Rumspringa In Devil's Playground By Lucy Walker

If an Amish are found that they have broken their baptismal vows, Church members can choose to shun them. This means that’s they are not allowed to interact with any other Amish or participate in daily routines. Though the people that are shunned is believed to be very small. Australian culture helps each other in many different ways and how they interact with each other. My parents have conflicts over technology and how we have disagreements over how I like to go out with my friends out of school. Instead of” shunning “someone, a problem is usually solved on the day or immediately after. Age also affects the personal perception of the way we see different things. A young child playing games find that it is fun and is harmless to themselves as for an adult they see that a young child playing games is bad for the child’s health. This causes a minor conflict between the two and the differences they have.

Robberies, violence and drug-dealing transgressions are a constant fear of many. The decent families although opposed to the norms of the ghetto, encourage their children to understand and respect the code of the streets in an effort to protect themselves. Also, many youths in the inner-cities try to behave as others within their sub-culture. A child might dress or speak a certain way that a race is labeled to be standard to fit in. For example, a Caucasian individual may dress in baggy clothes and speak in slang in public to imitate what people label the African American youth to be uniform. However, this individual in some instances could act completely different at home or in other environments such as family gatherings or church.

In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, it's built around the class division between the Socs and the greasers. The kids in the Socs came from privileged and wealthy families while the greaser grew up in a unstable and poor environment, and it shaped who they are and how they act. The novel deals with issues important to urban teens, and the obstacles that are part of their daily lives, showing realism in Hinton's writing. In the article ¨The Urban Experience in Recent Young Adult Novels¨ by Sandra Hassell and Sandy Guild, it discuss the importance of urban teens worlds represented in literature. The article consists of many characteristics that are established in urban youth books such as, the usage of slang, strong sense of community,

It’s very easy to find the differences between Amish and American societies and even though it may not seem like it at first glance there are some similarities between the two. Such as religion, yes America has a diverse set of religion, but both societies believe the right to religious freedom. That is why Amish societies are located in America because they are allowed to express their religion. Another similarity in both societies is education. Even though Amish children mostly only go to an eighth grade education, both societies prepare the children for adulthood and teach them skills that will help them in society.

A standardization of 1,000 individuals was drawn from youth ages 7-18 from the geographic areas in the North, South, Midwest, and West (Flanagan & Henington, 2005). Within the 1,000 sample 400 youth were ages 7-14, and there were 200 adolescents with ages ranging from 15-18 (Flanagan & Henington, 2005). Variables included age, gender, race, and parental education (Flanagan & Henington, 2005). Different sites were sampled from rural, urban, and suburban areas. Also, within those sites, samples included schools, churches, and community centers (Flanagan & Henington, 2005). According to Flanagan & Henington (2005), “…selection criteria for participants included English as the primary language, at least a second grade

Perhaps the most culturally diverse nation on the globe, the United States is home to a dominant Anglo-American Protestant culture intermixed and alongside a host of sub-cultures that live and thrive on US soil. Among these cultures exists an array of distinct form of living all who boast an identity specific to only that select group. These subcultures exist in a couple different forms; convergent subcultures and persistent subcultures. First, convergent subcultures intend toward assimilation with the dominant society through various tactics to include: residential clustering, adherence to the language, dress, and cultural norms of their native land (Parrillo, 42). Contrarily, some cultures simply do not assimilate. In these cases, persistent subcultures adhere as much as possible to their own way of life and resist absorption into the dominant culture (Parrillo, 43). Among these persistent subcultures within the US are the Amish. The Amish are a sect of the Christian faith whose members have roots in twenty-two states across the

Mary Wroth alludes to mythology in her sonnet “In This Strange Labyrinth” to describe a woman’s confused struggle with love. The speaker of the poem is a woman stuck in a labyrinth, alluding to the original myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. The suggestion that love is not perfect and in fact painful was a revolutionary thing for a woman to write about in the Renaissance. Wroth uses the poem’s title and its relation to the myth, symbolism and poem structure to communicate her message about the tortures of love.

Amish culture is a European born group of Christians who are descendents of Mennonite church. Due to few fundamental religious differences, they separated from Mennonite regime which made them go through a series of violence causing a remarkable decrease in their population. However, after gaining ground sin United States and Canada, they are living their lives peacefully in isolation. The current culture of Amish people is a true representative of simplicity, humility, thrift, obedience,

In his research Jay Macleod, compares two groups of teenage boys, the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers. Both groups of teenagers live in a low income neighborhood in Clarendon Heights, but they are complete opposites of each other. The Hallway Hangers, composed of eight teenagers spend most of their time in the late afternoon or early evening hanging out in doorway number 13 until very late at night. The Brothers are a group of seven teenagers that have no aspirations to just hang out and cause problems, the Brothers enjoy active pastimes such as playing basketball. The Hallway Hangers all smoke, drink, and use drugs. Stereotyped as “hoodlums,” “punks,” or “burnouts” by outsiders, the Hallway Hangers are actually a varied group, and much

I felt as though many of my expectations going into this assignment were different than what I actually witnessed. It is probably due to the short observational period, rather than an indicator of “the new-norm” in adolescent behavior, or profound luck at observing the only two well-behaved teenagers in the state. Therefore, my take-away from this assignment is that I have preconceived notions of expected teenage behavior, that I have constructed from my time with my own children. I expected too, to see more activity than I did.

The family care for their own and the Amish community gives assistance as needed. Therefore, the way how mainstream American life is driven by technology, I don’t think many Americans will take on the Amish culture.The Amish culture believes in the idea that everything has a reason in life. Their philosophy comes from their deep-rooted Christian faith from the church. They follow the basic tenets of the Christian religion by emphasizing on adult baptism, simplicity, community, separation from popular culture and the division of the church. In 1693, the Amish people formed their own branch of Anabaptism in Switzerland and eastern France under the leadership of their founder Jakob Ammann.All of the Amish communities today are from that group. We already know that within the Amish culture they do everything with hands, but there is some selective technology they do use by permit for agriculture. They use the tractor to help with the farming and time management. For the American society, farmers use computers, cell phones, cars and other technology, but for the Amish, they reject this technology because they believe it will do harm in their

This image of children carelessly playing unsupervised provides the reader with a false sense of safe secure well-being. Even when the men do begin to gather, the reader finds them engaged in small talk such as “planting and rain, tractors, and taxes”(251); all, everyday topics one would expect being discussed at such a peaceful community event.

In class today we watched a video that observed multiple Amish adolescents who were experiencing what is known in Amish culture as rumspringa. Rumspringa is a time in which Amish adolescents break off from their families and church beliefs to discover whether they will commit to the Amish church for adulthood or if they will break free of the church from their childhood. Rumspringa starts at age sixteen and normally ranges from a few months to several years until they make their decision. During rumpsringa, Amish adolescents in the video were seen throwing large parties, possibly moving out from families, and sometimes experimenting with alcohol and drugs. Not all adolescents, however, make such big changes. Some commit very quickly to stay

In other ways it hard to understand especially for children who are subject to making adult decisions. Often children will try to behave like paid professionals who they believe are cool, but what they don’t realize is that they do not actually behave that way and it is how their employer wants them to act. So why is it considered rebellious and cool to do these things? Pop culture can make it out to look that way with the pretending of it being a normal thing that everyone consumes something like alcohol on a daily basis or that it is good for you. Theses so called normalities can lead to trouble later down the road as higher education is not accessed and the chances to perform these acts again are increased. To prevent these tragedies schools should educate on students on what happens if you make the wrong decision, but also that you can come back and that it would be more beneficial to always wait to try things. If students were taught how to “digest” everything they take in the south would be better off with less poverty, more educated, and the employment rate would go up. So in conclusion pop culture does not need to be restricted or erased but taught so that it does not become

Teens in todays society are often at risk of abusing substances, getting into trouble, and causing violent scenes. They also are still trying to discover who they are, what interests them, who to hang around with, and just discover themselves. But an issue people debate about is the actions that teens choose to do. Many teens often hangout in groups at a variety of locations such as houses, parks, the mall, and other places such as a recreational center. Although teens may not see harm in being out and about with friends, adults may think otherwise. Some parents may be worried where there kids are or what they're doing, other parents may just say, "Let them be kids", and others