The Age Of The Middle Class

In our society today kids from the ages of 13 to 19 are by definition teenagers. Today when you think of some teenagers,

It is a fact that in the US, 50 percent of the wealth is controlled by 1% of the population. But is it really such an unfortunate reality that we would need a system other capitalism to stem the tide of upward movement of wealth distribution. In my view, what is wrong is not the 1 percent's hold on 50 percent of wealth but the resulting decline in middle class that is now a major problem for the US.

Each generation has gone through multilevel conflicts that would come to define them in the annals of time. For example, in the fifties there was WWII and with the crystallization of the American Dream and our moral identity as a nation. Then in the sixties there was the Vietnam Conflict, Watergate and the Civil Rights Movement that began to peel away the façade. The eighties rose from the ashes of the seventies with a second attempt at a American Dream but created a Cold War and a very real wall that would fall before today with the War on Terror which eludes any comparison to the past. These conflict and consequences had a moral level that would defined what justice, morality and culture was. These fluid concepts ended up spurring real evolution in all aspects of life for each member in an increasingly global culture each generation. These evolving aspects of culture were often transgressive and therefor created unique and novel challenges for each individual who existed independently within the generation. This crisis of morality was a duty each member faced up to in a different way. Some students rebelled against their parents and grandparents moral perspectives in favor of one crafted in the molten passion of the present during the sixties. This was not an isolated incident, no freak occurrence. The seventies would see unpresented environmental revolution and an ensuing social revolution during the eighties. But going another level deeper in these moral

Teenagers are more than capable of achieving great tasks in the future as well as causing great destruction with every skill stapled in their mind as they grow. Good and evil will determine the effects of which path a young mind its taught so that’s why parents must educated well with good intensions for a better future. The age of a teenager shows history how it transformed the world including the United States by family values, the high school, and dangerous adolescences etc. What teenagers did was start a fashion changing the world and its rules, becoming rebellious toward their parents values for

For decades now, our political and economic policy have been constructed around one idea: that if taxes on the rich go up, job creation will go down. This idea has been the backbone of Republican trickle-down Reagan-economics and has been scarcely challenged by Democrats. America’s economy as well as the global economy as a whole are facing extreme income inequality and this idea has only widened the gap. Our political system has been flooded with the money of the rich through lobbyists or super PACs, who then are the ones receiving the tax cuts and are garnering political favors by doing so, effectively moving us farther from a free and fair democracy, but rather towards oligarchy. The middle class has been fading away due to stagnating

Innovations grounded in industrialization paved the way for shifting lifestyle for Europeans and Americans. Between 1700 and 1830, much of America and Europe experienced a rise in innovation, propelling product design. Previously, manufacturers utilized basic tools and machinery. As a result, mass production, improved transportation and communication surfaced. There was an increased volume and variety of products. Because of the varietal increase among products, designed objects helped distinguish social hierarchy both nationally and individually. Nationally, in the sense that the object was owned by most people perhaps among the middle class. Individually, in the sense that most members of the upper class wanted objects specifically

The teenagers I interviewed were all relatively affluent, by all appearances and their own admission, and this in and of itself created some differences between their perspectives and my own. In general, however, I think that the passage of time and the different values and perspectives of parents and of teenagers in the current era are more responsible for the changes in responses that I observed in the interview as opposed to what I myself might have said as a teenager in answer to the questions posed in the interview. What they liked about being a teenager was relative freedom while still being able to depend on their parents, and they disliked the rules and the amount of activities they had; they went on to mention "best things" that included things ranging from romantic partners to video games, and "worst things" that focused primarily on various aspects of school specific teachers, subjects, etc. I, on the other hand, would have said that my independence was what I liked the most about being a teenager, as this was the time in my life when my parents made it clear that I both would and should depend on them less for transportation, keeping myself organized, etc. I disliked the amount of responsibility I had to some degree, but all of my responsibilities were things of my own choosing and would have also represented the best thing in my life (the extracurricular activities that I chose to participate in).

With new technologies created everyday, this problem will only get worse. Although there are activist trying to fix this misconception in teenagers, none are succeeding. More risks need to be taken and without them I don’t think the media’s influence will stop. As a teen myself, I see this dilemma everyday. Many people are losing their potential to achieve something great and losing who they are just to fit the mold that the media and society has created. Our once diverse community will become one full of dolls who are all alike, but doesn’t that take away America’s identity as the melting pot as well?

While, perhaps, the dominant discourse is becoming broader, society still has a perfect image of what a teenager is. Without speaking to a specific racial background, the prevalent idea is a confident student with many extra curricular activities, sound mental health and is physically fit. Society tells us to embrace our bodies the way they are, however you can only be skinny or curvy; nothing to either extreme in the female world. Girls who are either extreme are ostracized by their peers. For males, the ideal body type is muscular and athletically inclined. Males who don't reach this criteria are often bullied or singled out. In regards to mental stability, the more well adjusted you are the better. People always want to help the disabled until it becomes inconvenient. Nevertheless, it is the dominant discourse within these extremes that interests

Stereotyping people based on their age is quite common, but in reality finding prominent qualities of a certain age group happens to be quite difficult. Coming from a specific generation fails to make someone any less human, so there will always be certain traits found in each one. Generation Z, also known as the generation incapable of living without a smartphone, tends to receive little credit for their exceptional qualities. For example, we see destruction all around us, yet we choose to persevere. Stress consumes us, but we will not give up for the sake of our dreams. Our dreams, by the way, cease to include unrealistic details. Many of us just aspire for a life without severe college debt. Despite all this, we are viewed as a careless,

In any generation, from the Greatest Generation to Generation Alpha, you have your outdoorsy people, your video gamers, your pushovers, your leaders, your cooks and the people who can’t even make microwave popcorn. While certain things are supposed to affect a generation’s behavior, some will affect certain people and other’s won’t. Just like we all have a different code of DNA, different fingerprints or hairs on our heads, our personalities also differ. Maybe some people from Generation Z will fall apart without their devices, but others could care less about modern technology. One cannot address a generation and using the traits given to the age group, decide their capability in different scenarios. One thing that can be done, is understanding that everyone was made to have different skills for the exact purpose of being the yin to someone’s yang. To fill the empty spaces others cannot. Whether any group of people is thought of as deadbeats or not, humans were made to succeed. I choose to believe that we are all capable of surviving with a group of other people and Generation Z is included in that.

Intergenerational differences are defined as, a difference of opinions between one generation and another regarding in beliefs, politics, or values. In today’s society, it is often thought of as differences between the old and the young, or a generation gap. According to Dr. Jill Novak, Professor at the University of Phoenix and Texas, there are currently six living generations today. There is the GI generation, born from 1901-1926, most of them grew up without air conditioning or electricity. Then there are the mature/silent, born from 1927-1945, they are the avid readers, divorce is not allowed, Korean and Vietnam war generation. After them are the baby boomers, born from 1946-1964, they were the rock ‘n roll, first TV, divorce, optimistic and accepting generation. Next, there is generation X born between 1965 and 1980. They were entrepreneurial, individualistic, misunderstood, late to marry, unimpressed with authority generation. Second to last is generation Y/Millennials, born between 1981 and 2000. They respect authority, prefer to work in teams, grew up with technology, and get most of their socialization from social media. Lastly, we have generation Z/Boomlets, born after 2001. These children often leave behind toys at a younger age, due to computers and web-based learning. Each of these generations has grown up differently, and because of that there often is miscommunication and differences among them in society. The causes of these differences are a result of

From 1837 to 1901 marks a new era for England, as it is ruled under Queen Victoria bringing an age of peace, prosperity, and a new nationalistic attitude within England itself. The large increase in population and a shift to a trade and manufacturing economy brings a new sense of competition amongst the citizens, developing a new value in aesthetics, status, and wealth to prove dominance in the ever-growing society. Economic success, an ideal which began as a strictly upperclass desire, soon trickled down to the lower classes as new economic focuses permitted the conditions of the lower classes to improve due to the growing demand in industrial jobs. With social mobility at several poverty stricken citizen’s footsteps, many could not help but to project the feelings of the upper class in their social lifestyles. An overarching attitude of competition in Victorian era England brought way to the diminishment of the former hierarchical notions as all classes displayed similar characteristics: the fixation on vanity, the indulgence in hedonistic tendencies, and the corruption accompanying influence, all of which are apparent in the dramatic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and poems by Alfred Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, and Robert Browning.

girls, with a father and the mother who are the head of the household. The two boys, including, are aged 17 years and 1 years respectively while the four girls have ages of 26, 23, 15 and 10 years. The father is currently 50 years of age, and my mother is now approaching the age of 43. Therefore, this can be described as a young family where the average age is the middle 30s.

​The main reason that made the teenagers today different from before is the influence of technology. Back then there were no high tech gadgets. Not like today that we are exposed to many things good or bad. We have the internet, media, and technology. They don’t have that before. We can say that everything they did was through hard work. We teenager grew up in this generation and we got used to it, so if we try to imagine that we lived in the same way they did before, it would be hard. No cellphone, no internet, no computers? We might think that it would be a disaster. The influence of technology is