Prewriting Blog: Essay #4

For essay #4 I chose to do prompt #1 because I do believe that every youth culture has a movement. Actually, we have two. The first one is the president elect Barak Obama in that when he was elected, he became the United States’ first black president. This election will change Americans forever because in the sixties we (Americans) discriminated against the blacks and now after this, we can say that America has overcome its racial segregated past and look towards a future of equality for all men and women. Or there’s the other movement that has to do with prop eight. To which gay and lesbians should or shouldn’t be allowed legally married. This is a movement of our youth culture because many young adults are into freedom of speech and the pursuit of happiness. Young Americans think that it shouldn’t matter who you marry know matter what your beliefs are. Compare and contrasting traditional marriage and gay marriage could be used here. As for the above I could do the civil rights movement in the 60’s. I definitely no matter which one I pick use language that won’t hurt others’ feelings and make strong points and back them up with good evidence. In Susan Jacoby’s book she talks about the movements of the 60’s and how they affected the United States as well as the youth culture. I think that Jacoby’s chapter 6 and 7 both correlate to what’s going on today in that the students at Berkley and protestors in general in Jacoby’s novel fought for what they thought was right. That’s exactly what is going on today in youth culture in America.