Puberty Essay

resort to calling my mom and having her remove it. It was quite humiliating for a girl that felt so grown up just an hour ago. She quietly showed me the pads and suggested I use them until I got a bit older. Northrup, in her column, "The Body at Puberty," recommends girls use pads initially until her periods become more regular. She goes on to discuss the rapid growth the cervix undergoes and that tampons may cause irritation there. If I only…

Nature vs. Nurture: From Development to Research In the article, Why nature and nurture won’t go away, Steven Pinker reconsiders the debate regarding nature and nurture. Over the years, the opposition to different beliefs has raised many opinions over a particular dominance. First, scientists believed in the doctrine that “innate” biology dominated. During the twentieth- century, the doctrine shifted to a nurture dominance and that the mind is a “blank slate”. According to Parker, our modern…

weight is healthy for her age (Dietitians of Canada, 2014). Furthermore, from my observations of Maria’s physical features, I noticed that her breast is growing and this is confirmed by her mother. With regards to this, I conclude that Maria is on the puberty stage. The growth of breasts is one of the changes in secondary sex characteristics, which is defined as physical maturity not linked directly to reproductive organs (Barnfield & Kail, 2012,…

Sadness is an emotion central to human experience. For most, it is an appropriate and adaptive response to loss, perceived failure, or rejection. It can inform us when something is amiss in our lives that we may need to address. Ideally, it is a transient emotional experience, that fades as circumstances change or evolve. For some individuals, however, sadness persists for weeks , months, or years, invariant to situation or time. Depression is an emotional disorder defined by this…

Gynecomastia Antisha Hudson San Joaquin Valley College Gynecomastia In westernized culture, Men that are affected with man boobs are considered to be undesirable, embarrassing, & sloth-like. Most people do not know it can stem from a medical condition as side effect. The colloquial term of this disease is gynecomastia, & is not well-known to be very common in the medical field. Gynecomastia’s history/discovery, the effects, & the present/future ideas are important information that are relayed in…

and gather food for the family, but the Agta community women not only hunt but also appear to hunt frequently for the family. It’s like a tradition where they allow women to hunt with their husband. They state, “Girls start hunting shortly after puberty, before then they are gathering forest knowledge but are not strong”(1981:194). Comparing this to my culture women usually do food gathering and cooking but hunting would be a no the reason for that is ‘women should not be carrying heavy stuff’…

It has been said that “[s]iblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way.” Siblings can be the most cordial people to the most heinous at times. One can be very close to their siblings or start to distance themselves from them. Growing apart can be a positive thing, while it other cases it may be negative. In some cases, when a relationship changes as siblings grow up, it can lead to many…

A. Size and Structure - sperm, the smallest cell within the human body, are only a few micrometers long. It is composed of a head, midpiece, and tail. Within the head are the nucleus, condensed DNA containing 23 chromosomes, and the acrosome. The acrosome is located at the end of the head and is considered a modified lysozome containing digestive enzymes that are capable of breaking through the outer layer of an egg. The midpiece of the sperm contains mitochondria that produce the energy for the…

more than their product. The #LikeAGirl campaign encourages cultural change to make the phrase “like a girl” to mean something positive rather than negative. The campaign also aims to motivate young women and girls to be confident after they hit puberty when their confidence typically drops. The Always campaign accomplishes this goal through the use of branding, challenging text statements, startling statistics and research findings on young women’s confidence, and critiquing the common place of…

For my commercial analysis, I chose a very popular Always ad that aired during the 2015 Superbowl. In brief, the ad is assessing the concept of puberty on girls. The video demonstrates a variety of girls-and a few boys- with different age ranges being told to perform certain actions that reveal their definition or idea of doing something “like a girl”. To start off, this commercial is supportive of women and women 's rights. It also promotes both confidence and self-esteem. After watching the…