...Born Free This year marks the 18-year anniversary of democracy in South Africa, Born free’ is a haunting notion, and it is frequently used in the current media dialog to imply that the kids born after the apartheid era have an advantage over previous generations. Eighteen years after the demise of political apartheid, South Africa remains at least to me an unequal society, There is no doubt that its considered attractive to many teenagers to be described as ‘born free’; it is probably a more than fair assumption that most of our born free South Africans do not experience their lives in quite a good way as born free implies. This subject has caused many debates and arguments about its meaning and its effect. Most of our class falls under this category and it seems to make everyone very excited to speak on it. Many people argue that we are still affected by the happenings of apartheid, and in truth some people are still feeling the effects of what happened about 18 years ago. But I think the effects of what happened during apartheid are still felt today. Some, of course, feel a weight of expectation that is not eased by their view of the current opportunities open to them. However, what is so heartening is that these previously–disadvantaged young people, presumed to be so care-free while they battle their own adversities, actually do step up and get involved, give up some of their weekend time to be involved in a programme aiming for the greater good. In this way, they...
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...The question “America’s gift to my generation” is simple, technology. Technology is not the only gift to my generation but for me it is the best. Don’t get me wrong I still play outside it’s just sometimes i just don’t want to. I love that we have something to fill our time with though when we are not outside. Video games,TV, and Youtube it all is pointless but entertaining,and yes staring at a screen all day is bad for you but you go to school so it your brain does not totally rot out. There are a few bad things about my generation though like pollution and global warming,but that does not really affect me right now. Another good thing about this generation is that we are not in war. Nobody should complain because I doubt you would...
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...First Generations in America Today As of 2015, 88% of American minors were born to at least one immigrant parent, while the other 12% were born outside the United States (Zong & Batalova, 2017). The injustice and prejudice of minorities can all come to a stop if we take this matter and unite to spread the importance of multiculturalism. First generations and future generations ahead should not be discriminated for their identity, they should not have inadequate advantages while their privileged peers have more, and foremost they should not have any sort of discrimination against them due to their ancestry. A subcategory of racism is colorism and it has a correlation with our overall identity in society (Cohen, 1999). Colorism is defined...
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...The acronym “F.O.B.” is used to describe asian immigrants that immigrated from Asia to the United States or other territories. The acronym is “fresh off the boat” because many asian immigrants travel by boat in search of a new life on a free land. People nowadays are attacking mainly Vietnamese people with this term because most people know that Vietnamese people escaped Vietnam by boat to live a better life than one under communist control. Vietnamese immigrants are use to being called an “f.o.b.” because they were the ones who immigrated. Vietnamese people who are born in the United States find it bothersome to be called a “F.O.B.” because it’s not who they are. Many use the term F.O.B. to describe all Asian people, even those who are born in America. This is not the right use of it, but people use it without understanding the meaning of the phrase. Being called an F.O.B is an indirect verbal discrimination that Asians feel uncomfortable with. The phrase itself is starting to trend as an overview of all Asians in America. It is a nickname that is overtaking the meaning of being Asian. Many Vietnamese people are called a F.O.B because it is known that many Vietnamese families escaped Vietnam by boat to get away from the Communist government ruling in Vietnam after the Vietnam War. These Vietnamese families just want a better life for their children and do not want to live a life under a communist ruling. A few decades after the Vietnam War, families that have emigrated from...
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...a state to have absolute control over their own economic standings, without the intervention of any state powers. This is justified on the basis of desert, suggesting that those who have grown wealthy and powerful deserve the rewards for their investment and efforts, as is the classical economic model. To this group of people the free market is seen as an absolute, creating the most efficient and the most just distribution of a society’s wealth through this view of desert. However this idea is fairly easy to create holes in, such is the cause of its downfall over the last 200 years in favour of modern welfare liberalism. The main problem with such thinking is that it does not take into account the unjust nature of an unregulated market. On a very short term, using a hypothetical scenario of a one generation society, in which all members of the society start with the same opportunities and abilities, such a system does work, as it allows each member of this society from the start to create their own wealth using their input into the wider economy. However this is obviously an incredibly unrealistic scenario, as it only works for the first generation and in reality there is no such position currently of equal opportunity and ability for individuals to exist in. The first issue of multigenerational advantages is a fairly obvious one to most, as it is the basis for much of the forced redistribution of wealth over history. This criticism of the libertarian system suggests that over...
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...private savings accounts, employer’s pensions such as 401K, and Social Security so that they can live the rest of their lives comfortably. Americans that retire can receive full Social Security benefits depending on their year of birth. For example, baby boomers have the retirement age increased to age 67 for those born after 1960. The generation of baby boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y should be concerned that Social Security benefits will be exhausted when reaching the age of retirement. Without Social Security, what security do Americans really have? Americans should not depend on Social Security for early retirement for several reasons. The Social Security benefit amount might be less than what retirement recipients need, the retirement benefits might disqualify them from receiving full Social Security benefits, or the benefits may no longer be available. One reason Americans should not depend on Social Security is that the benefit amount might be less than what Social Security retirement recipients need. Some workers who have contributed to their Social Security could possibly fall into poverty. According to Laura Sullivan (2008), “future generations will be less prepared for retirement that is both longer and more costly as life expectancies grow, health care costs rise, and existing employer-based retirement programs shift more of the risks and subsequent costs onto individuals.” (para.11). Americans who enter into early retirement and now live longer lives...
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...Generations: Baby Boomers Gen X & Gen Y Baby Boomer Information THE UNITED STATES CENSUS BUREAU CONSIDERS A BABY BOOMER AS A PERSON BORN BETWEEN 1946-1964 (WIKIPEDIA, DEFINITION, 2009) Description of Baby Boomers “Shockwave” “By the sheer force of its “Pig in the Python” “Baby boomers had a placid childhood in the 1950’s which helped inspire them to start their revolution” numbers, the boomers were a demographic bulge which remodeled society as it passed through it” Special Characteristics of Baby Boomers Boomers are associated with privilege because many grew up in a time of affluence Baby Boomer Baby boomer is a general term mainly used to describe those babies born during Post World War II Baby Boomer Identities Grew up in a time of social change A strong pull between a culturally strong older generation and a newer conservative generation Spiritual Beliefs 42% of all baby boomers walked away from formal religion 1/3 of all baby boomers never strayed from their religious beliefs ¼ of all baby boomers are starting to return to church, however their liberal views on abortion and homosexuality cause disagreements Boomers Coming of Age Around the World Britain Obsessed over Beatle mania Italy Wearing Mod Clothes and Buying the World a Coke India Focusing on new philosophical discoveries Canada United States Organizing Driving to support for Woodstock Pierre and organizing Trudeau, 15th against...
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...ABSTRACT (RED) was founded in 2006 by Bono and Bobby Shriver to fight against AIDS. In more than 30 years, AIDS has killed 39 million people. Today, of the 35 million people in the world living with HIV, nearly 13 million have access to life-saving treatment that costs as little as 40 cents a day. (RED) have raised over $275 million to date through the sale of (RED) products from iconic companies and events. And 100% of that money goes to work on the ground. Because of the progress made in the fight against AIDS, (RED) can deliver the first AIDS FREE GENERATION in over 30 years. Every day over 650 babies are born with HIV. Yet with access to antiretroviral treatment, we can prevent the transmission of the virus from moms to babies. KEYWORDS - AIDS FREE GENERATION - Transmission - Life-Saving treatment - Global Fund - Product (RED) INTRODUCTION The object of product (RED) In association of The ONE campaign, the main object of the company is the fight to end AIDS in Africa where 2/3 of the world’s estimated 35 million people with HIV/AIDS live. (RED) works with the world’s most iconic brands and organizations to develop (RED) branded products and services, that when purchased the 100% of the money goes to the Global Fund. These contributions are then invested in HIV/AIDS programs in Africa, with a focus on countries with high prevalence of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Before (RED) came into being, businesses had contributed just $5 million to the...
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...Why Born This Way ‘I look nothing like her, nothing’. This was said by a ten-year-old Asian American boy and “her” referred his mother. This young boy’s name is Ken Liu. Now he is a famous science-fiction writer, who won both 2012 Hugo Award and 2011 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. When he was young, he was puzzled by a words-----“chink face”. Because of his face, he had to take a lot of unfair judgments from others and mocks from his peers. Therefore, Ken hated his mother who was born in China and married with his American father through an introduction service in China (his father “had picked his mom out of a catalog”). There were also problems behind the face itself. Ken’s mother could not speak English, which made Ken do not even want to talk with her. However, after his mother tried a lot to learn how to speak English, Ken did not want to talk with her neither because his mother’s “accent and broken sentences embarrassed him”. Then for many years, he almost never talked to his mother again. Many second-generation immigrants have the same experience with Ken Liu due to their special culture background. There are so much unavoidable conflict between the second-generation immigrants and their parents. Parents and teenagers in the immigrant families have different goals and concerns in their lives in United States. Dr. Vappu Tyyskä, a Associate Professor at Ryerson UniversityFirst doing many research about intergenerational relations, named these two group of people as...
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...The Middle Class in India I was born in a middle class Indian family. Since the age I got to understand this world I saw my parents working hard all day and night. I learned at a very young age the struggles that my parents faced. I was good in studies from childhood and that was the biggest thing my parents were proud of. At the end of each long day my dad would say to my mom, "I will give my son the best education, he will not struggle like this. What I was unable to do, my son will do." My father wanted to become a doctor but could not make his dream true, as my grandfather didn't provide him money to get admission. That is when I understood that after being born in middle class how difficult it is to come up in life and become successful. There are innumerable hardships faced by a middle class man in his everyday life with less salary to meet up the necessities and his dream. Indian society can broadly be divided into three classes. On the top, there are the rich. They are the people who have got everything in plenty. At the bottom there are the poor. They are ill-fed and ill clad. It is seldom that they have their own houses to live in. In between these two classes, we have the middle class. The people belonging to this class are neither very rich nor very poor. They have to maintain themselves outwardly in a fitting and decent manner. Somewhere, hanging out of local trains, bargaining in the market and in the matrimonial columns of the Times of India is the Indian Middle...
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...For much if my life I considered myself apart of Generation X. My parents were Baby Boomers, and their parents were the Greatest Generation, so this makes me Gen-X, right? I saw the newest generation as children who never knew life without computers, and always received awards for precipitation. I could not possibly be one of them. This generation, formally known as Generation Y, has seemed to have found a new name; The Millennial Generation, and I think I am one of them. Alan Greenblatt explains how many opinions exist about which age range truly describes Millennials in his article “Millennial Generation.” Greenblatt states, “Experts don’t agree yet as to who exactly is a Millennial. But various researchers say the oldest Millennials were born in 1980, 1981, or 1982. Depending on who you ask, they say the youngest Millennials were born between 1995 and 2005” (Greenblatt, 2015, p. 556). Having been born in 1980 places me at the lower boundary of the Millennial age range. If being judged by birth year alone, I will have to...
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...power and influence in that group. Some of these individuals in these groups may also consist of those rare individuals with a conscience, that Thoreau speaks of, who can influence change or incite a rebellion. If the actions of these rare individuals incites a revolution and takes down those individuals currently in power then I would agree they would be considered an enemy of the state. People can also be divided based on their roles and functions in society without force or coercion. Their culture or customs of a society may dictate roles and functions. An individual may be born into this society with fixed expectations of their roles or functions. This agreement can be the seen in the case of Changez, in the Reluctant Fundamentalist. Changez was born into a caste system where his family held some form of power and influence based on their wealth even as their wealth was depleted across generations. The family’s status and role in society did not change. Some values or norms may be so ingrained in individuals that they are will to anything to uphold these values. These individuals may feel they owe a duty to their society and will make sacrifices to protect their ideologies and way of living. Changez choose what he is...
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...------------------------------------------------- Generations of Chinese leadership From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia People's Republic of China | | This article is part of the series: Politics and government of China | Ideology[show] | Constitution[show] | Communist Party[show] | Legislature[show] | Executive[show] | United Front[show] | Military[show] | Judiciary[show] | Propaganda[show] | Law[show] | Other issues[show] | * Other countries * Atlas Politics portal | * v * t * e | | This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (March 2013) | Generations of Chinese leadership | Simplified Chinese | 中国共产党领导集体 | Traditional Chinese | 中國共産黨領導集體 | Literal meaning | Leadership collectives of the Communist Party of China | [show]Transcriptions | | Because both the Communist Party of China and the People's Liberation Army promote according to seniority, it is possible to discern distinctgenerations of Chinese leadership.[1] In official discourse, each group of leadership is identified with a distinct extension of the ideology of the party. Historians have studied various periods in the development of the government of the People's Republic of China by reference to these "generations". Contents [hide] * 1 Terminology * 2 First generation * 3 Second generation * 4 Third generation * 5 Fourth...
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... We will be analyzing the different changes in the past decade and try to predict what the workforce will look like in 2020. The Generations X, Y and Z are the population born after the World War II era. By the year 2020, most of the population in these three categories will still be in the workforce, with only the ones born at the very beginning of “Generation X” entering retirement. Born between the early years of the 1960’s to early 80’s, Generation X witnessed the expansion of technology, with such things as the personal computer, video games, cable TV, Internet etc.. They are generally considered as very independent and self-sufficient because many of them were born in an era where their families earned two incomes and where divorce rates were rising. This generation was born into a faltering economy therefore witnessed the struggle their parents went through to maintain their jobs, they tend to ignore their leaders and are less committed to one employer because of that. According to the US Census Bureau in their 2009 statistical abstract and also the 2001 Canadian census on education statistics, Generation X generally has higher education levels than other age groups. The demographic group following Generation X is known as Generation Y. This generation ranges from the mid 70’s to the early 90’s. Unlike their predecessors, Generation Y prioritizes a balanced work-life schedule. They are less willing to work long hours at mediocre jobs at the expense of their social...
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...Generation Me: Has the Self-Esteem Movement Resulted in Unrealistic Expectations for Success? Jean M. Twenge argues that those born after 1970 “are more confident, assertive, entitled – and more miserable than ever before” (Twenge, 2006). Is this true? How did this happen? And why does it matter? Everyone was born into a generation. Some people accept it, while others prefer not to be branded into stereotypes. But regardless of whether you have warmed up to the label, the generation that you were born into influences the culture that you will experience, from pop culture and social trends, to world events, economics, and value systems. Twenge (2006) considers anyone born between 1970 and 2000 to be members of “Generation Me” or “GenMe”. From the time people in this generation were born, we have been told our parents, grandparents, teachers, and even our favourite television personalities that we are all unique and special. We have been raised to believe that everyone should have a high self-esteem. “When the Baby Boomers became parents, there began a society-wide effort to increase children’s self-esteem” (Twenge, 2006). Parents are encouraged to raise their children’s’ self-esteem even when kids are completing basic activities, such as simply colouring. Many schools have specific programs designed to build children’s’ self-esteem. In fact, a quick internet search shows that the mission statements of many schools openly declare that it is their duty to raise...
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