Next Generation

The concept of generation has evolved throughout times, expanding globally and socially on a vast area of interest. The global generations have encountered major traumatic events which are now historical in the 20th century. In fact, the growth of global communication, broadcast, and technology has enhanced the way people communicate from national wide standpoint. As well as technology itself, varies of device such as television, radio, automobiles have been invented during those times to make…

On 11 March 2011, all international news broadcasts were fixated on Japan, for an unfortunate reason; a natural catastrophe that has struck the Tohoku region of Japan without warning. The calamity was instantaneously announced through viral videos, emails, Twitter feeds, social media and live broadcasts on both international and local Japanese news programs, with the global network news reporters clambering through the rubble (Bestor, 2013). This unprecedented natural disaster that has shocked…

Mark Bauerlein decided to publish a book called The Dumbest Generation, I’m pretty sure that nobody in our generation will be happy knowing that someone out there called us the dumbest generation, but I have to admit that he had a few pretty good points on our generation. My parents still have the habit of reading books and they still enjoy it, but I don’t see much from our generation, for example, when you see people from my parents generation goes to a salon while waiting, they often find a…

Millennials – aka Generation Y – are changing the business development rule book. Sometimes referred to as digital natives, Millennials are roughly defined as anyone born between 1980 and 1997, though there are no exact dates for when the millennial generation starts and ends. According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, the nation’s approximately 75 million Millennials outnumber Baby Boomers in the workforce. This milestone occurred in the first quarter of 2015, as the millennial…

& become who you really are”. This is what has happened to the Millennial generation. “The Millennials, also known as generation Y, are those born after 1982… They will make up close to 100 million people in the U.S., over 20% of today 's population…This is largest generation since the Baby-Boomers, (approximately 33% larger then the Boomers, who were born between 1945 and 1960)…”(Bland) The young people of this generation are notorious for being very lazy and lax in the job force, people who…

millennial generation is looking for more than a home cleaning job, finding them is hard and keeping them is even harder. As a manager being able to adapt to the needs and desires of this generation can be a challenge in itself (What Can Employers Do?, 2015). Reward strategies and what motivates the millennial generation is different than previous generations but none the less very important to understand. In many cases money has not been the best motivator for the millennial generation…

Attitude versus Academics in College In recent years, there has been an increasing amount of debate regarding whether or not a student’s behavior and moral attitudes should have an influence on his or her overall grade in college classes. In what is becoming known as “classroom incivility,” college students are becoming more and more inconsiderate, disruptive, and morally ambiguous than ever before. However, should it be a requirement for students to maintain a good moral standing in order to…

To whoever decides to read this, These poems I’ve written weren’t written with any particular aim other than to write. To many, this may seem absurd or even erroneous, but that’s the truth behind each poem I’m submitting, they’re spontaneous without any exact aim other than to dispose of an emotion or answer a question resulting from my musings. These are by no means a written “Starry Night” or a mosaic from ancient Greece but each is more of a basic sketch for the reader to find their own…

Every generation seems to clash with the other, since the beginning of time. Dr. Fareed Zakaria makes this clear in his article called “The Try-Hard Generation.” Zakaria examines the conflict between the Baby Boomer(1946-1964) generation and Millennials(1980-2000). The overarching argument that he makes, is defending Millennials--yet not fighting his audience(previous generations). The opposition to Millennials is that they are lazy, career-oriented, and are lacking intellectually. However,…

Jean Twenge’s article “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” opens the mind to many situations and statistics that we never even knew had such a huge effect on teens. In her article, she has research on suicide, depression, and maturing rates from past generations to those of the iGens. Twenge uses many shocking claims to catch the readers eye and consider different ways to help these teens. While more adolescents prefer to be at home in bed on their phones, than out with their friends it’s…