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Kaitlyn McKay
Mrs. Laflam
Honors English 9
January 7, 2004
The Role of Young People in Society
When you were a teenager, did you know what you were going to do with your life? Did you really ever truly think about what you wanted to be? Most teenagers haven’t. Using that fact as a stepping stone, a band named CKY used “Infiltrate. Destroy. Rebuild.” as a slogan to get kids working and to help them realize that they have a meaning in life, which is to do whatever you want, and rebuild the world the way you want it to be (Miller, 2002). The band, which are still young people themselves, took that slogan to heart, saying “We can’t wait for someone to do something for us; we need to think on our own in order to survive later in life. In order for that to work for us, we need to make the changes necessary so that we can live the best possible life we can” (Chad Ginsburg, 2001). Young people are usually considered brain dead people who don’t care about the world, but we’re really the most important generation. We are the future. Whether the topic be politics, music, style, or just the basic way of living, we all need to make changes in this ever-changing world that we live in. That’s why the role of young people in society is to present and make changes where they live and in the world around us.
Young people in the world attempt to make changes in politics everyday. Protesting, interning, and other ways of showing that you care about politics help give you credibility to the politicians and help the laws and the current events change. However, most politicians and other authority figures don’t think much of them, so their actions rarely get anywhere. From the protests in San Francisco, to the war rallies in places like Texas, protesters, which are most young people, try to make the world a different place.
Mrs. Laflam
Honors English 9
January 7, 2004
The Role of Young People in Society
When you were a teenager, did you know what you were going to do with your life? Did you really ever truly think about what you wanted to be? Most teenagers haven’t. Using that fact as a stepping stone, a band named CKY used “Infiltrate. Destroy. Rebuild.” as a slogan to get kids working and to help them realize that they have a meaning in life, which is to do whatever you want, and rebuild the world the way you want it to be (Miller, 2002). The band, which are still young people themselves, took that slogan to heart, saying “We can’t wait for someone to do something for us; we need to think on our own in order to survive later in life. In order for that to work for us, we need to make the changes necessary so that we can live the best possible life we can” (Chad Ginsburg, 2001). Young people are usually considered brain dead people who don’t care about the world, but we’re really the most important generation. We are the future. Whether the topic be politics, music, style, or just the basic way of living, we all need to make changes in this ever-changing world that we live in. That’s why the role of young people in society is to present and make changes where they live and in the world around us.
Young people in the world attempt to make changes in politics everyday. Protesting, interning, and other ways of showing that you care about politics help give you credibility to the politicians and help the laws and the current events change. However, most politicians and other authority figures don’t think much of them, so their actions rarely get anywhere. From the protests in San Francisco, to the war rallies in places like Texas, protesters, which are most young people, try to make the world a different place.