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Prior to World War II, young people in Western culture had little freedom or influence. With the development of post-war affluence and the subsequent baby boom in the USA and Europe, young people began to gain considerable societal influence and, eventually, buying power. Throughout the 1950s, the growing numbers of young people in the US and Europe began to greatly influence music, television, and cinema, spurring the explosion of rock & roll in the late-1950s and a full-blown youth culture in the mid-1960s, partly in the form of sub-cultures of mods, rockers, and hippies.
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Beavis and Butt-head is an American animated television series that originally aired on the cable television channel MTV from 1993 to 1997, and can now be seen in re-runs on MTV2. It was rated TV-14 in the US. Each show contains short cartoons centering on a pair of post-pubescent teenagers by the names of Beavis and Butt-head who live and go to school in the fictional town of Highland, Texas (the location of Highland was revealed in an October 25, 1994 interview with Mike Judge). These cartoons are broken up by short breaks in which Beavis and Butt-head watch music videos and poke fun at them.
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Rebel Without a Cause (1955): directed and written by Nicholas Ray and starring James Dean and Natalie Wood. Tagline: Teenage terror torn from today's headlines. Plot Outline: A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
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According to Focus Adolescent Services "Teens who smoke tobacco are 3 times more likely than non-smokers to use alcohol, 8 times more likely to use marijuana, and 22 times more likely to use cocaine. The average age of first marijuana use is 14, and alcohol use can start before age 12."
Ephebiphobia (from Greek 'ephebos' = teenager, underage adolescent and 'fobos' = fear, phobia), also known as hebephobia (from Greek 'hebe' = youth), denotes both the irrational fear of teenagers or of adolescence, and the prejudice against teenagers or underage adolescents.
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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children. (Midge Decter)
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. (Elizabeth Bowen)
At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place. (Daniel Moynihan)
Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. (Logan Pearsall Smith)
Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him... (Orison Swett Marden)
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. (Mark Twain)
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, nobody wants to live any other way. (Judith Martin)
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The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies was a research centre at the University of Birmingham. It was founded in 1964 by Richard Hoggart, its first director. Its object of study was the then new field of cultural studies. Areas studied by the Birmingham Centre and those associated with it include subculture and popular culture.
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Youth is a kind of illness cured only by the passing years. (Arabian)
Youth is beauty, even in cattle. (Egyptian)
The memories of one's youth make for long, long thoughts. (Finnish)
Youth does not mind where it sets its foot. (Irish)
Youth sheds many a skin. (Irish)
Teaching in youth is like carving in stone. (Moroccan)
A man shows in his youth what he will be in his age. (Yugoslavian)
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