Silent Generation

flowery writing-he thought of this to be too “old-school” (study). During his lifetime he wrote many short stories, essays, and novels. Two of his most popular novels are A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises. In The Sun Also Rises “The Lost Generation” was how the name marched its way into everyone’s mouths. This book not only popularized this name but it also helped to get Hemmingway be loved by many. The book’s theme is centered on how the characters (and of most writers from this era)…

Flatt, A.K. (2013). A Suffering Generation: Six factors contributing to the mental health crisis in North American higher education. College Quarterly, 16(1), 1. In this article the author brought attention to the severe mental health crisis brewing on campuses across North America whereby students are struggling with depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts and psychosis. This crisis created a shift in the needs of students seeking counseling service from more developmental and informational…

Sources become less available, but people’s life style will continue to remain the same. Transportation and electricity are the two major area that are consuming the scarce sources in our country. Transportation uses 56% of gasoline and electricity generally used 27% of natural gas in 20141. Gasoline and natural gas become less available as time goes by. Algae biodiesel can replace gasoline after 20 years. Nuclear power and coal power can provide baseload electricity; solar power and natural gas…

globalization, culture, and generation gaps will contribute to the complication of effective communication. History is likely to repeat itself; the incumbent generations, management, and leaders will struggle with adapting to the communication preferences of a new generation.…

workforce is multi-generational. The Millennial, born between 1980 and 2000, will soon dominate our workforce and will certainly be our future (Moon, 2014). Stereotypes plague the Millennial generation. Needy, selfish and entitled are a few of the adjectives used to describe them. The millennial generation grew up in the era of the helicopter parent and the participation trophy. Millennials have been groomed to expect feedback. Merriam-Webster defines communication as the act or process of…

one factor consistently highlighted in industry forecasts: the impact of the Millennial generation on how we do business. Healthcare is no exception. Born between the early 1980s and 2000, they are comprised of more than 80 million of the youngest, most diverse adults in the nation. They are now the most populous demographic in American history. As digital natives, they are the most connected of generations, using the digital technology, social media and the internet to find providers that…

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…