Levi Strauss

Every day, whether you are listening to the radio, watching TV, or even at school you will hear someone or a group of people talking about my generation (the Millennials) and how screwed or ignorant we are. In some ways they are right, but are we really as incompetent as they think? We know more about technology than our parents and grandparents, we are creative and optimistic when it comes to work, and we have a better understanding with the need to help others. Also, we stay connected to…

“The Dumbest Generation” The debate among generations of who is more intellectual is neverending. Blame for downfalls and shortcomings is passed around and is currently landing on one topic; technology is making the Millennials dumb, the dumbest generation to date. However, this is based on a very narrow scope on intelligence along with unjust comparisons. Generation Y is not the dumbest generation, Adaptations are just being made in how we intake and project information. As decades have…

What comes to mind when you hear the word Millennial? Does your brain make positive associations to the word, or attempt to shut it out? Over time, there has been much controversy over the Millennial generation and what they have contributed or not contributed to society. The New York Times article “Generation Nice” by Sam Tanenhaus discusses the Millennial generation and provides explanations in response to several arguments proposed about the generation. Tanenhaus argues that Millennials are…

Essay 1 In Leading for a Lifetime, Bennis distinguished between two “eras” that he called Geezers and Geeks. The Geezer era lasted from 1945-1955 they are now mostly seventy years or older. The main event that impacted the Geezers perspective was World War two. WWII involved most of the world and created a huge social change within America. While most American men were away fighting in the war, everyone within the United States were doing “their part” to help with the war; women began working…

The question of what’s wrong with the new generation comes up quite often in this age. Well this may seem like a matter of opinion in most aspects, economically, research has shown that the new generation just isn’t pulling their weight as much as their ancestors did. What I mean by new generation is generation born between the early 1980s and late 1990s. This generation is commonly referred to as generation y or the millennials. Research has shown that due to poor economy that this generation…

The world today if filled with a vast amount of complex technologies that previous generations did not have access to. This is called the information age, and depending on a person’s viewpoint, it is either proclaimed the greatest revolution in the expansion and distribution of knowledge, or ridiculed for creating a harmful environment with too many distractions. Critics of the information age agree with the latter and have extended that statement to claim that “those under age thirty constitute…

A millennial is a person born between 1981 and 1995, making the age range 20 to 35. There are 83 million millennials that make up the United States population, more than any other generation (Babin & Harris, p. 207). Not only are millennials the first digital natives, they are connected more socially, have less money to spend, are burdened with debt but also have different priorities. Millennials play video games, instant message, download music, watch television online and use social media…

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…

Power is not evil, it is the user that makes it evil. Machiavelli, a controversial figure in political history left a legacy of brutal reality which disturbed many people. Niccolo Machiavelli’s, The Prince explores the groundbreaking ideas for a prince to secure the leading position in government and retain his power and leadership. Human nature combined with power has the possibility of becoming tragically destructive. However, that wreckage stems from the environment, and the actions…

• Generations, Inc.: From Boomers to Linksters- Managing the Friction Between Generations at Work by Megan Johnson and Larry Johnson Chapter Eight: Old Dogs Have Lots to Offer: Signposts for the Traditional Generation and Chapter Nine: Managing the Traditional Generation For the most part, it is safe to state that the act of loyalty, volunteerism, and service greatly defines how the Traditionalist generation continues to have an essential role in today’s society. For example, the act of…