Generation Y

There are adoption centers all around the world that exist solely so that those who want to engage in the act of parenting can adopt parentless children. The opportunity to be a parent is so highly sought after that entire businesses are built around it; still the details of how to successfully fulfill the responsibilities themselves are unclear. In her Memoir, Virginia Woolf discusses her own childhood and how the parenting choices of her father positively impacted her. Woolf argues that…

The generational divide is made evident in the chart found on wmfc.org as they define what each generation claims technology to be. The traditionalist were introduced to the Hoover Dam which was built during the Great Depression. According to the Hoover Dam Tour Company, the Hoover Dam was built because “People [wanted] to irrigate low lying plains, known as low desert areas, without suffering from flooding and the battle over water.” This project changed society and shifted the view on what can…

I am doing the greatest generation because they seem like the ones with the most content and interesting. This generation endured a lot of hardships. They were born post World War 1 world where europe was ravaged by the great war. They toughed it out through the great depression the hardest recession of the United States. They hated prohibition but went through that with illegal alcohol. They saw the horrors of World War 2 and its aftermath on the world.They felt the red scare from the cold war…

mom or dad in the yard. This is where I disagree. Growing up in our generation helping mom or dad in the yard would be considered as a chore. In fact, chores were something that were enforced, and had to be done in order to get the fun things like the Xbox, playing soccer, or going to dance recitals. What I think most people not from our generation don’t realize is the effect technology has…

76.5 million in total (MacUnovich). Though there is no definitive answer, some effects that were stated to attribute the birth increase during the baby boom generation, were the antiwar movement, an increase in crime rates, and the development of the women’s movement (Kirszner). The baby boom generation is often characterized as a generation of optimism,…

pressing question on whether if or if not smartphones have destroyed a generation. The article, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation”, written by psychology major, Jean M. Twenge, analyzes the crucial question. For many years, the psychologist studied generational differences; from the baby boomers all the way to the latest generation which she calls “iGen”. iGen is the generation born between 1995 and 2012, a generation that grew up with smartphones. According to Twenge, rates of teen…

An individual from the year 1999 and the cultural background of Australian answered “No my parents weren 't strict”, this may have been based due to his generation. However, he also answered to only having one sibling (also male), this may have been the reason to his parents not being strict on him due to the children’s gender as stereotypically now days parents tend to be more protective over females than…

The evolution of Millennials Generation Y, is the generation of the XXI century, also referred to as Millennial generation. It is a subsequent generation to generation X, born after the Western Post–World War II baby boom. This generation includes everyone born between the 80 's, 90 's, decade until the beginning of 2000. This generation, grew up in an era of rapid change and technological advances. They witnessed the rise of the Internet, the end of the cold war, the development of computers,…

the Middle and lower classes are disappearing from the economy while, a small part of people are getting richer. The truth is, the gaps between classes are undeniably felt today. Many might say that the downfall of the economy is caused by the generation labeled the Baby Boomers. The Baby boomers claim that they made great success in their lives, but what they forgot to mention was the effect of their…

The first generation who received participation ribbons were Generation Y. Some may question how this is bad; well first, the ideas behind the practice must be understood. Writer, Kelly Wallace, states in an article for CNN entitled “Does sports participation deserve a trophy? Let the parental…