Essays on Adolescence

Abstract This paper is about cognitive processes and how they affect an individual’s thinking and mental processing abilities. The paper will take into consideration adolescents, and analyze their various activities, including learning problems if any, and find explanations about why they do what they do. A conclusion will be reached. Cognitive Processes     Jerry A…

Lucy Grealy’s “Mirrorings” is a story of a woman who experienced great physical and mental suffering for over twenty years of her life. Aged nine, Lucy was diagnosed as having facial bone cancer and surgeons removed most of the right side of her jaw. Later she had to undergo many surgeries and intensive chemotherapy and…

Identifying Information Giuseppe is a 14-year-10 month-old, Latino male in the 8th grade referred for counseling through AB3632 from Hollywood Senior high School under the Los Angeles Unified School District. Giuseppe’s school counselor indicates Giuseppe has difficulty controlling his anger towards peers. She also shares that Giuseppe fights with his peers leading to a suspension…

In the article Watching TV Makes You Smarter by Steven Johnson, the author argues that by watching television shows various television shows, people actually become smarter and how it has a big impact in our lives. He feels that watching TV makes us smarter because why we view things we might have never heard of…

“What has been the influence of the media as an agent of solicitation on Generation X opposed to Generation Y? ‘ As the generations are evolving over the years, media technology is changing and improving constantly. The term media is accepted as those agents that convey news, entertainment and information. First there were books, newspapers…

The essay posted on The Atlantic by Jean M. Twenge can be rhetorically analyzed as an interestingly compelling argument concerning the ongoing cultural topic of teens and smartphones being a crisis to Society. The main claim of the entire essay is that smartphones are changing the lives of teenagers, socially and mentally, at a dramatic,…

TUTORIAL QUESTIONS Page 52, Discussion Question 12. Problem statements: Does employee loyalty result in a companies benefit? Page 98, Discussion Question 9. Conceptual model: Independent Variables Seeing a film character smoke Attitude toward smoking is stronger Dependent Variables Adolescents’ intention to start smoking Adolecents’ intentions to start smoking increase when watching a film character smoke…

The article “Girl Fight: Savagery in The Chicago Suburbs” written by Susannah Meadows and Dirk Johnson, and published in May of 2003 by Newsweek still arouses controversy and shivers, especially for parents who have children that sooner or later will be attending high school. Not only the privileged Glenbrook North in Chicago suburbs in particular,…

“What does softball mean to me” From the chalked up dirt to the green grass in the outfield the softball field is where I always want to be. Other people see it as a sport, but it is much more than that. Softball to me is an escape and every time I step on that…

Spent Spent Currently, we teenagers have money from our parent’s for tasty food we eat, for fashion clothes we wear and especially, for extremely expensive college education we enjoy. Is there anything wrong with that? Of course not. However, imagine that you lose your house; if you are a single parent; if you are one…