Generations

Every generation is separated by a group of years. Within a certain set of time, a significant amount of information can develop or change. A few years after the Great Depression the Baby Boomers generation started, from 1946 to 1964. Many things were invented and a lot of things were improved upon. Between the years 1996- 2010 Generation Z stepped into the spotlight. Even though, start to finish there is a 64-year difference between the oldest and youngest of these two generations, there is…

“The New Greatest Generation” In Joel Stein’s article, “The New Greatest Generation,” he argues that Millennials are known as the “me me me generation” because of their selfishness. Stein explains how the people born between 1980 to 2000 are a generation of over-confident and self-involved individuals. He also refers to them as “fame-obsessed,” rather than focusing on a brighter and better future, they often settle for unrealistic goals. Stein makes a convincing argument that Millennials are a…

entitled to everything this world has to offer, that is exactly how the millennial generation is perceived. The millennial generation is “lazy, entitled, selfish and shallow,” this is the opinion of American Journalist, Joel Stein, in his blog post, “Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation.” Stein’s purpose is to not downgrade the millennial generation in his post, but to enlighten the audience that, statistically; the generation is very self-absorbed and consistently lazy and entitled. Stein…

Baby Boomer generation, parents had more of a distant relationship with their children. Generation X was a different story; these kids had to grow up fast and fend for themselves. As the Millennial generation evolved, their parents, the Gen X’ers, wanted to give their children everything, which created a hyper-parenting style. This in turn created the hovering style that the Millennial parents practiced. The social and emotional factors that a generation’s parenting…

In the article “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” by Jean M. Twenge, published by The Atlantic, and the article “Teens and tech: what happens when students give up smartphones?” by Erin Cotter, published by The Guardian, both authors claim that without technology we would be happier and also more social. Twenge writes about life with technology through facts and comparing the previous generation to the newer generation, such as Millenials and those born with technology which Twenge calls…

Stolen Generations, 2015). The report further detailed instances of abuse post-removal. Many boys were referred to as “inmates” or by their identification numbers in their new homes. Children attempted to run away and many were placed in solitary confinement for acting out, not following rules, or attempting to run away. After a certain age children were…

Kathryn Tyler’s, The Tethered Generation suggests that the millennial generation has been so influenced by new technologies their entire lives, that it has made them less independent than their parents’ generation and more likely to hover over their children’s lives as “helicopter parents”. Tyler uses the story of Kate Achille to give readers an example specifically from a millenial in order to connect to the target audience. She also uses comparison and contrast, antithesis, argumentation, and…

Tim Urban, the author of “Why Generation Y Yuppies are Unhappy” thinks he has the answers to becoming happier in an unhappy generation. Using language that is informal and authoritative, he uses tone as a device to establish credibility, but remains educational throughout. There is a danger of using of using such a tone, when it is not backed up correctly. But fortunately for Urban, he writes to the heart of the problem and does not back down. In this essay, the author talks about happiness…

themselves (Urban). A GYPSY, or a Generation Y Protagonist and Special Yuppie, is a middle to upper class citizen born between the late 1970s and the mid 1990s. All GYPSYs believe that they will be the best in their field because they are “special.” However, reality shows that this is not the case and that hard work is required to create and sustain a successful career, not just being told over and over that they are special. Tim Urban, writer of “Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy,” expresses…

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…