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Four Generations Research Paper

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Just as Bennis believed and analyzed how events in one’s lifetime effects how people identify in their era, I believe this is very true as well. You can see it throughout history. For example our grandparents are very satisfied settling with a job that gives steady income and look to save lots to fulfill the need to feel safe. This can be understood because some of our grandparents or their parents saw the effects of the Great Depression on their lives, families, and society. Our grandparent’s generation in a way always lives in fear of this happening. In comparison, younger people that lived through 9/11, the crucible of my time, and are now becoming of age, live in the same fear as our grandparents. The only difference is what one generation …show more content…

For example my generation is the first to have lived and always known war almost our entire existence. Dessert storm which was the beginning to many attacks began in 1990 and ended late 1991, however lots was still going on in that area and the U.S. had troops that remained past that date for many years. Then in early 2003 the war in Iraq began and has continued since then. Ever since I have understood what war was, the U.S. has been fighting and getting involved. I have yet to know what it is like to live in a country that has not been in a war. I very much think this has an effect on whom I am as a person and how my generation has been shaped. It has personally affected me politically and emotionally. I am exhausted of hearing of death and terror. It’s tiring to view all the broken families dealing with their losses and always trying to keep up with America’s patriotism they throw at society to blind the populations from the reality of war itself. This is my personal view though. I have also seen people my age react in the opposite and resemble the ultimate idea of American patriotism from always living in this long-term series of …show more content…

we witnessed on television or experienced. Weather over time is being seen to get worse and I believe my generation was the first to get hit with these increasingly intense storms. Whether we saw this happening at a young age witnessing Katrina, or as a young adult in Japan or closer to home in Joplin, we see the evidence and realize that climate change is real and we have an effect. As millennials, we are aware and trying to find solutions to the problem which haven’t been done as a large population since the sixties and seventies. More legislative laws are being attempted to be passed on this issue more than ever and my generation has truly been affected by these storms and has for the most part worked to help slow the process down for our future’s

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