unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime‚ delinquency‚ immorality‚ amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don’t understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation‚ the wind’ll blow it back. -- Jack Kerouac The Beat Generation or “Beatness”‚ if you will‚ has always
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“The Real Generation Gap” an article written by Marianne M. Jennings‚ is an article talks about “Generation X” which is the group of people who were born in the 1980’s. Statistics tell us that the gap between all the generations is wider in certain areas. There are five areas in which the gap is most pronounced; skills‚ knowledge‚ critical‚ thinking‚ work‚ and morality. The skills gap is telling us about how grade inflation is becoming more of a problem. Students can have a 4.0 in high school
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INTRO: Our new generation life is so different from old generation life that looks like a break between two periods of time. Our entire life physical‚ social‚ economic‚ imaginative is cast in different pattern. This break or different pattern is causing an alarmingly‚ “generation gap”. BODY: Generation gap is the major reason today why parents and teenagers are moving away from each other. As we all know‚ the environment has changed‚ so has the life style and with that changes the mind of teenagers
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Monday‚ March 15‚ 2010 Distractions affect drivers of all ages‚ and are one of the leading causes of accidents. I did not think that this was as serious as it sounded until I started driving myself. I noticed that when I talked to my mother while driving I sometimes got enthused‚ excited or agitated and often swerved or swayed into the next lane or onto the shoulder. I had to learn to talk but keep my focus on the road. Another distraction for me is eating while driving‚ I tend to follow my
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------------------------------------------------- The Multitasking Generation ------------------------------------------------- Contents 1. YOUR BRAIN WHEN IT MULTITASKS 2. IS THIS ANY WAY TO LEARN? 3. GOT 2 GO. TXT ME L8ER 4. GETTING THEM TO LOG OFF Listen Pause Loading | Download MP3 Help | | | Section: gen m They’re e-mailing‚ IMing and downloading while writing the history essay. What is all that digital juggling doing to kids’ brains and their family life?
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How the future will be different from the present? “Science…! It is not in a human capacity to escape science. You simply cannot escape science. This is the scientific age.” This is a quote of a Nobel laureate in Physics Mohammad Abdus Salam (1926-1996). It seems that he was right in his say. This IT equipped era has plunged in to the ocean of evolution everyday. However‚ where science has blessed us with such ease in life‚ it has also snatched the serenity and calmness from the lives of common
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How Can The Digital Divide Affect Cyber Bullying? By Robert Foster EDU 218-602 Technology For Teachers Today’s Technology The Good and The Bad It is no secret that we live in a growing age of technology. Mailing letters and making phone calls on pay phones is a thing of the past. The use of computers‚ cell phones‚ mp3 players‚ and tablets‚ all with access to the World Wide Web‚ is the norm now. We are training our children as early as four and five years old about how to use many of these
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a new generation‚ where hard work is fading‚ teachers aren’t caring‚ students are failing. Teens want to be given responsibility but won’t get up and work for it. Respect is earned not freely given. Children having children‚ abortions the new birth control. What about the girl being made fun of by the clicks‚ or the guys talking about banging different chicks. Preps wearing Abercrombie and Fitch‚ but it won’t make you any less of a stuck-up bitch. Grown-ups talking about gay rights and how disgusting
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Fatter Generation There are more and more young people in Hong Kong are overweight and unfit in recent decades. According to the health experts‚ they believe that this trend is related to the dietary habits of the young people and their life styles. To stop the generation from being fatter and fatter‚ we need to analyse and tackle the problems. To begin with‚ unbalanced dietary habit is one of the most influential factors of being unfit. The variety of their diets is not very rich. For instance
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Solutions for generation gap? Answer: There are NO solutions to the "generation gap". The best thing to do is to try to BRIDGE the "generation gap". In many ways as a teenager myself‚ its hard to identify with my parents. I see the world with a different perspective on EVERYTHING‚ from what is acceptable to wear‚ to how long I should be allowed to watch TV‚or how much time I should surf the net‚ or if I am allowed to have a Myspace. Here’s some ideas that my family came up with that makes
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