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Explains drug addiction and considers what can be done to prevent teen drug abuse. ... Read more

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Addresses the social, educational, and political implications of youth activism, especially peace activism. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1047 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The hairstyles, slang terms, advertising jingles, pop music sensations, and all else described as popular culture is covered in this five-volume reference. Arranged chronologically by decade and by broad topics within each decade, this set focuses solely on the popular culture of the twentieth century, offering more detailed information on trends and fads than any other resource. Major topics include products and brands, toys and games, music and dance, holidays, shopping, sports, movements, and much more. ... Read more

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"This book is fantastic--moving, motivating, and totally useful. It shows that one teenager can make a huge difference and that lots of teenagers, networking or working independently, can change the world."
--Ingrid E. Newkirk, Cofounder of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)

At the astonishing age of twelve, Danny Seo gathereda handful of kids and founded Earth 2000--an environmental and animal rights activist group that blossomed into a 20,000-member force of tenacious teenage crusaders. Danny has since become one of the best-known young activists in the country.

Are you idealistic, energized, and wondering how you too can make a difference? If so, then Generation React is the book for you. Danny shares his hard-won skills and years of experience in a step-by-step guide that makes changing the world a little bit easier. In Generation React he teaches you how to

• Start your own activist group
  
• Reenergize an existing activist group
  
• Brainstorm creative fund-raising techniques
  
• Win media exposure
  
• Reform school policy
  
• Launch boycotts
  
• Make legislators listen
  
• Organize a protest
  
• Tap the wealth of free information on the Internet
  
• And much more!
  

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Environmental Guardians founder absorbed all!
I was lost. I had just read Al Gore's book, Earth in the Balance, and, of course, I was shocked at what we are doing to the earth, and how it is being destructed. I decided that I wanted to start an advocacy organization. But where to start? I was troubled. In a Las Vegas, Nevada bookstore I found answers to my problems. A book on how to cope with the woes of starting an advocacy organization, that gave tips on anything ranging from student rights to lobbying. This book is highly informative, yet Seo talks about everything with such a great blend of comic satire, that the hard facts never became lectures. All of these tips coming from a master protester and veteran of the business. As a thirteen year old who is highly concerned about the environment I would give this book five stars. As a learned scholar who has read many texts, the rating remains five stars. Whether kid or adult, you are sure to love this Seo "thriller".

Environmental Guardians founder absorbed all!
I was lost. I had just read Al Gore's book, Earth in the Balance, and, of course, I was shocked at what we are doing to the earth, and how it is being destructed. I decided that I wanted to start an advocacy organization. But where to start? I was troubled. In a Las Vegas, Nevada bookstore I found answers to my problems. A book on how to cope with the woes of starting an advocacy organization, that gave tips on anything ranging from student rights to lobbying. This book is highly informative, yet Seo talks about everything with such a great blend of comic satire, that the hard facts never became lectures. All of these tips coming from a master protester and veteran of the business. As a thirteen year old who is highly concerned about the environment I would give this book five stars. As a learned scholar who has read many texts, the rating remains five stars. Whether kid or adult, you are sure to love this Seo "thriller".

We'd have a better world if everyone were like Danny!
I saw Danny Seo on an old re-run of Leeza during a summer-camp break. (We never watch day time TV) & called my daughter to come listen.We then bought the book & read it together.Reading of this book should be aschool project or requirement...it will produce softer, gentler more caringkids & transform them into bright young active citizens.I will sendthis book to school for her second grade class teacher to have a peak at& hopefully she can do something & perhaps create a"learning-sharing project" for the kids....maybe nearThanksgiving or Earth Day??

If you can cross the street, you can make a difference.
Rarely do you find a book that talks about ACTION instead of PROBLEMS.Danny Seo's "Generation React" provides inspring ideas and practical information on how to change the world around you, whether youare an activist or not.The author shows that everyone can make adifference, no matter how old you are.The amazing truth is, what Dannyhas done can be and could have been done by anyone else.To quote Danny'sdescription of starting Earth 2000 at age 12, "Sure, we couldn't drive-- heck, we couldn't even cross the street -- but we had the three thingsevery great activit group needs: dedication, enthusiasm, andtenacity."It's simple.Everyone can do it.So read it, beinspired, take action, and make the world a better place.

Incredibly informative and inspiring
This book is for anybody who wants to make a change in their global or local world, not just teens.Though Danny's only 20, he knows more from his time as an activist than most people three times his age.If you are unhappy about anything from a problem with your town or school to the nation's environmental policies, this book gives the nuts and bolts of how you personally can make a change.It's wonderful to see someone who cares and is doing something about it. Danny should be a role model for any concerned citizen of any age - and his book should go on to become THE reference guide for a generation. ... Read more

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The book chronicles, for the first time, the full history of the Labour Party's youth movement from the LOY, established 1924, to the present organisation, Young Labour, established 1994. Previously unpublished primary source material, including oral interviews, provides a narrative that illuminates the culture, organization and political activism of the youth sections. ... Read more

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How did a self-centered "me generation" engage in a student movement that developed into the largest urban protest in modern Chinese history? Searching for Life's Meaning explores the profound changes in the beliefs and values of Chinese youth that occurred during the 1980s and that ultimately led to the confrontation in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Drawing on his own experience as a teacher at Capital Normal University in Beijing, China during the 1980s, as well as exhaustive research, Luo Xu investigates the social and political climate of 1980s China in order to help better define the culture that ultimately drove the events at Tiananmen. Supporting his arguments with solid primary source documents, Xu contends that the contemplation of the meaning of life, along with other philosophical questions, were integral components of the general social crisis leading up to the movement of 1989.
Elegantly written and accessible to a general readership, this study will also be useful to specialists. Searching for Life's Meaning is a concise but detailed introduction to the mentalities of the Chinese generation presently assuming leadership in China. It should be valuable reading in courses on Chinese history and politics, and will be of interest to scholars in the related fields of Asian studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and youth studies. The book will also appeal to business- people and other professionals concerned with managing relations with the world's fastest growing polity.
Luo Xu is Assistant Professor of History, State University of New York College at Cortland.
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Young Germany explores the revolt of the younger generation in Germany from 1896 to 1933. It is a readable history of the Free Youth Movement, one of the most significant factors in shaping modern Germany. Laqueur retraces the history of the movement, its central ideas, and its cultural background. ... Read more

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German Youth Groups

Walter Z. Laqueur accomplished an important task in his book, Young Germany: A History of the German Youth Movement.This book, written in 1962, was the first to examine the German youth movements in the first half of the 20th century.Laqueur is a prolific writer, authored dozens of books, and has held faculty positions at numerous prestigious institutions.Laqueur has written on a range of subjects from the Middle East and Russia to his native Germany.Rarely does Laqueur fall short of his mark, he was in prime form for this book as well.His meticulous research goes the distance and provides insight for the reader with thought provoking analysis that is seldom less than thorough.
Laqueur grew up in Germany after the advent and pinnacle of the German youth movements.But through intricate detail and appropriate research Laqueur has accomplished the formidable task of mapping the German youth movement throughout the first half of the 20th century.Possibly the most outstanding characteristic of this book is the succinct, yet concise last pages of each chapter.Laqueur places events in their proper context to reiterate the objectives of each chapter, highlighting key points and contrasting specific youth movements.From simply reading the last one or two pages in each chapter one could learn a great deal about the German youth movement.
The German youth movement was never overbearing; peaking in membership at just fewer than 60,000 youngsters during its prime.The youth groups were not exclusive to any socio-economic class, but there was little diversity.Many of these organizations played a prominent role in cultivating German nationalism, fomenting a sense of community that was not always readily available, and creating a distinctly German middle-class identity.This last attribute was more of a byproduct than a tenet.The youth movements, "came into being as, and remained, an exclusively middle-class phenomenon (12)," which impeded its goal of "deepening the community of the people."
Laqueur spares few details in discussing the Wandervogel youth movement.This movement stressed a connection with nature through excursions into the wilderness of Germany, a revival of folk music, and a simplified philosophy of life.The youth movements gained popularity through charismatic leaders.There was no philosophical, political, or cultural bend to any of the groups.The groups thrived exactly because of this lack of specificity.They were universal, allowing people of any race, creed, or religion; there were debates over the Jews and women, but there were women youth movements and for some time Jews were allowed to participate in many of the German youth movements.The ensuing proliferation of youth movements is a credit to these factors, but also because of the autonomy of each group. Despite the political apathy of most youth movement groups, individuals were supposed to become more realized, independent individuals.
Laqueur recapitulates the reason why youth movements were successful in building their base,
"They (students) certainly felt some deep disquiet about the society in which they found themselves-the society of Wilhelmian Germany at the dawn of the century.They were depressed by its conventions, its artificiality and materialism; they felt an absence of human warmth and sincerity; and it was in response to these conditions that their groups were formed, and developed into social centers where they could find the qualities of life to which they aspired. (232)"
These same qualities that made the youth movement so enticing never realized their full potential.The discomfort with "artificiality and materialism" was often substituted by a romanticized view of the past; exploration of the present environment to affirm the individual was sacrificed to history past, and identification with the group hindered the maturity of many youth group members.Youth groups shaped the experiences of youths; even though they were not intellectual (in fact, many were anti-intellectual) the experiences of being out in nature, comradeship with other middle-class youngsters, and shared memories structured relationships and community.
The only place where Laqueur misses the mark is in the discussion of youth groups after 1933.Leading up to WWI and then WWII there is extensive citations and details on the functioning of the groups, but his study of post-1933 leaves something to be desired.It seems like another writer, the thoughts are disconnected, points not emphasized, and at times it appears that there are caesuras in the manuscript. Laqueur does an adequate job of explaining the circumstances that allowed the proliferation of the German youth movement.He explains the lacunae that the youth groups fulfilled in middle-class youths lives, the shortcomings of the generic youth movement, and details the popularity of more prominent youth groups that garnered attention during the first half of the 20th century.Anyone curious about the middle-class youths life in Germany prior to WWI up until the 1950s must read this book. ... Read more

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In Mobilizing Youth, Susan B. Whitney examines how youth moved to the forefront of French politics in the two decades following the First World War. In those years, Communists and Catholics forged the most important youth movements in France. Whitney focuses on the competing efforts of the two groups to mobilize the young and harness generational aspirations. Weaving individual voices and stories throughout the narrative, she traces the formative years of the Young Communists and the Young Christian Workers, including their female branches. She analyzes the ideologies of the movements, their major campaigns, their styles of political and religious engagement, and their approaches to male and female activism. As Whitney demonstrates, the recasting of gender roles lay at the heart of Catholic efforts and became crucial to Communist strategies in the mid-1930s.

Moving back and forth between the constantly shifting tactics devised to mobilize young people and the circumstances of their lives, Whitney gives special consideration to the context in which the youth movements operated and in which young people made choices. She traces the impact of the First World War on the young and on the formulation of generation-based political and religious identities, the place of work and leisure in young people's lives and political mobilization, the impact of the Depression, the role of Soviet ideas and intervention in French Communist youth politics, and the state's new attention to youth following the victory of France's Popular Front government in 1936. Mobilizing Youth concludes by inserting the era's youth activists and movements into the complicated events of the Second World War. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Daughters, published by Dads & Daughters on November 1, 2000. The length of the article is 1382 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Does she want to change the world?(Let's Talk)
Author: Amy Lynch
Publication: Daughters (Newsletter)
Date: November 1, 2000
Publisher: Dads & Daughters
Volume: 5Issue: 8Page: 1(3)

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We need young people to be civically engaged in order to define and address public problems. Their participation is important for democracy, for institutions such as schools, and for young people themselves, who are more likely to succeed in life if they are engaged in their communities. In The Future of Democracy, Peter Levine, scholar and practitioner, sounds the alarm: in recent years, young Americans have become dangerously less engaged. They are tolerant, patriotic, and idealistic, and some have invented such novel and impressive forms of civic engagement, as blogs, "buycott" movements, and transnational youth networks. But most lack the skills and opportunities they need to participate in politics or address public problems. Levine's timely manifesto clearly explains the causes, symptoms, and repercussions of this damaging trend, and, most importantly, the means whereby America can confront and reverse it.

Levine demonstrates how to change young people's civic attitudes, skills, and knowledge and, equally importantly, to reform our institutions so that civic engagement is rewarding and effective. We must both prepare citizens for politics and improve politics for citizens. ... Read more

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Sober living for the Revolution is an awesome book, more than just the usual war stories and pictures book. The only drawback is when some of the authors/essayists get too out there with the wordplay, meaning yes it's good to have a diverse vocabulary but some of us aren't as familiar with the classics as others, ya know? I'm a pretty well read guy but some of the writings were tough to get through. Over all though a must-read for anyone who thinks Straight Edge should be more than just merch sales and finger pointing. ... Read more