The Prompt
The second unit for our course focuses on millennials and how the ever-evolving world around us has affected this particular generation. In his article, Joel Stein argues that most of these effects are negative—millennials are lazy, entitled, and technology-obsessed. For your second essay, you will discuss Stein’s article and analyze its use of evidence to support the claims the writer makes. Your essay should do the following in at least 1100 words:
1. Introduce the article and discuss its rhetorical situation (author, audience, context, etc.)
2. Discuss the article’s main argument and some of its most important or interesting claims.
3. Identify at least two different kinds of evidence Stein uses and provide examples. Then evaluate these examples, focusing on how strong or weak you think this evidence is and how likely it is to convince Stein’s audience.
4. Conclude by discussing the text overall and whether or not you think Stein makes an effective, convincing argument.
Requirements
Your final essay portfolio should include a copy of your rough draft along with two completed peer review worksheets.
MLA format. This requires: Times New Roman size 12 font, double spacing, 1 inch margins, appropriate heading and page numbers, correct in-text citations, and a Works Cited page.
The article is
Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation
https://time.com/247/millennials-the-me-me-me-generation/
ex. As Leah Marcus contends, Elizabeth was a ruler who regularly made a picture of herself as hermaphroditic. She recognized the limits of her female body, yet ‘raised’ her brain to that of a male’s.
The descriptor ‘corroded’ likewise suggests that the speaker has involvement in being addressed and undermined. A sword being corroded proposes that it has been recently utilized, indicating Elizabeth’s involvement with fights with the individuals who look to challenge her. The provocative refrain challenges one to question the strength of the domain. In addition, the single syllable of the last word reinforces the message of the sonnet. This refrain doesn’t such a great amount of depend on ambiguities, and this, I contend, originates from the connection among writer and crowd. The prior quips from Elizabeth’s detainments are comparably aimed at a foe, yet when at Woodstock Castle the writer isn’t a ruler with ‘subjects’. She may have had illustrious blood, however the defenselessness of the previous quip sets up her absence of territory according to her readership.
I have recommended that this sonnet is more straightforward in its obstruction since Elizabeth is presently situated a lot higher than her crowd. While I am positive about reality of this – verifiably, it was composed longer than 10 years after the fact – the discussion of the ‘open versus the private’ must be considered in each investigation, with Herman in any event, naming the discussion the ‘trouble’ of his basic work. The primary motto was composed on a window, with a jewel by a young lady not yet sovereign. Similarly, this current sonnet’s gathering was an open one, of world pioneers: ‘This sonnet [… ] was certainly composed by Elizabeth because of the danger presented by the Catholic sovereign’s trip into Protestant England in 1568 [… ] this was the most every now and again anthologised of the entirety of Elizabeth’s sections’. I contend this is the reason the obstruction right now isn’t so undecided. A crowd of people of the world’s most remarkable requests a certainty.
The focal crowd of Elizabeth’s verse would have been her illustrious court, where the cir