Seventeen

they do not want her to become pregnant. If the condom breaks they can only rely on her birth control pills since the morning after pill is only offered to those above the age of seventeen. There has been quite a bit of controversy, over the age restrictions for emergency contraception. Some will argue that a seventeen-year-old girl is still a child herself and is not mature yet to make health choices on her own. While others believe that if a girl has decided to be sexually active she should…

live of drivers. The Restrictions and laws already set for teen drivers effectively make them safer, demonstrating there is no need to lower the minimum age. Over the years, new courses and restrictions that specifically target sixteen and seventeen years olds have assisted in saving lives. With states adopting the new laws and restrictions highway fatalities have seen a steep drop of thirty percent (Connor). The improvement shows the success of these methods and that the states are doing…

Hot Plate 1/Bench with 500mL Beaker (300mL of Tap Procedures: PROCEDURE6.1: Performing Benedict’s Test for reducing sugars: 1. Get Seventeen test tubes and label them from A1-­‐A17. 2. Add The materials to be tested in all of the test tubes and add about 2mL Of Benedicts Solution to each tube. 3. After Pouring Benedict’s Solution into each tube place all the test tubes in a boiling water…

sicknesses, in which Ackerman clarifies the areas that viruses are located and often transferred. To start with, toys are available in the waiting rooms of the doctor’s offices. According to Dr. Diane Pappas, toys are contaminated. Her studies displayed seventeen percent of toys within a room of healthy kids were actually infected and twenty percent of them in a room with unwell kids were unsanitary. Even with antiseptics, the bacterium merely declines about twenty percent. However, playgrounds…

In Thomas C. Foster’s book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, he continues his analysis on sexuality in chapter seventeen. However, unlike the previous chapter, which discussed the presence of sex embodying itself in various forms, chapter seventeen indicates that definitive mentionings to sex in reality signify everything but the act itself. This is evident in the ways female writers such as Angela Carter employ sex as a way to undermine and reflect upon the precepts of a patriarchal…

In the case of violence in media, the amount of violence needs to be regulated among age groups as today many young children are able to witness inappropriate content throughout all forms of media. This display of violence in activities that children participate in everyday can have a negative effect on them. Young children often do copy what they see and they are most at risk when it comes to this over exposure of violence. More than ever before our youth is exposed to large amounts of violence…

those responsibilities of adulthood because it is a sufficient age for someone to be able to drive a motor vehicle. In the United States we allow people to get their licenses at a younger age than in most countries, teenagers who are sixteen and seventeen…

story.” The stories, “The Landlady,” by Roald Dahl, and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allan Poe, each show suspense in different ways. Suspense is simply tension between the reader and anticipation for what will happen next. In the Landlady, a seventeen year old boy, named Billy Weaver, enters a motel named, Bed and Breakfast, he wanted a nice cheap hotel. The seemingly innocent land lady, who is the only worker running the motel, seems to be holding a secret from Billy. As the night moves on,…

model (GB-CBT-IM) for child sexual abuse: A preliminary outcome study. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, And Policy, 6(3), 250-258. doi:10.1037/a0033411 The research in this article is targeted towards children between four and seventeen who have experienced sexual abuse. Researchers were trying to find out if using a certain method of treatment was beneficial for helping children progress and rehabilitate, or not. During this study, researchers and/or clinicians tested an…

The Preamble The Preamble, one of the most well known writings, gives an introduction to the United States Constitution. Stating the purpose of the Constitution, this document gives the power to every citizen of America, unique compared to any other document written at the time. In addition to giving power to the “everyday man”, this paragraph obligates the government to protect the people, create justice and peace. The Articles Ratified in 1788, the Articles of the United States Constitution…