Boomerang Generation/Moving Back Home (Course Writing Assignment) The NY Times‚ in It’s Official: The Boomerang Kids Won’t Leave‚ explores the trend of increasing numbers of young people continuing to live with their parents after college. The article notes that one in five people in their 20s and early 30s currently live with parents‚ and 60 percent of all young adults receive financial support from parents. In the prior generation‚ only one in 10 young adults moved back home and few received financial
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How Binging Became the New College Sport Expectation: I expect to see a lot of personal experiences from the author. I feel that he will reflect on what he went through in college or what he saw in college. I also expect to see that there is no real “cure” to binging‚ but he will explain a few ways to help quell the problem. Topic: The binge drinking problem among college students‚ some 21 years or older‚ and some under age. Claim: Today’s college students‚ both of the age and under‚ have
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important not to focus on a single connection due to the problems that follow along with it. My position states that meaningful connection is necessary in life‚ yet needs to be handled well to be effective. Body1: Mark Bauerlein’s “The Dumbest Generation” states that being meaningfully connected is important‚ yet significantly interferes with our learning. The excerpt explains that we need to tone down our social connections in favour of education in order to excel in life‚ evident in Bauerlein’s
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the Smartphone Destroyed a generation?”Asserts about the tragic changes happening to the generation in this smartphone era. The new generation teens hesitate to interact with real people and they do not have a choice without ipads or iphones (59). The Twenge have been researching about this generational difference. The sudden change in the “behaviors and emotional states” in teen results the departing of the peculiar characteristics of the millennial generation (59). The iGen ‚ who are the
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the essay‚ “A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much” Catherine Rampell‚ the economic journalist for the New York Times defends college graduates. The reaction from many older Americans is that this‚ “Facebook generation” are the laziest generation ever. Three in four Americans believe that today’s youth are less virtuous and industrious than their elders. One thing that has made life easier for this generation is technology. Technology has made life easier for the younger generation‚ and the way young
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I can safely say that this article is going to be about binge drinking among underage drinking at colleges. Also the issue of lowering the drinking age to under 21. * Topic: How bingeing became the new college sport Claim: And why it would stop if we lowered the drinking age. ~ The topic and claim are basically stating that the higher you raise the drinking age the worse off all the college kids are going to be‚ If we did lower the drinking age it would take away their sense of rebelling
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Nahtonya Thompson Professor Tolbora English 102 16 July 2012 Media Influence on the Younger Generation It seems like just last week when I bought my son a new video game‚ Call of Duty 3 was the name of it. This game is supposed to be the best game in town. It was not until recently did I notice that every time I call my son his reaction time if he answers or reacts at all‚ is slow. When I tell him to do something‚ it never gets done at least not right away. When my son finally has enough of the
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This generation is not more informed than the last. This generation is not more informed than the last generation because kids these days are more on social media than anything else‚ they don’t watch the news unlike their parents did‚ and they are more engaged with technology than the last generation. One reason why this generation is not as informed than the last is that they are always on social media. “I don’t believe we are informed as we should be‚’ Glenbard East sophomore Kelly Tautkus said
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Next Greatest Generation: Why Millennials Will Save Us All”. Stein’s article was to influence the people before the millennial generation that millennials are just like the generations before them because they grew up with the same establishment‚ both were rebellious teens‚ and both were prejudged before they were able to create their success. However‚ Stein does not easily give the millennials their recognition. While Stein attempts to use statistical data to prove that millennials are the greatest
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“The Tethered Generation”‚ published in May 2007‚ Kathryn Tyler declares a firm opinion on the millennial generation’s attachment to technology‚ criticizing the development of this new generation and their impact on the workforce. Her target audience are employers with means of hiring this young “underdeveloped” crowd. This article is also towards the audience of Human Resource professionals. Tyler’s article displays structure with distinct pathways guiding her argument to the reader. Her audience
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