Index of youth articles

Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDs in the Dominican Republic, by Mark Padilla, explores the social and economic effects of the Dominican Republic’s dependency on the tourism industry, particularly as they relate to male sex workers. The abundance of opportunity in the tourism industry—as opposed to the lack thereof in, per se, agriculture—all but forces migration of the middle class and the poor to urban areas, where they can easily access popular tourist destinations,…

Film Analysis: Dólares de Arena The film by filmmakers Israel Cardenas and Laura Amelia Guzaman Dólares de Arena was released in 2014 and features Noeli (Yanet Mojica) as the main character. The fairly attractive young Dominican woman, Noeli is improvised. She lives in a hut with her boyfriend Yeremi (Ricardo Ariel Torbio). Her life seems very relaxed as she hangs out with and hustles white tourist on the beaches of the Dominican Republic. Her main conflict is her class and by consequence her…

“I think that when I write, I write out of who I am and the questions I need to figure out” (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents 169). Everyone has a way to escape reality, some draw, some listen to music, some take a nap, while others merely read and write, such as Julia Alvarez. The self proclaimed Dominican- American explains so in the Bloomsbury Review as her early life has consisted of many hardships that her writing addresses at one point or another throughout her poetry and novels.…

suggests some solutions to resolve it. The article mentions, to give the income inequality background that the concern of inequality existed long time ago and became better with the time in the way that the live standards of the poor in the U.S. are better today than they were in the 1880s and 1890s. With the “Democratization”, the income inequality becomes worse than it was in the past due to the fact that the rich are wealthiest over others. The article notes that not only in…

One out of three children in the United States is considered obese. Obesity can be calculated by determining your body mass index or weight-for-length measurement. A body mass index (BMI) at or above the 95th percentile is considered obese for children ages two to nineteen. (Kids Health) Obesity is alarmingly now the number one health concern of parents, surpassing drug abuse and smoking. Childhood obesity can be attributed to many things, but three main factors account for the majority of this…

up to encourage graciousness amongst Singaporeans. It aims to spread awareness, influence people to spread kindness, and instill a sense of responsibility in themselves. (SKM, About) has also commissioned a survey called Social Graciousness Index (SGI) to measure the level of graciousness based on people’s experience and perception of graciousness in Singapore. (Graciousness: Improvements seen, but can they be sustained?) This paper discusses various issues related to kindness and…

L. (2006). “Does Body Image Play a Role in Risky Sexual Behavior and Attitudes?” Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 35(2), 230-242. doi:10.1007/s10964-005-9005-6 This article focuses on how body image and an individual’s sexuality are associated. Topics covered include risky sexual behaviors, attitudes towards sexuality, body image, attitudes about condoms, and sexual double standard attitudes. The article explains how body image is just as much a factor that goes into an individual’s sexuality as…

In the article, “Brexit Decision Is Likely To Reduce Growth In The Short Term,” presents the global issue of the negative economic effect on Great Britain, Europe, and the rest of the world. Britains EU referendum vote took place on Thursday 23rd June, 2016. The results were announced in the early hours of Friday 24th June, 2016; with the result of 48.1% voting to remain and 51.9% voting to leave the EU. Consequently voting for the leave campaigners Nigel Farrage, Boris Johnson, Gisela Stuart…

Introduction The world is inundated with the media and multitasking. Therefore, with information so readily accessible that it seems almost impossible for your working and short-term memory to retrieve and hold memory in the mind. This article investigated how the attention of impulse relates to level of which participants multitasked with the media. The study hypothesized that frequent multitasking induces psychosocial and cognitive differences or whether the participants with these differences…

the calories value in many food stores. In the article “Obesity and National Defense: Will American Be Too Heavy to Fight,” the author Matthew Gagnon and Mark B. Stephens states: “Obesity has increased significantly in the United State over the past several decades.” So, it is hard to deny that obesity is becoming one of the serious health problems nowadays. For further example, obesity in different states are increasing over time. In the online article “Obesity in America: Facts and…