Word: suburbia
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...Suburbia co-opts the grass
...Lawns lost their romantic associations with English manor living years ago. The concept of the lawn is now a thoroughly American one and one thoroughly devoid of romance. A mental image of suburbia literally couldn't exist without the lawn (and the fat balding man standing around in his boxers, watering it with a flaccid garden hose, but more on that later) --suburbs were in fact designed around lawns. Jenkins describes the flight to suburbia and the ascendancy of the single-family home with front yard as "the most characteristic single feature of European settlement in North America...
...shot at the science teacher. "They shot at everybody," says senior Nick Zupancic, "including the preps, the jocks and the people who wore Abercrombie & Fitch clothes. But it would be hard to say they singled them out, because everybody here looks like that. I mean, we're in white suburbia. Our school's wealthy. Go into the parking lot and see the cars. These kids have money. But I never thought they'd do this...
...Little-fun" during high school; crazy Saturday nights consisted of renting a video and sharing a pack of red licorice with a group of friends. Single family homes line the streets, the "cookie-cutter" houses on half-acre lots a perfect example of the architectural monotony of suburbia. My family never locks our front door, and people take walks through the neighborhood on sunny afternoons. But you've heard this story before...
...their classmates on Tuesday before killing themselves. Before we start thinking about tangible solutions, we must think about what this event shows us about what it means to be human. Instead of asking how it happened that these ordinary boys felt so unloved (anyone can be an outcast in suburbia) and so hateful that they were driven to kill, we must wait for a while and ponder the painful fact that they did kill. We must take the time to ask ourselves how this affects our understanding of the world. What are the principles that we believe govern life...