Young adult

Paperboy Adolescence is a difficult transition in one’s life, a shift from childhood to the freighting realties of adulthood. Along with many uncomfortable decisions, teens deal with the most confusing situation of all: sexuality. This coming of age not only causes some uncertainty, but can also encourage the individual to see humans as foundations of sexual feelings. The twenty-eight-line poem by Melanie McCabe titled, “Paperboy,” uses abstract and often complex imagery to capture the ideals…

Adolescence is a difficult time in anyone's life. Many teens are caught up between trying to be an adult and wanting to stay a child. There are certain characteristics that reflect which part a teen is stuck on, such as maturity. In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden the narrator is greatly lacking in maturity. Throughout this novel he exemplifies that he is a very impulsive teen with the want to be an adult. Holden has many outbursts showing he has no control over his actions and is…

Speaking Up - A Teen’s Greatest Challenge People are unique and have different perspectives and opinions about certain things that occurred in our society. People require speaking up in order to communicate their thoughts and feelings to the society. A lot of teenagers find it difficult to speak up. They choose to stay silent when something is essential to be said. Speaking up when it may otherwise seem impossible is a teen’s greatest challenge because it may take risks, trigger rebellions and…

personalities and issues has to become of your main understandings. They need special attention and quality time that they may not be receiving anywhere else. Youth ministers must be ready to balance there life along with the adolescent teens and adults they are becoming a part of as well. Speaking to Chase about some of the important qualities of being a youth minister in this generation, he talked about how much you are being watched by everyone. No, not everyone is looking to tear you down…

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…

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…

What Makes a Good Teen Activist? “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” When Margaret Mead stated this, no doubt she had people like Malala Yousafzai, Alex Lin, and Fae Carey in mind. When we think about good teen activists we find that they all have several things in common. What makes them a good teen activist is, they find a problem in the world that needs to be solved, they are willing to make…

From the early 1950’s the teens that first started reading this book, they loved it. But the generation that lives today, seems to have lost interest in it. They have seemed that Holden has lost a bit of interest in him. Some teens believe that Holden stills has a grasp on today’s generation. Some may disagree because the language that Holden uses back then versus the language that is used today may confuse many students. The weird language may stun many of today’s teens, making teens not like…