... first year of motherhood. In addition to showing the teenage motherhood, the show focuses on themes of changing relationships; specifically, those of the family, friends, couples, and school. It shows the struggles teenagers have to go through to raise their children. This show adds to the point that the media can display teenage pregnancy in a way that makes other teenagers want to ... teenagers are getting pregnant just to get an audition on the reality television shows. Now teenagers, of course, get pregnant for many reasons, but most teens that get pregnant come from broken homes an...

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... individual an socioeconomically disadvantage that could lead to various other problems such as low income, drug abuse and homelessness (Deardorff, Lahiff, Ozer, Young; 2010). It is noted in various studies done across multiple years that girls that grow up in lower income homes, abusive back grounds especially those that have been victimized through childhood sexual abuse. Among the articles I reviewed there was ... survey the individual will have to "click" a box that states they are aware of what was read and are choosing to go forth with the survey on their own will with full consent...

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... something everyone is doing. On television shows like "Dawson's Creek", sex is usually the major topic of the entire show. Whether it is guys and girls, guys and guys, girls and girls, or multiple persons of each sex, the sex act itself is a major conflict. Movies, such as "Cruel Intentions", portray sex as ... problems could get in the way of their plans for the future. Still, others worry about diseases (Meier, 1994, p. 10). Some pressures come from other sources and not just their peers. When a young person becomes involved with a boyfriend or girlfriend, the couple may have to deal w...

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• Grade Level: High School

... something everyone is doing. On television shows like "Dawson's Creek", sex is usually the major topic of the entire show. Whether it is guys and girls, guys and guys, girls and girls, or multiple persons of each sex, the sex act itself is a major conflict. Movies, such as "Cruel Intentions", portray sex as ... problems could get in the way of their plans for the future. Still, others worry about diseases (Meier, 1994, p. 10). Some pressures come from other sources and not just their peers. When a young person becomes involved with a boyfriend or girlfriend, the couple may have to deal w...

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• Grade Level: High School

... flourish in as a writer. The house she wants is "Not a flat. Not an apartment in the back. Not a man's house. Not a daddy's. A house all my own . . . My books and my stories . . . a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem" (108). Faced with a similar set of circumstances, as a girl, Cisneros "dreamed about having a silent home, just to ... the responsibility of taking care of her family and inheriting her mother's position, continues to go to college in order to escape her poverty stricken life. In "Alicia & I Talking on Edna's Steps," Alicia remind...

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... Coping With Peer Pressure If the negative effect of peer pressure is to be minimized, youth, parents, school and community leaders must come together to establish workable and effective strategies to guide teen behavior and to support their transition from children to mature, responsible adults. Here are several strategies to consider (Brown, ... on it with Asch. The stooges all picked the same blatantly wrong answer. 75% of the people tested conformed at least once and 5% conformed every time. • Back in 1932, Arthur Jenness used an unknown number of beans in a bottle. When the number...

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... entertainment. For instance, they would ask their father to take a break from reading the newspaper to come play catch with them or play a game of monopoly that would entertain the whole family. Back in the day, kids spent a lot of time playing games with other children and reading books that sparked their interests. They would also spend a lot more quality time with their ... to human pain. "There are kids out there who would love to put on their camouflage and hold a knife in their mouth and go out and slit someone's throat.... You see them on their way to school with books in one han...

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... a co-ed campout after her high school graduation and when Barnes questioned her father's response, "He looked up from his plate, every muscle in his body tensed, solid. "Then you take your things and you never come back."" That night, Barnes left her parents house and set out on her own. Years later, she ... attempted to bridge the distance between her father and when she asked him on a camping trip, but the trip was not ... mother's use of the Bible in their continual moving: "She asked God to tell her where to go that time, then closed her eyes, opened the Bible, put her finger on th...

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• Grade Level: High School