Stereotypes Of The Millennials In The 21st Century

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The generation known as the Millennials, are most often perceived as a highly disadvantaged and targeted group. There are many factors that contribute to the perception of this particular group some of which, are very saddening and truly unfair for the Millennials, and I am sad to say that I am part of that generation. The way that I, along with many other people see it, is that most of the problems the Millennials are dealing with today, have been the results of failure from the previous generations. In other words, our problems have been inherited and they are only going to get worse as time goes by unless we do something about it to either make it better or make it stop from spreading as a whole. There must be unity in the fight for having …show more content…
For example, recently in Simi Valley, there have been many worried people especially mothers of young children that expressed their sincere concern and demanded to know what was going on with their surroundings, since they, the mothers of children, started to notice that many young children were getting diagnosed with childhood cancers that were rare. They wanted further and deeper examinations being done on the land near the Santa Susana Field Laboratory located in the hills above Simi Valley and the San Fernando Valley. This site had a partial nuclear meltdown in 1959 and the amount of radioactive substances that were released into the land and air were unknown. The site has not been cleaned up and the longer it takes to get cleaned up the more harm it causes the residents living …show more content…
I believe this is so, because there have been various occasions in which I felt my nostrils have a burning sensation. Although many can argue it is simply an allergic reaction to something small, I am almost one hundred percent certain that that is not my case. For instance, I have become aware that this sensation in my nose is not always present. But on the contrary, it is usually more sensitive when I am in an area that holds a large amount of automobiles traveling around. This realization has shown me that the reason for my, so called problem, is caused by the excessive amount of emission being released by vehicles into the open air, thus explaining why my nose

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