Today they have a very strong and reason to believe that completing high school is now an authentic and tangible option.
This is not busy work, but rather a series of challenging assignments that have a beginning, middle and end — and a tangible, authentic work product at the end, something that others can and will read, listen to or see.
That approach seems out of synch with the prevailing mood of consumers after the financial crisis as they reconsider what matters and look to more tangible and authentic types of accomplishments than merely amassing large piles of money.
Whether we dye our hair blue or blond, our intention and hope, she writes, is "to capture and convey identity, to turn our ineffable sense of self into something tangible and authentic".
So, why not take a leaf out of Mad Max's book and have them embark on their voyage of self-discovery in the wake of a nuclear holocaust, thus interspersing their romantic battle for an authentic life with more tangible struggles against barbarous warlords and their feral body-painted minions.
Postcards and their calendar cousins possess a certain authentic glow now as tangible, discrete, physical things, compared to the never-ending streams of disembodied cyber images on social networks.
He's authentic, and the vision in his pieces feels tangible.
My Year of TED took these ideas worth spreading and turned them into 21 tangible activities – allowing Kylie to rediscover her authentic self, change her life, and finally take ownership of what she wanted.
Authentic, authentic, authentic.
Remember: authentic, authentic, authentic.
