2021

Unemployment: The Importance

Of Entrepreneurship To
Reducing Unemployment

Subject: Communication Studies

Candidate Number: 0300140975
Name: Rheanna Griffin
Teacher: Ms. Browne
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction .…………………………………………1
Preface ………………………………………………….2
Reflective Piece ……………………………………..3
Analysis ………………………………………………….6
Conclusion ……………………………………………..8
 Introduction
My theme is Unemployment and the topic is The Importance of
Entrepreneurship to Reducing Unemployment. I intend to show how
entrepreneurship can not only solve high unemployment rates, but
solve other issues such as high crime rates which are serious issues
within the Caribbean. With young innovative and creative minds, new
businesses can be born. More emphasis needs to be placed on
entrepreneurship because in the case where young people cannot find
any jobs, they can create worthy businesses that can ensure income
and bring a freshness to the community. It will keep them from idling
on the streets, slow down crime rates and they can put their skills to
proper use. My passion for art grew tremendously and my desire to run
my own business was born so I chose Entrepreneurship and Art as 2 to
study as I aspire to be an artist entrepreneur. For my reflection, my
original piece will be a Narrative which points out entrepreneurial
interest, unemployment issues and problem solving. The following
analysis will point out character interaction and discuss these 2 areas -
Attitudes to Language and Dialectal Variation.

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 Preface
The below reflective piece, which is a narrative, will highlight the issues
of unemployment, crime and attitudes to language. It will include
Jamaican and Barbadian Creole and Caribbean Standard English. The
Analysis that follows will address the attitudes to language highlighted
in the narrative and also dialectal variation.

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 Reflective Piece
Narrative
 Dianne is a Barbadian who moved to Jamaica five years ago with the
intention of starting her own business. She did not only want to sell her
food there but she wanted to create job opportunities for young people
in Jamaica. Her father always told her his struggle in Jamaica. After
graduating, he struggled to find a job so he travelled overseas to find a
better opportunity there. Then he moved to Barbados to start up his
own business, with his wife where they raised Dianne. His business
helped a lot of young people in Barbados because there was a need for
employees. Some of them even left to start their own businesses.
Dianne asked her father why he never returned to Jamaica to do what
he did in Barbados but instead did it in Barbados. He told her that he
didn't want to raise her in Jamaica where there were high crime rates
and where he also struggled. He wanted her to have a smooth
transition from university to career life. She felt inspired to do for
Jamaica what her dad did for Barbados.
    At the moment, Dianne is a lecturer, teaching Entrepreneurship
courses. This very year she officially opened her small café and
restaurant which offers some Jamaican specialties as well as other
featured dishes of the Caribbean. Some students who graduated over
the years who couldn't find jobs decided to work as her temporary
staff. One day, a girl named Evie came to her and said, “Hi Dianne.
Thanks for this opportunity. Without this, I won't be able to continue
renting the apartment I live in now. I wish there were more available
job opportunities. I tried to encourage my cousin to come work here
but he rather stay with that stupid gang and get himself into trouble.

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Said he couldn't cook or wasn't interested in this field of work.
Anyways, thanks again. I really appreciate it very much.” Dianne
replied, “I’m glad that this could help.”
That day, it came to Dianne that this was really an issue and that she
must not sit around. She decided she would start a programme free of
cost for anyone and teach them how to start their own businesses and
place more emphasis on entrepreneurship.
    While walking home, three young men in black fits surrounded her,
charging with their guns. The first one spoke, “Gimme unnu frackles!”
Dianne stared for a while to soak in the situation. “Oh umm…do u not
have any money?” She asked.
The boy replied, “Obviously nuh. Gimme unnu frackles! Now!” Dianne
calmly replied, “Why don't you have any?” One of the others chimed in,
shaking his gun in a threatening manner, “Luk. Hurry up an gi wi unnu
frackles ar wi a guh tek ih.” Dianne put her hands up in front of her and
slightly backed away but still kept calm. She said, “Hmm…is that the
way to ask me for money?” She clasped her hands and slightly leaned 
forward. Then she continued, “Maybe if you had asked nicely I would've
given some to you. Don't you know? This is how you ask, ‘Excuse me
miss, may I have some money, please?’” The second boy rudely
interrupted with a stupse and remark, “Nuh luk dung pan wi-“
The first boy cut off his partner and said in a hurriedly and frustrated
tone, “Listen ooman. Mi neva learnt yuh ways an mi cud kyah less.
Hurry up an gi wi unnu frackles before di police come an awon sees wi.
Wi a guh tek ih eff yuh nuh gih wi.”
The third boy finally spoke. He didn't seem as rude as the others. “Dis a
how wi survive. Wi nuh have jobs nor qualifications. Wi nuh foolfool
neither. Wi just nuh have chances.”
Dianne put her hands akimbo and said, “Well..dis is how I survive. I
does work my butt off everyday fuh de lil two cents dem does gih me
fuh pay. If you want money, I cuh gih you but ya gaw work for it. I have

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a small restaurant which I officially opened. You can work there and I'll
pay you.”
The first boy thought about it before asking, “How much?”
Dianne said, “Enough that you can live and not just survive.”
He looked at his two partners and nodded.
 
   The 3 young men retreated that evening and indulged in an
interesting conversation with Dianne. She learnt so much about the
boys' dreams, aspirations and lack of opportunities and income. In
return, she told them about how she started her business and they felt
inspired to do the same.
   Years passed and the boys started their own businesses and they
grew with Dianne. They also helped her to promote her programme
where many young Jamaicans, educated and uneducated, poor and
priveleged, were able to learn the importance of entrepreneurship.
Some of them never thought they would be interested in starting a
business but this programme taught them this about themselves.
Although, according to recorded statistics on the unemployment rates
in Jamaica didn't change drastically, the awareness and spirit of
entrepreneurship was planted in Jamaica. It did prove to be a great
solution for high unemployment rates, low economy and high crime
rates though and now it is something that the education system is
working to implement in schools all over Jamaica and maybe the world.

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 Analysis
The reflection of this SBA highlights the effectiveness of
Entrepreneurship on the economy of a country and crime rates as well.
The use of language helped to present this focus as there are characters
within the narrative with their own situations and they can either be
perceived correctly or incorrectly just by the way they speak. I will be
analysing the attitudes to language and dialect variation. 
    To begin, there is a common attitude towards Caribbean Standard
English and Creole which associates both languages to certain statuses
and backgrounds. This was addressed in the reflection where one of the
boys said, “Dis a how wi survive. Wi nuh have jobs nor qualifications. Wi
nuh foolfool neither. Wi just nuh have chances.” Just because they
speak Jamaican Creole, it does not take away from the fact that they
may have had education. He expresses that they did not have any job
opportunities. They failed to get a job, not because of their own fault
but because of the reality that there were none available for them and
it was difficult to find any. On the other end, we see another situation
where Dianne, as a teacher by profession, speaks in Caribbean Standard
English as normal and scolded the boys for their lack of manners. She
said, “Maybe if you had asked nicely I would've given some to you.
Don't you know? This is how you ask, ‘Excuse me miss, may I have some
money, please?’” This shows that respect and manners are well
associated with this language and it comes more naturally.
     To continue, when discussing Dialect Variation, we look at
phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Semantics focuses on
the logical meaning of words and sentences. For example, Dianne said,
“Well..dis is how I survive. I does work my butt off everyday fuh de lil

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two cents dem does gih me fuh pay.” What she meant by “work my
butt off" is “work extremely hard" and when she said, “de lil two cents"
she really means that she isn’t paid what she believes she deserves and
it isn’t enough. Syntax looks at the rules for the structure of a language.
For example, past participle of “give” is “given” and the verb “to have”
must be used before the verb itself. An example of this is, “Maybe if
you had asked nicely I would've given some to you.” The verb “to have”
was used to make the word “would've” and then the past participle of
“give”, which is “given" was said after.
     In summary, the attitude towards Caribbean Standard English and
Creole comes down to the environment and what it requires in terms of
standard. Dianne is a teacher and since she is often in the school
environment at her job, she practices Caribbean Standard English more
and will speak it more often while the boys who are usually conversing
with one another casually, would speak Creole more often. Both Creole
and Caribbean Standard English are languages which stand on their
own as they have proven to have syntax and semantics which make up
a language.

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 Conclusion
Entrepreneurship is a possible solution to unemployment, high crime
rates and low economy. Creole is as much of a language as Caribbean
Standard English, as proven by the fact that it has semantics. Both
languages are used according to the environment and situation but
does not determine whether someone is of lower status or not.