Month: February 2019

Every presidential election we hear the word abortion. Either it be to ban abortion or to make it less strict, everyone has their own opinions and so do the liberals and conservatives. We know the conservatives are against abortions and the liberals are all for it. Being a female and having to think about this in my future, I sway towards the conservative side because a life is a life even when it just in the womb. As we see in these two articles, “Amid a shifting legal landscape on abortion, both parties seek political advantage,” by the Washington Post, and “Supreme Court blocks Louisiana abortion law as John Roberts joins liberal justices in 5-4 ruling,” by NBC News, show to the two viewpoints when it comes to abortion. Pete Williams from NBC News says that, “The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Louisiana from enforcing a law that women’s groups said would leave only a single doctor legally allowed to perform abortions in the state.” This shows how the conservatives like BrettKavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch all voted to limit Louisiana to have only one abortion clinic. The people of Louisiana have three clinics left and are doing everything to keep them but according to Williams it is not the most “correct” process. As it states, “supporters of abortion rights have fought “against every common-sense health standard. This is just another example of the extreme lengths the abortion industry pursues to protect abortion-on-demand.” The liberals will go to all lengths to do what they need even it is inhumane. On the other side we see the liberal point of view Juliet Eilperin and Michael Scherer of the Washington post. As we seen in this article the liberals are afraid of the new member of Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh. “Last week, Democrats took aim at moderate Republicans in the Senate who voted to confirm Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, who is seen as a potential threat to the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that established a right to abortion in 1973.” We see how they are very worried because after the scandal that was created with Brett, the Supreme court ruled towards in favor of him, and would probably rule in a conservative view for most things including abortion. They are also worried of people switching sides and are reacting to this by attacking the republicans. In the article it states, “Last week, Kavanaugh voted to permit a restrictive Louisiana law to take effect, though the court majority blocked its implementation. Liberals quickly used the ruling to attack Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a supporter of abortion rights who voted to confirm Kavanaugh last fall.” The liberals are reacting in ways that are pushing people away from them in all categories especially when it comes to abortion. As we see the conservatives are pushing their laws in ways that are moral and the liberals are pushing them in the ways that seem inhumane and just straight out crazy.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/amid-a-shifting-legal-landscape-on-abortion-both-parties-seek-political-advantage/2019/02/11/8e289cb4-2be1-11e9-b011-d8500644dc98_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1de94b04b914

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-blocks-louisiana-abortion-law-1st-major-ruling-abortion-n968766

 

 

After reading these two different articles it can be clear to say that many people view millennials differently. Between different age groups, different levels of education, and different ways of looking at life, the outlook and the final answer are hard to put together. Even though I believe myself to be a millennial I still think that we as a group have our negatives and we as a group have a re positives. We are the group of people that can search anything up in three seconds, figure out how to do something just by watching videos online, make changes in the world just by putting up a petition on our social medias, and do all our work online anywhere we go. We also are attached to our mobile devices and view social media as the way to life. If we didn’t get enough likes we aren’t as important as someone else, and if we don’t have the body of that famous super model we aren’t as beautiful as our parents say we are. In the article, The Me Me Me Generation, it states that “The problem is that when people try to boost self-esteem, they accidentally boost narcissism instead.” Our parents have created us to be the way we are. They are constantly telling us that we are perfect and better then the next person, and in one way it has helped but in another it has back fired. As we see in this article we are a generation of many accomplishments, and we getting raises, and promotions, but we are the center of attention for our parents and expect it that way from everyone. It all says that we “live off of the influence of our peers,” which in hand is true and is why we are seen as such a negative group. We do value others people’s opinions but not because we just want to, but because our parents had instilled it into our brains. We are also maturing at a slower rate than our parents did, because we have our friends on call twenty-four-seven, and we are no interacting with “adults,” as the Me Me Me Generation article says. This article also states that many are threatened by us because we have so much information at our hands, that we are creating apps, and coding, and making videos on YouTube and getting paid for it. Even though we are narcissistic or have high self-esteem we are getting things done and making progress in the world. We also have a problem of not being able to do the little things in life alone. As the Me Me Me Generation article states, we cannot do math in our heads or we can’t keep a job for more than two years, and the article, How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation, states that we can’t even send a letter in the mail or do meaningless everyday tasks. We refrain from doing does little tasks because they are not as important as what we need to accomplish to be accomplished. In, How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation, it looks at millennials are an older group of people who are “spoiled, entitled, lazy, and failures at whats come to be known as “adulting.”” Even though that might be true, it is still wrong in its way. As I see millennials we are a group of well-educated people who strive to be the best of the best. We do not care if we do not cook, or throw the trash out every other week, or have a messy room, because we are worried about our education and how to get a well-paying job and how to create something amazing for the world. How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation, says that we are a burnout generation because we think we have to always be working. They are comparing us to our parents who lived a different life without all the technology we have. They got used to doing everything all the time because it was just something part of their lives. They got normal nine to five jobs that they hate and continue to hate them as the years go on. We as a generation don’t allow ourselves to fall into that category. We are striving for the best, the best job the best pay, the best education, the best in everything we do. Both articles bring out the positives and negatives in this so-called millennial generation, and they in some way get it correct. I believe that I am one of those millennials, and yes, I strive for the best, and yes every day tasks are a burden and seem pointless, but I am getting more done at the age of eighteen then my parents are at the ages of forty four and sixty one.