The Differences from One Generation to the Next
Kieu Ho
B. F. MONTAGUE
English 100-004
February 14, 2014
COMPARATIVE ESSAY ASSIGNMENT
Life changes everyday, from one generation to another generation. We all have different experiences. The succession of generation happens to everyone, my generation and I are not exception. My lifestyle is definitely different with the time of my grandparents back then.
The differences are clearly expressing by a lot of forms such as levels of education, standards of living, family relationships, influence of technology, and some more types of opportunity for career, leisure and entertainment.
In the 1950s and 1960s, life was really hard and tough. During the war, all the families did not have enough money to support their children going to school. Just a few of the wealthy families can effort their children to go for study but they could not handle for a long time. My grandfather went to school for few years and quit after that. My grandmother never went to school until she married. She had 9 children. National liberation after 1975, life was a little bit easier, my grandmother decided to go for night classes, and done housework in the daytime. Then, parents did not care about their children education; the only thing they cared about was how to live and pass all over the difficult days.
Now I am living in the modern society. If the family doesn’t have enough money to effort their children to go to college so they can get supports from government. I get encourage and care from family, especially from my parents. They always remind me that I have a responsibility to go to school for studying, get a good career to help my family and me in the future, and immediately, studying becomes my only role, which I supposed to do.
The career was begun from my great-grandfather to my mother, my uncles and my aunts. They are tailors. They continued and developed the job in three generations. At that time, people did not buy clothes at the shop, the mainly got fabrics and
B. F. MONTAGUE
English 100-004
February 14, 2014
COMPARATIVE ESSAY ASSIGNMENT
Life changes everyday, from one generation to another generation. We all have different experiences. The succession of generation happens to everyone, my generation and I are not exception. My lifestyle is definitely different with the time of my grandparents back then.
The differences are clearly expressing by a lot of forms such as levels of education, standards of living, family relationships, influence of technology, and some more types of opportunity for career, leisure and entertainment.
In the 1950s and 1960s, life was really hard and tough. During the war, all the families did not have enough money to support their children going to school. Just a few of the wealthy families can effort their children to go for study but they could not handle for a long time. My grandfather went to school for few years and quit after that. My grandmother never went to school until she married. She had 9 children. National liberation after 1975, life was a little bit easier, my grandmother decided to go for night classes, and done housework in the daytime. Then, parents did not care about their children education; the only thing they cared about was how to live and pass all over the difficult days.
Now I am living in the modern society. If the family doesn’t have enough money to effort their children to go to college so they can get supports from government. I get encourage and care from family, especially from my parents. They always remind me that I have a responsibility to go to school for studying, get a good career to help my family and me in the future, and immediately, studying becomes my only role, which I supposed to do.
The career was begun from my great-grandfather to my mother, my uncles and my aunts. They are tailors. They continued and developed the job in three generations. At that time, people did not buy clothes at the shop, the mainly got fabrics and