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    The initial goal for this interview project was to discover if growing up in the 1960’s was shockingly different than growing up in the 2000’ with location being relative. However, based on the responses I received describing aspects of their childhood, my two interviewees with a 40 year age gap sounded surprisingly similar. My 10 questions were arranged in a somewhat chronological order, first asking the interviewee to describe their first best friend from their childhood, then inquiring if they

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    from analyzing, they would rather memorize and duplicate an authority figures state of mind. Abstract concepts are not as welcomed as actual facts and statistics. The next way of thinking would be the dialectical way of thinking. For an individual adult, this style of thinking shifts more towards analytical reasoning in order to obtain knowledge, information, and the truth from questions and conflicts. This process of reasoning and relishing in contradictory concepts ultimately aids in the development

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    worlds. One world having the desire to be in the adult world, which is filled with all the unknown wonders of the world. The other world is the world of childhood which is comfortable and protected from all the impurities in the world.  This sort of tug of war between the two worlds is not only mentally imposed on a being, but physically, socially, and morally as well.  With all the mentioned above, often times an adult will discourage an action of an adolescent by saying

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    sex and participation in sexual activity. The thought of Stephen being involved with these kinds of doings during the earlier stages of the book would have been purposterous. A little after that he experiences his first cigarette which is iconic for adult life and denotes maturity. The thought of an under aged minor smoking is seen as an attempt to enter early adulthood and just sheer disobedience and lack of respect for the law and his parents wishes. Yet another way in which he is growing up and rebelling

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    This is a profoundly moral tale of lost innocence and adult cruelty. Do you agree? Ammaniti’s novel I’m Not Scared set in Acqua Traverse, Italy 1978 is a powerful text, which explores relevant social themes and issues. Besides being a tale of adult cruelty and lost innocence we cannot ignore the role in which loyalty and betrayal play in the novel. These central themes make this novel a compelling text. In the novel Michelle journeys from a joyful innocent child into a perceptive and wiser

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    appropriate to the age and education of your subject. 3. Don’t ask embarrassing information. 4. Use open-ended questions. What age did you move away from home? What age did you get married? What age did you consider yourself an adult? How is education different now compared to the past? What was your first job? How has parenting changed over the years? What is “family” to you? What do you like or value? If you could change the state of the world, what would you do? What

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    Should consuming alcohol under the age of 21 be legalized in the United States? It is one of the many questions in contemporary America that raises a great deal of opposition on both sides of the issue. Whenever this issue comes up in a classroom or group setting I hear the same statement almost every single time. “If a kid can enlist in the military and fight for his country at 18, then he sure as hell should be able to have a beer at 18”. I actually did feel this way at one point in my life not

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    Our beliefs shape our perception of the world around us and the people in it. These beliefs have shaped Holden Caulfield’s perception greatly of the world around him, the protagonist from J.D. Salinger’s novel ''Catcher in the Rye''. In this case, these beliefs begin to force Holden into having a disillusioned perspective of his surroundings. He is unwilling to accept many of life’s realities including; change, dishonesty, and conformity. Thus by him not being able to accept this, he is ultimately

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    teenagers would get more experience before hitting adulthood. They would have the chance of learning to drive two extra years before becoming a legal adult. Not having that two extra years could affect the way our roads would be in the future. There could be more accidents if they did raise the driving age for the fact that when you become an adult you most likely move away, and won’t have your parents there to teach you how to drive. When your eighteen you not only will move away and not have your

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    Larry Watson is indeed all about the tragic event of David Hayden’s twelfth summer, which irrevocably changed him. These events help us understand the idea of coming of age and how childhood experiences change us and affect how we define ourselves as adults. Montana 1948 is set in a small country town in Mercer County, Montana called Bentrock. The story is about a young boy David Hayden who couldn’t be happier.✔ But one afternoon when David eavesdropped on his parents, his life changed forever. He

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