What exactly is/are the dates for Generation X'ers and generation Y'ers?

I found the following explanation on the PC Magazine website of all places: - quote (pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=gen... ) - Generation X Refers to persons born in the 1960s and 1970s. The name was coined as a result of a study of young people's attitudes in England in 1964 by Jane Deverson. The generation X period saw the rise of hippies and countercultures across the Western world.By the time older gen-Xers became teenagers, the personal computer revolution had begun.

Generation Y Generation Y refers to people born in the 1980s and 1990s. In Western cultures, they were brought up entirely in the age of personal computers and electronic gadgets. Younger gen-Xers and all generation Y children were brought up in the thick of it.

Baby Boomers More than 76 million baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964 in the U.S. Older baby boomers were raised without desktop computers, and many did not even have TVs as children. - end quote - Interestingly, I found near-identical wording at http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/generation+X so it appears someone has been plagiarizing, though I do not claim to know if it was PCMag, The Free Dictionary, or if both plagiarized the same, third, source. A much more comprehensive and enlightening exposition is given at http://en.allexperts.com/e/g/ge/generation_x.htm .

The bottom line is that there appears not to be a definitive set of boundaries date-wise, but most appear to agree that GenX began in the early 1960|1960's (exact boundary between 1960 and 1965, depending on who you believe), and ended sometime in the late 1970|1970's or early 1980|1980's so they were at least in their teens by the mid 1990|1990's. GenY is thus the generation that followed, being born in the 1980|1980's and 1990|1990's.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.