Young adult

As I take the time to reflect through my personal experience during this course I have came to a clear conclusion that there is now an understanding of what the term “adulthood aging” truly means. Through this course, it is without hesitation that I have gained an abundant amount of knowledge over the life cycle of an individual that prepares us when aging. Gaining this understanding has helped me answer the simple question of this paper: “What is aging?” As I take the time to put my thoughts…

When I turn 10, I receive the best gift ever. It was the gift of Work. At that time I knew that working was the key to adulthood and every ten year old dream was to be treated as a adult. Well..maybe it was just me but I knew that I always felt older than my age. So when my parent open up a little convenience store inside a bus company,and they gave me the opportunity to work there, I jump right onto the bandwagon and was eager to have my very first job. From age 10 to 13, I was very…

Mukesh Shah, 58, a self-made man, who has overcome many struggles in his early adulthood. As a child, he was the troublemaker amongst all of his siblings. But as the time passed, his family undergo into a crisis economically and emotionally. As an adult, he went through some harsh conditions for his family, because he realized the importance of love and support that his family…

The Catcher in the Rye, a coming of age novel about a sixteen old rebellious boy named Holden, who feels that he is alienated by society, as he sees the whole society as phony and fake under its facade of friendliness. After failing all of his classes except for English in his prestigious school, he abandons his schooling in able to wander the streets of New York. What will Holden Caulfield discover in New York? How will he assess his morals? Why does he do the things that he do? My SSR novel…

What does it mean to “come of age”? To come of age is to transition from being a child to becoming an adult; going through different major milestones/phases in life. You reach an age where you change your place in society. If you are 2 years old, you don’t go to school but when you are 5, you enter elementary school, then middle school, then high school, then you go off the university, then enter to active lifestyle where you learn to depend on yourself to survive. You gain more independency as…

Becoming an adult means a lot of different things. When one turns 18, they are allowed to purchase cigarettes or snuff and go to casinos. They can register to vote, and if they are male, register for the draft. At age 21, the purchase and consumption of alcohol is legal, college majors have been solidified, and for some people, families have been started. Surely by age 25, adulthood has set in. There are bills to pay, jobs to perform, and there are certainly responsibilities that extend…

In your lifetime you will arrive at an age when you begin to think you are now an adult and have now reached a strong maturity level. That age is different for everyone and is defined by many different events such as a death, a party, a ritual and other life moments. In today's society, there is no reason to hold a traditional coming of age ritual. In modern times not everyone is brought up in a family that will supply a traditional celebration like a Quinceañera or a Bat or Bar Mitzvah and…

Coming of age has multiple meanings, but all have a basic definition. Coming of age means growing up, no matter what anyone thinks becoming older is what coming of age means. The phrase growing up though, is what makes coming of age a complicated word. For anyone grows up they have higher expectations. People have more expectations for the growing human to uphold and follow. Like going from high school to middle school, the students are more challenged. Teachers and parents have more…

fear is how learning happens. Fear is a teacher unlike any other, and though it may hold the most room for failure, it also holds the most room for success. The margin is wide, so play to the strengths of that emotion, not the weaknesses. Emerging adults gain the most by being inspired, and focused by fear, not paralyzed by it. The likelihood of wasting the transitional period decreases with the amount of time spent…

lifetime. This theory is higher in strain and is higher in factors. The learning theory shows crime and is lower in some situations, but with social and biological changes they have shown different outcomes. Sexual activity is very high in adolescents. Adults and adolescents have privileges when they start getting into relationships some are more restricted than others. The ones that have restrictions are the adolescents. They go through stages when it comes to sex and what they have in common.…