...November 2011 Does Anyone Really Know How Parents and Teenagers Co-exist? Well I know anyone can relate to having an argument or two with their parents over the course of time but does understand how that the adolescent stage of a person’s life is this most important stage of their life. I believe personally that parents should allow their teenagers the freedom to make their own decisions because of the circumstances that will be soon to come. I am writing this essay to describe why teenagers should be able to express their rights as adults. Either the term close restriction or freedom of expression, of the young teenage mind is meant for some than the other. We are all lucky that we live in a country where freedom becomes a right and I believe that along with conducting themselves responsibly that teenagers should be able to express themselves and be able to experience the freedom they will receive in adulthood, which is expressed into greater detail in the news article “Psychologist Explains Teens’ Risky Decision-Making Behavior” from sciencedaily.com which elaborates on why teenagers have the tendencies that they have. Well as anyone can relate everyone we know in one way or another was raised differently from each other, including myself in their matter. But we all have one thing in common, we feel that at times it is wrong for a certain person to be dictate our lives as if we had no way of being responsible. Being a teenager is one of the greatest times of your life and it is...
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...Teenagers and Marijuana usage Marijuana abuse today is a major cause for concern in juveniles and has a negative effect on society at large. Teenage marijuana abuse is the symptom of many other problems in a teen. Marijuana abuse in teens is often not recognized when something can be easily done about it. Parents need to be more involved in their children’s lives and make them aware of what marijuana does to their body and the consequences of having/smoking it. In this paper I’m going to explain why teenagers use drugs and what the major consequences for using it are and also how it can affects a person life. What is marijuana? Marijuana is a green, brown or gray mixture of dried, shredded flowers and leaves of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). You may hear some people call it by street names such as Mary Jane, pot, weed, gangster, or chronic. Marijuana is used in many ways. The most common method is smoking it rolled into a cigarette called a “joint” or “nail”. It also can be use in a water pipe called a bong. One can even use it in tea or mix it with food. It was stated in a 2009 survey called Monitoring the Future, about 7 percent of 8th graders, 16 percent of 10th graders, and 21 percent 12th graders had used marijuana in the month before the survey. Marijuana use declined from the late 1990s through 2007, with a decrease in past-year use of more than 20 percent in all three grades combined from 2000 to 2007. I never knew...
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...Teenagers are unfairly represented by the media in Australia and the general public, therefore we as a society need to value teenagers more than they are. Teenagers; Lazy, stupid, un-devoted, risk taking, disrespectful, selfish, immature, technology reliant, careless children. Does this sound right to you? Teenagers are a huge part of society, we are the middle class, the future and we deserved to be appreciated. So why are us teenagers being given such a raw deal? And how does the general public contribute to this? I am here today to represent to you the truth about ‘Teenagers’ or ‘young people,’ who are lost in the attack of the media. Society seems to be very closed minded when describing teenagers. We are not rewarded or celebrated for the good things we do but instead are portrayed as pregnant, drug abusing, binge drinking, violent, jobless juveniles who engage in underage sexual intercourse and don’t care about anything. Or else we are victimised as the hopeless future of the world we live in. Both are true, to some extent, but why stereotype teenagers in such a negative way when the majority of us are working hard to benefit the future and are working hard to please our parents and society. Where are OUR news headlines? Where is OUR acknowledgement? We’re not all bad, in fact majority of us do the right thing. It is a small minority or percentage of teens who are overshadowing the majority us who are making valuable contributions to our communities. Everyone makes mistakes...
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...Are Teenagers Too Materialistic? “I would be happier if I had more money to buy more things for myself” as said by more than 70 percent of teenagers in the U.S. in a survey taken by market researcher Harris Interactive. We all know or have friends that would say the same exact thing when it comes to buying materialistic items. Are today’s teenagers really too materialistic? What could possibly be the reasons behind this obsession of wanting the latest material items? Maybe it’s to portray an image that the media is constantly advertising about. It could also be that they are trying to maintain an image amongst their peers of the same clique. There are many negative consequences of being too materialistic due to focus on items more than themselves. Teenagers tend to value material items more than they value learning and becoming a better person. One of the biggest influences on teenagers nowadays is the media. They manipulate our teenagers into buying the newest and latest trends. Many studies have shown that television presents an unrealistic picture of many aspects of the American life. Celebrity endorsers may be influential because they are viewed as highly dynamic and they have attractive and likeable qualities, which teenagers are attracted to. Teenagers think that by buying the newest Apple iPhones that they see advertised by the media, they will fit in their social groups or be the coolest kids at school. Teenagers will spend money that they don’t have to buy material...
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...* Text messaging and teenagers : Cell-phone texting has become the preferred channel of basic communication between teens and their friends, with cell calling a close second . Among all teens, their frequency of use of texting has now overtaken the frequency of every other common form of interaction with their friends . It seems like text messaging has become popular among teenager lately . So , why do teens prefer text messaging that much ? On the one hand , since cellphone is now being upgraded more often , it now integrates so many kinds of keyboard which is very comfortable for teenager to type . As you can see , in the cell phone market nowadays , there are so many kinds and styles of cell phone which concluded QWERTY keyboard so that teenager can text quicker . Besides , with its pocket size , cell phone is easy to carry out . So , with those outstanding features and just a press of a button , they can tell their friend what is going right away . On the other hand , the growth of the telecommunication network companies has also play an important role in promoting teenager to text messaging . They offer teenagers , mostly known as students several promotional package to encourage them texting to save more money . In comparison with voice calling , text messaging now cost much less expensive because there are a variety of payment plans for cell phones, as well as bundling plans for how phone minutes and texts are packaged . For example , Viettel offers a promotional package...
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...Medias Influence On Teen Pregnancy Tina Marie Bergelt Media Ethics November 2014 Teen pregnancy is described as a girl between the ages 13-19 who becomes pregnant. This phenomenon has been around historically and still continues today. Teenagers are very unaware of the consequences of unprotected sex and can result in having a child in their teenage years. Many teenagers watch television daily. Television has evolved from the past decade from reporting news to reality TV. Many television shows in the 21st century are now engrossed in teenage pregnancy. Many different actresses play the role of a pregnant teenage girl or the actress is actually pregnant in real life, this causes teenage girls to idolize them and when watching their idol it inspires one to be like them. Television is a very powerful tool and can significantly impact the actions of its viewers. With the amount of teenagers watching television today, movies and television shows that partake in having teenage pregnancy in their programs influence actual pregnancy within the teenage girls that are watching the shows. Historically, in the 1950’s, people got married before they were 20 and being pregnant while you were a teenager was the norm. This was because women were less likely to gain an education passed elementary school so they got married and started their families in their mid-teens (Daphne Matthews, 2011). During the 1950’s, television was introduced; however in its infancy, it was only used to pass...
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...Essay Being a teenager is hard. Everyone in every generation has experienced the unflattering acne, the raging hormones, and the countless distractions. Yet, I think the hardest part about being a teenager is staying positive when it seems like the world is against you. It’s hard to remain calm and focused when you feel nothing is going right. It is difficult to stay positive when you look around at society and disagree with so much of it. I used to think the hardest part of being a teenager was just saying “no” to peer pressure or choosing to watch Netflix instead of finishing homework. However, early in my junior year I took my ex-girlfriend to the councilor because she had started cutting herself. Throughout the year I continually faced more adverse challenges, my brother was expelled from school and my Mom was admitted to the hospital because she fainted twice on separate occasions. My grades started to slip, and I found my mood decline. Sometimes I didn’t even want to go to school because I could not get a grip on the world around me. I didn’t really share much about my personal issues, with any of my friends, till this point. Then I discovered how much my friends thought...
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...Unfortunately, this also gives insecurities to teenagers that lead to deep unconscious behaviour and attitude where one may have a violent reaction towards depression. According to Dr. Fabio Piccini, a Jungian psychotherapist, everyone experiences much stress from messages suggesting everyone, especially teenagers, how they should they look, behave, and be fashionable. Teenagers are all deeply influenced, consciously or unconsciously, by the mass media. This is especially normal and unavoidable at the phase of life as a teenager. Thus values change and move on to what society proposes as ideals. No one can avoid this, but one must understand these kinds of behaviours to avoid unnecessary argument between the other people and the teenager. based on studies, teens have a bigger risk on committing suicide based on their mental disorders such as conduct disorder, avoidant personality disorder, mathematics disorder, reading disorder, disorder of written expression, nightmare disorder, general anxiety disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, factious disorder, as well as numerous other disorders that has been caused commonly by stress, pressure, and depression. A foundation called “TeenScreen” says that there could be 84 to 94 % chance that the student will walk away being falsely labelled as “suicidal” or “ mentally ill” where in TeenScreen fails to disclose. However, TeenScreen developed a “pill pushing” act where a false positive carries not just a false label but also with a prescription...
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...Toddlers vs. Teenagers On the outside, teenagers and toddler may seem different, but they are actually very similar. I have experienced in raising both, from start to finish. The difference can be easily seen, but the similarities you must look closer. Teenagers being big and have a lot more responsibilities, while toddlers are small and developing their basic skills. Teenagers and toddlers overall need tender love and care, with supervision of course. Hygiene, intelligence, and behavior are more comparable than you would think. Teenagers are not the best at keeping up with their hygiene. They tend to smell of body odor, outside, and musty. Teenagers are still adjusting to the hormonal changes in their body and using hygiene products, such as deodorant. Toddlers usually smell of things they were just getting into. When eating, they smell of the food just consumed. After playing, the toddlers smell like play-doh and crayons. Teenagers and toddlers need their parents to constantly remind them of hygiene. Even though teenagers can bathe themselves, parents have to go through the twenty-one question drill. Toddlers want to bathe themselves; parents let them so they can learn. Parents will go behind the toddler because they are still learning how to wash properly. Toddlers learn with constant questions and exploring. They are finding out how the world works and how do they fit in it. Toddlers look to the parents for knowledge and reassurance. Teenagers are quite the opposite...
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...Question. “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” Kurt Vonnegut "Just be yourself." That is great advice for a teenager where there are only unwritten and sometimes unspoken laws that society expects us to abide by without question. Being different isn’t an option. Being different is often looked down upon simply because people are not used to it. It's hard to understand new standards that are out of the ‘norm’, which causes people to become superficial. Being gay is wrong in society’s eyes but yet you are told to “Just Be Yourself” if yourself is straight of course. Teenagers go through a stage in life of discovering themselves, finding who they are and who they want to become. Gay teenagers go through the discovery part of their lives with the bigotry and hatefulness that can come from some very unlikely sources. One of those sources are Christians, or so-called Christians. The teachings they preach are “God is Love” but then turn around and tell you that you’re going to hell for liking someone who is the same gender. A real consistent message there! Many religious gay people fear that they will go to hell if they don’t figure out a way to stop being who they are. People turning to suicide because they can’t change who they are, even though they have been told, “Just be yourself”. Religious preachers indicate that it is sinful to be gay as a man and woman were put on this earth to reproduce, that a...
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...a first person view of a working teenager, who struggles to escape the social classes and the burdens of expectations from society and his peers as he in order to become more in charge of his life. We learn that Sammy’s personality is less traditional compare to his manager Lengel, when his peers are ridicule for showing skin, or indecent for the time. This one conflict tells him that the A&P is might not be the best for him because it is like a ball and chain. But just by being a teenager, he has not developed the reality that people cannot compare yourself to others, because it might...
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...scared, and it may appear that you will crumble under pressure in your environment. Education, abstinence, and parental involvement are vital in reducing the rate of teen pregnancy. The best way to prevent teenage pregnancy, which is 100 percent effective, is abstinence. Most teenagers have their whole life ahead of them and having a child will cause a lot of complications in their goals. It’s not impossible for teenage mothers to complete high school, or try to reach their goals in life, but having a child could very well interfere with those goals. Abstinence is when you give up something you desire or of pleasure to you. Abstaining from sexual activities is a great way to prevent teen pregnancy, and the risk of getting a disease. In the past years less sex and more condoms use has meant lower rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease. Abstinence is not a crime, as most teenagers and their peers seem to think. Most teens have sex because of their peers being sexually active. The percentage of sexually active males declined from 57.4 percent to 48.8 percent, essentially erasing the gender gap. In high school students alone the rate for being sexually active went from being 66.7 percent to 60.9 percent in the years of 1991-1997. Abstinence is very important, but the peers your child...
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...Culture of Sex At the age of 19 years old, she has a crying baby and lives in an apartment, struggling to make the bills. One evening some girlfriends call and see if she would like to go out, she tells her best friend she cannot go on a girl’s night out because she cannot afford a babysitter. Being a single mother, she has no one to help. She ask herself, how did this happen? That one night of passion, was it worth it. Sure, it felt great when she did it, and she trusted the person she was with that one night. That does not always mean that it is the right thing to do. Well everyone is doing it! Like Mom always says, “If everyone jumped off a cliff would you do it to?” Changing her beliefs on pre-marital sex and unprotected sex, because the arguments made based upon fact and other opinions and realities. While protective measures are simple and easy to implement, but are often neglected. The three common reason teenagers practice unprotected sex is religion, illiteracy, and cultural expectations. Although teen pregnancy is an ongoing problem, there are many ways to make it less a less occurring incidence through protection, illiteracy, and media expectations. Firstly, teenagers do not care about birth control or protection to avoid unwanted pregnancies and diseases. “Over the last decade or so, the female condom has also entered the market, but has not found as much success or visibility as has the male condom” (Gordon, 2013). Condoms are the most reliable way to...
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...Teenagers and Facebook - has it gone too far? Social Networking hasn’t been around for that long, the first one ever was launched in 1997 called SixDegrees.com. It allowed users to create profiles, list their Friends and, beginning in 1998, surf the Friends lists. Nowadays the most popular Social Networking site is Facebook, with over 400 million active users, and a large percentage of them being teenagers. Almost every teen has their own account because it has become a very convenient way to communicate with one another, share pictures and even now play games. It is no doubt a very fun site to go on, but after all the hours spent, it is clear to say that Facebook is a huge distraction for teenagers and used to a way too high extent. Before 2006, Facebook was a website strictly for college students and the user had to have a college e-mail address in order to use the website. This policy changed when the website gained popularity and became available to everyone over the age of 13, giving high school students access to it. When an average high school student returns from school, he or she will immediately log on to their Facebook, spend hours updating their status, uploading pictures, commenting on them chatting with friends and beating their friends scores in games. By the end of the night, to themselves they have made quite an accomplishment, yet in the real world they have done absolutely nothing. Their homework still remains untouched and now, being all tired...
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...Kylie Ain’t I a teenager? Hour 5 Literature3 November 16, 2014 Aren’t we teenager? That woman over there says teen are lazy, disrespectful, and irresponsible. I walk my dog and play with my siblings outside and I am on a swim team. And other teens have different ways to be active like going outside and play basketball or dance to music. Aren’t we teenagers? Look at us. Just because we are mad and don’t listen doesn’t mean that we are disrespectful all the time. A lot of teens are actually really respectful they listen to their parents and clean up after themselves so their parents don’t have to clean up after them. Aren’t we teenagers? Lots of people make the claim that teens are really irresponsible. But I know so many teens that have had things from when they were like four years old. And sometimes we lose track of time but we can’t remember everything, really as long as we remember our homework and show up for a sports and band practice we are fine. Teenager aren’t always lazy a lot of them are in sports and do a lot of activities. Just because we like to be on our phones does not mean we are lazy. Some time we just need time to sit down and look at our phones and see what is going on around the world. Teenagers use their smartphones for many things like reading the news, researching on the internet and yes sometimes we talk on the phone to catch up on with friends that we haven’t seen for some time. Grown-ups do all these things but they are not labeled as lazy....
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