"Prom Night: Youth, Schools, and Popular Culture" by Amy L. Best
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Whether it was a wonderful experience or a terrible one, if you went to your high school senior prom, I am sure that it was a night to remember. For so many teenagers the prom is the highlight of high school. It is the one thing so many students look forward to. Many see it as a rite of passage into adulthood. For Amy L. Best, the author of "Prom Night: Youth, Schools, and Popular
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it was like that, but everything has changed so much since then. We now have homosexual couples, interracial couples, and the need for youth to express themselves and to be set apart from everyone else. Prom has always been seen as a rite of passage, and maybe it can still be seen that way, but certainly not a passage into adulthood. Maybe we can see it as a beginning of a new chapter in life.
it was like that, but everything has changed so much since then. We now have homosexual couples, interracial couples, and the need for youth to express themselves and to be set apart from everyone else. Prom has always been seen as a rite of passage, and maybe it can still be seen that way, but certainly not a passage into adulthood. Maybe we can see it as a beginning of a new chapter in life.