Youth Essay

When a person under the age of eighteen commits a crime, most of the time they will not be tried in the same manner as adults. The young defendant may go to court and his verdict might be much more lenient than if he had been a older person. Adults who commit these crimes usually know exactly what they are doing and they know exactly how wrong their crimes are, yet they continue to commit crimes. Minors, however, are still young and ignorant. Their brains are not fully developed yet, and they…

When anyone is involved in any situation there are different factors that affect the situation. These factors can include things such as ethnicity, religion, nation, sexuality, age, and socio-economic level, to name a few. It can sometimes be hard to identify these factors when they are working in one’s favor. But when factors such as these are working against the favor of an individual, they can be very easy to remember. At first, I found it somewhat hard to think of an incidence where I could…

Generation Tech A group of girls are sitting at the local Starbucks chatting about their recent profile picture changes. They analyze every aspect of the picture wondering why they have not received as many likes as the others. They obsess over every detail from what they’re wearing, to how they did their hair, and even wondering what they could have done better. So where did the phenomenon of needing instant gratification from strangers come from? In the early 2000’s “social media” really…

After working at a Christian high school for over two decades it is exciting and to see former students beginning their adult lives with great job prospects from their excellent college education, yet very discouraging to learn that many make the decision to abandon their belief system and leave church behind. Ultimately, one would like to see young adults be more excited about their faith, and the religion in which they were raised. Rather than concentrating on the fact that young adults are…

When a person under the age of eighteen commits a crime, most of the time they will not be tried as adults. The young defendant might go into court and his sentence might be much more lenient than if he had been an adult. Adults who commit these crimes know exactly what it is they are doing and they know exactly how wrong it is, yet they continue to do it. Minors, however, are still young and ignorant. They are in their childhood, despite what one might argue, and they will make mistakes. Young…

Similar to the central government, they have three types of services. Integrated services are one of them and they plan to provide the best start in life for children who have special and specific needs via education, health, social services and youth justice. Children’s services are an additional one and if it weren’t for The Children Act 2004 being introduced, then this service wouldn’t have been established and the children and young people wouldn’t have been protected in a superior way. As…

3.1/3.2 Explain how to monitor children and young people’s development using different methods and specifically explain what the importance is of observation within the monitor and assessment process. Assessment framework To measure a child/ young person development through assessment you will carry out small target on a daily basis to see if they are able to achieve this and follow them up at the end of the academic years with test such as SATs to determine their learning age or GCSE to help…

disease as serious as cancer at such a young age.The schooling aspect of cancer is usually a hard pill to swallow for some parents and children because education is such a huge part of our future as a whole, without proper schooling the minds of the Youth in our society will not have sufficient means to proceed onto higher levels. Aside from the logistics of cancer the social and emotional effects can lead to so many subcategories such as depression and bipolar behavior and violent mood swings…

Discursive Essay – Video games, Beneficial to education? Video games, played by millions around the world and often thought of as time consuming and holding only negative effects on young minds. This topic is widely argued and questioned by parents and younger people alike. During this essay, this topic will be discussed and argued from both sides, for and against. To begin, when young minds play video games, emotional and intellectual skills are actually developed. These skills are gained…

This assignment plans to discus the role of the practitioner working with families and young children. The group I have chosen to focus on is teenage parents; this vulnerable and socially excluded group, continue to be in the media and a current debate topic. Social exclusion has been described by Blackmore and Griggs (2007) as a “Process that results in social groups and individuals being marginalized and separated from ‘mainstream’ society”, this is suggesting those who are considered…