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Generation Z

Generation Z are the generation that shall witness the privatisation of life and privacy itself and an end to any form of independent thinking, as our options become one and the producers increase there grip on our daily existence until the word itself becomes a mere contradiction of the state the world has been led into.

If you are reading this, may I ask why you are bothering to read about someone just like yourself? I guess you're wondering why your reading this now and in all honesty, I can not provide an answer. Some might ask, what am I? Well, I am alive. But then again, so is everyone. In most ways I am like most people, ignorant, stubborn, easy to manipulate. A instinct that drives us in our quest for power over all is something we all have. So how am I different. You could say that I am a musician, or a student, a member of Generation Z or even a nuisance. Yes, I am all of that and more but why pinpoint me to one word? Is it because we are driven to find the simplest and yet most complex answer for everything or is it that we are simply too ignorant to the fact that someone can actually be more than what one word says. And now look what you've made me do, i've gotten so carried away in this that I may have written more than I was supposed too. Oh well....

TRSS

I am...

I am layered

I don’t think I can pin myself down with one word. This is my third attempt at writing a single word to describe me. Myself. I am layered. I am a fraction of my outer layer inside. WOW I think I just puzzled myself. I am what I am, is what I once was and what I shall be. Hmmm difficult.

That’s it scratch that. I am difficult! *sigh* another 50 words about myself. Nahh ill just keep that first bit in.

MH

'Is conformity the new individuality: Is Generation Z doomed to be defined by labels and definitions?'

'Generation Z'- The 'internet generation', often referred to the children born between the mid-1990's and present.

Every generation, in one way or another, has sought its own identifying feature--a style, a sound, or an event that can, essentially, sum up a culture in a particular place and time. For example, though the sixties certainly had more than hippies and flower power, many define the "love" generation by one important event, Woodstock. 

Generation Z however, can be summed up by events such as 9/11 or 7/7 (the London bombing attacks on the 7th of July 2005). It is far from peace and love. However, I think Generation Z can be defined more simply and less tragically by its very need to be defined; essentially, many teens and young adults define themselves by a definition, a word or phrase that makes them who they are. So, is conformity the modern interpretation of individuality? Is Generation Z defined by nothing more than its very need to be a definition--an -ism or a label?

Labels have always existed and they are vast in number: nerd, geek, goth, jock, feminist, anarchist, or any variation of a culture or stereotype. However, in recent years, things have shifted, and everyone is vying for their chance to be "part of the crowd." But nowadays individuals are defined not only by what they do, but what they don't do e.g. vegetarians are, obviously, those who do not eat meat. Individuals pursue these lifestyles but, for how long? Do we have a permanent label?   

All are in a need to "belong."...except black sheep.

MH

50 words of me

What is a name?

An autobiography is so much better than a biography, for two reasons:

1. It is a personal account which isn’t warped by what the media wrote from interviews
2. Its got auto in the name, and we all love automated things

I was born in the name of some herb-ologist I never knew, or would ever meet. My name has been a significant factor in my life, people seem to enjoy saying it and people enjoy mispronouncing it.

So currently I am known as:

1. Raoul
2. Rail
3. Raul
4. Rowan
5. Ryan
6. James
7. Seth

But I only own one of these names, the rest I am just borrowing. Yet my name shall always be mine, until the end.

Anyway, 'We we're all put on this planet for a reason', my opinion on that is we are all here to ultimately leave. Like a train to a station, we are only here to leave and maybe one day return.

#50wordsisnotenough

I am..

I am confused.

 I seem to spend the whole time asking questions about what I’ve missed. Nobody ever tells me anything and when they rarely do, I never understand. 

It’s not that I don’t listen, it’s more that what people say doesn’t register in my head.

 I once read something that said, “There are three types of people in this world: people who make things happen, people who watch things happen and people who wonder what happened.” 

I am definitely the latter.  

HM

I am...

I am … well I don’t really know what I’m doing, or where I’m going.

I share the same attributes as many other people but there’s that one thing that makes us all different and it is up to us to find out what that one thing is. I’m still looking…

I guess I’m a follower. I’m also a creator; I create myself to be the person who follows, to be the person who thinks and to be the person everyone recognizes when sometimes I want to be that person the least.

So I’m a follower and a creator. I’m not making sense, but that’s me. Yes. I am me.

SB

I am - God this is hard. You can't pin yourself down, label yourself with a single adjective or phrase or story. I am the people I've met and the places I've seen. I am my family and I am what that girl said to me two years ago.

I've always thought that you can create something out of the slightest feeling, be it anger, elation or sadness. The best kind of creation is drawn from something that you, yourself, the artist has been and felt.

And I care what all of you think about me.

It's momentary. I am not a constant, but fleeting. Right now, I am writing. I am a writer writing about writing- and struggling.

MM

I AM

I AM

I am a brother,

I am a son,

I am a friend,

I am a man.

I am a person,

I am a life form.

Also, I am a thinker,

I am a doer,

I am a writer,

I am a reader,

But, if someone came up to me and said, ‘What are you?’

I would merely reply,

I am a painter, for I love to paint.

I paint in watercolors, acrylics and even poster paint,

For these reasons, I am a painter, and a whole lot more.

WQ

Quotes on Art

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. Mark Twain After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. Jean Cocteau All music is beautiful. Billy Strayhorn Any good music must be an innovation. Les Baxter But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing. Bryan Ferry Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. Kin Hubbard Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. Howard Dietz Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too. Nicole Kidman Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. Martin Scorsese Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon. Wim Wenders Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs. Federico Fellini Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things. Catherine Deneuve

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. Oscar Wilde What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! William Blake I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. Orson Welles But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. Francis Bacon A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. Alfred Hitchcock My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy. Quentin Tarantino At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. Jim Henson I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting. Jim Henson Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals. Susan Sontag The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. Stella Adler A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor. Helen Rowland A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop. Isaac Hayes A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. Christopher Hampton A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts. Brandon Lee Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. Eugenio Montale All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. Albert Einstein T.R.S.S