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    It is a habit for the older generation to compare today’s society to their own, and often time, it is not in the favor of the youth. A prominent though is that the current generation is being corrupted by technology and because of it are at a disadvantage intellectual. One certain critic, Mark Bauerlein, in his book, The Dumbest Generation, makes a bold claim that anyone under thirty are part of a generation dumber than any before. However, studies show a different trend. Technology is not lowering

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    The Greatest Generation of any time are those who practice discipline and self-denial, and communicate these values to succeeding generations. Because predicting generation set the scene for succeeding generations, I don't think an entire generation is deserving of either praise or criticism so question given the fact that a group of people born within a certain period of time—generations—do not start afresh they do not have to build from scratch and that this group of people feed upon what is left

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    Screwed Generation" Summary Joel Kotkin does not eschew controversy in the title of his essay "Are the Millennials the Screwed Generation." The author postulates that the post-war generation of Baby Boomers has ruined the American dream for the current twenty-somethings, the Millennials. Boomers came of age in a golden economy, with good housing and job markets, yet Millennials have had dismal outlooks in both. Kotkin explores polarities like these in the experiences of the two generations. Millennials

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    Mostly every generation have something distinctive about it. Each generation could different one could be more politically active, another more self centered, another more pessimistic. Generation is when people are born and living at the same time, regarded collectively. The 21st century is very much more diverse and digital when looking at it we could also be self-centered. This generation mostly update there lives on social media which some will would say that it that makes the generation more self-conscious

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    our society and our planet.” Both groups are transfixed in this eternal smear campaign with each declaring the other to be morally repulsive and ignorant to their values, but this is rather ironic as each generation has been just as progressive and equally rebellious to society as the generation that came before it. Millennials and Baby Boomers aren’t even that different: they each fight for social change and justice, both create their own culture and find their own way to achieve nirvana, and neither

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    progression between peers, cohorts, and families through generations. The shift in marriage trends, family values, and social interaction have modified, and continue to transform the nature of adolescence. To draw on specific examples, comparisons were made based off interviews given to a typical teenage girl today and a female adult the same age in the 1950s, which from now on will be referred to as Generation Z and Happy Days Generation. As per the in-class discussion on social transitions, the

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    boomers to Generation Z, Millennials have already racked up qute an impressive amount of heat from past generations. Stuck between the “lost generation” and Generation Z, Generation Y is the biggest surge of growth since the baby boomer era. Thanks to immigration and technology this generation is the most diverse and advanced generation to hit the U.S. They are seen as careless, entitled, and rebellious compared to others. Is that really true, or are we wrongly classifying a whole generation based on

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    Millennials are likely the most studied generation to date. According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics, there are plenty of them to study. Data exists on numerous subjects related to this generation, though much of it is contradictory. In fact, Millennials are full of contradictions, which, of course, may explain the youth of any generation. Most consistent is that this generation is technically savvy, almost as if it has a digital sixth sense. A wired, connected world is all that Millennials

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    their social status. Children have changed dramatically over the years because of what their social status is. America is becoming unsafe, generation Z defines being an American as kneeling for the anthem, mass shootings, and social status. Our generation is heading down to a path of failure, we need to turn back around and improve our country for many more generations to come. Recently, there has been an outburst in the NFL, the players have been kneeling for the anthem. It's their decision to do such

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    and save our future, like we all got shot, we all got shot, throwing up our hands don't let them shoot us, cause we all we got, we all we got” (Lines 7-10) Lines 7-10 telling today society to wake up and stand for the future of younger generation and today generation. Also stating that life is to short just to kill other. Do whatever it takes for the world to be a better place and help each other because we all we got which is each other. “Seen the pictures, feel the pain, scandalous how they murder

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