A comparison of two different teenage lives in Australia.

Introduction Life for a teenager in the 21st century is anything but harsh, it has changed dramatically from what it was 150 years ago. In 1851 when Edward Hargraves discovered gold in Ophir thousands flocked to goldfields all over N.S.W and Victoria. Many young men (teenagers) were dragged along to the mines with their fathers in search of a family fortune. Life on the goldfields wasn't easy for them, it was anything but that. In …

…all this, for one the number of drugs on the market. Many young men and women have died from taking large doses of harmful drugs created by scientists who went too far. Alcohol drives them to dangerous limits making them a threat to themselves and other people, 150 years ago none of these things were happening why? Technology has gone too far and what was looked at as a haven turned out to be a cemetery.