the young are not what they were. The same comment is made from generation to generation and is always true; it has never been truer than it is today. These days‚ grown-ups describe children as «difficult»‚ «rude»‚ «wild» and «irresponsible». Only some people say that they will grow up to make our country a better place. For kids from 8 to 14 a new term «tweens» has recently been coined. They are no longer children nor yet teenagers‚ just between – tweens. They are said to be a generation in a
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Is the generation gap myth or reality It’s well known that new time demands new way of thinking. New way of thinking demands new way of acting. New way of acting arouses misunderstanding on the part of older generation. People usually get used to certain things and some dead small changes can frighten them. Thus‚ trying to avoid the negative feeling of fear older people try to avoid new trends and spirits of the time. On the other hand‚ youngsters are eager to introduce some desperately
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Generation Y is known as the generation that was born in the 1980s and 1990s‚ although experts do not agree on when this era started. The people who create Generation Y are often the children of baby boomers and are therefore called echo boomers or Generation X. Most of them are in their late teens or twenties and totally different from other generations. The most significant difference between generations X and Y are that X kids are often thought of as the "lost" generation raised at a time when
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The information should be meaningful and interesting to the audience. II. Informative speeches can be classified into four types. A. Some informative speeches are about objects. 1. Speeches about objects describe something that is visible‚ tangible‚ and stable in form. a. Objects may have moving parts or be alive. b. They may include places‚ structures‚ animals‚ even people. 2. Speeches about objects need to be sharply focused. a. A speaker cannot convey everything
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from non-living matter. Such "spontaneous generation" appeared to occur primarily in decaying matter. For example‚ a seventeenth century idea for the spontaneous generation of mice required placing sweaty underwear and husks of wheat in an open-mouthed jar. Then‚ waiting for about 21 days‚ during which time it was said that the sweat from the underwear would penetrate the husks of wheat‚ changing them into mice. Although that idea may seem ridiculous today‚ that and other ideas like it were believed
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Generation Gap 1. Read the text. Old people are always saying that the young are not what they were. The same comment is made from generation to generation and is always true; it has never been truer than it is today. These days‚ grown-ups describe children as «difficult»‚ «rude»‚ «wild» and «irresponsible». Only some people say that they will grow up to make our country a better place. For kids from 8 to 14 a new term «tweens» has recently been coined. They are no longer children nor yet teenagers
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The Daycare Generation For centuries we have seen our family unit only one way; with the father going off to work‚ and the mother staying home with the children. All the way back to the beginning of humans it has been this way. Lately however‚ this is all changing. With women ’s lib came the "new woman". She wants to do everything a man can do including having a career. The only problem is‚ there is no one to stay home to raise the children if mom goes off to work. The need for daycare has risen
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The historical value of speeches in Thucydides In writing his history as a whole‚ it is fair to say that Thucydides has always been praised for his relative historical accuracy‚ be that due to his actual presence at events‚ his use of eyewitness testimony or his noted checking of facts. In style Thucydides kept his narrative sections rather impersonal thereby allowing the story to unfold itself. However‚ to then lay bare what stood behind the narrative‚ the moral possibilities‚ the mistakes
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This essay will examine an aspect of civil rights or the origin that developed the need of civil rights by focusing on the following point; the stolen generation. The ’Stolen Generations’ are the generations of Aboriginal children taken away from their families by governments‚ churches and welfare bodies to be brought up in institutions or fostered out to white families. The reasoning behind this was to completely demolishing the aboriginal way of life that can only be passed on to their children
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for our young American and the worst and the best we’ve yet to come. On December 7th 1941‚ the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Across America on that Saturday afternoon the stunning news from the radio electrified the nation and changed the lives of all who heard it. The young Americans of this time constituted a generation birth marked for greatness. A generation of Americans that would take it’s place in American history. It may be historically premature to judge the greatest generation but indisputably
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