Sports figures can be a positive influence, as kids try to perfect their skills and abilities to be more like them. Characters in the movies however, tend to influence kids to follow their footsteps in an attempt to do the impossible. ... These kids are often called "the teacher's pet". ... The movie had influenced kids to be just like them and to race their cars on cities streets that they see in the movies. ... Movies such as these influence kids in the wrong way, they make doing the thing look cool and dangerous. " kids underestimate their vulnerability to harm-(Panzarine p. 90). ...

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The main reasons I have noticed in peer pressure and family influences. ... Now days you have all these kids that think it is "cool" to smoke and you want to be considered "cool" too. ... Smoking then makes you feel "cool" and gives you this "bad kid look I can break the rules and do things I am not supposed to do image." ... I think that gives them the want to do it and then influence their friends to smoke too. ... I really wish I would have never started smoking and I wish kids would open there eyes and see their consquences (which they never do) and make deci...

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We live in a society that drinks heavily, and this influences teens. ... Kids who are drinking regularly in high school seem to be fully aware of the penalties and laws against underage drinking, possession but don't care. ... Many kids drink to make them feel older and mature. ...

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In many way, peer pressure represents social influences effect the people in all ages, because we are greatly influenced by the people around us. ... American is known as the bad ass drinker, and this will influences teenagers. ... Nevertheless, alcoholism is a social issue that could lead kids to fail school, acting without any logic reason, or even committing a crime. ... Now and day, kids join gang to get attention, so-call protection, peer pressure; or they make some moneys. ...

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Predominately all teenagers, and even kids, look up to drug dealers, admire rock stars and imitate robbers. ... Back in the day, kids spent a lot of time playing games with other children and reading books that sparked their interests. ... In first grade, I was a member of a four-kid gang that went around imitating TV westerns. ... The main reason no one knew was because the kids that did this were not very popular at all. ... "These kids are... neglected by their parents from birth. ...

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Peer pressure involves friends who influence life in many types of ways such as making decisions or choices that you do not want to make. ... Another way how children affect their parents life because of the influence of peer pressure is by pushing them away from their from their life. ... If the parents spend time with their kids more than they do then the children will not feel as if they need to do the things they do to get attention from there parents. ...

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Introduction Teenage years are much like a midpoint in ones life.When a person is neither a kid or an adult. At this period, teens have passed the age when they were called kids but are not yet qualified to be adults. ... The answer is that teenagers are under pressure by their peers, mass media and also the influence of parents. ...

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Summary- Response Paper Full Metal Dust Jacket: Books Are Violent, Too Doreen Carvajal Carvajal discusses the influence that violence in books has on our teens. ... In the past, the toughest decisions teens had to make were whether to have sex or do drugs, but with new technology and the influence from the entertainment industry, issues have become more complex. ... He says that no one shoots up private schools where the kids get lots of attention. Dvorak complains that the kids do not get the attention they need in a big school. ... Maybe if things were more personal so that kids could ...

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The theme of coming to age "Kids in the mall" It's stated that most teenager in America spend more time in the mall besides school and home. ... It shows kids items they want often. ... Making kids have desires for designer clothing, shoes, and jewelry. ... It's very easy for teens to allow their peers to influence them to participate in something they really don't want to do. So parents should take the time to talk to their kids to keep them from becoming an adult to soon. ...

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Ponyboy was just an innocent teen when the story begins and he had been wrongly influence by the Greaser's. ... Darrel didn't approved Ponyboy to be in the Greaser's because it was a bad influence for Ponyboy. ... S.E Hinton wrote these book based on her experiences in High School; to show teenagers the difficulties some kids have in life. The consequences of the bad influence. How bad influence can affect your life. ...

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Big habits like these develop at a younger age, and younger kids almost always look at the older people and mimic or try and do the same as them. ... The biggest influence is peer pressure and who your friends are, which shape who you are. ... In my experience, out of the three aspects that has influenced me the most is the social part. In my younger years, I was always trying to fit in and follow what other kids were doing. ...

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Because I just came from a remote area in Alaska, I didn't have the style that many kids here had. ... This is a serious issue and it is caused by the media's influence on teenagers. ... If you don't have the right clothes, you aren't welcome to talk to any 'cool' kids. ... Parents often believe that the best way to teach a kid to behave is to punish for bad behavior. ... Katherine Kam states that "some parents may not realize they're making school stress worse by pressuring their kids to excel. ...

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Low-income Outreach: The Impact on Youth Would you like to know how to transform a delinquent teenager? Do you send him or her away to boot camp or military school? Teenagers who are involved in low-income outreach programs not only improve the lives of others but find themselves changed as we...

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Not just the ads are what causing these kids to be under pressure, the articles in them too. ... While peer pressure can influence young people to experiment with or abuse drugs and alcohol, so can peer pressure work in positive ways to prevent the use of these substances(Kaplan 52-53). ... Conclusion Peer pressure is an important influence on young people's attitudes and behaviors. ... Many factors affect how peer influence feels and how the individual will respond to its force. ... In addition, peer influence enters many areas of adolescent lives, public and private. ...

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What really influences teens to do drugs? ... Now what influences them to do it? ... He got the influence from his father, and the neighbors. ... He was called "Tubby" and "Crisco Kid," he just had to take a chance. ... Drinking can influence what you decide on. 40% of guys say that alcohol influences their decision to do something sexual, and 32% goes for the girls. ...

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On the other hand the rich kid from the East John Barton has immense pressure put on him by his family and school is exceptional and John is just a time bomb ready to explode. ... Her actions influence her friends and family to look beyond the boundaries of culture and religion and dare to dream. ... Kids have so much life to live and when they decider to end it that really alarms me and it must take a bigger man to take there life than live it. ...

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However, social media seems to have influenced the lives of teenagers the most. ... Also in the survey they found that the main reasons kids prefer face-to-face conversations are that they're more fun (38%) and that they can understand what people really mean better in person (29%). The main reasons some kids prefer texting is that it's quick (30%) and easy (23%); others say it gives them more time to think about how to respond (16%) or is more private (11%). ...

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He was only seventeen years old kid. ... She was influenced by TV shows such as "16 and Pregnant" and "The American Teenager". ... Today more teens are having sex at a young age, which brings the outcome of "KIDS HAVING KIDS.... Peer pressure refers to "the influence exerted by a peer group in encouraging person to change his or her attitudes, values, or behavior in order to conform to group norms.... And they also definitely are a major influence on the amount of teenagers that do become pregnant. ...

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According to Charles Krauthammer, "Sex oozes from every pore of the culture and there's not a kid in the world who can avoid it." ... That movie is rated R, but little kids were in there with their parents. ... Now those kids might end up having sex when they become teenagers. ... In Kids Having Kids: A Robin Hood Foundation Special Report on the Costs of Adolescent Childbearing, researchers note, "During her first 12 years of parenthood, the average adolescent mother receives income and food stamps valued at just over $17,000 annually- Recent declines in pregnancy and birth rates, howeve...

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Society has a huge part in influencing teens. ... My secondary source said that ways to prevent your kids from becoming drug users is to enrol them in extra-curricular activities and sports, since these types of teens are less likely to experiment with drugs (Riera 168). ... My secondary source found that one problem with violence is the influence form music lyrics. ...

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It's a force so strong that it influences people from what they should wear, buy, eat and even what to listen to on the radio. It can influence ideologies and change people's perspective on things just because it's portrayed a certain way. ... One mother said who which her daughter was a victim of cyberbullying "You can't get away from cyber-bullies unless you take everything away from [your kids] and you can't do that" (Leung, 2012, para.9). ...

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It just seemed a natural division at a time when sexism was yet undefined and sex was only talked about by the older kids on the bus rides to and from school. ... It seemed innocent enough, but it was our first sexual revolution, a revolution in thinking and feeling that would influence the way we spent the rest of our formative years. ...

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Abstinence is very important, but the peers your child hangs around are just as important. " The Nurture Assumption " says that peer groups matter a lot more than parents influencing how kids turn out, because you can pass your genes, but not your values. ...

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Young teenage girls can be easily influenced, and when they see this show and what the women are doing they feel that it is alright to sleep around with thirty different men. ... I blame it on the parents who won't talk to their kids about sex because they either don't want their children to learn about it or their afraid of what might happen if their children know about it. ...

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From the time you are young, you are influenced by people or things. ... Since Maria was still oblivious to see that Jenny and the rest of her friends were trying to ditch her and she did not want them to be mad at Maria, since they were all the "popular" kids and Jenny was pretty much the leader of the crew. ...

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