WEEK 4 - Generation Spend by Erica Alini

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2. Generation Spend highlights many ways in which Generation Y consumers can aid to their current financial irresponsibility. In my perspective, I think that marketing is the biggest tool that can make a difference. Think about it. Today's day and age depends heavily on Advertisements and different platforms of media. It should be no different when it comes to the issues of saving money for better futures. I think that the media should display saving money as insistently as they promote spending it. Of course, this would mean letting people become aware and potentially stop buying products, but it would be the humanitarian thing to do for the greater good. The advertisements could be seen as a scare-tactic or a method of revitalization. For example, there could be an ad that exclaims "Do you want to get your hands on this? [image of a large house and money] Or this [cars, and other expensive stuff], then check out our website below".  And we know how easily people are attracted to houses and cars and seemingly simple ways to retrieve them. This website, however, would include money saving techniques from experts that could actually help. It's one thing to tell children to save money and thats it, but this approach would actually introduce money-saving concepts to them and expose them to the ideas of debt and financial instability that could prevent them from having all of the dazzling things within the ad. I know that I'm always looking for ways to save money, especially as a college student, and if there were ads like that, I know that some of my counterparts would be more than willing to take part in order to give ourselves the change of financial lucritivity.

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A World of Destruction or The Study of Humanities

Tianna Henry

Eagleton makes a good point by saying, “In the end, the Humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don’t cost must to be housed”.

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In his article, The Death of Universities, Eagleton maintains that "The Humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don’t cost must to be housed”.