Boom and bust

The perception of marriage has changed drastically since the beginning of the 1900s to present day. A significant amount of this can be attributed to the experiences and events faced in each generation. As authors Neil Howe and William Strauss explore in their study, “The Next 20 Years: How Customer and Workforce Attitudes Will Evolve” insight into how each generation has influenced the other with its new developments of values and perceptions is provided, thus ultimately giving reason to why…

Center for Housing Studies (2012). Despite the uncertainties surrounding the cohorts, Masnick defines the Baby Boomer cohort as the generation with birthdates ranging from 1945-64, Generation X (“Baby bust”) as the generation with birthdates from 1965-84, and Generation Y (Millennials or “Eco boom”) as the generation with birthdates from…

Beowulf: The Hero’s Journey What does it take to be an epic hero? Grant Wiggins’ “Beowulf” details the perspective of what it takes to be an epic hero.Throughout his story he follows by a outline “The Hero’s Journey” designed by Joseph Campbell,by using this Wiggins gave the following stages of the Hero’s Journey: Call to Adventure,Supernatural aid, Crossing Threshold, Tests, Allies, Enemies, Approach, Ordeal, Reward, Road Back, Resurrection Hero, and Return.These stages is what gives the view…

In the early 19th century, the Industrial Revolution began in England to improve the living standards of people, which quickly spread to western Europe, North America, Russia and Japan. New machines, such as the steam engine and the cotton gin, and factories transformed the agricultural societies into industrial societies. With the development of new technologies, economic production increased as high-quality goods and services were produced quickly, cheaply and more efficiently. In addition to…

have resided in the Valley of Ashes as described in The Great Gatsby. The development of an efficient assembly line created a vast output of automobiles which spiked a large consumer margin. As written by McCollum, "The 1920s industrial boom might have been a bust if not for the Ford assembly line. The revolutionary process produced about fifty cars an hour and revolutionized the way manufactured products were made" (18-19). With the amount of car owners increasing at a rapid pace, the economy…

The “roaring 20s” on the surface was extravagant, a time of the jazz age, new hollywood cinema, economic prosperity, new consumerism, and a revolution to the old rigid traditions of the 19th century. Politically, the red scare has swept across america, as conservatism becomes very popular to combat “the others”, of radical communism playing off the recent WW1. However within america, the opposite of roaring promise was the case for many americans. Foner reports the reality of the average…

Millennials were a generation defined by technology. They experienced the uprise of the computer and the evolution from traditional arcade games to personal gaming consoles. The majority of them grew up playing classics such as Pac-man, Atari, Pokémon, and Zelda. To anyone who has referred to themselves as a gamer, a world absent of video games would be unfathomable. Luckily, those die hard gamers out there probably won’t have to say goodbye anytime soon; as of 2015 the American video gaming…

The concept of Oil Fracking was first tapped into by Col. Edward Roberts, a civil war veteran. During the battle of Fredericksburg VA he drew the concept from exploding artillery into a narrow canal obstructing the battlefield (Manfreda J.). In 1866, Robert patented the “Exploding Torpedo”. A long rod shaped self- propelled underwater missile was packed into an iron case with 15-20 pounds of powder (Manfreda J.). Underground the case was placed right above the oil reserve, the wire on land was…

In this essay I will discuss what the economic theorist, political theorist and social scientist Karl Marx (and to a minor degree Friedrich Engels) outline and explain in the Communist Manifesto in regards to the Bourgeoisie being responsible for the creation of their own grave-diggers and the pattern of class struggle that Marx sees developing under the Capitalist system. I will do this by first looking at how Marx views history previous to Modern Bourgeois society and the development of the…

Striking Work Life Balance in Corporate: A Comprehensive Study of Different Generations of Workforce with Special Reference to Millennials Jatinder Singh, Research Scholar, NIMS University, Rajasthan Dr. S. S. Chowhan, Vice Principal, NIMS Institute of Management and Computer Science, NIMS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan Dr. Hari Shankar Shyam, Assistant Professor, School of Business Studies, Sharda University Abstract The workforce has moved from a single male breadwinner family model to…