Anglais generation gap report
Adrien Châble
Report : The Generation Gap Phenomenon.
prepared for : Mrs Davidson. IUT LAVAL February 2011
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English - The Generation Gap
Adrien Châble
Table of Content
Introduction ................................................................................................................ page 3
The Generation Gap, Definition and important dates ............................................ page 4
How Internet strengthens the phenomenon ............................................................ page 6
The politic domain seen by different generations .................................................... page 7
Attachments ............................................................................................................... page 8
Sources ....................................................................................................................... page 9
Conclusion ................................................................................................................ page 10
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English - The Generation Gap
Adrien Châble
Introduction
During the English class last month, we talked about the generational gap. It is a phenomenon that separates the young generations of older ones. Also we have a debate on this subject and we all played a role taking the place of a grandmother, a grandfather or an adolescent for example. The exercise has been productive, we explained the different points of view. And we noticed that young girls wear sometimes provocative clothes nowadays compared to the generation of their grandmothers. We also see that, often, the adolescent search for identity through by a rejection of friendship with his parents on Facebook. One may wonder then how teenagers today see their parents. If they see them as confidants or just as a financial contribution.
Then, in the debate, we talked about the systematic rebellion, the refusal of orders for