Generation Y

workforce” (Halsey). In the next decade millennials will be relied on by nursing programs to help take over for retiring baby boomers. (Halsey). Nursing is a career that will always be needed, it has become a popular career choice for the millennial generation. Students in nursing programs have noticed higher standards for grades, and experience throughout the past twenty years. The material for nursing majors has drastically changed, by decreasing the amount of hands-on learning that nursing…

Over time with generations passing, this long, black beard, beret wearing look started to fade out within the hipster community. The effect of this created what we know of hipsters today, the millennial version of the 1940’s jazz musicians. There was a big jump within this…

In the following articles “I’m a Millennial and my Generation Sucks” by Johnny Oleksinski and “Are Millennials the Screwed Generation?” by Joel Kotkin, many factors such as adulthood, education, and baby-boomers have led to a dismal outcome for millennials in the future. One would believe this is a significant topic for college students because their opportunity to enter the job market and real world is coming soon once the baby-boomer population dies. Although the two authors share many…

every youth generation wants to live better days than the older generations had before. The youth generations wants to fix everything now in order for the next generations not to face the same struggles as much, but rather have a life that gives them all the rights they need. Thus, it is obvious that the youth generations want to have more freedom than before. In this sense, in both the DREAMers and Chilean student movements, the youth protested to have better lives. These young generations…

I have grown up in a country and time where progress has been definitive. It has been in the time that my feet imprinted this earth and my lungs breathed this air that the Supreme Court has passed a bill for marriage equality and in the last eight years my nation has elected the first man of color to lead our democracy. It is that man who has helped to cut carbon emissions while making true strides for equality. Equality is not found in the darkness of segregated spaces or within the confines…

In my personal opinion I think that eletronic voting is useful and unique, especially in this day and age. Times are changing, that means so is the advancing of technology and the way it's incorporated in everyday life. I also understand the conflict that many adults and seniors come across such as confusion or lack of tech knowledge. EVMs are a great way to vote primarily because it's faster and more accessible. I stand behind the EVMs to a certain degree meaning, I've used this voting…

Drexler Fernandez Ronald B. Richardson English 93-004 11/1/2016 Overcrowding Problem Facing CCSF Classrooms It’s no surprise that California is experiencing overcrowdings in its classroom, California is after all “1st in the US most populated states” by the (World Population Review). So, thing like class rooms having more student then it is designed to accommodate is pretty is common. But that’s the problem a study conducted by the UCLA Institute of Democracy, Education and Access reported that…

In the AVID weekly article, “ Is this Generation Really Informed?” Palder and Sameena look into how technology and social media affect the current generation, also referred to as Millennials. Millennials are in fact more informed because they have unlimited access to the news that’s going on in the world. Therefore Millennials can get information such as the news, notification apps, and social media. The first reason why this generation is informed is because Millennials are granted with access…

Richard Kearney, a twentieth-century Irish scholar, stated that the culture-crisis of his homeland has been a result of clashes between generations. Typically, the older generation favors national traditions and the revival of past customs while the younger generation favors more cosmopolitan and international lifestyles. This generation gap is apparent throughout James Joyce’s short story, “The Dead,” as the main character—a young modernist—is disconnected from his family—mostly revivalists—due…

Tyler Cowen, author of The Complacent Class, talks about how the current population is becoming more and more set into their routines, lifestyle, and day to day activities than previous generations. Cowen discusses how now more than ever there has been a stagnation to new development in almost every industry. He goes to further explain that Americans are now invested in not making these changes we have seen in the past to move towards progress and advancements, and they have become more…