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    think back to their teenage years, chances are they can remember some poor choices that they made or being uncertain as to what they were going to do with their future. The teenage years are a time when people may experiment with different friend groups, activities, or drugs in order to find their own place in the world. However, not all experimenting is beneficial. Cannabis, or widely known to teenages as marijuana or weed, has been found through multiple studies to have an effect on the…

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    of Jane, a freshmen seeking acceptance from social peers, her actions at a party resulted in an unbecoming photo of Jane exposing herself from the waist up along with a slanderous caption. The photo posted by Joe captured the moment of Jane’s lapse of clear judgment, and transformed it into a photo categorizing a group…

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    thought it could enhance their beauty; while men believe, they were tough. The thought that younger generations in the 90’s weren’t aware for the health risk. Today teenagers are currently troubled with smoking, because they are pressured by their peers, adversely impacting their health, exposed to more smoking options with an increase in marijuana use. Most teenagers try their first joint or cigarette at the age of twelve through eighteen. Effects of smoking marijuana or cigarette “most…

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    The United States today is blessed to have so many values. A value is something that a person or a group respects and actively participates in. Citizens have many rights and values that allow them to live their life’s every day. All of these values are related in some way to our society and benefit the individuals who live in it. With a variety of values, many people flourish and grow. Many of these values are very important but in my opinion some could be discarded. There are two values I…

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    Half of all teens had seen their first photo of intoxicated teenagers or teens on drugs when they were 13 years old or younger on Facebook and other social media sites (“Influence of Social Media on Alcohol Use”). Alcohol and drug-related content on social media is now becoming a norm for most teenagers. A teen who sees alcohol-related content on social media is 3 times more likely to use alcohol than a teen who has not seen such content. However, there is another side to this argument that…

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    pressures that are being found through the use of social media outlets. Luxton writes, about how a large amount of low self-esteem can cause people to turn to social media outlets and the internet for answers. After conducting a research study, a group of scientists found that web searching 12 suicide-related words gave an immense quantity of information. Following that web search, the researchers analyzed the sites and found that more of them stood at a suicide neutral position even while some…

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    Dating During Adolescence

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    Adolescents are still trying to find themselves. Their perspective and how they look at themselves develop their self-esteem. According to Erik Erikson, adolescents go through the psychosocial crisis of identity versus role confusion, which involves exploring who they are as individuals. Social pressures are high during the identity versus role confusion stage. Teens feel pressured from their parents to get into a good school or start working, while also feeling pressure from friends and even…

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    culture being a virgin is uncool. They all succumbed to peer pressure to smoke marijuana, because none of them felt like they could really say no. Andrew and Brian originally were against it, but they just wanted to fit…

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    Introduction Over the years, there has been issues with violence among the youth and specifically adolescents. There is a worrying trend where the violence is rising at alarming levels. There are several reasons that get associated with this trend. One of them has been computer games and movies that are said to promote violence. There are several researchers who have done research on this issue. According to a research done by Alikasifoglu et al. (2004), 42% of high school students in Istanbul…

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    constantly that the people with the biggest impact on us is our friends. High school is split into different groups of people; you have the jocks, the brainiacs, and the kids who don’t care about anything. Who are we kidding, there are none of those kinds of people in Alpena High School, everyone here loves school! If we have all these different groups of people to choose from, how do we know which groups are the right ones? The people that you spend a majority of your time with will rub off on…

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