Comments on: Where’s Your Radical Youth? In Cahoots With ‘The Man’ http://www.ypulse.com/wheres-your-radical-youth-in-cahoots-with-the-man Daily news and insight into the Millennial generation for media and marketing professionals Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:05:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Amy Strecker http://www.ypulse.com/wheres-your-radical-youth-in-cahoots-with-the-man/comment-page-1#comment-3760 Amy Strecker Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:00:27 +0000 http://www.ypulse.com/?p=8898#comment-3760 As an English major, former English teacher and millennial, I tore through the entire Twilight series in six days and enjoyed every guilty minute of it. I think there's lots to be said for reading for pleasure; Meyers delivered a highly engaging, entertaining story. That's why I bought her book, not because it was on my reading level, a challenge to my understanding of the world nor because I support an abstinence only approach to sex ed. Also, I think it's hard to gage the meaning of best sellers on college campuses. Since the majority of college students have heavy academic reading required with classes, I would expect their leisure reading materials to be lighter. In my observation, many of the controversial pieces of the 1960s are now standard reading in various classes, so while at one time students might have been forced to seek these opinions out independently, they're now incorporate into standard study. As an English major, former English teacher and millennial, I tore through the entire Twilight series in six days and enjoyed every guilty minute of it. I think there’s lots to be said for reading for pleasure; Meyers delivered a highly engaging, entertaining story. That’s why I bought her book, not because it was on my reading level, a challenge to my understanding of the world nor because I support an abstinence only approach to sex ed.

Also, I think it’s hard to gage the meaning of best sellers on college campuses. Since the majority of college students have heavy academic reading required with classes, I would expect their leisure reading materials to be lighter. In my observation, many of the controversial pieces of the 1960s are now standard reading in various classes, so while at one time students might have been forced to seek these opinions out independently, they’re now incorporate into standard study.

]]> By: Harlots | Literary Escapism http://www.ypulse.com/wheres-your-radical-youth-in-cahoots-with-the-man/comment-page-1#comment-3751 Harlots | Literary Escapism Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:19:18 +0000 http://www.ypulse.com/?p=8898#comment-3751 [...] was published in the Washington Post, that I had mentioned on Friday?  I found a rebuttal over at YPulse arguing why today’s generation is so different than those during the 60s and 70s.  It makes [...] [...] was published in the Washington Post, that I had mentioned on Friday?  I found a rebuttal over at YPulse arguing why today’s generation is so different than those during the 60s and 70s.  It makes [...]

]]> By: links for 2009-03-07 - Kevin Bondelli’s Youth Vote Blog http://www.ypulse.com/wheres-your-radical-youth-in-cahoots-with-the-man/comment-page-1#comment-3743 links for 2009-03-07 - Kevin Bondelli’s Youth Vote Blog Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:30:23 +0000 http://www.ypulse.com/?p=8898#comment-3743 [...] Where’s Your Radical Youth? In Cahoots With ‘The Man’ | Ypulse [...] [...] Where’s Your Radical Youth? In Cahoots With ‘The Man’ | Ypulse [...]

]]>