Hillside Landscaping by Sunset Magazine

Hillside Landscaping by Sunset Magazine

Wild parties, late nights, and lots of sex, drugs, and alcohol. Many assume these are the things that define an American teenager s first year after high school. But the reality is really quite different. As Tim Clydesdale reports in The First Year Out, teenagers generally manage the increased responsibilities of everyday life immediately after graduation effectively. But, like many good things, this comes at a cost.
Tracking the daily lives of fifty young people making the transition to life after high school, Clydesdale reveals how teens settle intomanageable patterns of substance use and sexual activity; how they meet the requirements of postsecondary education; and how they cope with new financial expectations. Most of them, we learn, handle the changes well because they make a priority of everyday life. But Clydesdale finds that teens also stow away their identities religious, racial, political, or otherwise during this period in exchange for acceptance into mainstream culture. This results in the absence of a long-range purpose for their lives and imposes limits on their desire to understand national politics and global issues, sometimes even affecting the ability to reconstruct their lives when tragedies occur.
The First Year Out is an invaluable resource for anyone caught up in the storm and stress of working with these young adults.

White, Hazel: - Hazel White grew up on farms in the southwest of England. After finishing undergraduate degrees in philosophy and literature at Warwick University, she studied crop agriculture at Bridgwater College Center for Land Based Studies, and then, through University of California, Berkeley, Extension, landscape architecture. She's the author of eleven gardening books published by Sunset Books and Chronicle Books. Her poetry has appeared in DENVER QUARTERLY, Tarpaulin Sky (online), Blink, and Verse. A chapbook of her poems, Richter 14, was published in 2010 by Deconstructed Artichoke Press. She lives in San Francisco with her partner and teenage son.

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ISBN 13	9780376037787
ISBN 10	0376037784
Title	Hillside Landscaping
Author	Sunset Magazine
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxmoor House, Incorporated
Year published	2007-01-01
Number of pages	160
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