Both parents were striving, first-generation Italian-Americans.
Researchers have been striving for generations to answer such questions, using health surveys of samples of individuals and computational studies of simulated populations.
For most women (as Mr. Brokaw notes) and for striving first-generation college students, like myself, there are no guarantees or second chances.
John Clark, a surfer who was once deputy chief of the Honolulu Fire Department, draws deeply from Hawaiian-language newspapers from the 1800s, after Europeans arrived but before the stark eclipse of Hawaii's population, tradition and culture, a loss that native descendants have been striving for generations to reverse.
This would contribute towards the "biggest shake-up of local finance in a generation", Mr Pickles said, "based on self-determination". "For the first time in a generation, striving councils now have licence to go full steam ahead and grab a share of wealth for their local areas, to stand tall and seize the opportunity of enterprise, growth and prosperity," the secretary of state concluded.
And, of course, there's the democracy argument, which Roemer maintained should be a crucial geopolitical impetus for a country that spent a generation striving to counteract communism.
As well as the performances of Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane, and the enduring images of blissed-out people wearing tie-dye, Woodstock came to symbolise a political awakening for a generation striving for change.
Millennials are the most diverse generation striving towards a common goal; they study, work, diet, exercise, socialize, dress and shop in a unique way.
Khatami: As a teenager growing up in an era of revolution in Iran, I truly empathized with the impoverished young generation striving for better opportunities in life.
My research, involving many hundreds of in-depth interviews and several national surveys involving thousands of young people, has shown that the negative stereotypes are mostly false and today's emerging adults are a remarkably idealistic and hard-striving generation.
Tristan Brodsky — named not for Wagner's opera, we're told, but for a brand of sweaters his father peddled from a pushcart — is a member of the striving first generation of children of New York Jewish immigrants.
