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an old newspaper article
treating them like kids
"young people became teenagers because we had nothing better to do with them." So writes Thomas Hine in his new book, "The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager."
according to Hine, teenagers were created by the Great Depression, which cost them the jobs they'd traditionally held and forced them to go to the one place left open to them: high school.
for the first time, Hine says, "a majority of high-school-age Americans actually enrolled. We defined maturity primarily in terms of being permitted adult vices, and then were surprised when teenagers drank, smoked, or had promiscuous sex."
i must have clipped this article or statement when i was in high schoo. i guess i thought it was interesting. it is.
"young people became teenagers because we had nothing better to do with them." So writes Thomas Hine in his new book, "The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager."
according to Hine, teenagers were created by the Great Depression, which cost them the jobs they'd traditionally held and forced them to go to the one place left open to them: high school.
for the first time, Hine says, "a majority of high-school-age Americans actually enrolled. We defined maturity primarily in terms of being permitted adult vices, and then were surprised when teenagers drank, smoked, or had promiscuous sex."
i must have clipped this article or statement when i was in high schoo. i guess i thought it was interesting. it is.
poetry from a seventeen year old girl
"she spent the summer away from the sun
said she couldn't stand the glare anymore
summer's done
it was no fun
no one knows what she's crying for
the moon will be her best friend
and will talk to her when she can't sleep
insomnia set in
again, when
instead of dreams she has moonbeams
her life is a contradiction
all she needs is a new addiction
she knows it's a shame to discard dreams
but, the sun burns
and she longs to be pale like the moonlight"
for your reading enjoyment - i know i enjoyed running across it again. "instead of dreams, she has moonbeams" made me laugh out loud. people should write poetry for the simple fact that naturally it will be put away or lost for awhile and then found one day, read again, and they will be reminded of how wacky they really are.
i think i wrote this poem several weeks after i returned from my summer at governor's school. i'm still trying to interpret it. i'm not sure that it's possible.
said she couldn't stand the glare anymore
summer's done
it was no fun
no one knows what she's crying for
the moon will be her best friend
and will talk to her when she can't sleep
insomnia set in
again, when
instead of dreams she has moonbeams
her life is a contradiction
all she needs is a new addiction
she knows it's a shame to discard dreams
but, the sun burns
and she longs to be pale like the moonlight"
for your reading enjoyment - i know i enjoyed running across it again. "instead of dreams, she has moonbeams" made me laugh out loud. people should write poetry for the simple fact that naturally it will be put away or lost for awhile and then found one day, read again, and they will be reminded of how wacky they really are.
i think i wrote this poem several weeks after i returned from my summer at governor's school. i'm still trying to interpret it. i'm not sure that it's possible.
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