...Are Teens Influenced By Media To Have More Sex Or Have Sex At An Earlier Age? Most successful human relationships are based on respect and affection. It is important to encourage these types of principles to teenagers. Unfortunately, teenagers often are exposed to peer pressure, sexual media context and become sexually active before understanding the emotional bases of human sexuality. Media in general has failed one the main principle of relationships. A great deal of shows in TV programs suggests that sexuality comes from emotional intimacy, as something glamorous, instinctive, and what is more dangerous a risk free lifestyle. Teens are exposed to learn about sex on different types of social experiences since their information comes from participation and observation from other people; sadly much of this information turns out to be false and negative. Moreover, media has been too indifferent to the image transmitted in connection to sex and its consequences. Approximately 85% of all sex television shows are between couples who are not married or have no commitment to each other. Moreover, teens are exposed to a sexual world where violence abounds and where love and commitment are conspicuous by their absence. Instead of exploring into a more complex issue of human intimacy, TV shows are satisfied showing couples having sex instead of the intimacy of making love. Another factor that contributes to access of sexual information from the media is limited responsibility...
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...ARTICLE ADVANCE AGE WISE ASSETS ALLOCATION METHOD - Nikhil Srivastava Age plays a crucial role in our life. As our age increases, our life decreases. It implies that age and life of a person have negative correlation. We know that life of a human being is divided into four stages namely childhood, adolescence, youth and old age. In childhood and adolescence we have more desires which we are governed by, whereas in matured and older age we have more needs and we work for fulfillment of the same. When a person is ruled by desires, he has more enthusiasm but when he works for his needs, he is not much energetic. For example, at a younger age we like to play and we play without being afraid of injuries because at that age human body has good resistance power and injuries get cured easily. But as we grow in age we avoid playing, though games lure us but we don't like to take any risk of getting injured. This is human nature. It is now obvious that when we are grown up, there is loss of energy and self confidence. This human behavior is evident in a person's investment strategies as well. In early part of our earning life we usually invest more in shares in comparison to debt market. But as our age increases we invest more in debt and less in equity, because now we invest for fulfillment of our needs, rather our desire and when a person invests for his needs he doesn't want to take any risk. This is logically true, because as person grows his risk tolerance level decreases. Let's see...
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...Age Discrimination 1 Running Head: Age Discrimination in the Work Place Final Ethics Paper Submitted To: Professor Peru May 28th, 2010 GEB 452 – Organizational Ethics Age Discrimination 2 Abstract In today’s society, many companies are looking for that “Pop”. What I mean by “Pop” is having a fresher, younger mind/ body do the job. Many of the older employees that have been on the job for such a long period of time, are now endangered of losing their positions to that “Pop” that those companies are looking for. Why are they endangered? Because of the fact of many reasons such as, (physical labor, presentation, & not being technical savvy). In this paper I will talk about many different scenarios and the pros and cons of Age Discrimination in the Workplace. Age Discrimination 3 What Is Age Discrimination in the Workplace? Age discrimination in the workplace is the unjust denial of promotions and training for new positions on the basis of age. It also includes unfairly targeting older workers for layoffs or denying older workers benefits such as health care coverage that are provided for younger workers. Although there have been laws against age discrimination on the books since the 1960s, age discrimination is a persistent problem in many workplaces. In fact, according to a survey recently conducted by worldwide placement agency Adecco, age discrimination in the workplace was the most often named form of discrimination by employees. Especially...
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...Learning Team Debate Paper A topic with considerable debate is the legal age to consume alcoholic beverages. “Most cultures where alcohol consumption is legal have a mandated threshold age at which buying and/or consuming alcohol becomes permitted” (International Center for Alcohol Policies, 2011, para. 5). Currently, the United States has set the legal age to drink at 21. The age was once 18; however, society has changed its views concerning this issue. Because the legal drinking age changed to 21 there was an increase in mortality rate at age 21, increase in motor vehicle accidents, and increase in suicides. Even though 18 is considered an adult and a person should be able to make his or her own decisions, the drinking age should not be lowered because teens lack the maturity to handle alcohol and teens are at a higher risk of alcohol-related deaths. This debate has two sides as some people are for lowering the age to 18 again and some against. Many will argue that the average drinking age around the world is 18. According to International Center for Alcohol Policies (2011), “Minimum drinking and purchase ages in countries around the world range from 16 to 25 years of age, with 18 being the most common age limit” (para. 6). Others say that if a person age 18 is old enough to serve and die for his or her country, he or she should be permitted to consume alcoholic beverages. Should the drinking age be lowered to 18? This paper will weigh the pros and cons as well as identify...
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...The legal drinking age should be lowered in the United States. This makes the most sense because kids legally become an adult at the age of 18 where they are granted other rights as well, such as the ability to enlist in the army. If we are legally an adult and trusted to protect our country we should be trusted with a couple of drinks. Lowering the drinking age also decreases unsafe drinking in regulated environments and less drunk driving accidents. With regulated drinking kids become more aware with their alcohol tolerance and get used to it in a safe environment without doing it illegally. This creates a safer environment for everyone. With kids more aware of their intake of alcohol less accidents such as drunk driving will happen. The is why the drinking age should be lowered to the age of when you actually become an adult. Kids legally become an adult at the age of 18. At this time in your life you receive the rights and responsibilities of adulthood. Some examples of the choices that you might or can make are enlisting in the army, voting for president, buying lottery tickets...
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...The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 required that all States prohibit people under the age of twenty one from purchasing or publicly possessing alcohol beverages. This act is currently a law in all 50 states. This is a debate about whether or not should the national drinking age should remain at the age of twenty one or if it should be lowered to the age of eighteen. With this topic having many concerns, like health, having the minimum alcohol consumption lowered to the age of eighteen would give a sense of adulthood that should, so to speak, follow up with turning eighteen years old on ones birthday. With that, the age limit to purchase and consume alcohol should be lowered to the age of 18 in the United States. In the United States, adulthood begins at the age of eighteen. Some would say that with age also comes with responsibilities. In the United States turning eighteen means becoming a legal adult with new and different rights, responsibilities, and privileges from those of minors. Such privileges as having voting rights, ability to get legally married, legally sign contracts and other legal documents, have the ability to buy and smoke tobacco products, join the military and much more things without the consult of a parent because one is considered to be an adult at that age (ProCon). A drinking age of twenty one is an embarrassment to a supposedly liberty-loving nation. If you are old enough to enlist and old enough to vote, you are old enough to swill cheap...
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...Topic: Drinking Age in the United States Specific Purpose: to motivate my audience to protest for lowering the Drinking Age from 21 Central Idea: Lowering the legal alcohol consumption age will reduce the rate of underage drinking charges: INTRODUCTION I. The Attention Step A. 10.4 million kids reported drinking last year so obviously this law is not working. The average teen begins drinking at 14, seven years before they can legally drink. 1. I’m sure at least a few of you have taken some of your parents alcohol without them knowing about it or have participated in underage drinking at some point in your life up to now and if not you might in college. 2. If you haven’t and don’t plan on it because it is illegal, just know that if the legal drinking age were changed, one would have nothing to think about. Transition: So why do we need to lower the drinking age? II. The Need Step: A. Since the drinking age was raised teens have tended to drink in more of an abusive manor. 1. In 2011 in the United States, 13,000 underage kids died from alcohol poisoning. The next closest country had just 5,000. 2. If the number of underage drinking charges in America reduces, then the overall rate of crime in America will drop therefore making America a safer country. 3. A recent Kansas City newspaper asked 8,726 students if the drinking age should be lowered. Out of 8,726 asked 7,992 said yes B. Underage kids want to consume alcohol and them not being of legal age will not be enough...
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...Age and Sex Composition: 2010 Issued May 2011 2010 Census Briefs C2010BR-03 INTRODUCTION Figure 1. Focusing on a population’s Reproduction of the Questions on Sex, Age, age and sex composition is and Date of Birth From the 2010 Census one of the most basic ways to understand population change over time. Since Census 2000, the population has continued to grow older, with many states reaching a median age over 40 years. At the same Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census questionnaire. time, increases in the number of men at older ages are first 2010 Census data products to be apparent. Understanding a population’s released.1 age and sex composition yields insights into changing phenomena and highlights SEX AND AGE QUESTIONS future social and economic challenges. Data on the sex and age composition of the United States and your community are This report describes the age and sex derived from the 2010 Census questions composition of the United States in 2010. on sex, age, and date of birth (Figure 1). It is part of a series that provides an overview of the population and housing data collected from the 2010 Census. It highlights analysis of age and sex at the national level, as well as for regions, states, and counties and for places with populations of 100,000 or more. A comparison with Census 2000 data is also provided, showing the changes in age and sex composition that have taken place over the last 10 years. This report also...
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...The '' dark age'' is a term developed by an Italian scholar in the 1300s named Petrarch. Petrarch named the period following the middle ages ''dark'' because of the many incidents that have happened. The middle ages in Europe had many significant and unpleasant events such as the ''black death'' ,the decline in education, trade, laws being developed, and universities in construction and so on. As stated in Document B the ''dark age'' is ''dark'' because of all the suffering, decline in trade, manufacturing, education, and writing, some parts of Europe became isolated from the rest of the world and many more. When Europe was not in a ''dark age'' it was called the ''growth age.'' Europe was in a ''growth age'' because many good things were happening in that time period. Europe was not in a ''dark age'' because there was many universities in the process of being developed.'' Construction on the cathedral began in 1163 and was completed in 1345 ( Document F ). There was also many more universities being developed and with more universities being made there is more education and with more education there is more ideas being...
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...required and appropriate drinking age should be in the United States. There has been statistics showing that the drinking has been lowered before and in that time period there were more accidents occurring more than when the drinking age were set at twenty-one. 1. Background: The twenty first amendment in 1933, it gave individual states to legalize, regulate, or prohibit alcohol which was known as repeal of prohibition. The repeal of prohibition act was what changed the drinking age to twenty-one to eighteen, not all fifty states lowered it but about over thirty states did. The act Mothers Against Drunk Driving was what set the drinking age back to twenty-one. 2. Argument: We should not lower the drinking age to eighteen because of the fact that the earlier the teenager get to drink the earlier they are risking their development of their brain and the health of their body. Not only that it affects their health but it also affects their academic in school and their safety while driving under the influence. a) Reason 1: Keep the drinking age at twenty-one because it keeps the highways and streets safer. b) Reason 2: A better chance in better academic progression, due to the fact that the brain still develops until the age of twenty-five. c) Young adults are more mature at the age of twenty-one than eighteen. 3. Counter Argument: a) Lowering the drinking age will lower the rate of binge drinking. b) At age eighteen, young adults can enlist...
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...2010 Lowering the Legal Drinking Age Is Not the Solution “In 2005, about 10.8 million persons aged 12 to 20 (28.2 percent of this age group) reported drinking alcohol in the past month. Nearly 7.2 million (18.8 percent) were binge drinkers, and 2.3 million (6.0 percent) were heavy drinkers,” according to the agency, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, in the Department of Health and Human Services. To solve this problem, would be to try to avoid it from happening, and that is, keeping the legal drinking age at twenty-one years old. The minimum drinking age has been an argument as to lowering the drinking age to 18. Candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich, from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, argues, “Of course, they should be able to drink at age 18, and they should be able to vote at age 16.” Then there are groups that have been formed such as, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, who are strongly against lowering the drinking age to 18 and fully support 21 to be the legal drinking age. Lowering the drinking age to 18 resulted in more car accidents, deaths, and harmful effects to the body at such a younger age. Having the legal drinking age at 21 is for everyone’s own safety and health, also less under age kids will and have the ability to drink. In the 1970’s the drinking age was 18 years old because it was thought if you could fight in the Vietnam War you should be able to drink. However, having the legal drinking age at 18 lead to an outrageous number of...
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...Should the Legal Drinking Age be lowered to 18? Ryan A. Conklin is a soldier who enlisted into the Army at the age of 17. He was deployed to Iraq when he was just 20 years old. In his book, he wrote about his daily duties of a soldier in Iraq and all of the sights and sounds that he witnessed. He makes a comment in his book about the drinking age in the United States. He states “I was twenty years old, and on April Fools’ Day, I would turn twenty-one finally legal to drink in a bar. Unfortunately, I was two-and-a-half years into serving my country and was living in a combat zone, and I found it odd that until then I was still not allowed to drink alcohol in the States. A law I hope will be changed in my lifetime.” Different cultures and societies respond different to alcohol in terms of how much they can drink and what their bodies can handle. The legal age to consume alcohol in the U.S. should be lowered to eighteen for the sake of the people, the economy, and safety. When a male or female turns the age of 18, they now reserve the right to serve in the military. When war broke out with Iraq, people were chosen to go over that just turned the age of 18. In the book “An Angel in Hell” by Ryan A. Conklin, he stated “he would always wake up hoping that that day was not the last day he would be on this Earth. He was always on high alert while on patrols, dodging bullets and shooting his own gun just to stay alive.” He also said, in his book, “that he found it odd and annoying...
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... (Edelman & Mandle, 2010) | Pattern of Health Perception and Health Management: List two normal assessment findings that would be characteristic for each age group. List two potential problems that a nurse may discover in an assessment of each age group. | They can vocalize when they are sick. Health management is dependent on caregivers. Brushing teeth and washing hands. | Preschoolers can verbalize pain and how they feel. Curiosity of their own body and its functions become present. Preschoolers tend to have more of an accurate perception of their own bodily parts and their function. They know what their bodily parts are responsible for doing. | School-age children have awareness of their bodily functions. Cultural influences may also add/give to the school-age child's perception of illness. They have more of an intellectual understanding of what health is and what can cause illness. | | No health history or screenings. Poor oral hygiene on the caregiver’s part can lead to further dental issues. Parental knowledge deficit can lead to poor health maintenance. Toddlers are at higher risk for injury related to accidental exposure to harmful chemicals. | Body images start to arise is the preschooler is of unusual size for their age. Vulnerability and fear of loss of control can stem from overall small size. Anxiety stems from concern over the body, mutilation, and death. If immunizations...
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...Drinking Age Should Stay Twenty-One According to Manchester University, “Lowering the drinking age will be a domino effect. Since eighteen year olds already drink, lowering the age will make even younger children think it is okay to drink” (Bigjohny). Many people are saying that the drinking age should be lowered to the age of eighteen; doing that will do more damage than people think. Nothing good could come out of saying an eighteen year can drink legally. The Gale Encyclopedia of American Law states, “An Associated Press study found that one hundred and fifty-seven college-age people, ages eighteen to twenty-three, drank themselves to death between 1999 and 2005” (“Alcohol”). Just look at all the minors being killed due to drinking. With...
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...drinking age has been in the process for quite some time now. Many people argue that it should be lowered to the age of eighteen, and some people have argued that it shouldn’t be lowered and stay at twenty-one. Though there are many reasons that prove both arguments correct, the law still remains where it was set at. Most say the drinking age should not be lowered because it would increase the danger and deaths to underage drinkers, but that all has to do with the main argument for lowering the age, maturity. In the United States, at the age of 18, people are not able to buy alcohol but are able to join the military, vote, be considered adults, and buy cigarettes which can be as harmful if not more so than alcohol. I propose that we also add being able to legally buy alcohol at the age of 18. Prior to 1984, states were allowed to choose their own legal drinking ages. The legal age limit varied from state to state anywhere between 18 and 21 years of age. “One of the more compelling arguments for setting the age to 21was that the prohibition had only exacerbated drinking, particularly among the young”(Seaman 242). In 1984, the United States congress passed the national minimum drinking age act. Ronal Reagan instigated this act when he set up a study to look at the drunken driving problem in the United States. Scientists recommended that there should be a national uniform drinking age of 21. Since then, there have been many that oppose and want to reform the drinking age. Many...
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