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Spencer Finnley's Argumentative Essay

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The sophomore school year has come to an end for Spencer Finnley. Leading into her junior year, Spencer Finnley- just like any other teenager was curious about trying new things, and that decision turned out to be the biggest regret in her life. Spencer Finnley deleterious decision started off, when she decided to go with her friend to an all-age club. Spencer Finnley gullible mind decided that she try a mixed drink for the first time, since “everybody else” was doing it. Spencer Finnley mind was too naive to understand the after affects that one drink might have on her life and when she had that one drink, her mind was too paralyzed by the alcohol to put in perspective that she was too young. From that drink, Spencer Finnley became an alcoholic …show more content…

In today’s society- especially in my community, teenagers’ minds are very gullible. In the mind of a teenager, we don’t just decide that one day maybe I’ll try this drug or that drug. It’s so much pressure put on a teenager; to be like this and don’t do that, led by this example; what society fails to realize is that teenagers get tired and stress out, and that’s when we turn to things, such as drugs. I know in my school the availability of drugs such as marijuana and pill is very abundant. The students' decision to use these drugs realize on their mindset and much of the student's mind set in my school isn’t focus on the school work; they really don’t care whether they pass or not and they don’t understand that when they are high of this drug or that drug their disrupting the other students’ and teachers’ from learning and teaching with their narcotic behavior. In my family the use of drugs has affected us as a whole significantly. The decision to use drugs has caused children to be taken from their guardian and was moved from relative to relative, that thought to love them. The decision to use drugs in my family has caused a thin line in my family truth between each other and the decision to use drugs in my family has caused an unstable relationship between children and their guardian. My decision not to use drugs comes from destruction it had on my family. …show more content…

There’s nothing wrong with being pregnant when you’re because you’re legally grown, but it is a problem when you can barely take care of yourself. Then you want to bring a child into your unstable world and then on top of that you’re younger than eighteen. How can someone my age raise a child when they’re still a child having someone still raise them? Why would someone my age want to throw away their life when they barely have one? Teenagers don’t take into consideration all of the responsibilities that a child brings; all of the expenses it takes to raise a child. I know that I will owe my mom money because of the money she has invested in me. I can remember last year, there were so many teenagers, pregnant and the ones I knew actually dropped out of school. I’ve decided not to have intercourse because as of right now my life is too valuable to bring a child into it to destroy it. I don’t have time to be watching a child or trying to get a job to support a child. I want money to spend on myself; not on a child that shouldn’t even be here. My decision not to engage in intercourse strengthen when I saw the television show called, sixteen and pregnant. When I saw their struggle life, I didn’t want to see myself in their shoes and I know when I get older I want multiple children, so if I have a child at sixteen, I

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