...Abstract Entitlement, as defined by The American Heritage Dictionary (1985), is "to furnish with a right or claim to something." The legal definition of entitlement as defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary (2007), is “an individual’s right to benefits by law or contract.” “Entitlement Mentality” as defined by our textbook is the general belief that someone is owed something (for example, a job, an education, a living wage, or health care) just because she or he is a member of society (Carroll & Buchholtz, 2008). In this paper we will discuss the entitlement mentality of various demographic groups along with the other generations we have labeled, and how the idea of Pluralism plays a part in the Entitlement way of thinking as well. Along with how this mentality is perceived, why and how it’s been acquired by our new generation and how other generations played a part in this new mind set and the potential effect and how or what we can do to remedy the situation. Introduction I would like to explain my background as I feel this will lay the groundwork for this paper and portray my personal beliefs as to why the various generations have played a part in my life and others lives as well. I myself was born in 1964 in Chicago the last year of the “Baby Boomer Generation” (1946-1965) one year before “Generation X’ (1965-1981) and from parents of the “Silent Generation” (1928-1945) and I now have children from the “Millennial” (1982-2009) or “Generation Y” (Pew, 2010). ...
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...Male entitlement. Oh what a wonderful privilege. Throughout history men have been bestowed with wonderful blessings and liberties that have not been afforded to women. In recent times, the playing field has leveled off quite a bit, but one aspect that has not changed, is the self-assured entitlement of men. Now before I scare too many of you off with that rather blunt statement, I must stay that I recognize the progressive changes that have already been made and that as with any gender topic, it is dangerous to make widespread generalizations about one gender. But I must also argue that it is naive to ignore the fact that male entitlement is a concerning and pervasive issue in our society. I’d also like to recognize that yes male entitlement...
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...I don’t believe that every kid on a team should get a trophy. When everyone on a team gets a trophy for participation it doesn’t teach them anything. It gives people a sense of entitlement. When you win you earn a trophy, when you lose you don’t get anything. That’s the way it’s always been; it teaches people to work harder. The reasons I don’t think every kid on a team should get a trophy is it doesn’t teach them to work hard, it gives them a sense of entitlement, and it doesn’t help them in the real world. I don’t think every kid should get a trophy because it doesn’t teach them to work hard. When every kid gets a trophy it doesn’t make them want to work hard and earn it. When you win a championship you earn a trophy, but when...
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...The Age of Entitlement Entitlement is corrupting America’s society. The people of America often hear and say, “You owe me”. Are these people to blame or does this problem stem from something far greater? Could something as minute as a commercial with the slogan, “It’s my money and I need it now”, have an influence on this generation of entitlement? The disease of entitlement is infecting people across America. Entitlement begins with a cause. Some causes of a child growing up to be entitled include: receiving praise such as, “You are an amazing artist.”, rather than, “That is a great painting.” This is called a global statement. Global statements teach people that they will be successful in everything they attempt to create and every adventure they embark on....
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...Entitlement is the greatest problem facing today’s generation and should be fixed by educating parents of the importance of giving criticism to their children and teaching the children greater responsibility and good work habits that may influence their decisions later on in their lives. Major disputes of today’s generation are laziness, disrespectfulness, and self entitlement. Laziness is the quality of being disobliging to work or use energy. Disrespectfulness is the quality of being disrespectful. Self entitlement is when one postulates that they have a conscientious to something. There are many nicknames for today’s generation; for example, the “Me, Me, Me” generation or the millennials. The “Me, Me, Me” Generation is a generation that concludes that they do not have to perform anything whether at work or at school. Their idea of “at least I showed up” is a mentality that affects our government dramatically. Therefore, a great deal of people in this generation are approaching welfare because they are unemployed dropouts that cannot find a job. Welfare was designed to be for the people who are unemployed because of a major injury, people that cannot find a profession, and people that cannot foster themselves or their family. An example of a thought process from the Me Me Me generation, also known as generation entitlement or generation “E”, is quoted below: “I got part of a programming degree before the bottom fell out of the tech industry and all of an AS in electrical...
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...friends and family. Research could suggest social media sites as the cause behind the rise of teen and young adult narcissism? Researchers also suggest social media sites as being a forum for self-praise and gasconading. The report written by, Christopher J. Carpenter, makes an attempt to correlate social media sites to narcissistic behavior. The research of the report goes in depth examining one possible predictor of narcissistic behavioral use of social media sites. The research conducted was in depth and it also examined narcissistic personality traits, the history of the narcissistic personality inventory (NPI) and narcissism on Facebook. The NPI includes aspects such as ‘‘a grandiose sense of self-importance or uniqueness,’’ ‘‘an inability to tolerate criticism,’’ and ‘‘entitlement or the expectation of special favors without assuming reciprocal responsibilities.’’ METHOD: According to the report written by Carpenter “there were 294 participants in the survey whose ages ranged from 18 to 65 years ( M = 23.26, SD = 7.30)” of the 294 participants “74.1% were college students and 68% were female”. The participants were not compensated for the participation and according to the research they were recruited by “the members of an undergraduate research methods course in a medium sized Midwestern, American university”. The research also indicates all the participants were Facebook users. The instrument used in the research was a scale ranging from ‘‘strongly disagree’’ to ‘‘strongly...
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...By: XVR Mrs. ---confidential-- Task 1: Cause Entitlement and Redistribution/Effect: decay of the value of the dollar There comes a time when financing a nation becomes too much for the business sector to handle, and the nation’s debt begins to weigh down on it like increasing gravity. When something like this happens, the first and most illogical choice of action is raising taxes. Despite the failure of this measure, the government is almost always convinced that throwing money on the problem fixes thins, usually in the forms of stimulus plans and redistribution ploys that always have a negative effect on a growing economy. As a result, there is no oversight in monitoring the flow of money, so even though they don’t say it, it is apparent that the money just disappears. Since this money has no way of being followed, it creates an enormous amount of strain on budgets and accounts, that there is no possible way to finance this. Many programs have people hooked onto the government for dependency and support, and this money comes from the taxpayers straight to these government partakers and never sees a return from it. Without responsibility on all fronts, there is no way to guarantee a revenue stream for a nation, and without one there can be no protection from recession. The saving grace of being responsible is the radically fast turnaround rate the enacted changes make when they are put into play. Entitlements, a driving force in determining this nation’s...
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...Abstract………………………………………………………………………………………3 Background…………………………………………………………………………………..3 Literature Application………………………………………………………………………..3 Analysis………………………………………………………………………………………5 Resolution Recommendation…………………………………………………………………6 Reflection……………………………………………………………………………………..7 References…………………………………………………………………………………….8 Abstract How do you handle an employee with personal issues who feel that those issues entitle them to different treatment then the other employees at the company? It is important to exercise compassion but not let it affect decisions for your employees that will cause problems for your company and the other employees. Also learning how and when to use disciplinary action for employees who abuse their sense of entitlement. See how I suggest handling the employee in this paper who uses her personal situation to get away with being late and calling in and it has created tension in the office with the other employees. Background Company ABC has rehired an employee, Sarah, that has worked for the company in previous years and been released of her position both times for being tardy, calling in repeatedly and poor work performance. Sarah is exhibiting the same behaviors now as she has in the past. She was in a drug rehab program and going through a divorce upon returning and was given compassion in the beginning months as to her situation. However, the same behaviors have not improved over the first year of her employment. The other dependable and...
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...sound at night. U.S. federal deficits should be reduced by cutting certain entitlement programs, implementing privatization, and increasing taxes on the rich. In this essay, I will provide hard facts that will not only reduce federal deficits, but also increase productivity and employment. These are specific ways to cut spending and raise revenue. Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are the three of the government’s most popular and relied upon programs. Congress needs to curb the growth in spending on them and other entitlements. Entitlement programs have accounted for more than fifty percent of the federal spending since the 1980’s. It’s the biggest driver of the long-term national debt. Eliminate all the wast, fraud and abuse you can find. Over eighty billion is defrauded from these programs every year. Cut more out of discretionary programs, that includes defense. All these moves combined may not clear the national debt, but that’s because theyre not the main cause of long-term deficits. With an aging population and rising health care costs which in return there are fewer workers per retiree paying taxes into the programs. As a result speding on medicare, Medicaid, and to an extent Social Security will rise substantially absent structural changes. Most specifically in the way health care is delivered and reimbursed. When measured as a percent of the economy, spending on the three entitlement programs will rise to between sixteen percent and seventeen in 2035 from roughly...
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...His father was Attorney General, which Fromm would agree attributes to Kaffee’s sense of entitlement. Fromm would also agree that Kaffee’s disobedience, and therefore entitlement, could be considered virtuous when considering the specific situation he is placed in. Fromm believes that man has evolved throughout history through disobedience, and a willingness to do what is right over what is popular (Fromm 124). Alan Fiske, a PhD in anthropology, would agree with Fromm when he states that disobedience is virtuous when the cause is clear (Mead 278). Kaffee, therefore, was acting virtuously when he acted informally, because he was simply searching for the truth. Fromm also states that disobedience is freedom (Fromm 127). These statements reinforce the belief that Kaffee’s disobedience could be considered virtuous because he had no immoral intentions behind his actions. Ross...
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...child and a grown adult. Emotional development is a major beneficial result from emerging adulthood. Furthermore, this developmental stage encourages and aides the change from dependence upon parents to the independence that is typical of adults. This independence is beneficial because it prepares the emerging adult for their future autonomously from their parents. Currently society has labeled these emerging adults as the “Me Generation” because they are more self-focused. Furthermore, they have a sense of entitlement. “We're seeing an epidemic of people who are having a hard time making the transition to work — kids who had too much success early in life and who've become accustomed to instant gratification," says Dr. Mel Levine, a pediatrics professor at the University of North Carolina Medical School and author of a book on the topic called Ready or Not, Here Life Comes”. (IRVINE, 2005). Ms. Irvine goes on to explain that this generation has developed a sense of entitlement because of the increased push for fostering self-esteem in...
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...By using such rhetorical devices as emotional diction, parallelism, ethos, pathos, etc., the reader develops a sense of trust and confidence in the drafters, and the readers’ fuel for an independent nation is ignited with the arrangement and repetition of words that assemble emotion and reason within the listeners. The use of rhetorical devices assures critics of the overall necessity of the claim of the document, to separate from British ties and launch an independent...
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...Do you know some with a personality disorder? What is a personality disorder? These maybe some questions someone may ask. Personality Disorders are mental illnesses that share numerous distinctive qualities. They contain symptoms that are long lasting and play a major role in most, if not all, aspects of a person's life. While many disorders fluctuate in terms of symptoms presence and intensity, personality disorders typically remain quite regular. The DSM IV states, “Many highly successful individuals display personality traits that might be considered narcissistic. Only when these traits are inflexible, maladaptive, and persisting and cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress do they constitute Narcissistic Personality Disorder.” (BENJAMIN J. SADOCK, M.D, 2000). The dominance of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is less than 1% of the general population. It is noticed in 2% to 16% of psychiatric outpatients. This disorder is more common in males (50% to 75%) than females (Long,1995-2009, year). These people lead lives that few can understand, or want to understand. The personality disorders are not only relentless and heartless, but also very hard to cure. Most people with personality disorders, unlike other psychological disorders, can function normally in every aspect of society outside their disorder. Many leaders of negative groups appear to be examples of this particular personality disorder. Overall the characteristics of these leaders...
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...and evolution. While some may find these parents reactions ridiculous and bizarre, it is well with in their parental rights to protest. Although, what many of these parents fail to realize is they are teaching their children many of the the same things they are protesting using fairy tales. Nobody ever stops to think about the true meaning behind fairy tales, after all what harm can come from reading a bed time story, but the truth is that many of these stories have subliminal messages. Cinderella, for example, seems like it's just about a hard working girl who perseveres, though suffering, is payed off by her living happily ever after with a prince, right? One could not be more wrong, Cinderella contains messages which teach kids a sense of entitlement, vanity, and to not stand up for ones self. Children are constantly asking their parents for toys, junk food, and money. Parents should just be able tell their children yes or no when they make such requests, but sadly thats not the case. When a parent tells their kid no quite often that kid responds with yelling, screaming, crying, and slamming doors. Kids refuse to take no for an answer because they have learned form stories such as Cinderella that all they should have to do is ask for something, and it will be immediately given to them. Regardless of which version of Cinderella one reads, in every story she asks a magical entity for the clothing and...
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...Abolish “No Child Left Behind Act” Kary McNeal COMM/215 May 23, 2011 Gloria Reeves Abolish “No Child Left Behind Act” There is a history of the government making a law believed to give us the helping hand we need as a society to rectify the issues facing us and then finding that while intentions were good the implementation caused the opposite desire effect. One act I have chosen to disagree with is the “No Child Left Behind Act”. This act has done nothing but decreases the intelligence level in our children today, and increase the already apparent gap in education suffered in the United States by the implementation of the “individual education plan” or IEP. In the past the United States was one of the leaders in education in the world. Our schools were run on discipline, respect, and a common attribute of setting goals that required work to achieve. Students attending our schools of yesteryear were all held to the same standard. Students were always different in intellect which made classes easier for some than others; however that standard did not deviate due to the intelligence level of each individual student. Just like the real world, each student had to do whatever worked to achieve that expected level of performance. In the corporate environment each employee is held to a specific standard, and is expected to achieve that standard. They do not make adjustments to the standard based on mental limitations...
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