Young-adult fiction

Although many town and cities have issued curfews our little town of Dierks Arkansas does not need a curfew. While curfews have a favorable extension to them and are meant to do good they don’t work and only cause trouble. First and foremost, curfews do not stop the crime rate and in all honesty they don't work anyway. Teens just wouldn’t care about what time they would have to in by and would risk getting caught. If they do get caught then they get a ticket which the parents most likely…

Cher has always been a person I admired while growing up, many may not agree with that but that is alright. Unlike many others I admired her for her strength, her journey, and of course her music. I can remember having the volume turned up to twenty singing, “If I Could Turn Back Time”, with my step mom with all the windows rolled down. From that day she was my go to when I needed a little pick me up. For that reason amongst her disability for dyslexia; something both I and my twin sister suffer…

wholly digitize everything that occurs in a day. Unfortunately, this also means that the negative aspects of life seep into virtual lives. Cyberbullying is a growing problem that affects much of today’s youth and even adults. It has begun to change the lives and many teens and young adults, but not in a positive manner. As such a problem continues to persist, professionals and the families of victims are seeking help and justice for targets of cyberbullying. It has gotten to the point where…

Teen Drivers In the world today, teen driving can either be a good thing, or a horrifying thing, but no matter what it is used in our everyday lives. We start driving by ourselves at the age of sixteen, and is a very scary situation at first. You’re not sure what could happen and when it could happen. Along with that, teenagers are the most likely to get in any kind of car accident. Because of this teenagers have good driving abilities based on how early they start, but one wrong turn could…

Research shows that teens aged between 16 and 19 are involved in car accidents four times more as compared to the rate of adult drivers between 25 and 69 years (Shinar 219). The research findings suggest that teen drivers make several critical errors on the road, including inexperience, lack of scanning in detecting as well as responding to hazards, overspeeding where there…

Some may argue that the internet is used for good, but it can also be argued that social media can have a negative effect on people. The amount of time spent on social media by teens and young adults has increased tremendously. Should people spend less time on social media? The negative effects of social media have always outweighed the good. There are many positive things open on the internet. If someone wanted to find an old friend or teacher they could use Facebook. If you have a business and…

developed skills through researching and refining to make sure that the chosen research question was accurate and had enough research surrounding it to make a solid argument. As parents grow more concerned about their children, mental health of young adults is a growing epidemic, and as a result there were thousands of research papers, articles, and and statistics, all of which would be extremely useful if my research question was going to be mainly about the wellbeing of teenagers. After…

It takes a lot of persuasion to change a hard headed politicians mind. What usually gets them to is a series of crashed involving young adults, and then, jut maybe, they will think of other ways to protect our young people(Davis, “is 16 too Young?”). In 2007, a poll was done determine what people thought about raising the driving age. This poll included 1,002 adults from December seventeenth through the nineteenth in the United States. Sixty-one percent…

those who matter doesn’t mind.” – Bernard M. Baruch. In today’s society teenagers are more concerned about fitting in with the widely held groups that they forget to discover their own aptitudes and faculties. This book hints on the issues of the young people who find it difficult to fit in. The Cage of Butterflies is a book inscribed by Brian Caswell in 1992. This book is about a group of teenagers with IQs well above 150 who saved a group of babies from a malevolent syndicate. Being extremely…

of adults have negative impressions of teenagers. Importantly, film may play a dangerous role in developing these impressions. Films featuring teens prompt that teenagers are violent, disconnected and reckless. Violence portrayed in teen films through physical and emotional violence, provides unrealistic and detrimental social constructs of teenagers. Importantly, the construction of teenagers in teen films reinforces the negative impressions many adults have, and continue to strain the…