Young-adult fiction

from a guardian to receive medical treatment. More and more juveniles are being tried as adults, but they’re not be allowed to make their own medical decisions. What are the reasons for not allowing adolescents to make medical decisions, but they 're allowed to make other critical decisions. If teenagers are allowed to refuse medical treatments, what medical treatments should they be allowed to refuse. Young adults aren’t capable of making life or death medical decisions due to the laws set for…

Although music can benefit the life of a teenager in many ways, it can also cause much harm. For example, The World Health Organization estimates that 1.1 billion teenagers and young adults are at risk of hearing loss. Nearly 50% of teenagers are exposed to unsafe noise levels, simply from listening to music through their headphones (Radcliffe 1). Teenagers are unaware of the harm that can come from loud music. The typically teenager…

towards juvenile criminals- especially murderers- I believe, based on research and statistics that juveniles should never be tried as adults. Every year a crime is committed, a court room is filled, and nearly 200,000 juveniles enter the adult criminal-justice system. The majority of these crimes are non-violent, which really makes us wonder how these kids ended up in an adult prison, what happens behind the cold concrete walls, and where they go once they’re out. Writer of the Sacramento Bee…

their parents. Every teenager has the rights to be an independent body, just as an adult. To become an independent body, us teenagers must explain to the class, why this declaration of independence is being written. Declaration: Well, hold these truths to be self-evident that every teenager is created equal to any adult. We were given the same rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness equivalent to an adult. Parents need to calm down with the unrelenting punishments, in order for…

Name: Ashley Connearney Date: 5/2/16 Comparing Themes Teenagers often use flattery in order to escape the wrath of their parents. Cleary and Aesop’s approach on this fable were different, yet both used the concept of flattery. Each theme has resemblance because of the same characters and story lines. For the theme of both passages, the authors portrayed both of them very clear and understandable. Oftenly, the author's tone helps develop the theme because it depends how he or she…

specific thing. That’s why everyone feels like it would be hard for teens to change. For some reason teens can change easily as long as other people are doing it, or it becomes something big online. They rated teens as level one. That stands for pre-adult. Another reason it so easy to change for teens is “they are most concerned with where their next meal will be”. Teenagers don’t really worry about there future that’s why it’s so easy for them to get caught in a social…

the transition to the next stage. Some of the characteristics of the adolescences are physic change, exploring of the personal identity, change in behavior, emotion changes, looks situation from their own perspective just to name a few. During young adult, little more mature than in adolescence, more independency, more active and healthy, focus on friendship. In middle adulthood, comes adaptation to new life, stability in personality, emotional development, middle age crisis. Late adulthood is…

not have the freedom or willingness to shuttle their kids. And even though rising the driving age won't necessarily prevent teen driver crashes, it could just delay them. Teens are occupied personas that also have responsibilities. There are many young adolescents that have no way to get to and from there activities due to the fact that parents work. “Scientist at the NIH Campus in Bethesda Md. have found that one 16 years-old…

to open voting rights to certain sections of society such as women. While some people may believe that giving voting rights to children over age of 15 may be a good idea, my opinion is that they should not be allowed to vote. Firstly, they are too young to understand complex matters such as politics. Since they are in the developing teenage years of their life, they already face variety of overwhelming teenage problems such as peer pressure, lack of self confidence, etc. In teenage years, they…

There is fairly widespread agreement that adolescents take more risks at least partly because they have an immature frontal cortex, the frontal cortex is the area of the brain that takes a second look at something and reasons about a particular behavior. One interpretation of all these findings is that in teens, parts of the brain involved in keeping emotional, impulsive responses in check are still reaching maturity. In addition, Dr. Jay Giedd at the National Institute of Mental Health in…