Being A Teenager Essay

with alcohol in teenagers is common however, teenagers simply can’t comprehend the risks involved. No teenager decides to have a few drinks at a party and thinks they will end up killing someone nevertheless, it happens. Alcohol remains effortless for teenagers to gain access to yet the punishment is often lenient. One death due to adolescent drinking is too many so consequently, we need to have harsher punishments for underage drinking. We all hear on the news often that teenagers…

his article, Burgess accurately predicts a time in England when teenagers will be in control. Attempting to justify these unexplainable events, Jonathon Foreman wrote “London Aflame,” where rioters in London defy authority and act in anarchy. By showing us the events of the riots, as well as, why they lasted so long – due to the teenager’s violence and lack of police force – readers begin to get a clearer picture as to why these teenagers decided to loot London. Beginning August…

a center of their lives due to the time they spent there. With school as a core in the life of a teenager, we have on the other hand, jobs which have the same level of importance as a school. Despite after school jobs are not well appreciated, they fulfil some needs for a student and help the student in a regular basis in the same way as a school. Indeed, after school jobs are good for teenagers. After school jobs could appear as a continuation of school in the way it sharpens the skills…

According to a compilation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2011, 962,542 under-aged teens (below 18 years old) were arrested with 677,299 of them being males. Male delinquents outnumber female ones by more than a 2:1 ratio which has been consistent for the past 30 years. This shows an alarming number of teenagers rebelling for one reason or another. In the Philippines alone, the Bureau of Corrections and Bureau of Jail Management and Penology recorded in…

People around the United States argue about lowering the drinking age to eighteen. If teenagers in the United States are allowed to vote and join the military at age eighteen they are considered responsible adults then they should be allowed to purchase alcohol. If teenagers in the United States are prohibited to purchase alcohol, they are going to find other ways to purchase and drink alcohol anyways. If eighteen year olds are allowed to purchase tobacco then why shouldn’t they be allowed to…

control devices to teenagers. Most argue that teenagers should not need contraceptives, for they should not need them. These people are the older, more proper adults who believe sex should be saved for marriage. Well, the world has gone away from this world of thinking and is starting to sway to the other end of the spectrum. In this day and age, it is believed that these devices should be available to any and all teenages that want them. So, everybody just needs to face it; the teenagers have…

like it and others don’t, so should it be censored because of Holden and Salinger’s style? Many critics would want the book to be censored because of it influencing teenagers. I think this idea is absolutely absurd. In todays society, teenagers know a lot more about profanity. In an article by Chicago Tribune, It says “Teenagers are more likely to drop casual expletives, or “fillers”, than the generation before them…

comply with teen court sanctions, young offenders risk being returned to juvenile court to face their original charges. In our society, we need Teen Courts in order to prevent delinquent teens from falling into labels, teach them valuable lessons, and to teach teens about the criminal justice system.…

they are putting their children at risk of not being prepared for dealing with how to properly handle what is expected to happen during their teenage and young adult years. Abstinence only sexual education is believed to be the best form of sexual education by many parents, but in reality it can cause a number of negative effects on teenager’s sexual knowledge and their abstinence. Abstinence only sexual education’s main focus is to inform teenagers that they should remain abstinent until they…

are tried as adults. Teenagers who are accused of violent crimes should not be tried or sentenced as adults because there is no rehabilitation in adult prisons that will develop and improve the character of juveniles. Teenagers are not mature. They do not know the consequences of the choices they make. In the article by Greg Krikorian, a research study by Laurence Steinberg states that, “its findings suggest that “thousands” of juveniles went to adult trial when they…