Young adult

today’s age are commonly seen on teens. They are gradually becoming more popular as more of the youth are struggling to stand out and find themselves today. Although this is becoming the new common trend in today’s mainstream of fashion on teens and young adults, there are still many people who argue both for and against tattoos and piercings. Author Andrew Martin published an article titled “On teenagers and tattoos”. Martin guides his article in the positive direction regarding the tattoos and…

comedy) that succeeded more than what colleagues had expected. Glee, it quickly became known as “first of its kind.”Glee took three genres and combined them. Unlike most teenage shows, this show actually pertained to adolescents and over the years young adults. Ryan Murphy portrayed teen melodrama with common ups and downs of an adolescent's life like relationships, friendships while heavily relying on the emotional and relational development of tangible characters.…

Are Teens More Rational Than Adults? The human brain is a complex organ that serves as the center of the nervous system. It is made up of over 100 billion nerves that (with the cortex and other parts of the brain) help communicate throughout the body. By sending signals to different parts of your body, the brain communicates and is the main control centre.”Grey matter contains most of the brain's neurons, and it plays an important role in emotions, memory, decision-making, and…

Arnett, J. J. (2000). Optimistic bias in adolescent and adult smokers and nonsmokers. Addictive Behaviors, 25(4), 625-632. There have been several researches detailing the addictive use of cigarettes and its effect on the human brain. This effect greatly impacts adults but also severely has a greater influence on adolescents and emerging adults. Many individuals are found every year to die from the atrocities of smoking addictions but this fact does not attain the youth to the point of the…

In order to avoid the dangers, parents should monitor the teens frequently because it would help them become aware of online threats. Coben expresses the downfall of the lack of online supervision through real life examples of the “young boy unknowingly conversing with a pedophile or the girl who was cyber bullied to the point where she committed suicide” (8). This fact shows that if parents are unaware of the dangers online, they risk their adolescents walking right into mistakes…

brought many controversies to debate. For instance, in the pro-social networking article (“Negative Impact of Social Networking Sites” by Karen Frazier), the author asserts that social media has a lot of negative impacts in the society, especially in young adults and teenagers. Unreliable communication, high risk of interventions with strangers, cyberbullying, and a substantial decrease in school grades are some of the main concerns of Frazier. But, in the article “Social Media Isn’t All Bad” by…

involved in the religious group are the Saint Xavier religion teacher and community group leaders. The group leaders are usually young adults in college between 19 to 22 years old. While I was in the group, the Keating sisters Sandy, Betsy and…

title, “Association between Adolescent Eudaimonic Behaviors and Emotional Competence in Young Adulthood. In this study eudaimonic is used synonymous with moral values. The purpose of this study was to evaluate two hypotheses, “1) The eudaimonic behavior in late adolescence (19-20 years old) would predict greater emotional competence in young adulthood (23-24 years old); and 2) that emotional competence in young adulthood (23-24 years old) would reduce risk for anxious-depressive symptoms at…

changing experience for troubled teens instead of a horrible time that effects the reason of their lives in a negative way. Youth incarceration is when a young adult younger than eighteen is sentenced to serve a certain amount of time in a detention facility or an adult prison if the crime is big enough for that form of punishment. Nearly 55,000 young persons were detained in residential placements in 2013 (Child Trends, 2015). People tend to ignore youth incarceration because they view…

at the age of 18 are no longer important to us at the age of 50. Although, there are some people at a young age, and through their adolescents who are more goal oriented than others, but typically the majority of adolescents are stuck in Erikson’s stage of identity versus role confusion. Therefore, during this time they are more concerned about themselves and who they want to become as adults. Although, Berger (2014) reports, throughout Erikson’s stage of generativity versus stagnation as…