Young Life

are You Going? Where Have You Been?” each story represents a young girl breaking free of the life she lives by being reckless and not listening to her parents, deciding she can make decisions on her own, and going with a strange man when she knows she shouldn’t. The story “Where are You Going? Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates is similar to the movie Finding Faith (2013) in theme, manner, and tone, such as; in each story a young girl sets out for freedom to go against her parents’…

mother and grandmother as her guide to show her the basics of being a good kid, similar to kids in society who also using their parents to know the difference between the rights and wrongs to life. Kids in today’s society are using their parents as a guide on early childhood development and how to act when their young. An online source read that "A study investigating the connection between parent’s investment and children’s competence suggests that the emotional involvement of parents really…

While this argument is valid, it’s also very patronizing. Teenagers are expected to make many important decisions that affects their entire life, and the debate of if they should be on birth control is no different than any other choice they have. Most adults don’t want their children on any contraceptives because they want the child to be abstinent, but that’s a very outdated thought process…

In America, approximately 750,000 of 15 to 19-year-olds become pregnant each year. Teenage pregnancy is almost always unintended. The causes and effects of teenage pregnancy are different for every young girl it effects. Teenage girls are more likely to become pregnant when they have little to no parental guidance in their lives. Because parents of the said demographic are usually too preoccupied with matters such as financial stability and maybe their work, they are not as supportive as they…

Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier, little was known about Deborah Sampson and the life she lead. The idea that Deborah Sampson had accomplished the male soldier charade was well known, however there was little documentation that detailed further into this masked soldier. Herman Mann, a budding journalist and fictional author, is the author of the only novel documenting Deborah Sampson’s achievements in a hybrid writing style of fiction and reality. Alfred…

language , racism, and violence. However, I agree that the book contains inappropriate content for young adults but it also demonstrates a young adult just like us that suffered an injury and couldn’t play basketball which was his passion, it was hard for him to overcome the situation because it was something he had worked for his entire life , but instead of being depressed he overcame an obstacle in his life and decided to enlists in the army to depart to the vietnam war which was escalating.…

Edward H. Rulloff The Veil of Secrecy Removed is a novel which describes the arduous life of aone of the most knowledgeable man in history, who also happens to be a so called ‘murderer’ endured. One of the most knowledgeable mans in history also encountered an arduous life. . E. H. Freeman describes the detailed life of Rulloff through his early life, court cases, and his relationships in chronological events. Chapter by chapter, Freeman reveals the truth about Rulloff and his murder, robbery,…

The 20 percent of adults ages 25 to 31 living with their parents are seen by some sociologists as representative of an entirely new life stage arising not out of necessity, but out of inevitability. (Pew Research Center, 2012) They see ‘emerging adulthood’ as the outcome of the vast currents of socioeconomic and implicitly cultural change that have swept in during the turn of the 21st century. (Henig 2010) Some view this cultural trend as one to keep, theorizing that this ‘time to explore’…

drunken teen years ago. Is it fair for all young adults to have to deal with the mistakes of a teen who killed the family? Ten years ago after prom night a young teen crashed into our mayor, his wife and, their two children speeding 45 miles over the speed limit. Despite the tragic event, a curfew was set for all young adults to be home by nine o'clock PM every day. At first we all agreed because of the hardship we went through but, was it fair for all young innocent teens to be put…

children. These studies are some of my favorite because they are so applicable to everyone’s life. Through researching and understanding memory loss we as students are more capable of preventing memory loss and improving memory skills. A skill that could come in handy for college students and their studies. In the movie Benjamin Button he starts to experience memory loss towards the end of the movie (end of his life) and we were able to see the affect it had on him and his family. Memory skills…