

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The Decline of the American Tenagers Summer Job-Paragraph 1- Lexington

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He appeals to the audience's pride by using a US president as a main example. The president was Ronald Reagan. He does this because many people respect this president and look up to him.

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Thompson explains how studies show that there is more benefits to completing school and going to collage than working a summer job. He explains how summer jobs only teach small things that are not as beneficial to working on school. He also explains how most teens can not work and summer job and work one school at the same time, so they need to choose between the two. When this choice comes teens seem to find more benefits in working on school instead of the work force.

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Sasse explains how kids can benefit from doing jobs for old folks because it helps them learn how to contribute and gain a perspective of their elders.

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Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs-Why? Thompson 6

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Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs-Why? Thompson 6

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Thompson creates a list of reasons that teens are not able to work. Thompson uses examples from the actual work industry rather than an outside factor, like the education system. It draws the readers attention to a different cause of summer job decline to even out the blame and demonstrate that one factor is not at fault for the entire decline.

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Lexington "The Decline of the American Teenagers Summer Job" P 4-8

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Lexington "The Decline of the American Teenagers Summer Job" P 4-8

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Lexington reports the interviews with an impartial tone to make the interviews and stories appear as fact instead of opinion.

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Lexington gives another reason why there has been a decline in teen summer jobs. He also uses an interview to establish that teens just don't care about summer jobs anymore.

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Thompson links a chart from the NCFES that shows the increase in high school class enrollments to support the claim that Education is a major factor in the decline of the American summer job.

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Uses statistics throughout the paragraph to rule out the assumption that teens are getting lazier.

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Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs-Why? Thompson 7

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Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs-Why? Thompson 7

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Thompson gives an explanation for the decline of the teen summer job blaming a cultural shift away from working. Thompson argues that teens are being influenced by older people and are shifting towards an education-based summer. Thompson uses a graph to demonstrate the decline not in the amount of teens actually working but the amount of teens that say they wish they were working to show how the cultural shift has affected the minds of young adults.

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Introduces a question that promotes a certain wondering as to what kids fill their time with today.

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It says that parents are the reason because they aren't super supportive or they want them to focus on grades.

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Thompson gives a list of reasons showing that is it very hard for teens to find jobs, that the teens are not necessarily at fault for.

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Thompson gives reasons why most people don't hire teens and why there aren't many job opportunities for them anymore.

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Appeals to parents' emotions by bringing up the effort to protect children and how it's causing them to not grow up.

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In those paragraphs Sasse uses life experiences of his wife and daughter to show how he believes that how no matter the size of the job, the work they do in their younger years helps shape their older character.

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Thompson tries to make the reader connect to the example of seeing someone doing something and us wanting to do it too.

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Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs-Why?- Paragraphs 3-4-Thompson

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Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs-Why?- Paragraphs 3-4-Thompson

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He compares graphs 1 and 2 to establish credibility. He also does this to have the math to help prove his point, explaining in detail, and adding his thoughts.

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Wraps up the argument that teens aren’t being lazy by showing the benefits of both sides, working jobs and focusing on education.

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Sasse expresses how bad it was having to work in the cornfield every day for weeks on end.

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Thompson says that a big-picture explanation for the demise of working teens is cultural and teens are influenced by other people and what is happening around them.

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Gives another reason teens are not working by using data to show the difference of race and wealth when it comes to summer jobs.

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Suggests that teens are facing problems with social norms and focusing on what their peers are doing rather than what they want to do.

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Provides opinion on the downfall of summer education and that the workforce is not the appropriate location to express the limited concern of America.

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Explains how teens are not being lazy by providing more examples of problems teens are facing when it comes to getting a job.

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Uses statistics to show how education is the reason teens dont have summer jobs.

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"What to do with the Kids this Summer? Put 'em to work" Sasse, P 6-8

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"What to do with the Kids this Summer? Put 'em to work" Sasse, P 6-8

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Sasse uses stories from personal experience about working with teens to provide evidence to support the idea that teens not working during their summers is causing them to be lazy.

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Thompson uses compare and contrasting to show the decline in jobs with teens and kids with other ethnicities.

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Decline In American Teen Job (Lexington) P* 4-8

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Decline In American Teen Job (Lexington) P* 4-8

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Lexington gives many reasons as to the decline in teenagers working a summer job. He brings forth many causes including parents and the modern economy. Lexington uses less solid evidence, but he instead appeals to the readers logic. Lexington uses examples that can be seen in the real world to help the reader understand the supposed cause of the decline. The reader relates this TO BE COMPLETE SOON

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Lexington "The Decline of the American Teenager's Summer Job"

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Lexington "The Decline of the American Teenager's Summer Job"

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Lexington uses many reasons such as teens, members, and people from the community to show their own experience in summer jobs. Their perspectives give a concrete explanation for why teens summer jobs may be decreasing.

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Thompson expands on the lack of teenagers working summer jobs by introducing immigrants and adults to the big picture. He explains that adults working for longer periods of their lives and the consistent increase of immigrants takes away from teenage opportunities to get a summer job.

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Sasse connects on an emotional level when he states his worries about how America will survive with this generation of kids. He does this by using the word survive to create a sense of importance and extremity to exaggerate the fact that this generation is deteriorating the true America.

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Thomson explains that teens are more sensitive to there social norms making them not want to work summer jobs anymore.

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Lexington explains how the percentage of working teens is declining because they are less reliable in the workforce due to parents encouraging summer jobs less.

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Lexington uses statistics to support that more teenagers are applying for jobs than the number of available positions, so not every teen is able to become employed.

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Sasse shows us that even small things back then made a huge difference in how teens make decisions such as just a simple hike can change their mindset.

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Sasse directs the article toward parents and goes on to say parents need to push their kids and not over-support them. He uses travel as an example of a push, this represents parents putting their children in a situation to make adult-like decisions.

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The Decline of the American Teenager's Summer Job- Paragraphs 1-2-Lexington

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The Decline of the American Teenager's Summer Job- Paragraphs 1-2-Lexington

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Lexington uses Ronald Reagan, working teens, and the mayor of Dixon as an example to establish credibility and to appeal to people who respect Reagan. Reagan is used as an example due to his summer job background.

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"Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs- Why?" Thompson 4-5

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"Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs- Why?" Thompson 4-5

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Thompson uses the idea of teens going to high school and college more in recent years as the reason why teens have stopped getting jobs in the summer.

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Thompson explains how there has been changes over time changing the amount of teens taking on summer jobs. There has also been changes over time stopping the workforce from taking on teens for there jobs.

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Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs-Why? Thompson Paragraphs 7

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Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs-Why? Thompson Paragraphs 7

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Thompson provides a big-picture explanation over his entire article.

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Sasse uses his wife and kids experiences to give an example of the benefits from traveling outside of your comfort zone.

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He introduces the idea of teens not working summer jobs due to laziness but quickly rules it out. He goes on to show many graphs that support his claim that teens have not become lazy they have shifted into school and education rather than work.

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Lexington uses the phrase "buy that teenager an alarm clock" to show that teenagers don't have enough self discipline to get themselves up in the morning. He uses this to back up his claim that parents are the main cause of the decline of teenagers working because they haven't disciplined their kids correctly.

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Promotes a sense of concern about kids after leaving home while also expressing concern over America.

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Thompson uses facts and statistics to show us the increase of teenagers enrolling in summer school rather than working during the summer.

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Thomason uses different graphs to show the differences in race and wealth when is comes to summer jobs.

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Thompson P 11-12 *Teens have stopped getting summer jobs

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Thompson P 11-12 *Teens have stopped getting summer jobs

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Thompson brings the argument into perspective and forces readers to realize that they are fighting for summer jobs for teens when it might not be necessary in present-day America. Especially when the jobs that teenagers once filled no longer exist.

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The author puts more evidence on summer school being more important that summer jobs.

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Includes the new idea of reduced crime and higher earnings and its link to summer jobs but also the many benefits of high school being completed and college acceptance.

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Sasse uses parents as the reason for teens not working summer jobs. He says parents have gone too soft on their children and have helped them too much so they have not developed into independent adults.

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Thompson establishes credibility by using an excerpt by Ben Steverman stating that the rise of summer classes may be directly related to parents and schools.

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Statistics of teen participation rates of summer jobs through race and comparing it to the same rates from past years. Also, introduce the claim summer jobs have declined through all ethnicities while providing evidence as to why richer families are seen with more children in summer jobs.

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Thompson counters the other article by stating that teens aren’t being lazy, they are choosing to learn rather than work.

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Thompson uses graphs and statistics throughout the article to show the decline in teens working is not caused by laziness but instead for educational reasons as well as lack of opportunity in some areas.

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Presents the claim that white adults feel the most nostalgia towards summer jobs.

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Provides a visual aid in the form of a graph to explain how the rates of teens getting jobs is going down due to social norms.

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Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs-Why? Thompson Paragraphs 4-5

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Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs-Why? Thompson Paragraphs 4-5

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He gives a counterargument to the other articles.

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Presents the cause of cultural effects and looking up to older peers on the effect of teenagers working fewer jobs in the summer. Also includes statistics showing the fall in teenagers who say they wish they were working.

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Explains the many reasons as to why summer courses are being replaced due to the fact of employers being less apt to hire the students and why.

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Presents how and why summer courses have taken the place of summer jobs. Also shows statistics explaining that high school graduates and college enrollments have grown.