In "Gen Y is from Mercury", Kit Yarrow and Jayne O'Donnell argue that Generation Y is diverse, adaptive, confident, unique and powerful. The back up the argument with facts and research that they have collected. The authors know exactly what they are arguing about and can support their evidence by meeting the four criteria of mature reasoning, they know who their audience is and connect very well with them, they have plenty of information on the subject, they are open to other criticisms, and they can argue with their audience . While reading this article, it was very easy for me to connect to what the authors were saying. Being that I am part of Gen Y I could relate to many things they found but they also talk about the older generation towards the end of the article. …show more content…
They found that Gen Y was raised completely different than Gen X, growing up they found that because of their parents Gen Y has grown up thinking that they are equal to adults and provides them with confidence. Their parents also seek the approval of their children exactly similar to the way they wanted the approval of their parents growing up. Through their research they found this happening a lot, an example they gave was of a mother who new who was asking who to prom, they also found that parent were very dependent on their children's success. They believe that this is caused due to the fact that Gen Y is mostly raised with parents who helped them through everything they grew dependent on each other unlike Generation X who grew up in an era of two-income families and where able to grow up and become independent, resourceful and