Short biography of a teenager
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The teenager is one of the more unusual inventions of the 20th century. Humans have been turning 13 for tens of thousands of years, but only recently did it occur to anybody that this was a special thing, or that the bridge between childhood and adulthood deserved its own name. The term teen-ager dates back to the early 1900s, but the word didn’t stick. Even until World War II, there are hardly any instances of teenagers in the popular press.
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In 1953, J. Edgar Hoover warned of “an appalling increase in the number of crimes that will be committed by teenagers in the years ahead.”
In the last few decades, however, the national media has nurtured a growing obsession with teenagers, in the sort of way that is neither lewd nor, perhaps, fully healthy. The press exhaustively tracks the apps young people use, the music they listen to, and the brands they follow. In the last few years, the fastest-growing large companies have been software and technology firms whose first adopters are often young people who know their way around a computer, smartphone, or virtual reality app. If most ancient cu
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Childhood and Teenage Years
Albert Einstein was born on 14 March 1879, at 11:30, in the Swavian town of Ulm, in southern Germany, on the banks of the Danube. His birthplace, number 135, Bahnhofstrasse, was razed to the ground during World War II. He was the eldest son of a Jewish couple, Hermann and Pauline (neé Koch). According to his maternal grandmother, Tette Koch, he was born too fat, with a swollen and slightly deformed head.
When he was barely a year old, his family moved to Munich seeking their fortune from the electrochemical industry in which his father and uncle, Jakob, had been working for some years. The city had begun a massive transformation from gas lighting to electricity and thought this was a good chance to make their fortune.
At primary school, Albert received a Catholic schooling; the Jewish education that the government demanded for people of his condition had to be acquired at home, even though his parents were agnostic. In those first years, Einstein showed an unusual interest in the existence of God, which even caused his family some concern. However, that initial passion soon waned as he began to take an interest in books on science and philosophy. Nonetheless, he was to continue turning over the idea of God - "Spinoza's God" - and once even said t