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The Generation Myth
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The Generation Myth

by Dr. Michael J. Urick
February 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
142 pages
3h 46m
English
Business Expert Press
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CHAPTER 2

Defining “Generation”

Hebrew Scripture tells the story of the Tower of Babel. This story represents a myth about how and why people around the world speak different languages. The story recounts that people (who had all previously communicated using the same language) tried to build a tower so high that it would reach heaven so they could become divine. But, through the process of building the tower, their speech became confounded so that they could not understand each other, and as a result, different languages were created.

The study of generations at work is similar to this myth in that, though one definition of generation has been advanced almost exclusively in popular discourse, there are a number of other ways that the idea of ...

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ISBN: 9781949991123