...component in the proper development of teenagers, especially females during the adolescent years. Without a good measure of self-esteem, young girls may grow up lacking basic skills needed to succeed in life; athletic involvement beginning at a young age is a good way to begin developing necessary social skills that will lead to greater self-esteem later in life. Although participation in sports can have a negative effect on teenage girls, the positive impact the sport has on them greatly outweighs the negative. Research has found that the most common negative effect of athletics on females is over training. Over training occurs when the body is pushed beyond its limits both physically and emotionally. The more females participate in sports, the higher the risk she has of obtaining a sports-related injury (Sabo, 1997, p. 38). The more competitive the sport is, the more training is needed in order to be successful, and this training can become risky to girls’ bodies. Girls tend to over-train under pressure, which in turn, leads to unnecessary injuries. Some of the most common injuries girls sustain due to overuse are stress fractures, kneecap disorders, and compartment syndromes (Storm & Jenkins, 2002, p. 164). According to Go Girl! Raising Healthy, Confident and Successful Girls Through Sports, a book written by Hannah Storm about girls participation in sports, “Stress fractures are a series of tiny cracks that don’t heal because of the frequency or intensity of an athlete’s...
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...main characters portrayed are high school cheerleaders. They are all dressed in matching uniforms with blue and white tops, white skirts, and white shoes. They are perceived to be cheering in the middle of a high school football game. There is a girl doing a toe touch as she is tossed into the air by three other cheerleaders. There is a look of uncertainty on her face, as she attempts to smile. This brings a bit of humor to the ad. Above her head is the text reading “At a moment like THIS, I don’t care if my tampons came in a little black box.” The other 4 cheerleaders are doing individual jumps in the background. Near the bottom of the ad is a Tampax box that has the shape of a heart on the front of the package. Beneath the logo are the words “Outsmart Mother Nature,” outlined in pink. The bottom center of the ad also reads “Tampax Pearl with Cleanguard protects better than Kotex.” To persuade potential buyers the Tampax Company uses teenage role models. The girls in the ad all appear to be happy, healthy, and carefree teenage girls. I believe that cheerleaders were used in the ad because it’s a very active sport. The girls in the ad are very pretty, well groomed, and appear lighthearted. It’s my belief, young girls will recognize this and attempt try to relate with the role model cheerleaders. I had...
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...them in making health-related decisions. Each family is very unique with different ways of life and perceptions about their health. Getting to know the family, structurally as well as functionally helps to identify health behaviors along with risk factors that may be helpful or harmful to the family. This is an extended family; consisting of grandma and grandpa, their oldest daughter who moved in two years ago, and her four children. LZA, grandma is 55, RAA, grandpa is 57, KMG, mother is 30, her daughters; KAG-8, MMG-6, RAG-3, and baby ZLG-1. This family had a very religious upbringing and is still very active in the Catholic Church, attending mass every Sunday. They strongly believe in the importance of family and religion. They value sentiments like compassion, respect and consideration of others. The family is at stage IV of the Duvall’s developmental stages of the family: (the oldest child in the household is eight) families with school-age children; children develop peer relations, and parents adjust to peer and school influences. This family’s home is situated in a nice quiet neighborhood, close to a park where the girls can play. KMG states that “very nice people live here, and we are going to live here forever.” Grandma rolled her eyes after hearing this. This is a four-bedroom, two bathroom home, with the grandparents in one room, the mother has her own room, KAG and MMG share a room and RAG and ZLG share a room. The home is clean but has many of the girls’ toys...
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...months. Why is the HPV vaccine important? Genital HPV is a common virus that is passed from one person to another through direct skin-to-skin contact during sexual activity. Most sexually active people will get HPV at some time in their lives, though most will never even know it. HPV infection is most common in people in their late teens and early 20s. There are about 40 types of HPV that can infect the genital areas of men and women. Most HPV types cause no symptoms and go away on their own. But some types can cause cervical cancer in women and other less common cancers— like cancers of the anus, penis, vagina, and vulva and oropharynx (back of throat including base of tongue and tonsils). Other types of HPV can cause warts in the genital areas of men and women, called genital warts. Genital warts are not life-threatening. But they can cause emotional stress and their treatment can be very uncomfortable. Every year, about 12,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and 4,000 women die from this disease in the U.S. About 1% of sexually active adults in the U.S. have visible genital warts at any point in time. Which girls/women should receive HPV vaccination? HPV vaccination is recommended with either vaccine for 11 and 12 year-old girls. It is also recommended for girls and women age 13 through 26 years of age who have not yet been vaccinated or...
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...adjustment which could lead to interpersonal violence (Savitsky, Illingworth, & DuLaney, 2009). Some service members returning from deployment who have been diagnosed with PTSD have been found to be associated with partner violence. “Battlemind is the “soldier’s inner strength to face fear and adversity with courage”” (Savitsky, Illingworth, & DuLaney, 2009). Battlemind is very crucial during time of deployment and when in a combat zone, however, if battlemind is used while at home in an aggressive situation it could lead to family violence. During deployment most families become one parent families so stress starts to build for the at home parent. It has been found that military families show more maltreatment during the time of deployment than when a parent was not deployed. Due to relocation making it difficult to create new bonds children face behavioral and academic challenges. The Cycle of Deployment often causes stress on a child because of anxiety, learning to cope with an injured parent, and learning to cope with the absence of a parent. When a service member comes home wounded mentally or physically it puts a stressor on the family. Most...
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...support services. Hampton effectively convinces her audience that teen pregnancy is a life changing experience through the ABC Family’s hit show the Secret Life of the All American Teenager. As Hampton directed a show that resembles these hardships and possible outcomes of having the responsibility of being a teen parent, she goes in depth about the different events and obstacles that may be faced. Parents are so strict when it comes to their teens becoming sexually active that when they become sexually active they feel that they can’t talk to their parents putting them at a higher risk for teen pregnancy due to the miss use of contraception. Secret Life was created to spread awareness about safe sex and the responsibilities of being sexually active. Throughout this show Hampton demonstrates the difference between adoption, abortion, and miscarriage. By having each represented in an episode and having different characters throughout the show act these situations out. Also showing the different effects it has on the girl, significant other and family. Most importantly, teaching safe sex. Not only towards teenagers between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, also to parents. In episode one of season one, ‘Falling in Love’ is the main idea and is the opening episode for this show. All of the main and reoccurring characters are introduced....
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...Gopeesingh said, “More than 2, 500 teenage pregnancies...
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...target audience. Neither are they allowed to be a compelling character with a story arc and personal growth as we see with the male protagonist. Female characters, when included, tend to be one dimensional and only valued for typically how they fit into traditional gender roles by being submissive and innocent. This narrow portrayal of women comes from the fact that the developers of video games are predominantly men. Only 11% of game designers are women and only 3% of programmers, even though it is one of the fastest growing and most profitable fields in the economic market today (Sydell). This small portion of women in the video game workforce also earns significantly less than their male counter-parts- typically around $12,000 a year less, making their gender-pay gap worse than the national average (Sydell). This inequality stems from a larger societal problem of women not being...
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...influence to reduce adolescent/teens decision to become sexually active at an early age. There are many reasons why this topic warrants deeper research. Early adolescent sexual experience is said to be lined with various risky behaviors, including unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (Kirby et. al, 2005, Ryan et. al, 2008). With huge emphasis placed on the role parents have in their children’s’ lives, it is conceivable that their impact can play a role in deferring teens/adolescents from engaging in sexual activities thus lessening the dangers that surround sexual promiscuity. It is also extremely critical to understand if parental involvement has a connection with the timing of a teen/adolescents initial sexual encounter. Child Trends analyzed the most recent data published from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997). This cohort study attempted to investigate how parenting practices that happen before their adolescent/teen become sexually interested and active will affect their decision to become sexually active by age 16 (Child Trends, 2009). The key findings of this analysis found that there are multiple factors of parental guidance and involvements are associated with delaying a teen/adolescents first sexual experience. These factors include positive parent-child relationships, high parental awareness and monitoring and family dinner routines (Child Trends, 2009). More...
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...The need for comprehensive wellness programs in Canadian workplaces and diversified physical activity among Canadian boys and girls IGWEAGU Kenechukwu O. 7692210 PERS 1200 Reflection 2 30/10/15 The need for comprehensive wellness programs in Canadian workplaces and diversified physical activity among Canadian boys and girls Talking about the Epidemiological transition, countries in the age of pestilence and famine cannot progress from this stage unless they target the spread of infectious diseases through improvements in sanitation and public health and by stabilization of food supply. Similarly, western countries in the stage of degenerative and man-made diseases must make active efforts to move to the next stage, if the next stage is going to be the stage of delayed degenerative disease. These countries moved from the first to the second to the third stage by making good decisions about the country’s organization and control. There was a clear goal in sight, and then a group of concise plans to achieving the different components of the singular goal. The singular goal was to reduce the mortality rates of people living in that country. In other to achieve this death must be reduced by reducing its causes. “Life expectancy at birth in the United States was 77.8 years in 2004, which is a dramatic increase from 49.2 years in 1900 to 1902.” The paper attempts to use this information as well as information about the trend in the physical activity levels of to establish a...
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...Nicole Guilbault English 1100 Writing Project 2 October 6, 2015 Girl Power? “Girls rule boys drool.” “Girls go to college to get more knowledge and boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider.” These are just a few of the sayings used by adolescent females to flaunt their gender pride, but could they possibly be true? Barbara Ehrenreich compares the work ethics and social habits of males and females in her essay “Guys Just Want to Have Fun.” Ehrenreich believes girls are the achievers in today’s world while boys sit back and play, this causes her to conclude that one day soon females will rule the world. This may in fact have some truths to it, but gender is not the issue at hand. We’re all aware one does not need to drown himself in a pool of textbooks and obsessively strive for perfect grades. Also there is nothing wrong with having a little fun while being on your way to a college education. The fact of the matter is test scores and good grades truly mean nothing without a good personality and communication skills to back it up. It simply comes down to this; a person, male or female, who sits at home secluded from society with their noses buried in books will have no advantage over someone who receives average grades and enjoys a highly active social lifestyle. As time goes on and technology and social standards change, so do the skills necessary to hold a place in the workforce. The U.S. Department of Labor and education formed the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving...
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...Running head: MORE THAN HORMONES Teen Pregnancy: More Than Just Raging Hormones Amberette Kennard Psychology 101 Professor Greg Harmling 05/10/2011 Teen Pregnancy: More Than Just Raging Hormones A young girl gets ready to leave for school. She brushes her teeth, combs her hair and picks out an outfit. She gets dressed and takes one final look in the mirror before heading out. She stares at her midsection, anxiously trying to adjust her shirt. It’s getting harder and harder to hide…soon everyone will know... Despite a one-third decline since the early 1990s, the United States still has the highest rates of teen pregnancy and birth among comparable countries. In 2008, the U.S. teen birth rate was 41.5 births per 1,000 girls age 15-19. By way of comparison, the U.S. teen birth rate is nearly two times higher than the United Kingdom (26.7 per 1,000). (The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, 2010) Teen pregnancy has been the leading topic of many U.S. talk shows, news programs, documentaries, and movies. Its appearance in so many mediums demonstrates that there is a fascination with and strong desire to understand the problem of teen pregnancy in the United States and the constant search for a solution. There have been many studies on the physical causes of teen pregnancy such as rising hormone levels, the adolescent brain’s transition, and more. Although there has been...
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...had few friends and we were girlfriends- talked girly stuff, not much about guys. From Parents- absolutely nothing. There was no sex talk at all. From Books- I learned about intercourse and that there are strong feelings. I learned about periods and the female anatomy. 2) What information and ideas were the norm when you were growing up (such as in your teen years or early adult years)? Sex was not to be talked about, especially as a topic to find out more information about. It was a sin unless you were married. Kids played around, but you didn't "go all the way". Only bad girls had sex before marriage- guys had sexual urges and had to be told "no". Girls weren't supposed to have sexual urges. 3) What were the attitudes of your parents, your friends, and the media about sex? Parents- Only after marriage-- a dirty subject--- not fun Media- Girls make guys do crazy things- Flirting is ok. Sexiness sells. Friends- Never talked about--- Not a big deal - some guys were cute, handsome, but we were not falling all over ourselves to impress them. 4) What's the best advice or most useful information you ever received about sex? The worst? Who was it from? 5) Have you ever had a formal class in "sex education"? If no, why not? If yes, what year and how old were you? Please describe what the class was like. What is one fact you...
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...At a young age I discovered my love for animals and a passion to giving back to my community. Eight years old and making the decision to join 4-H is the best decision a young girl could make. A close family friend was generous to give a rooster to that young girl and the love and need for farm life soon came after. Goats, chickens, rabbits, pigeons, sheep, and pigs were the animal species I have raised and shown over the last ten years. Showing animals came great responsibility as it takes dedication, time, and problem solving. Living on a farm there are always tasks that need to be met. Cleaning stalls, disease prevention, and the list goes on. Throughout my years of 4-H and since I was eight years old I have always dreamt to have my own farm and be a veterinarian. Today, this is still my goal. Being a veterinarian is not only about saving animals. It is about giving back to beloved pet owners and in some cases giving back to the world's food supply by...
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... there might be another more concerning problem causing the child to act out in this particular way. ADHD is a weakness in the brain's ability to focus on important sensory information (Logsdon, 2018, par. 1). This means that people who have ADHD have a harder time concentrating and...
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