See where this brave and famous Jewish teenager hid from the Nazis during World War II and recorded her world-famous diary. Anne Frank House Leidseplein 4.5/5(1,035 reviews) This lively square in the heart of Amsterdam’s cultural district offers dining and entertainment, with an array of th...
I figured out most of the tech and logistical stuff behind launching my blog (I used to have one when I was a teenager and in college, and MAN, blogging has really changed since then!). I’d like to get a critical mass of posts, maybe five or so, before actually publishing, so th...
Pretty much every teenager pokes relentlessly at their parents, expressing their frustrations in various ways. Eye rolling, scoffing, smirking – those are all tools in the teenage arsenal that convey their disregard. And as we all know, those mild, irritating behaviors can get under your ski...
I wish I’d stopped and talked to them, saying something like, “It’s nice to be on the same side of the street” or something equally inane that might have chipped away at the prejudices we feel toward those who don’t agree with us. Maybe they would have told me to drop dead. ...
I can understand her frustration with him, but it’s doesn’t serve her well to go on harping (literally harping) about him. It’s gone, it’s over. So shut up about it. I’ve noticed on this trip a certain myopia she has that in a way frightens me: she’ll ask where ...
Responsibility that, as good as Eleven is, she had not learned yet as a teenager, especially raised as she was. Eleven’s story is really a superhero story. And in the absence of Kryptonite (which can really undermine your hero) or an Achilles’ heel, how do you make a superhero story...
4. I ___ with rap music when I was a teenager. Listening to it ___ me to relax and forget about my problems.5. Five years ago, he was finally given a(n) ___ to record his song at a(n) ___. Ever since, his success has shown the world that even ___ people can become ...
The second story is about being a teenager in rural Canada at the time of the invasion of Afghanistan. I watched the deployment of enlisted young men and the sudden, accompanying proliferation of yellow ribbons and calls to “support the troops” (StT). Back then, I was upset by the idea...
When he was a teenager, a stray dog bit his ankle right above his shoe. He was bleeding and in pain, but he followed the dog and kept going for miles relentlessly until the dog couldn’t go on any longer. The dog was so exhausted he just gave up and accepted his fate with resignat...
For every teenager that wants to do something noble, or even productive, with their life, there are a thousand more that want to be video game testers or something just as relatively useless to society. Granted many of them eventually grow out of it, but for many, that growth means ...