Research Paper

      While writing my research paper, I did not change my topic at all. I was dead set on unemployment rates in my local area because I am a student who needs work. I can relate to the topic, which made it easy once I got started. That was the problem; getting started. I am a procrastinator by nature and it kind of took it's time wearing off for me to actually start the paper. Once I began, it was all a downhill free ride, because writing papers is easy with the right information and only takes, maybe, an hour or two at the most. While researching my information, I found out that my local unemployment rate is higher than the international one, which is pretty high. It's a big problem that needs to be solved obviously. I also found out how little the average person could actually do to help solve it, how little power the people have in their own welfare. Also, the government may keep tabs on all the rates and stuff, but what are they really doing to lower those rates? Spend more money where we do not need it. There are some companies that are doing their best to accommodate the people in the area but it is not enough to make a highly positive difference.

Unemployment in Memphis

    In July 2012, the unemployment rate for Memphis was 9.6 percent, which was roughly 60.8 thousand.  Almost seventy thousand people unemployed and that is just Memphis, Tennessee, while the United States unemployment is 8.3 percent. In fact, the only state that has less than a 3.9 percent unemployment in July was North Dakota and the highest is Nevada with 12.0 to 13.9 percent.  Although, Tennessee is a bit lower on the scale with 8.0 to 9.9 percent, it is still bad and means that many people are jobless.  In Memphis, if you take out the stay-at-home moms and the students living off parents and scholarships, you are still left a good chunk of people who cannot find a place of work and albeit some are not looking or do not care, it is still a big issue for those like me who are trying to get jobs for work experience so others will hire us. But as I have seen many times in this city, businesses want to hire people with experience already which puts a damper on my job search and also creates an endless whirlpool of  "I can't get a job because a I have no work experience because I can't get a job..."  Luckily, I have found a few places that have pulled me from this whirlpool of madness.  With a little more lax business hiring, maybe more people can get jobs and lower our unemployment rate, but it is up to the businesses to change all of this.  In Las Vegas, Nevada; the unemployment rate was 12.9 percent in July, even though Las Vegas would seem to be full of jobs open to everyone who has passed intermediate school.  Maybe it is illegal aliens stealing our jobs, maybe it is because many do not care to look for jobs, maybe just maybe there is fault on all fronts: the government passing laws weighing down business mobility, illegals taking over job markets for lower paychecks that eventually goes back to where they come from, and the citizens who need jobs that are not looking or are not creating their own opportunities.  The solution to resolving the unemployment issue in Memphis falls on all it's residents.

Public Spheres

        The public spheres that I belong to in Memphis range from a dozen people to thousands. Whether it is one of my classes or being a University of Memphis student, my public spheres are broad and thus provide different information. Sometimes in order to get information I need, I must delve into others' public spheres such as a librarian and her library or work study students in Wilder Tower. Being a part of so many public spheres allows me to learn different things as well. I am a part of the "Mighty Sound of the South" public sphere, so it can be inferred that I know how to play an instrument, read music, and march. Even my friends and me are a public sphere of our own because we can be separated into our category based on different attributes.  Every sphere is a matter of perspective. If a group can be detached from a larger group on purely analytical grounds then it can be considered another public sphere as it is seen to the public. Another, smaller, public sphere of mine is my work place which consist of about a half dozen people that work when I do. As you can see, public spheres are only categorized by definition and always are a public group.

Introduction

    Hello, I am blogger machina. This blog is about the unemployment epidemic in my local area.  I am only part time employed and I am a student. I also like to participate in creative activities like writing and constructing ideas into reality.   Most of all, though, I like to learn as much as I can by experiencing whatever I can.  In this pursuit, I have learned a lot but I know the world has so much more. Although this endeavor is made all the much harder due to the world in which I live in making advancing in life much much harder.  Yes, I do switch jobs sometimes, and these jobs cannot be more different each time, but I have learned different skills in each one; I know how to make a pizza, answer a phone with a completely facade attitude, direct the flow of people in the right direction, change my car's oil, headlights, windshield wipers, basically fix my car and much more. Once again, I know that there is more than all this so I must fight my situation and break free of the confines this city has placed on me. I will not be a part of the unemployment statistics and hopefully others will share my sentiment. I will continue to search for jobs, who knows what I will take on next. This is blogger machina signing off.