Period Piece

Voters between the ages of 50 and 64 were most likely to choose the 1950s, the decade in which they themselves came to age, as the best time for kids; voters under 30 were more likely to choose the 1970s” ( ). This poll reminds me the other poll “When researcher shows and provides new technology to teenagers , they said the new technology is cool or awesome and show their curiosity. When researcher shows and provides new technology to people between the ages of 20 and 41, they most likely to said this technology going to change the world and make big money. But when researcher shows and provides new technology to people between the ages of 43 and 61, little more than a third said they do not think this is good or they just do not like it.” Those polls just remind me a funny thing. Every one have their own opinion or idea to an identical subject. There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes. And people change their own opinion by different reasons,even for the very very same subject.There are so many examples. Some great men then we worship when we are teenagers. Since we grow up, we always have different opinion.We lost our favorite toy. We do not talk to a friend anymore just because he already become our the most familiar stranger. Time could change anything. Our opinion, idea, and thought are change

For example, life now consists of all different religions and ethnicities. Now we accept each other unlike the 1960’s. It states “ society in 2010 consists of all different religions, ethnicity customs and traditions

     Some say that people never change. They may be right, but no one really knows. What people do know is that every living person has one thing in common, something that will never change. Everyone will die, there’s no way around it. Every “new” and “old” generation will succumb to the same ghastly fate. The differences in the “old” generation and “new” generation sometimes collide in life. The contrast between generations in James Joyce’s “The Dead” is similar to the contrast in the generations today. The “baby boomer” generation is the old fashioned generation preoccupied with hospitality and tradition, where as, “generation x” is the new generation, preoccupied with knowledge and intellect.

To start it off, some of the generations can learn to be patient. For example, in the Narrative “Grounded” The narrator was grounded and there was a party she wanted to go to so she asked her grandma and she took her. The importance of this is that the girl was not patient and she knew she shouldn’t of went, but where the grandma messed up is that she knew she shouldn’t be driving at night because she was old. Also, another way a generation can learn to be patient is, for example, one time I wasn’t patient enough for Christmas so at 6:00 in the morning I tried to check my stocking and I knocked down the bar that was holding the stocking. The main idea of this is that I was was not patient enough for everyone to wake up so I made a mistake.

Westerhof, have “migrated in time” and experienced it all, each event shaping, molding, and changing them into who they are today (12). Gerben J. Westerhof wrote an article in the Journal of Aging Studies titled, “‘During My Life So Much Has Changed That It Looks Like A New World To Me’ A Narrative Perspective On Migrating In Time.” In this article, Westerhof organizes a study of the Silent Generation to analyze their views about cultural change and about how they identify with today’s culture. The Silent Generation refers to those born in the late 1920s to early 1940s. They are those aged sixty-nine to eighty-six and are typically referred to by Millennials as grandparents. The Silent Generation lived during world wars, great economic depression, and a time of social and religious conservatism. In his article, Westerhof concludes that not all members of the Silent Generation choose to identify with their past culture. In fact, his research concludes that some members of the Silent Generation choose to identify with Millennials, one interviewee simply stating, “It is better nowadays than it used to be in the past” (15). Through the use of ethos and sufficient

The new generation are redefining themselves as the older generations are passing away; some seeking identify from their culture, while many others distance themselves from their ethnicity backgrounds.

Angela’s Ashes is referred to as a “coming of age memoir” simply because the formation of Frank McCourt through each and every page. As he gets older, he begins to become wiser and understand the things around him-- as would most humans. Understanding the environment that surrounds one, discovering new things, and coming to terms with old things are all part of the process of the evolution of a person. The evolution of a person is how morals are developed, individual thoughts, and the one’s singular connection to the world around them. This transformation is kickstarted by all of things that are surrounding and is completed by who that person becomes.

Based on the stories my parents told me, I’m very excited to be a teenager in 2016. When they were teenagers in the early 90’s, they didn’t have internet, cell phone, or social media. Although many things were different during that time, they always seem to remind me of the old phrase, “The more things change, the more things stay the same.” I recently read the article, “What Our Words Tells Us”,by David Brooks. Brooks believes the atomization and demoralization of our society means our society has no connection with past generations and that today’s society lacks morals. I believe today’s generation is just as morally conscious as the generations before.

It is important to understand how deeply rooted the class system in Great Britain including Ireland, was in the beginning of the 20th century. In modern Europe it is difficult to identify the classes that, during the first half of the century, were extremely socially significant. It is also difficult to comprehend the extreme poverty of the Depression years. There was no unemployment insurance, no health insurance and there were no safety nets for the poor. They were left to their own devices. Their source of protection from abject poverty and starvation was primarily the church. Otherwise the poor were left at the mercy of friends and family, and on a daily basis had to swallow their pride. With regard to getting out of this vicious cycle of poverty and starvation, again it was the church that had the primary responsibility for and control over education. As has been noted Frank's attempts at becoming a part of the social and religious system that could take him out of poverty were disrupted by that same system.

Alwin explains that naturally older generations diminish and as their replacement, come new generations that hold seemingly different beliefs and views from the older generation. The apparent difference in beliefs and mannerism can be largely attributed to the fact that people born in different times and under different circumstances tend to hold different

People change with time, events change, and feelings change. A lot of times past is just past and it can not be changed. I agree with this. For example, I believe that younger people may value excitement more than older people do. As years go by, people mature and one’s feelings for another may increase or decrease.

Kate Chopin’s short story ,”The Story of an Hour” is written in the early 1900’s when women were expected to abide by men. In the story, the narrator Mrs. Mallard was informed by her sister Josephine, that her husband had been in a terrible accident and that he was dead. Mrs. Mallard has heart trouble but when she’s alone she expresses her relief instead of mourning her husband’s death. Mrs. Mallard locks herself in her room for an hour and contemplates what her new life would be like without restrictions. In the end, Mrs. Mallard dies because she has been updated about the accident and finds out her husband actually lived. The short story,”The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins, is written in a time of distress for women in America.

Each generation has gone through multilevel conflicts that would come to define them in the annals of time. For example, in the fifties there was WWII and with the crystallization of the American Dream and our moral identity as a nation. Then in the sixties there was the Vietnam Conflict, Watergate and the Civil Rights Movement that began to peel away the façade. The eighties rose from the ashes of the seventies with a second attempt at a American Dream but created a Cold War and a very real wall that would fall before today with the War on Terror which eludes any comparison to the past. These conflict and consequences had a moral level that would defined what justice, morality and culture was. These fluid concepts ended up spurring real evolution in all aspects of life for each member in an increasingly global culture each generation. These evolving aspects of culture were often transgressive and therefor created unique and novel challenges for each individual who existed independently within the generation. This crisis of morality was a duty each member faced up to in a different way. Some students rebelled against their parents and grandparents moral perspectives in favor of one crafted in the molten passion of the present during the sixties. This was not an isolated incident, no freak occurrence. The seventies would see unpresented environmental revolution and an ensuing social revolution during the eighties. But going another level deeper in these moral

It is no surprise that our world and the people in it constantly change as time passes by. With new lifestyles, morals, technology, and many other changes, looking back on other generations and how the people lived might seem unusual. Two generations now that are living at the same time are the Baby Boomers and the Millennials. The Baby Boomers are people born from 1946 to 1964 in the post-World War II period. The Millennials are individuals born from 1977 to 2000. These dates are just approximate time periods of these generations because there are no precise years for these generations. The way these generations

Generations can be loosely defined as bodies of individuals born and living at about the same time. “Each generation is molded by distinctive experiences during their critical developmental periods” (Twenge, 2008). The