While some teenagers are mean and some get in trouble. There are the ones that are good and the ones that have bright futures. Teenagers are defiantly important in todays society. While teenagers from way back when are a lot different then teenagers now. They were also alike. Teenagers from back in the day had a lot more responsibilities and had to grow up faster. They became adults sooner, had jobs sooner, got married sooner. Teens back in the day had more to go through had more things to handle, or thats what society thinks. Teens quit school early to help their parents out and there really wasn't any child labor laws. Now you can only really work at a certain age. Some teens quit school but on their own accord because either they don't like it or sometimes it just not for them, (but there are also other reasons.) Yes teens can be troublesome at times but at other times they are helpful and kind. I don't think its necessarily right for us to judge people just because of their age. Just because someone is young does not mean they do not know things. Yes they are still learning. Everyone makes mistakes along the way. We do learn from those mistakes. I think if we can learn from them and take something good away from them that will make us better people in the end. Teenagers are most defiantly necessary. We were all teens at one point and we all went through those awkward years but thats what everyone goes through eventually.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Rise and Fall of the American Teenager argument
Hines argument is trying to state that "The purpose of this book is to sketch out a useful context for thinking about the young-----one that jettisons obsolete and destructive aspects of our contemporary view of teenagers." What the author is trying to do pretty much is find out the truth about teenagers. He want to know what teenagers are really about. "Are they really important?" Well in my honest opinion I think they really are important. All people are important. I don't think people lack importance.
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Nice media clips. I would like if you could use a separate text color or paragraph so I can see the difference between quotes and your analysis so its easier to read.
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ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you that it's never right to judge someone just because of their age. We've all been there, we've all made mistakes... obviously no one's perfect. But as long as people are learning from those mistakes and letting those mistakes help them grow into better people then really those mistakes weren't such terrible things after all! It's all part of those (to quote you) "those awkward years"...making mistakes and learning from them (:
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i also think that teenagers have responsibilities just like those from years ago. they didn't necessarily have the same ones but teens nowadays most certainly have responsibilities.
ReplyDeletei also feel that adults like to give teens responsibility so that they can be adults, but yet treat them like children, and i think that this is the one thing most teens hate: to be treated as an adults for certain things but as a child for others. basically when its convenient for the adult.
lastly, teens want more freedom to express themselves and most importantly to not be haunted for the things they do or not do, at least i think so.
First of all: LOVIN' the use of Fresh Prince theme song!
ReplyDeleteSecondly, your outlook on life is incredibly refreshing. At least in this post you seem to possess such a beautifully optimistic and positive way of viewing things. I think that what you are inching towards, although never quite come out with explicitly, is that Teenagers are NOT some alien life form (yay course assumption #3). You talk about ways in which teens lives and responsibilities have changed overtime, which highlights their humanity, right? An alien life form wouldn't need to adapt to the changing times, it would be its own powerful immutable force.
I also liked how you address the devaluation of teenagers that often happens by society. It seems like teens are both put on a pedestal (particularly by corporations) but also viewed as inherent scum. In reality, teens aren't inherently ANYTHING because "teenager" is a social construct (whoop whoop course assumption number 2).
Great post, thanks for getting my mind thinking!
Andrea S.