“Really I’m a sober soul but I’m with the homies right now” (Lamar). Kendrick Lamar explores the themes of peer pressure and substance abuse in his album Good Kid M.A.A.D City. Teen-agers seem to be the best at making poor decisions, but why do they do it? Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The Terrible Teens” examines the teenage brain and explains the neurology behind their decisions.
How could the school and parents of the teen-agers help their children to stop doing the high risk things? Elizabeth Kolbert did describe how the teenagers do dangerous things and cite lots of authority people’s words to prove that points in the article “Terrible Teens”. We are still on the way to stop the teenagers doing the things what will endanger themselves. Using appeal to authority, repetition and personification devices to show the teenagers are really dangerous without adult stay with them and make the reader feel the same with the author. Elizabeth Kolbert did use personification,repetition devices and appeal to authority in his story to make the article more clearly and through to our life.
To create a strong argument, creative techniques must be employed in any piece of writing. Two common techniques are methods of development and rhetorical devices. In Elizabeth Kolbert’s writing of “The Terrible Teens”, she effectively proves her argument with the use of these techniques. Specifically, Kolbert uses examples, appeal to authority, and, inside the latter, metaphors to further support the argument. Using these strategies she successfully proves that neurology can help us understand why teens do unwise things, and that we are unsure what to do about it.
Teenage depression and mental health has been downplayed by adults, resulting in a worse turn of fate. Many children and teenagers aren’t receiving the care they need from parents, psychologists and the mental health system. In her essay regarding teenage depression and mental health, Anna Quindlen implores parents, educators, and politicians to be aware and considerate of children’s mindsets. In her intro, Quindlen draws the audience in using provocative diction.
In this essay i will talk about an campaign called “When Do Kids Become Adults?, which has many different opinions about it from different people. To have a successful campaign you need to present an argument that supports claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence, and other ways. I will create multimedia campaign to present my response to that age-old questions. With this campaign there were two poems that shows us things about maturity and things. The poems called “Hanging Fire” and the other one called “Teenagers” written by Audre Lorde and Pat Mora.
In the song “When You’re Young” by “The Jam,” they sing about how teens are full of youthful energy and rebellious thoughts. One of their lyrics states “...the world is your oyster, but your futures a clam.” This line represents the coming-of-age process and how difficult it can be for teens to grow up and find their true identity. In “Half a Moon” by Renee Watson and “Smokers'' by Tobias Wolff, the authors use the characterization of growing and maturing to show that as teens work to find their identity, they often struggle and make mistakes along the way but eventually realize they must make some changes if they hope to mature.
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.
In their essay “Should everyone Go to College,” Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill exemplify that despite popular belief, college does not always benefit all individuals who attend. With tuition on the rise, many students are in debt before they have even decided their major or career path. This is because in today society one feels compelled or pushed to go to college in order to be successful in finding a well-paying job. Owen and Sawhill’s explain the importance of planning in their essay stating, “We emphasize that a 17- or 18-year-old deciding whether and where to go to college should carefully consider his or her own likely path of education and career before committing a considerable amount of time and money to that degree” (Owen, Sawhill
She fools herself into thinking she is an adult because she assumes the appearance of one when she is not home: “She wore a pullover jersey blouse that looked one way when she was at home and another way when she was away from home” (396). Through her dressing and going out with several boys, she strives to present herself as a sexually attractive mature woman. Only realizing the sexual aspect of maturity, Connie is not prepared for the responsibilities associated with independence. She is careless as an adolescent, as she spends a different night with a different boy: “All the boys… dissolved into a single face that was not even a face, but an idea, a feeling” (397). The word “dissolve” provides an image of a distant blur of a teenager’s insignificant relationships and not concrete and meaningful relationships that an adult would engage in.
Do you know how the cost of college, including tuition, fees, and living expenses, weighs against the potential benefits of obtaining a degree? Both Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill, authors of "Should Everyone Go to College," and Charles Fain Lehman, author of "The Student Loan Trap: When Debt Delays Life," discuss these significant beneficiaries in their writings. All authors cover the burden of student loan debt that can permeate various aspects of an individual's life, affecting not only their financial well-being but also their mental, emotional, and physical health. Firstly, to start off, in Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill’s essay “Should Everyone Go to College” they explore the debate surrounding the idea that attending college is necessary or beneficial for everyone. Owen and Sawhill
The article “Teens Who Fought Against Hitler” By: Lauren Tarshis is a story about a boy Ben Kamm and his family and the challenges they faced during the holocaust. This story is about a family that is jewish and the family faced the rising politician Hitler and he offered jewish people as a scapegoat. Also Hitler was the embodiment of Germany, and the birth of anti semitism. This is where germany takes one of the darkest turns for the worst the holocaust. Challenges were Hitler’s influence went across Europe because of this the people that were not jewish were turned on by their neighbors.
”(healthychildren.org) It is true that the adolescent brain is still developing and not fully mature, but they should
Imagine a small cave with a little tunnel of light leading out and hundreds (or thousands) of humans tied up so they can’t move. They’re tied up to some rocks, their arms and legs are bound and their head is tied so they cannot look at anything but the stonewall in a front of them. Behind them is a fire and between them is a raised walkway where people outside the cave walk along this walkway carrying various items on their heads; such as; animals, plants and wood. They begin to see shadows and in the midst of them seeing shadows they decide to create a game, who can guess what shadow comes next. If one gets it right they would praise him for being so clever.
Brittney McNamara, reporter for Teen Vogue, wrote “Mental Health Treatment Associated with Fewer Depressive Symptoms for Teens” and other articles relating teenager lifestyles. She claims that teenagers with depression or depressed symptoms show signs of improvement when using mental health treatment. She provides statistics that supports her claim, for example, she says “The study followed 1,238 teenagers.. 126 had present mental health issues..” and she uses research from well-known health care providers like Mayo Clinic to provide the reasons and explanation for mental health treatment. In the article, McNamara targets the parents of the teenagers, because she claims that mental health treatment helps teenagers with depression and it shows
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.
