Article - A Chewy Grittish' Society

Article Plan – ‘Chewy Grittish’ Society’

Article target audience: 18 – 24 years of age, Male.

	Planning Comments
article genre (purpose, type)	Realism. This gritty article looks at the past events of the London riots. The purpose is to educate our growing generation on the happenings of youth culture today. It does this by asking questions on governmental issues that have affected people at the time as it uses the lack of education and respect lost due to political and police related actions.
Narrative voice (1st, 2nd or 3rd person)	3rd person. This is an informative article which suggests many different opinions about recorded actions from the past. 3rd person helps me to talk about the different ways politics has affected our youth culture of today by therefore helping the reader choose naturally what they think about the opinion being stated.
Register (informal/formal, colloquial, dialect, taboo words?)	The article holds a formal underlining that says the topic is serious, yet sarcasm and taboo words give the writer a sense of an informal attitude. The lexis is fairly intelligent yet colloquial terms will crop up from time to time depending on the way I want to engage with my audience through the characteristics of my writing.
Stylistics (repetition, strong verbs, adjectives, alliteration, similes, metaphors, sentencing, rhythm)	The title ‘Chewy Grittish Society’ is metaphorical in a sense as it is a knock off from the profound sentence ‘A Truly British Society’. This sets the tone almost immediately and works well when connecting with my audience. I will be using long complex sentences from time to time with a fast paced rhythm; this helps me get my point across to my audience. There will be more verbs rather than adjectives due to the nature of the article, adjectives in my case could quite easily offend those I am writing about. This is a problem when taking the PCC author rights into consideration; on the contrary adjectives aren’t in the style of my writing.
Tone of address (hectoring, sarcastic, ‘matey’, ironic, etc)	The article will use a very strong sarcastic tone of voice, almost to a style of arrogance suggesting the writer thinks in a very biased way. Hectoring may be used when considering the people are being subjective to a personal opinion.
Structure and pace (discourse structure, logical paragraphing, connectives, conclusion)	The structure breaks the article into two parts. One is factually based which gives the reader numbers, figures and dated accounts of the riot based events making it quite logical. The other is entertained on a rather different writing style that talk about the actual matters that encouraged so called events. Bother will hold conclusions and paragraphs with many connectives in to produce longer, more complex sentences.

Reaching into our pockets Britain solely stands on a sloppy economy making it hard for every Joe Blogs to make a living, this goes without saying the pressure it is building upon the shoulders of young adults today. Was this relevant to the escalade of events that occurred on the 6^th of August 2011? Many people believe the riots were an act of opportunism yet I want to delve further into the reasons and opinions of many students that attended the riots whilst considering the government’s established police as well as the almighty Nick Clegg. The more I researched into the riots the more I found it was of antipathy towards the police, this is understandable for any rough time Londoner looking for something to do, but what does this say about those attending College and University courses striving for a better life. I feel that the policing attitude towards younger Britain prior to the build-up of events could of caused the extreme action that was arson, theft, public abuse and most scarring; violence. I do not use policing actions in terms of justifying what happened that week yet strangely feel that if we were to develop Britain’s youth in other ways than conflict and blame we could move ahead a lot further.

A study took place to find out the meaning of the riots, a vast majority of the 270 people that had been interviewed claimed that it was to gain ‘free stuff’. This gives fact that the riots were made up of opportunists yet do delve further into England’s socialisms and communities, how have teenagers been bought up to believe its okay to be somebody else’s misfortune. For the riots to then spread further through the country it shows that we in fact have issues now and will most likely have more to deal with in the future with the up and coming generations. Our peers have slowly pushed us through peer pressure and bad representations of what is right and what is wrong. Teenagers as young as 13 had been involved, this is isn’t a responsible mind but one that has been mislead by others.  I feel this alone should of helped the government realise that actually they require to take a stand a create a mutual relationship with teenagers to show support, especially when tuition fees and educational courses are being cut further.

Over half of the people interviewed mentioned the increase of student tuition fees and the scrapping of EMA. This is a fine example of the government action that isn’t supporting our youth and causing problems within the younger culture. For this to cause a huge expression of riotous anger it must be a main concern of the younger public.  There are so many complaints against the way police treat people within society; this especially is a cause for concern as they are empowered over the public. They may be taking it too far yet understanding why they have such a physical attachment to the public is probably enough for another story. Mark Duggan’s death was a main cause to the conflict, but the whole situation was a bigger mess than it should have been. This was most probably due to the separation of passionists and ‘arseholes’, as many would put it.  A lot of people were angry but a lot of people were joining in because they didn’t have anything better to do. This links in with many riots of the modern age, especially when relating this to the London tuition fee protests.  50,000 people had reason to move on and bid for a better trial against cutting University money, yet even to the most peaceful of protests with such level headed young adults more idiots spoiled it by storming the ‘Tory’ building. Whilst chanting “DIE TORY SCUM” the protests had then peaked into what could have been classed as rioting.  Those who were pushing violence over protest had been classed as activist, people who masked their faces and scarved’ their necks to hide identities as they traded punches with police. Because of these people young adults get labelled in society, students through London called concern as the protests ran from under their fingers as they lost control of the true meaning behind what they wanted. As soon as the Conservatives came into power educational costs was a main priority and a first hand action that demonstrated their power as a government. So as the peaceful protests commenced deranged yobs withdrew meaning and ruined it for the thousands that took part AND the generations yet to come who have University courses in speculation as an option to their future careers.

The riots seemed as an annual celebratory aftermath of violence producing the real grit to London. It separated the gangs from the people with passion that wanted to highlight their futures amongst their older peers. As generations renew, culture becomes stronger. Mr Cameron promised to do “whatever it takes” to restore order across the country, yet does it seem ethical to suggest using military control over police when incurring an attack over youthful Britain?  I understand that police should have control in retaining balaclavas, scarves and hoods IF used in a disorderly manor, but to push high-armed powers onto those with a point of view is just bizarre.  So how will this be resolved? We’re still here, still standing, still defiant. Will the youth of Britain ever really get a say?

YOUNG ADULTS ARE MISCONCIEVED BY OLDER GENERATIONS.

THE GOVERNMENT PLANS TO RECREATE PUBLIC RELATIONS

YET ACTIONS HAVE SPOKEN LOUDER THAN WORDS