In his speech at the Wellesley High School for the Graduation Ceremony of the Class of 2012, Mr. McCullough makes a scathing criticism of the “Me Generation”, the modern youth with their modern popular cultures and modern philosophies. Mr. McCullough’s scathing criticism of the “Me Generation” was justified and insightful because the Young People’s YOLO is corrupt, Me Generation’s people do things so they can show off, and the Me Generation is extremely self-centered.. He used statistics, common sense and simple words to describe how the “Me Generation” is corrupt, self-centered and are show offs. Mr. McCullough believes that the modern people are too busy celebrating their achievements to realize that they are not special.
Mr. McCullough’s criticism is justified and insightful because the new generation’s YOLO, You Only Live Once is not a good thing. Towards the end of the speech, while explaining why the people of the “Me Generation” use YOLO instead of YLOO, Mr. McCullough states, “…because you can and should live not merely once, but every day of your life…rather than You Live Only Once, it should be You Live Only Once… but because it YLOO doesn’t have the same ring, we shrug and decide it doesn’t matter..” (BBROWN). As he explains the Me Generation tends to go with YOLO because they do not find fun in being a good human being. Where a good human being helps others for the sake of being helpful, and helps people in improving their lives, followers of YOLO find no interest in being kind and helpful and instead decide to be harsh and unhelpful. He also explains that although everyone lives once, they all live once every day, once every hour, once every minute, and once every second. Mr. McCullough believes that since people l...
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...s likely to improve the world if it is taken with a positive attitude and used as advice.
The speech that Mr. McCullough gave at the graduation ceremony of the Wellesley High School in the year of 2012 is justified and insightful and can be life changing if carefully analyzed and completely understood. The people of the “Me Generation” are self-centered; show offs, and they follow YOLO rather than YLOO. Through his justified and insightful speech Mr. McCullough showed that people cannot change the world without changing themselves for the better. His speech was justified and insightful and brings more hope for the future.
Works Cited
BBROWN. "Wellesley High Grads Told: “You’re Not Special”." The Wellesley Report. N.p., 5 June 2012. Web. 2 Sept. 2013. .
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