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Do temperamentally violent kids seek out shows that express feelings they already have, or are they in it for the adrenaline boost? --Maggie Cutler

"Do temperamentally violent kids seek out shows that express feelings they already have . . . ?" Cutler asks (64).

The Internet has turned teenagers into honest documentarians of their own lives--reporters embedded in their homes, their schools, their own heads. But this is also why it's dangerous, why we can't seem to recognize that it's just a medium. We're afraid. Our kids know things we don't. --Amy Goldwasser

According to Goldwasser, the cause for fear is that Internet access "has turned teenagers into honest documentarians of their own lives. . . . Our kids know things we don't" (667).

To be very clear, then, I am not criticizing the work of Habitat for Humanity. --Diana George

Although George criticizes the visuals that advertise Habitat for Humanity, she is careful to state, "I am not criticizing the work of Habitat for Humanity" (623).

According to Ehrenreich, these "survival jobs" are something to do while waiting for a real job to come along.

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After the invention of radio, Stern and Stern observe, farm women could do chores with pleasant programs in the background while men could toil in the barn, listening to farm and weather reports.

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For the workers who do not have the luxury to care about salary or prestige, there are many work choices (Ehrenreich 202).

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Huge numbers of immigrant workers stream into the United States each year looking for jobs in landscaping or construction, house cleaning or childcare.

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In the twenties, radio was a source of music and fun, information and weather reports (Stern and Stern 103).

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Jane Stern and Michael Stern note that because many midwestern farm families were isolated, radio provided a new thrill and extraordinary value (103).

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Ehrenreich cites a consistent pool of low-paying jobs that some white-collar workers disdain and regard as jobs of last resort (202-03).

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Ehrenreich explains that in the current economy, "[e]ven in the absence of new job creation, high turnover . . . guarantees a steady supply of openings" for low-paying jobs (202-03).

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According to Stern and Stern, the radio offered busy farm families companionship that was easier than traditional socializing, which could be difficult or time-consuming to organize (103).

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Stern and Stern explain that for farmers a visit with neighbors "meant putting on dress clothes and serving cakes and lemonade and gathering politely in the parlor" (103).

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I haven't found a soul who tried this machine who wasn't appalled, baffled, or both. --David Pogue

When evaluating the BlackBerry, Pogue complains "I haven't found a soul who tried this machine who wasn't appalled, baffled, or both" (D7).

Following a rule of good manners may mean doing something you do not want to do, and the weird rhetoric of our self-indulgent age resists the idea that we have such things as obligations to others. --Stephen L. Carter

Describing a decline in the behavior of young people, Stephen L. Carter worries that "the weird rhetoric of [this] self-indulgent age resists the idea" of self-control and good manners (672).

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. --Joan Didion

Didion suggests that "[g]rief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it" (929).

Anecdotally, adolescent vegetarianism seems to be rising, thanks in part to YouTube animal slaughter videos that shock the developing sensibilities of many U.S. children. But there isn't enough long-term data to prove that [the trend is real], according to government researchers. --Mike Stobbe

If more adolescents are becoming vegetarian, this trend may be related to "YouTube animal slaughter videos that shock the developing sensibilities of many U.S. children" (Stobbe 649).

Most [magazine] editors test their covers in focus groups in an endless search for the magic that will make their magazines fly off the shelves--and to avoid costly mistakes. --Katharine Q. Seelye

Seelye argues that magazine editors seek "the magic that will make their magazines fly off the shelves" (604).