Generation Y

agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing etc. The industries in this sector carry about 50% of power generated across the country with a transmission system of 95846 Ckt. Kms transmission lines . At present, India has the fifth largest Electricity generation and transmission capacity in the world pegged at 1, 92,792 MW. Government targets capacity addition of 89 GW under the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012– 17) and around 100 GW under the 13th Five-Year Plan (2017–22). With the population…

SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH The Stolen Generation all began with the British deciding they’ll send out the over population of convicts to settle in Australia on the 26th of January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour carrying out roughly 15,000 convicts. The first interaction between the British settlers and the indigenous Australians was one of anger; the British believed the Indigenous Australians were uncivilised because of the way they lived. Indigenous Australians…

mothers or fathers. The film Rabbit Proof Fence is a depiction of the story written by Doris Pilkington. The director of the film, Phillip Noyce represents The Stolen Generation in a sympathetic way. On the 13th of February 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave a formal apology to all the aboriginal people and the stolen generations. The opening scene portrays the…

On 11 March 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami occurred off the east coast of Japan. The tsunami resulted in extensive flooding along the east coast of Japan. Located near the towns of Ōkuma and Futaba on the east coast of Japan the Tokyo Electronic Power Company’s (TEPCO) Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) sustained substantial damage. The FDNPP consists of six individual nuclear power reactors. Planned maintenance was being performed on reactors 4, 5 and 6.…

Often referred to as the beatniks, a parody of the USSR’s “Sputnik” (Enck), the Beat Generation stands in stark contrast to 1950’s American culture. With the rapid emergence of a post-WWII society - suburbs and consumerism, traditional family values and an exclusion of the extreme - entered the authors who rejected it. Their ideology, shocking to those of their time, ultimately led to the creation of a nation-wide literary movement. The roots of this movement took place during 1944 near Columbia…

When the literature of beat generation first came, it was criticized by lots of people, since people thought the form and language are rough. It doubted and denied the traditional cultural value, but influenced descendant’s view of mainstream culture. As an Asian, I have to say that beat generation plays an essential role in propagating Zen and Buddhism, because many poets of beat generation write about Zen and Buddhism. The evolution of hip can be divided into six convergence, the first stage…

The Fukushima Dai’ichi Nuclear Power was one of 54 nuclear power plants operating throughout Japan in March of 2011. The plant contained 6 separate reactors designed by General Electric and maintained by the Tokyo Electric Power Company. Fukushima Dai’ichi lies about 140 miles northeast of Tokyo, Japan directly on the Pacific Ocean. At 1446 hrs (local JST) on Friday March 11, 2011, a Magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck 43 miles east of Sendai, Japan, (or about 65 miles northeast of Fukushima…

“The Lost Generation” was the generation who participated in the Great War (WW1), and were forever impacted by their experiences. It is said that after living through their experiences in the war, they became disillusioned with the world, and refused to live a normal life. You can see the repercussions of the lost generation in the 1920’s of course, with the literature of the time, but also with what in inspired the literature, the Roaring 20’s. This decade inspired many of the writers to…

Allen Ginsberg: The Validity of Howl Allen Ginsberg may be one of the most respected writers from the 20th century that wrote visions of a troubled American society after World War II. Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1926 and died in 1997. In the 1940’s, Ginsberg attended Columbia University where he met other inspiring writers who later called themselves the Beats. The Beats was a combination of post-World War II writers that developed a reputation of phenomenal literature…

The characters in The Sun Also Rises are all in search of something after World War I. Travel plays a part as one of the major themes, with countries such as France and Spain being countries that Jake, Robert, and Brett explore. It can be argued that these three main characters are trying to escape their issues by drinking and escaping to different countries to get a new start. However, Ernest Hemingway’s theory is that, “Writing is like an iceberg. 1/8 of the information is above the surface,…