Growing Up

Malls becoming the new baby-sitters William Kowinski has written the article “Kids in the mall: Growing up controlled”, to highlight the ignorance of parents that exposes children to artificial environment of shopping malls. Kowinski argues that this exposure converts children into “pre-programmed consumers” and leads them to a premature adulthood, which affects their emotional development….

“The unprecedented growth of the gay community in recent history has transformed our culture and consciousness, creating radically new possibilities for people to come out’ and live more openly as homosexuals”(Herdt 2). Before the 1969’s Stonewall riot in New York, homosexuality was a taboo subject. Research concerning homosexuality emphasized the etiology, treatment, and psychological adjustment…

The person’s ability to develop is due to two factors, maturation and learning. Although maturation, or the biological development of genes, is important, it is the learning – the process through which we develop through our experiences, which make us who we are. In pre-modern times, a child was not treated like they are today….

Alex Kotlowitz’s There Are No Children Here is a heart-felt meticulous analysis of two boys growing up in a Chicago housing project. The book evaluates the impact of poverty, violence, and racism on kids growing up in what Kotlowitz calls “The Other America”: impoverished communities in urban areas. Kotlowitz employs statistics and exemplification in order…

Looking at me you would have never known that I had spent most of my childhood growing up in a rural village of Nepal, solukhumbu in a low-income family; surviving on dollar a day. A dollar might sound dubious but when I was a child even a dollar brought happiness to families around me. A…

Growing up, Growing up, iit was frequently assumed that I would follow in my father’s footsteps. \He is one of Mumbai’s most eminent Senior Tax Counsel and as a result, the law was a prominent part of my everyday conversation and life. and as a result, the law was a prominent part of my everyday…

I started playing basketball with 12 years old in my hometown, I used to watch a lot of basketball before because my cousin is a professional player and I loved to watch him play, but never tried entering on a team before. My first year playing, my coach taught me the basic skills to play,…

I watched my father travelling different parts of the world for business purpose in a way or another it has kindled my fascination of being a business owner. As a college student following graduation from Penn State Harrisburg, I’m planning to work in accounting and finance where I’m hoping to gain skills and experience that…

Imagine if you were born in the 1780s Life was different there was a lot of Indians in Tribal wars Food was hard to catch and you had to catch it yourself it’s hard Make it to everyday life especially if you have a child if you are a child starving and hungry and thirsty….

Creating and Presenting – Writing in Context Prompt: ‘To conform to the expectations of others can be destructive to the individual. ’ Statement of intention: This persuasive piece explores the ways in which young adults and even others in work places conform to the expectations of others and highlights the fact that this can be…