This video always gets to me. I can watch it a thousand times, and yet it always touches me, giving me goose bumps. The video shows how groups of individuals, working together, can resolve problems. The fact is it makes me think, what society and businesses would be like, with a generation who liked to [...]
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I wanted you to watch this commercial. It’s a commercial for a famous sandal brand. As a kid, this was a typical commercial. I remember watching this on our TV, as a family, in our living room. Today, I ask myself, what on earth were we thinking? What possessed us to watch this? I think [...]
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Clip from the band “The Zimmers,” singing “Generation,” originally recorded by the British Rock Band “The Who” in 1965.
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I want to talk about Self Esteem and how it changes, between generations, according to our life experiences. My generation (the Baby Boomers) didn’t grow up thinking we were “hot stuff.” During our childhood, Brazil was going through a tough dictatorship. This did not help our Self Esteem. Brazil was not a BRIC at that [...]
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I really like this video. Not just because it’s funny, but because it’s true. It reveals a bit about who the baby boomers are, and what their kids, Generation Y are like. First off, as a mother of two young adults, belonging to Generation Y, I must say that it’s all true. Mothers want more [...]
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“If you tweet my post on Flickr, I’ll give you props on your blipper, and confirm your PR on my Facebook App.” When I hear a sentence like this, I get chills up my spine. I feel that I’ll never “get there.” I’ll never truly understand this new language that kids use when they talk [...]
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Posted in Generation, Generation Y, Youtube on mai 29th, 2009
I ponder Generation Y’s loyalty. And then I ask myself, what is loyalty anyways? People have different conceptions of “close” and “far,” “short,” and “long,” “right” and “wrong.” They have different conceptions of loyalty as well. Yes, Generation Y is loyal. They don’t like lies. They don’t like feeling used. They have real friends. They [...]
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Posted in Generation X, Generation Y, Youtube on mai 29th, 2009
By now I think that everybody knows who Susan Boyle is. Her You Tube video has been viewed 100 million times! Boyle was a contestant on the English show, “Britain’s got Talent 2009.” She is a single, 47 year old, Irish woman. My generation would say is “lacking in beauty.” A nice way to say [...]
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