Peer review

One of the first things we experience at school is peer pressure. Even at a young age, our environment influences our decisions – on clothing style, on school supplies, and even on our personality. Not being able to fit in results in bullying, but following the crowd on everything will take a toll on our creativity and independence. So how do we assimilate with the society while retaining our uniqueness? Though most relevant to today’s teenagers, this question has plagued mankind for centuries;…

“Hey girl, what are you wearing?” If those words sound all too familiar, you’ve probably been getting sexted. Sexting can be going on right next to us and we don’t even know it. If you’re in a business meeting, at a park, at the mall, or even at school, don’t peak at anyone’s phone, because you might not like what you see. Sexting is quite literally all around us at any given time. Everyone wants to be a part of sexting, but what is it, why do people do it, and what happens when it all goes…

Peer pressure and bullying are very prominent problems with teenagers today. Peer pressure is defined as “social pressure by members of a person’s peer group to take a certain action, adopt certain values, or otherwise conform in order to be accepted. MLA CITATION BRO” Every person plays a certain role within a clique and these roles have attributes specific to them. In Rosalind Wiseman’s “Queen Bee and Her Court,” the author gives readers an in-depth and detailed description of these…

Adolescence is a common socially accepted time of substance use and experimentation with drugs and alcohol. Socially accepted norms have long justified teen substance use as ubiquitous and as a rite of passage to adulthood. However, increasing amounts of research have provided evidence that substance use in adolescence increases chances of adulthood addiction as well as many other physical health problems, interfering with brain development, and resulting in poor social outcomes. While…

Using “Mentoring Programs: A Framework to Inform Program Development, Research, and Evaluation” (2006) I realized that the term “peer mentoring” has been used to describe a variety of different things, such as cross-age peer mentoring, peer tutoring, and peer education to name a few (Karcher et al., 2006, p. 712). Dictionary.com defines the word peer as: “a person who is equal to another in abilities, qualifications, age, background, and social status.” It also defines the word mentor as:…

Mass media has exposed 1500 ads daily (Kilbourne, 1979). People are surrounded by advertising that loses negative effects to the daily life of people. Among other media, beauty related ads give stimulus to the many teenage girls. Beauty ads prefer slim and beautiful models to create a visual effect on people. To bring the visual effects to people, the media represents the model as a sex object. Therefore, a teenage girl mimics what they see to make them look like the models in the ads. The media…

The big reasons behind them is the seeking for perfection that comes into account from other fields in their life, the need to stay included in their peer group, peer pressure to maintain their social media profiles, and the accessibility and ease of using social media from anywhere. Therefore the new advancements in technology and continued social standards has made the average teenager more dependent on…

Peer Pressure Causing Teen Driving Accidents Becoming a teenager is a major milestone. Differences within one’s body and mind are just a few of the changes that go along with becoming a teenager. Fitting in and gaining friends is often difficult for all ages. Throughout the teenage years this is a common worry. Wanting to fit in and become accepted by others is a normal part of growing up. Being influenced so greatly that it affects the behavior, attitude and dress of someone is peer pressure.…

because being a virgin either makes a person a tease or a prude. Either way she would have been ridiculed. Brian felt compelled to originally lie and say he was not a virgin, because in the male 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…

Individuality and Conformity In today’s western society, parents raise their children based on their own experiences and identities in an effort to be produce offspring that they view as successful. In “Son,” author Andrew Solomon defines the traits that children share with their parents as “vertical identities” (369). An individual may also have an “acquired trait that is foreign to his or her parents,” which Solomon defines as a “horizontal identity” (370). He discusses how horizontal…