Part A

This is part A of blog assignment 1

In Greg Graffin's, "Anarchy in the Tenth Grade", he explains what it means to be Punk. Usually, when people think of punks they imagine teenagers that have excessive piercings, numerous tattoos, crazy dyed hair, and loud music. Graffin displays Punk in a radically different light; he approaches it as a way of thinking and a lifestyle, rather than approaching Punk as a personal style. He claims that
anyone who thinks dogmatically and challanges the institutions in which we were raised and kept, as a society, is Punk; but "it is an inane task to try and define Punk universally. A sixteen-year-old girl from an affluent religious family who shows up to church with her green mowhawk and FUCK JESUS shirt is Punk. But so is a forty-two-year-old biology professor who claims that Charles Darwin's ideas were wrong." People should understand and accept that you dont have to dress a certain way or listen to a certain type of music to be Punk in Graffin's eyes.