Definitions of highlighted words: 

Complain: to express dissatisfaction, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief.
In p11, the author "complains" about self absorption, with constantly using the word " I ". 

Bylines: a printed line of text accompanying a news story, article, or the like,  giving the author's name. 

Mocked: to ridicule by mimicry of action or speech; mimic derisively. 

Odometer: an instrument for measuring distance traveled, as by an automobile. 

Strictly: in a strict manner; rigorously; stringently 

Enforced: to put or keep in force; compel obedience to 

Accusing: to charge with the fault, or to blame. 

 

 

Definitions of highlighted words: 

College: people pursuing education after high school go to college spending either two or four years earning an associate's degree or a bachelor's degree. 

Co-workers: A co-worker is someone you work with. 

Financial: If you are short on cash, you might say you have a financial problem. Talking about finances is a polite and formal way to refer to money.  

Advice: Advice is a suggestion about what to do. 

Trait: A trait is something about you that makes you "you." 

Pronounced: strongly marked or easily noticeable 

Substance: The word refers to the gist or main idea of something. 

Intensify: To intensify is to increase the intensity, force, or power of something. 

Herd: A herd is a bunch of animals — or people who act like a bunch of animals. It's also a verb — when people herd animals, they try to keep them moving in the same direction. 

Banality: A banality is a trite, boring, or overused remark. That includes clichés like "life is short" and your basic small talk about the weather. 
 

In my opinion, I partly agree with his opinion of the millennials. Even though I was born in 1999, I grew with the millennials, in a world of the new high technology. Over the years, we have evolved into being a self-absorbed judge-mental society. Therefore, most of the information this author, Joel Stein, provides us is true about our generation. However, I do disagree on how he says all Millennials want fame and glory, which in fact is not true. As a millennial myself, I find other things way more important than focusing my life on "maybe" becoming famous. 

 

What is the meaning of the expression Millennials?  

Denoting people reaching young adulthood in the early 21st century. 

‘most social networking groups are dominated by the millennial generation’ 

 

What is the meaning of narcissistic personality disorder? (P2)  

Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem that's vulnerable to the slightest criticism.  

“Poor Millennials have even higher rates of narcissism, materialism and technology addiction in their ghetto-fabulous lives”. (P3)  

What does this sentence say about people who are considered Millennials?  

This extract of P3, The people who are considered 'millennials' are contemplated as 'confident' and 'self-involved'. 

What does it say about the Millennial’s culture? 

This says a lot about how we have gone off track of our own culture and our families culture, letting go of your actual identity of who you are and wanting to become someone else than other than you. Our generation, we have become so similar due to 'globalization' and 'social media' .As the 21 centuries generation, as a society we have forgotten about what makes us distinct and unique as a person, representing your culture and your beliefs.  

 

 

3) Entitled- To give someone a legal right or a just claim to receive or do something
 Shallow- Little depth
 Incidence- The occurrence, rate, or frequency of a disease, crime or undesirable things
 Morality- Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour

4) I do agree with this statement because I believe we have people in my generation which have the capability of saving civilisation and not ending it. But I do also disagree with that point because there are some teens and peoples in their 20’s who don't care about the rest, are very self-centred, lazy and so on. On the other hand, that doesn't mean that most of my generation is like that, we have people that have the capability to improve our world for the better and I believe that we can do a better job than the other generations, I am not saying that the other generations have done badly, there have been generations that have done amazing things for their countries, towns, cities and for Earth.
 
 5) Millennial’s are a generation of teens and people in there 20’s hat just hold up cameras, take photos of themselves and posting them online.
 
 6) Narcissistic personality disorder: Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder which makes people have an excessive sense of their own importance 
 
 7) This shows how there are many teens and people in their 20’s who believe technology is more important than everything else, which shows that there are teens which are very selfish and self centered when it comes to technology.

5- What is the meaning of the expression Millennials? 

The meaning of the expression Millennials is referring to a person reaching young adulthood around the year 2000 or were someone was born in the year 2000.

6- What is the meaning of narcissistic personality disorder? (P2)
 
The meaning ofnarcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem that's vulnerable to the slightest criticism.

7-“Poor Millennials have even higher rates of narcissism, materialism and technology addiction in their ghetto-fabulous lives”. (P3) What does this sentence say about people who are considered Millennials? What does it say about the Millennial’s culture?

“Poor Millennials have even higher rates of narcissism, materialism and technology addiction in their ghetto-fabulous lives” is implying that the millennials have a higher level of narcissism and have a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values. And are also addicted to technology in their flamboyant lifestyle. So it’s pretty much saying we are self observed and are always using technology in our imaginary perfect lives.

P3-  People who born since 1980 to 2000 don´t need to do a lot of math because of the computers. Because of globalization and social media millennials are similar now than to older generations. Even in China that family is the most important thing as we can see in the one-child-policy, but this created a generation overconfident and self-involved. This problem don´t just happen with rich people, poor millennials have even bigger rates of narcissism, this happens because poor people want to have good material possession instead of other things.

P4- Poor people ate the most that are harmed to make someone do what other people want, because they are trying to grow up with establishment. And because of industrial revolution this people start being more powerful in the society. Revolution helped them empowered them and gave them technology to fight huge organizations.

3)      Write the meaning of words in bold and other new words that you might be seeing for the first time.

Globalization – Globalisation is the process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected because of massively increased trade and cultural exchange. 

Social media – Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration

One-child policy – The purpose of one-child policy was to limit the great majority of family units in the country to one child each. The rationale for implementing the policy was to reduce the growth rate of China’s enormous population.

Overconfident – Overconfidence refers to the tendency to be very sure of a fact and later finding that the objective reality was different. It remains to be studied how personality and mental abilities affect this overconfidence. 

Self-involved – limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs

Materialism –  Materialism is a way of thinking that gives too much importance to material possessions rather than to spiritual or intellectual things

Threatening – Threatening is to say that you will harm someone or do something unpleasant or unwanted specially to make someone do what you want.

Baby boomers – Baby boomer is a term referring to a person who was born between 1946 and 1964

Industrial revolution – Industrial revolution is the totality of the changes in economic and social organization that began about 1760 in England and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines, as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments.

Empowered – To give powe or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means

4)      “The Me Me Me Generation”. Do you agree with the author’s opinion?

I agree kind of with the Autor’s opinion, because I also think that technology changed many lives, but I also think that depends in the type of person we are talking about because I know many people in nowadays that don´t use much technology and they can still succeed.

5)       What is the meaning of the expression Millennials?

The Meaning of the expression Millennials is the people born from 1980 to 2000.

6)      What is the meaning of narcissistic personality disorder? (P2) 

The meaning of narcistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. But behind this mask of ultraconfidence lies a fragile self-esteem that's vulnerable to the slightest criticism.

7)      “Poor Millennials have even higher rates of narcissism, materialism and technology addiction in their ghetto-fabulous lives”. (P3) What does this sentence say about people who are considered Millennials? What does it say about the Millennial’s culture?

This say that people who are considered millennials could not be rich people or with a high state in the society. It says that the millennials culture is evolving each time more.