The Importance Of The Millennial Generation

“I have studies! I have statistics!” (par. 20) claims Joel Stein, a regular contributor for the TIME magazine. In “The New Greatest Generation: Why Millennials Will Save Us All,” Stein writes about the millennials, people born between 1980 and 2000. Using a very clever gimmick, he points out the unfavorable features of millennials at the beginning of his article, just to create a stronger rebuttal afterwards. He claims that the “millennials’ self-involvement is more a continuation of a trend than a revolutionary break from previous generations… [and] they’ve just mutated to adapt to their environment” (Stein par. 14). By utilizing rhetorical devices and various writing approaches, Joel Stein attempts to persuade the older generations to reconsider their opinion of millennials and presents his claim that the millennials inherited their characteristics from previous generations and have adapted to their environment.

In the article, “The New Greatest Generation: Why Millennials Will Save Us All,” by Joan Stein, Stein expresses his views through a complex game of mind control. He captures his audience, the older generations, in the beginning of the article by writing what they want to hear, then switches to the difficult truth, and finally tells the audience that it doesn't matter about what he has to say, but by how they view change. His claim, “So, yes, we have all that data about narcissism and laziness and entitlement. But a generation's greatness isn't determined by data; it's determined by how they react to the challenges that befall them,” (Stein 34) shows just how much he wants to show his audience the difficult truth, and makes them feel bad about being mean to the millennials.

Joining my school’s Associated Student Body (ASB) has allowed me to improve the environment and atmosphere at school while also giving myself a greater voice. As the recent class secretary and future class president, I am committed to enhancing the experiences of my peers in high school. In a school that is vastly underfunded and with many students living in poverty, it becomes hard for students to become spirited and support our fundraisers because of the mediocre quality of our school as well as simply being unable to afford things. My class and I are dedicated to ensuring that every student has the opportunity to make the most of their high school experience, regardless of their background. From selling frozen goods to reduce prom charges

Stein claims that “millennials’ self­involvement is more a continuation of a trend than a revolutionary break from previous generations. They’re not a new species; they’ve just mutated to adapt to their environment” (31). He supports this assertion by using pathos, logos, and concession. Stein’s purpose is to explain millenial behavior to the older generation in order to recognize how millenials came to be and their importance in society. Even though he begins with a condescending tone addressing the negative attributes of millennials, he expresses a generally positive outlook on the qualities of millennials to the previous generations before them. This work

“The kids of today are throwing society away,” cry the Baby Boomers meanwhile the Millennial and youths are tweeting that the “olds ruined our country, our society and our planet.” Both groups are transfixed in this eternal smear campaign with each declaring the other to be morally repulsive and ignorant to their values, but this is rather ironic as each generation has been just as progressive and equally rebellious to society as the generation that came before it. Millennials and Baby Boomers aren’t even that different: they each fight for social change and justice, both create their own culture and find their own way to achieve nirvana, and neither really know where they’re going in life, yet both seek economic prosperity. Take this slightly

The older generations seem to think that millennials are causing problems with today’s society. However, we have done just the opposite. With these horrendous acts of racism, sexism, and homophobia going around, most young people of this generation are trying to stop these events. More and more often, you will turn on the news and see a boycott of a company or product, or more recently, protests of Donald Trump’s election. Where exactly have we learned this from? Our founding fathers. This entire country was based on people wanting to make a change. Whether or not the changes are done with guns or words, revolution is in America’s blood.

Millennials are individuals who were born during 1982 through 2004, ages 18-34 years old. These individuals are considered to be the “largest generation in the United States with 75 million individuals belonging to this generation”

In Joel Stein’s article, “The New Greatest Generation: Why Millennials Will Save Us All,” Stein raises once the tired, and frankly misplaced idea that the younger generation are all lazy, entitled, and narcissistic. While Mr. Stein brings some interesting facts to our attention concerning the inclinations of millennials to seemingly be a whole lot less driven in a society that is rapidly changing for better or worse, he does little to explain the sort of world they are set to inherit in the near future. A world overwhelmed with ever faster evolving technologies and the inevitable social upheaval of an increasingly globalized, hyper competitive world where millennials will compete in a dramatically different environment than the one they were born and raised in. While millennials are essentially the same as every other generation in terms of raw human potential, they may just be able to have a greater effect on their peers in other parts world than any generation before. When the day comes to affect major

The American dream hasn’t died and it’s still alive today with the young Americans generation know as “Millennials.” The traditional pathway in reaching the dream has been altered to include bigger and better expectations. Young Americans want to have ownership without the help of their parents, but there’s certain things that come in between. Back in the days it was fairly easy for the Baby Boomers and Gen-X while attending school. Typically, not all Millennials attend college therefore the majority of them have other envisions. Millennials don’t have the same ideas as back then they want to travel and explore before settling down, owning a house and be sure to have flexibility.

Millennials have been changing the “norm” of the American Dream for years now and they will continue to challenge the expectations put on them by the previous generations. Millennials are moving out later, getting married later, having children later, and buying homes later. It could be for any number of reasons like new career options for women, how hard it is to get well-paying jobs regardless of going to college or not, or how expensive taxes and homes have gotten over the years. Millennials have many reservations about owning a home probably because of the large financial responsibility it comes with and the lack of money available for them. In this essay the questions that will be talked about are the pros and cons of owning a home,

The millennial generation, which includes people born in the 1980s and 1990s, is approaching the age where people begin put their values into play, begin developing their views on the world, and their attitudes towards topics. This is how the characteristics of a generation are defined, and how the identities of people within the cohort form.

My philosophy is that “Millennials” are no different than anybody else in this universe. Regardless, of the critical discernment of that remains to diffuse across the nation, the individuals that we should concentrate on in terms of failure are the “business leaders” who possess the power to make a difference in their world.

The overarching assumption in today’s society seems to be that the Millennial generation is doomed or maybe even worse. The topic has become so paramount that now not only concerned parents are disputing over the issue, but scholars and highly esteemed authors are announcing their professional opinions in various articles. The debate on whether or not the Millennial generation is equipped to take on the real, responsibility demanding, society of today is becoming a prodigiously larger. In the articles “Hunting for Hope in Modern America”, “Preparing Students for The New Reality” and “The Beat (Up) Generation” all three authors argue that there is no hope for the Millennial generation, they are doomed due to the fact that the education system is failing and that these Generation Y’ers are feeling more and more entitled.

Lazy, materialistic, entitled, narcissistic, delusional. Millennials think the world owes them everything, and they won’t have to work a day in their life for it- at least, that’s what people want you to think. Today’s younger generation is subject to a ridiculous amount of criticism and bitterness from the adults whose world is, to put it bluntly, not going to be theirs for much longer. So in true millennial fashion, I happily live up to all those stereotypes of being delusional, entitled and narcissistic, by saying the criticism is not fair.

As unfortunate as it sounds, it is common that a generation will have to face a collective trauma, be it wars, an economic crisis, or political shifts that completely change the entire country. Millennials are currently facing the aftermath of the generation before them, as well as struggling to stay afloat with modern-day crises. To understand why Millennials are straying away from home ownership, one must look at all the events that shaped the Millennial generation.