Adult development

through a qualitative analysis to discover the perceptions of persons ages 17-25, classifying this age group as emerging adults, who were recovering from substance abuse and had a concurrent mental health disorder regarding the achievement of adulthood. Goodman et al. provide a brief review of literature findings reporting previous researchers have identified the needs of emerging adults differ from those who have reached adulthood. Citing several other works (Adams, Knopf, & Park, 2014;…

ALPINE FINESSE ‘UNIQUELY FRESH’ ™ This paper is an honest reflexive analysis of my relationship to the product Alpine Finesse, a cigarette brand that I used as a teenager and into my early adulthood. How did the item express your self-identity? As a teenager I was influenced, like most other teenagers by the peers I surrounded myself with. Arguably, I was a teenager with an unusual background. My family was working class, my parents were divorced, and I was one of five living in a large blended…

Really an Adult?” she uses a series of true life accounts to attempt to define when a person becomes an adult and what defines adulthood. She begins with the real life example of Henry David Thoreau and catches the attention of the reader by leading them down the path that she is talking about a current day young man. However, when she reveals she is talking of a young man of years past it is obvious that many different generations struggle with the definition and thought of being an adult.…

When I turn 10, I receive the best gift ever. It was the gift of Work. At that time I knew that working was the key to adulthood and every ten year old dream was to be treated as a adult. Well..maybe it was just me but I knew that I always felt older than my age. So when my parent open up a little convenience store inside a bus company,and they gave me the opportunity to work there, I jump right onto the bandwagon and was eager to have my very first job. From age 10 to 13, I was very…

Mukesh Shah, 58, a self-made man, who has overcome many struggles in his early adulthood. As a child, he was the troublemaker amongst all of his siblings. But as the time passed, his family undergo into a crisis economically and emotionally. As an adult, he went through some harsh conditions for his family, because he realized the importance of love and support that his family…

It is often said that ignorance is bliss. No members of society live more blissful and ignorant lives than children. They live unaware of evil in the world and free from the judgement of others. During childhood, kids exist in almost a separate world, where they are able to be truly genuine people. Holden Caulfield of J.D Salinger’s The Catcher In The Rye persistently fantasizes about the freedom of childhood. Holden thinks highly of children and praises how sincere they are. Holden also feels…

The Catcher in the Rye, a coming of age novel about a sixteen old rebellious boy named Holden, who feels that he is alienated by society, as he sees the whole society as phony and fake under its facade of friendliness. After failing all of his classes except for English in his prestigious school, he abandons his schooling in able to wander the streets of New York. What will Holden Caulfield discover in New York? How will he assess his morals? Why does he do the things that he do? My SSR novel…

Developmental Stages Recognized at Jefferson Memorial Park The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the developmental stages that were observed at Jefferson Memorial Park on Friday, April 28, 2017 from 12:08 p.m. to 1:08 p.m. that an many individuals commonly experience throughout their life span. The developmental stages are categorized as infancy, preschool years, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood (Feldman, 2014). Of these particular…

What does it mean to “come of age”? To come of age is to transition from being a child to becoming an adult; going through different major milestones/phases in life. You reach an age where you change your place in society. If you are 2 years old, you don’t go to school but when you are 5, you enter elementary school, then middle school, then high school, then you go off the university, then enter to active lifestyle where you learn to depend on yourself to survive. You gain more independency as…

Becoming an adult means a lot of different things. When one turns 18, they are allowed to purchase cigarettes or snuff and go to casinos. They can register to vote, and if they are male, register for the draft. At age 21, the purchase and consumption of alcohol is legal, college majors have been solidified, and for some people, families have been started. Surely by age 25, adulthood has set in. There are bills to pay, jobs to perform, and there are certainly responsibilities that extend…