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'Cool At 13, Adrift At 23'
Does society think young kids should be going out on a Saturday night with no parental supervision? In the article “Cool at 13, Adrift at 23” by Jan Hoffman, states that teenagers at 13 are going out to friends houses drinking and doing drugs. These 13 year old teens think they are super cool for doing drugs and drinking six packs of beers on a Saturday night. In addition to the article “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers is a fictional story about a homeless man named Lemon Brown taught a kid named Greg to not do bad things in life. Both stories, “Cool at 13, Adrift at 23” and “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” are both about how someone can become a decent person by learning from one another.
Someone can become a decent human being by learning from one another's mistakes. For starters, Walter Dean Myers states on page 20 that Greg met a homeless man named Lemon Brown, Lemon Brown talked to greg about his past and what has happened. He taught Greg about his past life and his mistakes in life. Lemon Brown thinks Greg could learn from Lemon Brown’s mistakes.
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In paragraph 3 it states that “Joseph P. Allen professor is a psychology at the university of Virginia.” This shows that Dr. Allen tried to admit that these teenagers are still living their middle school world. Furthermore, this also illustrates that Dr. Allen said that these teenagers aren’t socially competent yet. But, Jan Hoffman explains in paragraph 6 that B. Bradford Brown is a professor of educational psychology at the university of Wisconsin-Madison. This shows that she is a writer who writes about adolescent peer relationships and was not involved in the study, she said “It offered a trove of data.” Moreover,this exemplifies that what he found surprised him, he said that pseudomature behavior was adolescent. All in all, the study was followed by a diverse group of 184 subjects in

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