Generation Velcro, By Dorothy Woodend

Throughout the extract, “Strapped,” author Tamara Draut notes why today’s young adults have complications getting financially ahead. Along with student-loan debt, today’s college students may also leave with the burden of credit card debt. Draut argues that college campuses aren’t sufficiently regulating card companies on campus, therefore putting their students at risk for debt.

There are far too many issues that the human race will have to deal within the upcoming years, and even now. In “Martin’s 17 great challenges” some of these issues are furthered explained. Although, this paper is only focusing on one and that is Bridging the Skill and Wisdom Gap. As the great author himself, James Martin, said “Society 's best brains are saturated with immediate issues that become ever more complex, rather than reflecting on why we are doing this and what the long-term consequences will be.” Therefore, Bridging the Skill and Wisdom Gap will be an issue for the near future because it will lead to less creativity in the job industry and less knowledge about life itself, but we can solve this by focusing on your best skill,

Sherry Turkle’s primary argument in her essay, “Growing Up Tethered”, is the current generation of

They won’t be able to go out on their own when they get out of college because their parents have done absolutely everything for them in life. They aren’t going to even know how to turn a stove on, they aren’t going to know how to do their own laundry, they aren't going to know how to be polite to somebody when they mess up, they aren't going to know how to do the most simplest things in life because they were consumed with the degree of the triangle if the leg was ten cm and the hypotenuse was twenty-three cm. The child generation is consumed of things that aren’t that important in life, they are now missing their personalities. They are missing their foundation of an

From the time they are little, youths are being trained for adulthood whether they realize it or not. They must get used to the ways of the world if they are to survive in it. Perhaps the most tragic is the attempt to escape. Eady describes the children as fighting what is expected of them by “reach[ing] in self-defense” for a way to express themselves(27). They try to hide behind the wigs, lipstick, and sequins of a life they can only dream of.

“I believe in the children of the future,” are lyrics of The Greatest Love of All, made famous in 1977 and 1985 by George Benson and Whitney Houston respectively. They believed in the value of children in our society and that they should be protected. However, those people believed in a child 's capacity to change the world in the future. While people in the past saw children as a way to change the world while they were children. In the late seventeenth century, industrialization arose in England ushering in a new era of industry in our world. More industry means more workers, including children. With the rise of industrialization in a nation, child laborers are viciously abused due to their niche roles in production and their families

 The world has experienced many changes in past generations, to the present. One of the very most important changes in life had to be the changes of children. Historians have worked a great deal on children’s lives in the past. “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”- Author Unknown

[Anthony Horowitz once said, “Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”] In the novel The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the Walls children had a rough childhood, enduring many tough things like poverty. Rex and Rose Mary Walls wanted to teach their children resilience and self sufficiency. Despite their good intentions, they were very irresponsible and unstable parents. They put their children in danger in many ways which caused them to have a loss of innocence at a young age. The Walls children proved throughout the book that *having a rough childhood and losing innocence at a young age does not determine a person’s future.*

My life is propelled from my education. While the daily facades of school walls try their best to dilute the distractions of reality, in my community, I see families sorting through clothing donation boxes and teenagers hanging around gas stations instead of school. Along with the wastes I see accumulate on the street sides, I see a more disturbing waste: the opportunities begotten from poverty that perpetuates my community's hardships.

In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the Walls children go on perilous adventures and are given independence from society’s rules and dicipline as a result of their parents’ beliefs. However, they are oftentimes wishing they had the security and comfort offered from a “normal” upbringing. Living a stable, sheltered life with parents that protect and disipline me and a fair chance to comfortably raise a family in the future, it is hard to even comprehend why someone would risk it at an attempt to escape the unwritten laws of civilization. In a world where freedom always comes at a heavy cost and the future of a child is never guaranteed, and in a world where children have easier access to knives and guns than to an opportunity to settle down after a safe and fruitiful life, it is difficult for me to see why a child would not be taught to follow society’s fail-proof blueprint for prosperity.

Is our youth doomed? Mark Edmundson begs this question in his essay, “Dwelling in Possibilities.” His essay explains how the lives of young people have changed drastically over the years. Edmundson, professor at the University of Virginia, says his students are constantly “going” and that they never stop; they never settle in fear of missing something great. In lieu of this, Edmundson says that they are, “victims of their own hunger for speed” (Edmundson2). He also adds that his students, and young people in general, use today’s technology to be “everywhere at once” (watching a movie, instant messaging, talking on the phone, and glancing at a textbook) and are therefore, “not anywhere in particular” (Edmundson

In the opening of the article, the author criticizes that children of the 21st century have lost

BBBST’s doesn’t work towards understanding why these children and youth might not have mentors in their lives – maybe their parents have to work multiple jobs in order to sustain the household or maybe their parents have to travel over an hour in order to get to work, thus limiting time with their children. BBBST does not question how in a capitalist society, ones survival is contingent on monetary value, thus inflicting mental and physical torture in order to put food on the table or a house over their heads becomes the norm and could very well be the reason children and youth may not have mentors. Thus, the rhetoric has to change from ‘how can we help these people?’ to ‘why are conditions this way?’ (Bickford & Reynolds, 2002). Within BBBST’s current framework societal effects are not questioned, individuals are simply just judged, historical repercussions are ignored and individuals are

These children are defrauded not just of an education, but also of the ability to be socially mobile. Researchers of the American Psychological Association found that education level directly correlates with socioeconomic status. A lack of education undermines any individual’s true capability, preventing them from surpassing their academic limitations. Potential important figures and world leaders may never come to be if not given the tools to become what they can become. The next generation’s Einsteins and Gandhis will not exemplify their prowesses if never given the rudiments

While Marcia Kaye thinks that adolescents that turn to crimes or the street have faced sexual abuse and/or physical abuse. Kaye goes on to say that “Even through parents have been loving attentive, children will choose a life of prostitution, drugs, and violence” (Kayne, 50,late 80,s). Toronto defence counsel Bill Trudell said it best when he said “We don’t we just recognise in this country we have kids who don’t ask to be brought into this world, who have all kinds of pressures we don’t even imagine and who aren’t Martians, they’re kids?” Allmand who is one of the most left-wing Liberals on social issues, said that is a disintegration of the family and it is translating into the kind of problems youths are experiencing today (Tyler, Insight: 1994).