Introduction: We started to do this project after we read <Tuesday with Morrie>. The purpose of doing this assignment is to let us know how to interview people and how to make a I-Search Paper. I learned about the contradictions between two generations.
Reflection: I think the hardest part to me is to face my parents, they always didn't understand what i said. I thought writing the essay is what I did well because I just need to summarize what they said. If I do this assignment again, I think I will do it better. I may interview the strangers and bring me a new experience.
Reflection: I think the hardest part to me is to face my parents, they always didn't understand what i said. I thought writing the essay is what I did well because I just need to summarize what they said. If I do this assignment again, I think I will do it better. I may interview the strangers and bring me a new experience.
I- Searah Paper
Part 1: Introduction:
I am interested in the contradictions between two generations, there are a lot of differences. For examples, my parents and me always do same thing in different ways because of age gap. And that might cause a lot of problems, so I think this topic must be help myself in daily life and I choose it. I already know the definition about the generation. Generation is the period of the time and a group of people who have similar ages. For example, my dad and my mum live in the 70s, that is called generation.
Part 2: What I want to find out:
I hope to learn the reason cause contradiction between two generations. For example, my dad and my mum live in a generation. And the main research question will be “What the difference between the different generations?” I am interested in this because my parents always told me their stories before. I will also asked other questions, for examples, How about their school and what the differences between our school? What did they do after class? And I know that their life was so poor at that time, they cherish their chance of study.
I interviewed my parents. I asked them some questions like: What the difference between your generation and mine?
Which generations do you like most? Now or past?
What’s the biggest improvement?
Part 3: The story of my search:
And my mum thought the biggest improvement is technology. My dad liked his generation more because he did not need to worry about the family, money, and something else at that time.
What is the biggest change between these two generations?
Nowadays, we use cell phone to keep in touch wiz each other. When they were my age, they wrote letters to each other to keep in touch. And we learned English in Primary School. But they learned English in Middle School. And the education has change a lot. We always use laptop to finish and submit our assignment, but they just did their homework on a sheet. They did not have projection screen and PowerPoint during the class. I learn a lot from this interview. The generation has changed, we had different experience, that will influenced our standpoint to treat other things. So the contradiction between two generations is normal. The thing we should do is to understand each other. Their thinking are different from me, they are feudal, they think my behavior is strange.
<Tuesdays with Morrie > also talked about somebody don’t want to give their true love and don’t accept others. Nowadays children are so selfish, they don’t want to give their true love to others, So the generation made the people become more careful about to make friends than before. Here are some quotes from <Tuesdays with Morrie>: “I wondered if people my age were being more careful than those who came before us, or simply more selfish?” “ In this culture, it’s so important to find a loving relationship with someone because so much of the culture does not give you that. But the poor kids today, either they’re too selfish to take part in a real loving relationship, or they rush into marriage and then six months later, they get divorced.” Use a sentence from this book: love each other or perish. Only love can make our life become better. The relationship current is worse than before. We don’t want to tell others our real thinking, we would rather to play computer or play phone at home. The generations changed, the people’s thinking changed. Sometimes we don’t want to give our true love to others. But only we sincere, Others will able to accept you and give their love.
And here is a video talked about generation. <Drink Eat Man Woman>. It’s a old video talked about 90s in Taiwan. Ms Wang showed us this video in Chinese Class. And here are some important quotes from my source: “Eat, drink, man, woman. Basic human desires. Can't avoid them. All my life, that's all I’ve ever done. It pisses me off. Is that all their is to life?” “Life should not be like cooking: you need to wait until all ingredients are prepared." And I know that some misunderstand will let two generations people has some argument. The generation gap is inevitable. The most important thing that we should do is to communicate with your parents, to understand each other. And we don’t need to wait for the all the things was already prepared, and we started to do this. Life is unknown just try it.
Part 4: Reflections on my search:
To solve this issue, we need understand, communication, and spend more time with family to know what they want. Parents are the person who love you most in the world, don’t hurt them. Friends are important in our life, they will accompany with you for a long time, don’t be selfish and come up with genuineness. The contradiction can be easy to understand and easy to solve. We just need our patience and love to solve it. I will understand other people more. And reduce some unnecessary contradictions. If you have objection, just say it. They will try to understand you. If they don’t understand, you better give in. Because your parents love you, they won’t hurt you. We will grow up, One day we will understand them.
Like what?
How?
What about your generation? What other things define/influence a generation?
This is not an example.
What?
You don’t explain how these differences affect your outlooks on life.
Why?
Relationship between whom?
Very good.
You don’t’ explain this. I don’t know who says this or why they said it.
I am interested in the contradictions between two generations, there are a lot of differences. For examples, my parents and me always do same thing in different ways because of age gap. And that might cause a lot of problems, so I think this topic must be help myself in daily life and I choose it. I already know the definition about the generation. Generation is the period of the time and a group of people who have similar ages. For example, my dad and my mum live in the 70s, that is called generation.
Part 2: What I want to find out:
I hope to learn the reason cause contradiction between two generations. For example, my dad and my mum live in a generation. And the main research question will be “What the difference between the different generations?” I am interested in this because my parents always told me their stories before. I will also asked other questions, for examples, How about their school and what the differences between our school? What did they do after class? And I know that their life was so poor at that time, they cherish their chance of study.
I interviewed my parents. I asked them some questions like: What the difference between your generation and mine?
Which generations do you like most? Now or past?
What’s the biggest improvement?
Part 3: The story of my search:
And my mum thought the biggest improvement is technology. My dad liked his generation more because he did not need to worry about the family, money, and something else at that time.
What is the biggest change between these two generations?
Nowadays, we use cell phone to keep in touch wiz each other. When they were my age, they wrote letters to each other to keep in touch. And we learned English in Primary School. But they learned English in Middle School. And the education has change a lot. We always use laptop to finish and submit our assignment, but they just did their homework on a sheet. They did not have projection screen and PowerPoint during the class. I learn a lot from this interview. The generation has changed, we had different experience, that will influenced our standpoint to treat other things. So the contradiction between two generations is normal. The thing we should do is to understand each other. Their thinking are different from me, they are feudal, they think my behavior is strange.
<Tuesdays with Morrie > also talked about somebody don’t want to give their true love and don’t accept others. Nowadays children are so selfish, they don’t want to give their true love to others, So the generation made the people become more careful about to make friends than before. Here are some quotes from <Tuesdays with Morrie>: “I wondered if people my age were being more careful than those who came before us, or simply more selfish?” “ In this culture, it’s so important to find a loving relationship with someone because so much of the culture does not give you that. But the poor kids today, either they’re too selfish to take part in a real loving relationship, or they rush into marriage and then six months later, they get divorced.” Use a sentence from this book: love each other or perish. Only love can make our life become better. The relationship current is worse than before. We don’t want to tell others our real thinking, we would rather to play computer or play phone at home. The generations changed, the people’s thinking changed. Sometimes we don’t want to give our true love to others. But only we sincere, Others will able to accept you and give their love.
And here is a video talked about generation. <Drink Eat Man Woman>. It’s a old video talked about 90s in Taiwan. Ms Wang showed us this video in Chinese Class. And here are some important quotes from my source: “Eat, drink, man, woman. Basic human desires. Can't avoid them. All my life, that's all I’ve ever done. It pisses me off. Is that all their is to life?” “Life should not be like cooking: you need to wait until all ingredients are prepared." And I know that some misunderstand will let two generations people has some argument. The generation gap is inevitable. The most important thing that we should do is to communicate with your parents, to understand each other. And we don’t need to wait for the all the things was already prepared, and we started to do this. Life is unknown just try it.
Part 4: Reflections on my search:
To solve this issue, we need understand, communication, and spend more time with family to know what they want. Parents are the person who love you most in the world, don’t hurt them. Friends are important in our life, they will accompany with you for a long time, don’t be selfish and come up with genuineness. The contradiction can be easy to understand and easy to solve. We just need our patience and love to solve it. I will understand other people more. And reduce some unnecessary contradictions. If you have objection, just say it. They will try to understand you. If they don’t understand, you better give in. Because your parents love you, they won’t hurt you. We will grow up, One day we will understand them.
Like what?
How?
What about your generation? What other things define/influence a generation?
This is not an example.
What?
You don’t explain how these differences affect your outlooks on life.
Why?
Relationship between whom?
Very good.
You don’t’ explain this. I don’t know who says this or why they said it.