Rhetorical Analysis Of Why Millennials Will Save Us All

He is about to do what old people have done through history: stein said call those younger than him lazy, entitled selfish and shallow. He studies! He have statistic! Stein have quotes from respected academics! I am agreeing with stein theses points because if we can see around now the world we will see things we had never seen before. Unlike I can see the proof in my parents, my grandparents and great-grandparents. Every new generation becomes with new records in Olympics and other challenges. The generations become more challengers and more strong as we can see the people in their 20s that’s now 65 or older according to the national institutes of health;58% more college students

After covering facts about millennials and their imperfections, Stein turns his article around by recognizing their good qualities. The purpose of Stein’s article is revealed when he changes sides of opinion. He praises their admirable characteristics saying, “They are probusiness. They’re financially responsible; although student loans have hit record highs, they have less household and credit-card debt than any previous generation on record.” (Stein 33), proving that millennials are more capable and intelligent at managing money although in more debt than previous generations. Stein uses logos to further establish his credibility.

In the beginning, Gillespie immediately captures the reader's attention with a well placed hook. The hook states, “...but we’re on the verge of a nasty old fights between baby boomers and their ‘Greatest Generation’ parents look like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting.” (Gillespie 1) This causes the reader to get a visual of what Gillespie is thinking as he rights this article and is a representation of how he feels about what he’s writing about. Next, Gillespie attempts to appeal to the reader’s logical side by the use of statistics. Such as, “Seventy-one percent of American adults think of 18-to-29-year-olds-millennials, basically-as ‘selfish’, and 65% of us think of them as ‘entitled”.” (Gillespie 1) immediately shows the reader exactly what his claim is. These two quotes are amongst a number of others that Gillespie uses to support his claim that, millennials are selfish and entitled, due to the overprotection from parents. The only problem is that some of his statistics could be used in counter arguments against him. This is seen in the quote, “Students reporting bullying is one-third of what it was 20 years ago.” (Gillespie 1) where the reader begins to see holes in Gillespie’s claims. So, Gillespie discusses his truth of what is the problem with helicopter parents and their

In the article “The Beat Up Generation,” Abby Ellin claims that the negative way other generations view the millennials may all be wrong; instead, the millennials are preparing for the world most generations are opposing. Ellin declares in her article that the millennials are shown to be the most disliked generation; their ideas collide with those in the Baby Boomers and the Gen-Xers causing confusion. Constantly, Articles are being thrown out about the millennials “incompetence” and their “self-absorbed” behavior which only causes more hatred according to Ellin. However, she continues to state that millennials are no more selfish than the previous generations; in fact, millennials are only trying to discover new ways for “communication and

In Joel Stein's article "The New Greatest Generation", he attempts to prove that millennials will save society. Stein presents his counterargument first to interest readers then concludes his article with his

Ultimately, millennials are a complex demographic with key differences influenced by life

To start, this shift towards a shared economy is giving Millennials a bad reputation. Instead of focusing on their spending habits, Huffington Post blogger, Tim Urban, targets the work ethics of the younger generations in his article, “Why Generation Y Yuppies Are Unhappy.” In fact, Urban believes that younger generations were too spoiled in their childhood, so by the time adulthood hit they were destined to be failures. In addition to

In Eric Hoover’s article, The Millennial Muddle, he describes how stereotyping and trying to understand students has become a major industry, especially with Millennials, since there are different adaptations and interpretations of this generation. It contains the different opinions from people who have studied this generation. Researchers try to figure out who Millennials are, how they think, why they always do what they do, and in those propositions and findings find them to contradict one another. Hoover then states that “in other words, they’re all different. But just for fun, let’s stereotype them as smart, successful, and lull of shakeable opinions.” Hoover does not deny these findings to be contradictory of what Millennials truly are.

Howe, Neil, and William Strauss. Millennials Rising: the Next Great Generation. New York: Vintage, 2000.

Stein simply says that the millennials aren’t against their elders as other past generations may

As one reads the first paragraph of the article, it appears Stein will take a stance against millennials for the entirety of the piece. He begins by assuring the audience that unlike previous generations, he has “statistics” and

Nearly 3.7 million American babies born in 1982 were the first members of the new Generation Y, or more affectionately known as millenials (Thompson, par. 1). Many things play into whether a generation is considered to be faring ‘better’ than another one; job opportunities, the state of the environment, whether the U.S. is at peace or at war, income vs. living expenses, the general happiness of the people, and the list goes on. Millenials are part of a special generation because

Millennials, a group of people who were born in the year 1984 and after. There are millions of them and they are our future. According to Simon Sinek, millennials “are accused of being entitled and narcissistic, self interested, unfocused and lazy.” Even though Millennials lack in some aspects, he believes that parenting, technology, impatience and environment is to blame. As a millennial, I totally agree with Sinek’s point because I am affected by all the variables that he listed ever since birth. Millennials did not do anything wrong but, the way they were raised affected their attitudes.

In Simon Sinek speech “Millennials in the workplace interview” Simon humorously explains using past and personal experiences that millennials are a great and fantastic generation. They have become an addictive generation because of bad parenting, technology, impatience, and the environment and the only way to change this generation is if they are given help to balance physical and social lives. I would agree with this because I too suffer from an unbalanced physical and social life. At the start of his speech, Simon states that the generation of the millennials is everyone born from approximately 1984 and after. Then he describes the millennials as being entitled, narcissistic, self-interested, unfocused and lazy. Then he explains that

Liz Zarka’s (2017) article starts off her argument with an example demonstrating that Millennials narcissistic, the example she uses is social media, how one will post about how great their mother is on Mother’s Day. She asks her readers why did they post this, is it because they are trying to convince the world their mother is the best or that their mother is going to see the post and appreciate it? In asking these questions she leads to the point of her argument, millennials are trying so hard to be unique, as she states in the title. In Zarka’s (2017) view, “It’s not difficult to observe the manifestation of our