Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Grow Up? Not So Fast (Modified from Time magazine)
Grow Up? Not So Fast (Modified from Time magazine)
By Lev Grossman
Michele, Ellen, Nathan, Corinne, Marcus and Jennie are friends. All of them live in Chicago. They go out three nights a week, sometimes more. Each of them has had several jobs since college; Ellen is on her 17th, counting internships. They don't own homes. They change apartments frequently. None of them are married, none have children. All of them are from 24 to 28 years old.
Thirty years ago, people like Michele, Ellen, Nathan, Corinne, Marcus and Jennie didn't exist, statistically speaking. Back then, the median age for an American woman to get married was 21. She had her first child at 22. Now it all takes longer. It's 25 for the wedding and 25 for baby. It appears to take young people longer to graduate from college, settle into careers and buy their first homes. What are they waiting for? Who are these permanent adolescents, these twentysomething Peter Pans? And why can't they grow up?
Everybody knows a few of them — full-grown men and women who still live with their parents, who dress and talk and party as they did in their teens, hopping from job to job and date to date, having fun but seemingly going nowhere. This isn't just a trend, a temporary fad or a generational hiccup. This is a much larger phenomenon, of a different kind and a different order.
Social scientists are starting to realize that a permanent shift has taken place in the way we live our lives. In the past, people moved from childhood to adolescence and from adolescence to adulthood, but today there is a new, intermediate phase along the way. The years from 18 until 25 and even beyond have become a distinct and separate life stage, a strange, transitionalnever-never land between adolescence and adulthood in which people stall for a few extra years, putting off the iron cage of adult responsibility that constantly threatens to crash down on them. They're betwixt and between. You could call them twixters.
Where did the twixters come from? And what's taking them so long to get where they're going? Some of the sociologists, psychologists and demographers who study this new life stage see it as a good thing. The twixters aren't lazy, the argument goes, they're reaping the fruit of decades of American affluence and social liberation. This new period is a chance for young people to savor the pleasures of irresponsibility, search their souls and choose their life paths. But more historically and economically minded scholars see it differently. They are worried that twixters aren't growing up because they can't. Those researchers fear that whatever cultural machinery used to turn kids into grownups has broken down, that society no longer provides young people with the moral backbone and the financial wherewithal to take their rightful places in the adult world. Could growing up be harder than it used to be?
Terri Apter, a psychologist at the University of Cambridge in England, became interested in the phenomenon when she noticed her students struggling and flailing more than usual after college. Parents were baffled when their expensively educated, otherwise well-adjusted 23-year-old children wound up sobbing in their old bedrooms, paralyzed by indecision. "Legally, they're adults, but they're on the threshold, the doorway to adulthood, and they're not going through it," Apter says. The percentage of 26-year-olds living with their parents has nearly doubled since 1970, from 11% to 20%, according to Bob Schoeni, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan.
Jeffrey Arnett, a developmental psychologist at the University of Maryland, favors "emerging adulthood" to describe this new demographic group, and the term is the title of his new book on the subject. His theme is that the twixters are misunderstood. It's too easy to write them off as overgrown children, he argues. Rather, he suggests, they're doing important work to get themselves ready for adulthood. "This is the one time of their lives when they're not responsible for anyone else or to anyone else," Arnett says. "So they have this wonderful freedom to really focus on their own lives and work on becoming the kind of person they want to be." In his view, what looks like incessant, hedonistic play is the twixters' way of trying on jobs and partners and personalities and making sure that when they do settle down, they do it the right way, their way. It's not that they don't take adulthood seriously; they take it so seriously, they're spending years carefully choosing the right path into it.
Twixters expect a lot more from a job than a paycheck. It's probably because of the way they were raised, by parents who came of age in the 1960s as the first generation determined to follow its bliss, who want their children to change the world the way they did. Maybe it has to do with advances in medicine. Twixters can reasonably expect to live into their 80s and beyond, so their working lives will be extended accordingly and when they choose a career, they know they'll be there for a while. But whatever the cause, twixters are looking for a sense of purpose and importance in their work, something that will add meaning to their lives, and many don't want to rest until they find it. "They're not just looking for a job," Arnett says. "They want something that's more like a calling, that's going to be an expression of their identity.
School Daze Matt Swann is 27. He took 6½ years to graduate from the University of Georgia. When he finally finished, he had a degree in cognitive science, which he describes as a wide-ranging interdisciplinary field. The value of his degree in today's job market is not clear. "Before the '90s maybe, it seemed like a smart guy could do a lot of things," Swann says. "Kids used to go to college to get educated. That's what I did, which I think now was a bit naive. Being smart after college doesn't really mean anything.
Swann graduated as a newly minted cognitive scientist, but the job he finally got a few months later was as a waiter in Atlanta. He waited tables for the next year and a half. It proved to be a blessing in disguise. Swann says he learned more real-world skills working in restaurants than he ever did in school. "It taught me how to deal with people. What you learn as a waiter is how to treat people fairly, especially when they're in a bad situation." That's especially valuable in his current job as an insurance-claims examiner.
There are several lessons about twixters to be learned from Swann's tale. One is that most colleges are seriously out of step with the real world in getting students ready to become workers in the postcollege world. Vocational schools like DeVry and Strayer, which focus on teaching practical skills, are seeing a mini-boom. Their enrollment grew 48% in a few years. More traditional schools are scrambling to give their courses a practical spin.
As colleges struggle to get their students ready for real-world jobs, they are charging more for what they deliver. The resulting debt is a major factor in keeping twixters from moving on and growing up. Recent college graduates owe 85% more in student loans than their counterparts of a decade ago, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research. In TIME's poll, 66% of those surveyed owed more than $10,000 when they graduated, and 5% owed more than $100,000. The longer it takes to pay off those loans, the longer it takes twixters to achieve the financial independence that's crucial to attaining an adult identity, not to mention the means to get out of their parents' house.
Meanwhile, those expensive, time-sucking college diplomas have become worth less than ever. So many more people go to college now — a 53% increase since 1970 — that the value of a degree on the job market has been diluted. The advantage in wages for college-degree holders hasn't risen significantly since the late 1990s, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. To compensate, a lot of twixters go back to school for graduate and professional degrees. Swann, for example, is planning to head back to business school to better his chances in the insurance game. But piling on extra degrees costs precious time and money and pushes adulthood even further into the future.
Thursday, November 18, 2021
lesson on the passive
Lesson on the passive:
Here are some examples from several of the readings in our textbook:
In any case, the students themselves certainly don’t need to be tormented by their parents.
It may be a good time to ask just how common such incidents are and whether “helicopter parenting” is as damaging as we’ve been led to believe.
A group of senior citizens and youngsters are packing sack lunches that will be deliveredto the homeless.
The contraption will need to be wrenched back from them.
Interactive screens and Ipads are used more than printed material for reading, research and learning.
Younger musicians, my contemporaries who have been called prodigies, feel slighted.
Form of the passive:
Be + the past participle + optional “by agent”
Usually, we use the passive without the "by agent". Notice the examples from above.
Uses for the passive:
1. when it is not necessary to mention the agent because the agent is obvious, not known, or not important.
Rice is grown in California.
Our house was built in 1960.
A man was robbed last night.
Writing assignment 3
Writing Assignment #3:
We will do peer review of WA #3, paragraph #1 and the introductory paragraph during class on Tuesday, November 16. We will do peer review of WA #3, paragraph #2 during class on Thursday, November 18. Be sure to have your first draft ready for peer review. The final draft of the writing assignment will be due to me by Saturday, November 27.
Choose one of the following topics from "Grow Up? Not So Fast".
You will write an introductory paragraph and two developmentalparagraphs on one of these topics.
1. After finishing university, should young adults live with their parents or should they leave home? Why? (You cannot write about helping parents. The idea is that these are young adults and they have to think about their own lives. You also cannot write about getting advice from their parents.)
- In your opinion, how can being a Twixter be harmful to a young adult?
- In your opinion, how can being a Twixter be helpful to a young adult?
A. For the introductory paragraph:
a. Include a hook to interest the reader.
b. Write a thesis statement which directly responds to the prompt and contains the controlling ideas of the developmental paragraphs.
c. Write at least 100 words.
B. For each developmental paragraph:
- Make sure it begins with a topic sentence and ends with a concluding sentence that rephrases the topic sentence.
- Give both general and specific support.
- Write between 200-250 words.Include word count.
- Be sure to edit carefully for correct grammar.
- Type and double-space.
- Include at least two vocabulary words from any of the words you've learned this quarter from our textbook. Underline them.
- Use at least two adjective clauses, two adverb clauses and two sentence connectors (however, therefore, etc). Highlight them.
C. Also, there needs to be a transition word or phrase in the second developmental paragraph to show a connection between the paragraphs.
D. For one paragraph, you need to include a paraphrase from the article, “Grow Up? Not So Fast”. You only need to include the last name of the author and the year the article was published. For example: Grossman (2005) wrote that ..... Also, include a sentence which shows how your paraphrase supports your controlling idea. Include the original sentence from the article at the end of your writing assignment.
Grow Up? Not So Fast (Modified from Time magazine)
Grow Up? Not So Fast (Modified from Time magazine)
By Lev Grossman
Michele, Ellen, Nathan, Corinne, Marcus and Jennie are friends. All of them live in Chicago. They go out three nights a week, sometimes more. Each of them has had several jobs since college; Ellen is on her 17th, counting internships. They don't own homes. They change apartments frequently. None of them are married, none have children. All of them are from 24 to 28 years old.
Thirty years ago, people like Michele, Ellen, Nathan, Corinne, Marcus and Jennie didn't exist, statistically speaking. Back then, the median age for an American woman to get married was 21. She had her first child at 22. Now it all takes longer. It's 25 for the wedding and 25 for baby. It appears to take young people longer to graduate from college, settle into careers and buy their first homes. What are they waiting for? Who are these permanent adolescents, these twentysomething Peter Pans? And why can't they grow up?
Everybody knows a few of them — full-grown men and women who still live with their parents, who dress and talk and party as they did in their teens, hopping from job to job and date to date, having fun but seemingly going nowhere. This isn't just a trend, a temporary fad or a generational hiccup. This is a much larger phenomenon, of a different kind and a different order.
Social scientists are starting to realize that a permanent shift has taken place in the way we live our lives. In the past, people moved from childhood to adolescence and from adolescence to adulthood, but today there is a new, intermediate phase along the way. The years from 18 until 25 and even beyond have become a distinct and separate life stage, a strange, transitionalnever-never land between adolescence and adulthood in which people stall for a few extra years, putting off the iron cage of adult responsibility that constantly threatens to crash down on them. They're betwixt and between. You could call them twixters.
Where did the twixters come from? And what's taking them so long to get where they're going? Some of the sociologists, psychologists and demographers who study this new life stage see it as a good thing. The twixters aren't lazy, the argument goes, they're reaping the fruit of decades of American affluence and social liberation. This new period is a chance for young people to savor the pleasures of irresponsibility, search their souls and choose their life paths. But more historically and economically minded scholars see it differently. They are worried that twixters aren't growing up because they can't. Those researchers fear that whatever cultural machinery used to turn kids into grownups has broken down, that society no longer provides young people with the moral backbone and the financial wherewithal to take their rightful places in the adult world. Could growing up be harder than it used to be?
Terri Apter, a psychologist at the University of Cambridge in England, became interested in the phenomenon when she noticed her students struggling and flailing more than usual after college. Parents were baffled when their expensively educated, otherwise well-adjusted 23-year-old children wound up sobbing in their old bedrooms, paralyzed by indecision. "Legally, they're adults, but they're on the threshold, the doorway to adulthood, and they're not going through it," Apter says. The percentage of 26-year-olds living with their parents has nearly doubled since 1970, from 11% to 20%, according to Bob Schoeni, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan.
Jeffrey Arnett, a developmental psychologist at the University of Maryland, favors "emerging adulthood" to describe this new demographic group, and the term is the title of his new book on the subject. His theme is that the twixters are misunderstood. It's too easy to write them off as overgrown children, he argues. Rather, he suggests, they're doing important work to get themselves ready for adulthood. "This is the one time of their lives when they're not responsible for anyone else or to anyone else," Arnett says. "So they have this wonderful freedom to really focus on their own lives and work on becoming the kind of person they want to be." In his view, what looks like incessant, hedonistic play is the twixters' way of trying on jobs and partners and personalities and making sure that when they do settle down, they do it the right way, their way. It's not that they don't take adulthood seriously; they take it so seriously, they're spending years carefully choosing the right path into it.
Twixters expect a lot more from a job than a paycheck. It's probably because of the way they were raised, by parents who came of age in the 1960s as the first generation determined to follow its bliss, who want their children to change the world the way they did. Maybe it has to do with advances in medicine. Twixters can reasonably expect to live into their 80s and beyond, so their working lives will be extended accordingly and when they choose a career, they know they'll be there for a while. But whatever the cause, twixters are looking for a sense of purpose and importance in their work, something that will add meaning to their lives, and many don't want to rest until they find it. "They're not just looking for a job," Arnett says. "They want something that's more like a calling, that's going to be an expression of their identity.
School Daze Matt Swann is 27. He took 6½ years to graduate from the University of Georgia. When he finally finished, he had a degree in cognitive science, which he describes as a wide-ranging interdisciplinary field. The value of his degree in today's job market is not clear. "Before the '90s maybe, it seemed like a smart guy could do a lot of things," Swann says. "Kids used to go to college to get educated. That's what I did, which I think now was a bit naive. Being smart after college doesn't really mean anything.
Swann graduated as a newly minted cognitive scientist, but the job he finally got a few months later was as a waiter in Atlanta. He waited tables for the next year and a half. It proved to be a blessing in disguise. Swann says he learned more real-world skills working in restaurants than he ever did in school. "It taught me how to deal with people. What you learn as a waiter is how to treat people fairly, especially when they're in a bad situation." That's especially valuable in his current job as an insurance-claims examiner.
There are several lessons about twixters to be learned from Swann's tale. One is that most colleges are seriously out of step with the real world in getting students ready to become workers in the postcollege world. Vocational schools like DeVry and Strayer, which focus on teaching practical skills, are seeing a mini-boom. Their enrollment grew 48% in a few years. More traditional schools are scrambling to give their courses a practical spin.
As colleges struggle to get their students ready for real-world jobs, they are charging more for what they deliver. The resulting debt is a major factor in keeping twixters from moving on and growing up. Recent college graduates owe 85% more in student loans than their counterparts of a decade ago, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research. In TIME's poll, 66% of those surveyed owed more than $10,000 when they graduated, and 5% owed more than $100,000. The longer it takes to pay off those loans, the longer it takes twixters to achieve the financial independence that's crucial to attaining an adult identity, not to mention the means to get out of their parents' house.
Meanwhile, those expensive, time-sucking college diplomas have become worth less than ever. So many more people go to college now — a 53% increase since 1970 — that the value of a degree on the job market has been diluted. The advantage in wages for college-degree holders hasn't risen significantly since the late 1990s, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. To compensate, a lot of twixters go back to school for graduate and professional degrees. Swann, for example, is planning to head back to business school to better his chances in the insurance game. But piling on extra degrees costs precious time and money and pushes adulthood even further into the future.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
Sentence connector
A. Sentence Connectors: Use to show a relationship between two independent clauses.
Many students graduate from a 4-year university. However, they aren’t able to find jobs related to their majors.
He thought he could get a job in a lab because of his biotech degree. Nevertheless, he ended up working in a bookstore for a year before returning to graduate school.
Social networking brings a lot of people closer together; however, it can also have a negative effect on relationships in the way that people spend so much time looking at their phones instead of interacting with those around them.
Many students move back home after they graduate from university. They aren’t prepared to get a job which will support them. In addition, they often have a large debt that they need to repay.
Amy Chua was really strict with her kids. She didn’t let them have play dates or sleepovers. Furthermore, they weren’t allowed to do fun activities like crafts.
Mr. Kuisla was driving too fast. Therefore, he got a speeding ticket.
Because Mr. Kuisla was driving too fast, he got a speeding ticket.
Mr. Kuisla was driving too fast, so he got a speeding ticket.
Students graduate with large debt. As a result, they have a hard time supporting themselves after school.
Finland has excellent social programs. For example, they pay for college from elementary school to college.
Students graduate from college. Then, many of them move back home with their parents.
Practice with sentence connectors:
Write sentences with: however, in addition, therefore,
for instance
Topic: “Grow Up? Not So Fast”
Example: College debt has increased. As a result, many college graduates have to move in with their parents after they finish school.
its has to berelated what come up before
Younv people get high degree .However , they can't find a good job
Saturday, November 13, 2021
WA3 PARAGRAPH 1
Writing Assignment #3:
We will do peer review of WA #3, paragraph #1 and the introductory paragraph during class on Tuesday, November 16. We will do peer review of WA #3, paragraph #2 during class on Thursday, November 18. Be sure to have your first draft ready for peer review. The final draft of the writing assignment will be due to me by Saturday, November 20.
Choose one of the following topics from "Grow Up? Not So Fast".
You will write an introductory paragraph and two developmental paragraphs on one of these topics.
1. After finishing university, should young adults live with their parents or should they leave home? Why? (You cannot write about helping parents. The idea is that these are young adults and they have to think about their own lives. You also cannot write about getting advice from their parents.)
- In your opinion, how can being a Twixter be harmful to a young adult?
- In your opinion, how can being a Twixter be helpful to a young adult?
A. For the introductory paragraph:
a. Include a hook to interest the reader.
b. Write a thesis statement which directly responds to the prompt and contains the controlling ideas of the developmental paragraphs.
c. Write at least 100 words.
B. For each developmental paragraph:
- Make sure it begins with a topic sentence and ends with a concluding sentence that rephrases the topic sentence.
- Give both general and specific support.
- Write between 200-250 words. Include word count.
- Be sure to edit carefully for correct grammar.
- Type and double-space.
- Include at least two vocabulary words from any of the words you've learned this quarter from our textbook. Underline them.
- Use at least two adjective clauses, two adverb clauses and two sentence connectors (however, therefore, etc). Highlight them.
C. Also, there needs to be a transition word or phrase in the second developmental paragraph to show a connection between the paragraphs.
D. For one paragraph, you need to include a paraphrase from the article, “Grow Up? Not So Fast”. You only need to include the last name of the author and the year the article was published. For example: Grossman (2005) wrote that ..... Also, include a sentence which shows how your paraphrase supports your controlling idea. Include the original sentence from the article at the end of your writing assignment.
SOCIAL NETWORKING IS HELPFUL
Social Networking is helpful
Social networking is helpful because people can communicate with others all over the world. People can use facebook, google social networking in different purpose. Nowadays, Facebook social networking influences from old age to younger generation which take the powerful role in communication.Many years ago we can communicate with our friend and family with phone only. Now, we can communicate with them using social networking application such as Facebook , whats app, we chat, snap chat can call both video and voice call.Social networking provides a lot of great benefit in different ways. In the article “Social Networking Makes Twits of Us All,” Maria Quinlan mentioned that people dating through social networking by calling video and communicate, watch video together via online. Another example, one of my friend found her friend in Facebook who was from her native town. They have lost contact for many years. Finally they cancommunicated with Facebook. Moreover, social networking has helped many people around the world to connect, or re-connect, with each other, easily. In other words, social networking is useful to people if you know their email or phone number you can able to search in the social networking application. Social networking is easier to find their freind through online. Therefore, it is helpful.
Another reason, Social media is useful communication tool for employees. Communicating with the social networking promotes employees strengthens their workplace relationships and increase collaboration. Also, employees can sharing their input and solve problems using social networking.In addition,communicatingwith social networking can spread the information , files , video, photo to the staff fast and effectively . In the article “Social Networking Makes Twits of Us All,” Maria Quinlan mentioned that company and enterprise are meeting, consulting, and conducting lectures through social networking. For example, the place where I work uses Facebook social networking group chat for sharing information and discussing work related stuff.Therefore, I agree that social networking is useful that can communicate in different way effectively.
Citation sentences
Is social networking helpful or harmful?
Is social networking helpful or harmful?
Sample paragraph: social networking
Social networking is detrimental to society because it can make people depressed. People tend to feel intimidated or even isolated by comparing their lives to others’ when the others post pictures or write something on their status. Considering people are inclined to upload pictures of their happy moments or write things they want to brag about, no wonder people start to become skeptical about their lives, thinking that they are not having a good time nor enjoying their lives as others. In “Social Networking Makes Twits of Us All,” Maria Quinlan said that it’s not difficult for people to manipulate and create the life they want for their online friends. Therefore, it appears to a lot of people that everybody is happy except for themselves. For instance, I used to have Facebook when I was in high school. It seemed as though everyone else was having more fun than me and leading such interesting lives. One day at the end of summer, I was scrolling through my Facebook and I saw pictures of my friends’ vacations to beautiful places all around the world. I had stayed home all summer and felt so left out. I felt sad when I compared my life to my friends’ lives. Therefore, I decided to delete my Facebook account, and after a while, I began to feel better and happier about the life I was living. In a nutshell, the sadness which is caused by social networking is harmful. (244 words)
Original sentence from the article: Electronic relationships make it easy for “friends” to misrepresent themselves-always showing their best side, for instance.