Download or read book One Hundred Young Americans written by Michael Franzini and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Inside, you will read stories that will inspire, move, excite and even anger you. Along this journey, you will meet people who share your experiences, who remind your of others and who are unlike anyone you have ever met.' --from cover.
Download or read book Generation Me written by Jean M. Twenge and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noted researcher Dr. Twenge uses 14 years of research and its data from 1.3 million respondents to reveal how profoundly different today's young adults are from previous generations, and makes controversial predictions about what the future holds.
Download or read book Politics for Young Americans written by Charles Nordhoff and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book The Dumbest Generation written by Mark Bauerlein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings. The Dumbest Generation is a dire report on the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its impact on American democracy and culture. For decades, concern has been brewing about the dumbed-down popular culture available to young people and the impact it has on their futures. But at the dawn of the digital age, many thought they saw an answer: the internet, email, blogs, and interactive and hyper-realistic video games promised to yield a generation of sharper, more aware, and intellectually sophisticated children. The terms “information superhighway” and “knowledge economy” entered the lexicon, and we assumed that teens would use their knowledge and understanding of technology to set themselves apart as the vanguards of this new digital era. That was the promise. But the enlightenment didn’t happen. The technology that was supposed to make young adults more aware, diversify their tastes, and improve their verbal skills has had the opposite effect. According to recent reports from the National Endowment for the Arts, most young people in the United States do not read literature, visit museums, or vote. They cannot explain basic scientific methods, recount basic American history, name their local political representatives, or locate Iraq or Israel on a map. The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future is a startling examination of the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its impact on American culture and democracy. Over the last few decades, how we view adolescence itself has changed, growing from a pitstop on the road to adulthood to its own space in society, wholly separate from adult life. This change in adolescent culture has gone hand in hand with an insidious infantilization of our culture at large; as adolescents continue to disengage from the adult world, they have built their own, acquiring more spending money, steering classrooms and culture towards their own needs and interests, and now using the technology once promoted as the greatest hope for their futures to indulge in diversions, from MySpace to multiplayer video games, 24/7. Can a nation continue to enjoy political and economic predominance if its citizens refuse to grow up? Drawing upon exhaustive research, personal anecdotes, and historical and social analysis, The Dumbest Generation presents a portrait of the young American mind at this critical juncture, and lays out a compelling vision of how we might address its deficiencies. The Dumbest Generation pulls no punches as it reveals the true cost of the digital age—and our last chance to fix it.
Download or read book The Century Book for Young Americans written by Elbridge Streeter Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ensuring Economic Opportunities for Young Americans written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States History for Young Americans written by Matthew Page Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Young Americans Abroad written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laura Ingalls Wilder written by Beatrice Gormley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the author of the popular "Little House" books tells her family's real life on the American frontier, and of the events that surpassed the drama of her stories. Illustrations.
Download or read book One Hundred Years of American Commerce written by Chauncey Mitchell Depew and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Young America written by Mark Power Smith and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Young Americans were a nationalist movement within the Democratic Party made up of writers and politicians associated with the New York periodical, the Democratic Review. In this revealing book, Mark Power Smith explores the ways in which–in dialogue with its critics–the movement forged contrasting visions of American nationalism in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Frustrated, fifty years after independence, by Britain’s political and cultural influence on the United States, the Young Americans drew on a wide variety of intellectual authorities—in the fields of literature, political science, phrenology and international law—to tie popular sovereignty for white men to the universalist idea of natural rights. The movement supported a noxious program of foreign interventionism, racial segregation, and cultural nationalism. What united these policies was a new view of national allegiance: one that saw democracy and free trade not as political privileges but as natural rights for white men. Despite its national reach, this view of the Union inadvertently turned Northern and Southern states against each other, helping to cultivate the conditions for the Civil War. In the end, the Young America movement was ultimately consumed by the sectional ideologies it had brought into being.
Download or read book Civics for Young Americans Or First Lessons in Government written by William Milford Giffin and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Young American written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fix Young America written by Young Entreprenuer Council and published by Advantage Media Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our government is being strangled by partisan politics, youth employment is at a 60-year low, and student loan debt has surpassed $1 trillion--and yet young Americans are starting businesses in record numbers, all over the United States. If we want Millennials (and future generations) to survive and thrive in the new economy, then we need to funnel this entrepreneurial energy into something positive, or risk turning the Millennial generation into a lost generation. The solutions in this book represent the beginning of an important conversation about how to support and foster the real leaders of tomorrow. From policy ideas and educational programs, to private sector solutions and philanthropic activities, #FixYoungAmerica provides best practices and tangible solutions for solving the epidemic of youth unemployment--straight from the individuals and organizations that are already in the trenches, working to rebuild an entrepreneurial America right now.
Download or read book George Washington or Life in America One Hundred Years Ago written by John S. C. Abbott and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a riveting biography of the first president of the United States, from his early life as a surveyor and military leader to his role in the nation's founding as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and president of the Constitutional Convention. This comprehensive account offers readers a thorough understanding of Washington's legacy, from his enduring precedents as president to his lasting impact on American history and culture.
Download or read book The Young American Or Book of Government and Law Showing Their History Nature and Necessity For the Use of Schools Fourth Edition written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dissent written by Ralph Young and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award One of Bustle's Books For Your Civil Disobedience Reading List Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States, emphasizing the way Americans responded to injustices Dissent: The History of an American Idea examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States. It focuses on those who, from colonial days to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time: from the Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan in the seventeenth century, to the Occupy and Tea Party movements in the twenty-first century. The emphasis is on the way Americans, celebrated figures and anonymous ordinary citizens, responded to what they saw as the injustices that prevented them from fully experiencing their vision of America. At its founding the United States committed itself to lofty ideals. When the promise of those ideals was not fully realized by all Americans, many protested and demanded that the United States live up to its promise. Women fought for equal rights; abolitionists sought to destroy slavery; workers organized unions; Indians resisted white encroachment on their land; radicals angrily demanded an end to the dominance of the moneyed interests; civil rights protestors marched to end segregation; antiwar activists took to the streets to protest the nation’s wars; and reactionaries, conservatives, and traditionalists in each decade struggled to turn back the clock to a simpler, more secure time. Some dissenters are celebrated heroes of American history, while others are ordinary people: frequently overlooked, but whose stories show that change is often accomplished through grassroots activism. The United States is a nation founded on the promise and power of dissent. In this stunningly comprehensive volume, Ralph Young shows us its history.
