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On Punishment and Teen killers In the fiction article “ On Punishment and Teen Killers” Jennifer Jenkins argues and reviews the position that the author has according debate about teens and crimes. She believes that a lot of teenager committed have serious crime. She’s also, argues that development brain are not reason for crime. She is also against advocates that are against the JLWOP.which means Juvenile Life Without Parole, At the beginning of the article she was youngest sister and her husband murdered in Chicago, offender who testified at his trial “ thrill kill” that he just want to “ see what it would feel like to shoot someone”.
At Seventeen Short Response In the short story “At Seventeen” by Sheila Morehead, symbolism, conflict and characterisation has been used to construct the character “youth” as a complicated and independent surfer. Internal and external conflict has been utilised by Sheila to portray the youth as complicated and independent. Through out the story the youth has had to overcome many obstacles such as communicating and letting people into his own world. This shows the reader that he is very complicated and not a stereotypical teenage boy.
In the article “ On punishment and teen killers” by Jennifer Jenkins argues that 1,300 cases nationally of a teen killer sentenced as an adult to life, sometimes called JLWOP. Jenkins supports her argument by first explain the cases for example, when a teenager murdered her and her husband in 1990 in Chicago. When i read this paragraph i was sad because why would you want to kill your own husband like what is the reason why she did that. I think it was because the husband did something bad like cheating on his wife or because she went crazy like her mind was telling her to kill him. This is another example a high school teacher said that it's hard to think that a young teen could do a bad crime and without parole.
An article in the Teen Tribune tells how a 3-year-old black bear was captured at an elementary school in Bakersfield. The bear was first seen wandering around on school property and it not only interrupted the last day of school but, also a graduation ceremony that was being held at a middle school close by. The bear spotting caught everyone by surprise and soon all students that were outside were sent back to their classrooms as the bear started to come closer. And even though the bear kept its distance and nobody was in harm’s way, the authorities were called. It didn’t take long for the officers to get there, and when they did they cornered the bear, captured it and released it into the wild.
The author uses different languages to describe and present different people. He has also used language to show different
On the opposite spectrum is, Jennifer Jenkins with the weakest ethos; which is demonstrated in her article “On Punishment and Teen Killers.” Jenkins first starts off with her weal credentials of being a highschool teacher and following it with a weaker claim to support her credentials, “As a high school teacher, I have worked lovingly with teens all my life and I understand how hard it is to accept the reality that a 16 or 17 year old is capable of forming such requisite criminal intent. ”(4) Saying that one works with a subject meaning that they have a better understanding does not seem to even compare to a person who went to a university and have a major in the previously stated subject. Her attempt at “credentials” of why kids should not
Everyone who has been through adolescence knows that it is one of the most challenging times of their lives. However, in "Hanging Fire" by Audre Lorde, "Momentum" by Catherine Doty, and "Popularity" by Adam Bagdasarian, the authors think that adolescence is a time that is very hard for adolescents. The authors think that the time of adolescence is a time where children think that the world is ending, and that it is a matter of life and death. They communicate this idea through the use of extended metaphors, repetition, and hyperbole. Overall, the authors agree on one idea, which is that adolescence is a very difficult time.
“Your children will become who you are, so be who you want them to be.” In the short story A Girl by Lindsay Hunter, leading by example is one of the vital points the author makes. Hunter demonstrates this by showing how the practice of negligent parenting leads to devastating outcomes. Hunters descriptions of Dee’s inattentive upbringing is implied throughout the story. Because the story is narrated by one of her male classmates, it is told from the first-person point of view.
The media has a need to give people information about what is happening around the world. The article teenagers What’s Wrong With Them, written by RACHEL CUSK published by the Australian12:00AM April 25, 2015 presents detail about how teenager don’t make good desertions. This article is a negative article. The news article effectively creates a negative perspective on teens. This has been achieved using emotive language: emotive language, modality, quotations.
In the op-ed “The Joy of Communal Girlhood, the Anguish of Teen Girls” by Jessica Bennett (New York Times 12/22/2023) she claims that girlhood masks the reality of being a girl yet, over the course of the article, explores the idea of girl trends having a positive impact. Bennett saw girlhood as a fantasy and used a study showing girls were facing double the sadness and hopelessness as boys. Social media seems to have a huge impact on girls' mental health because of the anxiety associated with it. However, she reveals that in the 90s prior to social media, there was a false sense of self and that today's society is a manifestation of that. After analyzing her protest against glorifying girlhood, Bennett questions herself and sees that these
Book report #1 : After (book series) #1 After is a brilliant book and idea for any teenager. Written by Anna Todd, she surely captures the hopeless romantic of all young relationships. This story is based off of new college-life, family issues, and puppy love. Starting with a girl named Tessa, her boyfriend of two years, and her lovely mom, who she soon finds out that she's not who she say's she is.
The author connects the reader thanks to different literary and figurative devices as
In the news there are always people talking about teenagers and about what they do and how they act. Teenagers sometimes make mistakes and have a bad day doing it tennagers have to think about what they do every day no matter what it is or what their doing. Another reason why is because of school and what they do in it. Tennagers aren’t just not careless they sometimes in between ages 15 to ages 17 go out and do things and some tennagers tell their parents what they are doing before they do it also tennagers will not lie about where or what they did to their parents because they will know what will happen to them if they don’t.
Some teenagers are having sex. Some teenagers start working during this time. Some teenagers later in adolescences start college application and prepare for graduations. I believe that the adolescence stage covers so much and is a huge transition. I decided to talk about several important changes
Family crisis has caused the social control in children to be neglected. Parents who often argued will not be able to nurture and educate their children properly. This situation becomes worst when the parents are busy with the tasks at office until they ignore their responsibilities to watch over their children’s behavior. Social problems among teenagers become an increasingly worrying phenomenon that teenagers go through such as early pregnancy, suicidal and drug abuse. However, there are many helpful organizations trying to overcome the social problems among teenagers.
