Overview:
As adults in this country, we work side by side with people from all walks of life and
backgrounds. When we are in the criminal justice system profession, we encounter
eighteen-year-old men and women up to Vietnam veterans. This profoundly impacts
how our interactions are with one another and the verbal and non-verbal components
that make up our communication skills. With the different life experiences, we each
possess, communication can be cumbersome with one another or exceptionally freeflowing and robust.
Instructions:
Imagine being a Law Enforcement Officer or a Correctional Officer as a millennial, and
you are working with a baby boomer.
1. Discuss the differences and similarities between baby boomers and millennials.
What differences would you foresee between the two of you while working
together? What similarities would there be?
2. Analyze working as a Police Officer or Correctional Officer with a baby boomer.
Discuss what communication barriers could exist between them. If there were to
be a communication barrier between the two of you, how would you overcome it?
3. What should leaders in those respective professions do to ensure that issues
between different generations of Officers remain relatively low and not an “us
versus them” mentality?
Law Enforcement Officer or a Correctional Officer as a millennial
“Millennials” has become a catch-all for newer, younger generations, but the term is technically limited to those born between 1981 to 1996 (the exact years may change from one definition to another). Today, these individuals are usually between 23 and 38, while their baby boomer counterparts are typically 55 to 73. While the boomers near typical retirement age, they are working longer than those before them. Key differences in work styles and habits between them is that baby boomers are very loyal to their company, while millennials are loyal to what they are working on. Also, millennials are more open to working remotely. Baby boomers prefer to be on site.
Following him, Fausto Zevi and Giuseppina Cerulli Irelli had to work hard to resolve the problems caused in Pompeii by the earthquake of 1980. Then in 1984 Baldassare Conticello started an extensive and systematic restoration of buildings in Regio I and II, where excavation work had already been completed.
The excavation of the Complesso dei Casti Amanti was done ex novo (from scratch). The present director, Pietro Giovanni Guzzo (who started his stint in Pompeii in 1994) has had to confront many management and financial problems in order to plan the finishing of excavations and the complete restoration of the buildings. In the most recent years, excavations have been carried out outside the Porta Stabia, and also in Murecine, near the river Sarno, where the Hospitium dei Sulpici has been uncovered.
Many areas are still to be uncovered in Pompeii, but it is even more important to restore what has already been excavated. Today 44 of the 66 hectares of urban area are visible, and it is unanimously considered that the other 22 hectares must be left under the volcanic debris, in order to preserve this important part of our past for future generations.
The nine books of Antichità d’Ercolano Esposte by the Accademia Ercolanese (from 1757 onwards), as well as the works of Winckelmann, Francois Mazois and William Gell, informed the whole of Europe about what was being revealed as the ancient Roman towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii were slowly being uncovered.
The discoveries aroused great interest, and emotion, among Enlightenment circles – and offered many new subjects for cultural debate. Slowly a new, Neo-classical, attitude emerged, influencing philosophers, men of letters and artists. Painters, sculptors, jewellers, upholsterers, cabinet-makers, joiners, decorators – all made explicit reference to the findings in the towns that Vesuvius buried, and there was a constant demand for books illustrated with accurate pictures.
Many European countries, thanks to the new importance given to the ancient world, opened academies in Naples and Rome to offer hospitality to those who wanted to study the newly excavated towns. In this period the younger members of many of the noble and rich families of Europe completed their education by doing a ‘grand tour’ of Europe, and a visit to Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Museo Archeologico in Naples was considered an essential pa