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=__America's Youth__=

Pop Culture: Through these influences --> http://saturn5.com/darwin/beef/images/54-ice_cube.jpg http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/mba/lowres/mban317l.jpg Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech entitles some of the greatest ideas that todays youth must inherit one day. This is what we must base our future ideas on. The ideas and themes that our youth will one day take into their own hands. The dream that one day our youth everywhere will be able to speak their mind, and embrace being american.

What should be embraced:

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 * "Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead." ||
 * - Henry David Thoreau (American naturalist, poet and philosopher) ||

From the book __The Great Gatsby__, youth can be captured best by this quote, shoting the 'grand old theme' of the 1920's party life. Although it is in a sense mature, with the heavy influence of alcohol during this time, the caliber to what is going on now is much less in my opinion.


 * There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his rats, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing the aquaplanes over the cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the ciy between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-bushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. ||
 * - F. Scott Fitzgerald (Pg. 39; __The Great Gatsby__) ||

Similarities?
 * I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon; so everything that happened has a dim, hazy cast over it, although untiol after eight o' clock the apartment was full of cheerful sun. ||
 * - F. Scott Fitzgerald (Pg. 29; __The Great Gatsby__) ||

Today:

When students were asked what they thought about the teenage drinking problem? There are the statistics.

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"What do you think?" he demanded impetuously. "About what?" He waved his hand towards the book-shelves. "About that. As a matter of a fact you needn't bother to ascertain. I ascertained. They're real." "The books?" He nodded. "Absolutly real--have pages and everything. I thought they'd be a nice durable cardboard. Matter of fact, they're absolutly real. Pages and--Here! lemme show you." Taking our scepticism for granted, he rushed to the bookcases and returned with Volume One of the "Stoddard Lectures." "See!" he cried triumphantly. "It's bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella's regular Belasco. It's a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too-- didn't cut the pages. ||
 * A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-ewed spectacles, was sitting womewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books. As we entered he wheeled excitedly around and examined Jordan from head to foot.
 * - F. Scott Fitzgerald (Pg. 45-46; __The Great Gatsby__) ||

Where can we see these themes of consumtion of 'real' items today in America?

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http://geekent.com/blog/archives/pics/ipod.jpghttp://www.cnet.co.uk/i/c/blg/cat/digitalmusic/mcdonalds.jpg Just a few items of what the American youth is spending their money on.


 * Resources:**

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Elliott Reflection Two

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