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Factors Related To The Unemployment Rate: A Statistical Analysis, Reanna Collins
Factors Related To The Unemployment Rate: A Statistical Analysis, Reanna Collins
Honors Program Theses
Current United States economic conditions have everyone searching for ways to solve the downward spiral that has instigated a crisis in the minds of many people. Rapidly increasing unemployment rates are key reasons leading to this feeling of emergency. A better understanding of unemployment trends over the past few decades and factors correlated to the rate could serve as future indicators of fluctuations in the unemployment rate. A statistical analysis was conducted to determine if any relationship between the unemployment rate and nine selected variables existed in order to identify trends in the unemployment rate and to produce a model …
Powerful And Powerless Speech Styles In Employment Mock Interviews, Amanda M. Wilson
Powerful And Powerless Speech Styles In Employment Mock Interviews, Amanda M. Wilson
Honors Program Theses
This thesis examines powerful and powerless speech styles in employment mock interviews. A powerless speech style is defined as the use of linguistic features that have negative effects on how the speaker is perceived. Features analyzed in this study include intensifiers, hedges, and hesitations. A powerful speech style is defined as the absence of powerless linguistic features within speech. Twenty-eight examples of employment mock interviews conducted in the office of Career Services at the University of Northern Iowa were recorded for analysis in this thesis. Four common questions within the interviews were selected and the responses were transcribed and analyzed, …