commodity this generation has to offer. We have become equipped and dependent on computers‚ television‚ cellphones‚ and many more devices for entertainment and education. While a mass amount of people see technology as helpful in means of improving education‚ there are others who see differently. Many people throughout the years have been on the contrary about technology and what is has to offer to this generation. In the social critic Mark Bauerlin’s book‚ The Dumbest Generation‚ the title of his
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Getting to Know Generation Y February 18‚ 2011 Getting to Know Generation Y Who are they? Do you get them? You may have one or two living in your home or working with you at work. Society calls them Generation Y. They sometimes referred to as Millennial‚ Echo Boomers‚ Internet Generation‚ Igen and Net Generations. They were born between 1980’s and 2000. (Welcome to Generation Y) Generation Y‚ are the children of the Baby Boomers and Generation X parents. They are quite different from
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Generation Y: The Past‚ the Present‚ the Future A generation has no defined time limit. There have been generations from as little as ten years’ time span all the way up to thirty years apart. “Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers‚” the American writer Lewis Mumford once said. Kids have always gathered up at the feet of their grandparents to hear stories about war and the old technology. Yet when it comes to the stories of these children’s’
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regarding on who is the better generation? Is it the Old Generation which are born from 80’s and below or the New Generation which are born from 90’s and up to now? What are the traits of the New Generation that the old Generation don’t have? And which traits of the New Generation do the Old Generation doesn’t have? I had read one article in the internet regarding this issue; the article said that the teens today are more impulsive than the teens of the old generation. Nowadays‚ most of the teenagers
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Distinguishing generation gaps There are several ways to make distinctions between generations. For example‚ names are given to major groups and each generation sets its own trends and has its own cultural impact. Language Use Generations can be distinguished by the differences in their language use. The generation gap has created a parallel gap in language that can be difficult to communicate across. This issue is one visible throughout society‚ creating complications within day to day communication
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It has come out with many devices such as the iPod‚ iPhone‚ and iPad. All three of which have become popular all over the world. Is it safe to say that Apple has taken over the world? One of Apple’s products‚ the iPod‚ goes way back in the 1970s. Kane Kramer‚ a British inventor‚ came up with the idea of a portable music player in 1979. But it wasn’t till 2000 when the iPod team at Apple started designing and creating the actual iPod. The iPod is a portable music player that allows you to listen
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Topic: Recruitment of Generation X and Generation Y employees Recruitment is an ever changing landscape as it deals with three different generations in the workplace‚ which includes Baby Boomer‚ Generation X‚ and GenerationY (Sirona‚ 2007). Generation X employees are the smallest of the three groups‚ they represent roughly 16 percent of the workforce population; Generation Y employees represent 25 percent of the workforce (Ha‚ J.‚ 2006). Generation Y employees are passionate‚ responsive‚ team-oriented
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Generation-X What is Generation-X .the post-baby-boomer’ generation. Generation-X is the word that stands for the children of the baby boomer generation in America. It has been coined as such because of the diversity and lack of homogeneity of this population‚ which stands in sharp contrast with the baby- boomer generation. X stands for the unknown‚ unpredictable variable. .the 52 million Americans born between 1965 and 1981. Technically‚ Generation X is classified as
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very fast growing and developing mechanism and has changed a lot throughout the generations. Today’s generation‚ “Generation Z” is known as ‘the generation of technology’ and sometimes referred to as the ‘selfie gen’. The place that technology plays on enforcing values and morals has become more prominent than in previous generations. In comparison to previous generation such as the ‘Baby Boomers’‚ later generations have changed a lot in both their times and their values and accessibility to technology
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In today’s time and age‚ grownups are overestimating the effects of media and new technologies. The new generation is born into the digital age but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are any less intelligent than the previous generation. The misconception that the new generation appears dumb exists because of the media‚ technology‚ and choices made by the new generation. Adults presume that children go in the Internet and are not gaining anything beneficial. According to Source 3‚ “New media allow
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