Speech
Marie Louis Valet
5/2/2013
Speech 07
Principles of Public Speaking
The many challenges young adults face today vary greatly from peer pressure, to family issues and drug use or abuse. These are some of the difficult choices facing parents and young adults daily and ought to be dealt with.
We often think young adults are ready to launch off into a career, college, and lively adult social scenes. When in fact today’s young adults are faced with so many challenges that we tend to overlook or don’t pay enough attention to, at least not as much as we should. One of the key issues face young adults is relationship hardships, another key issue is academic success or lack thereof and lastly lack of motivation.
We have yet to settle down and truly comprehend young adult’s relationship hardship, not being able to maintain academic success and lack of motivation from their families. When young adults do not find support from their family members they tend to exhibit major depression, and confusion. They are prone to fail and to maintain their academic success. Young adults find that they are over whelmed with great difficulty in making these changes especially in today’s society where drugs and alcohol plays a major role in young adult’s lives. It’s strenuous and stressful for one to remain motivated and maintain academic excellent. Something drastic may happened and change their lives could cause depression, for instance maybe their parents are filing for divorce, a death in the family, or their boyfriend/ girlfriend breaking up with them because of the demands and frustrations in the contemporary world, many young adults find themselves engaged in excessive alcohol consumption and drug abuse. Which will compromise their academics in today’s society we judge young adults, and we criticized them as being lazy but we have yet to understand the underlying issue they face every day. It should also be note that young adults
5/2/2013
Speech 07
Principles of Public Speaking
The many challenges young adults face today vary greatly from peer pressure, to family issues and drug use or abuse. These are some of the difficult choices facing parents and young adults daily and ought to be dealt with.
We often think young adults are ready to launch off into a career, college, and lively adult social scenes. When in fact today’s young adults are faced with so many challenges that we tend to overlook or don’t pay enough attention to, at least not as much as we should. One of the key issues face young adults is relationship hardships, another key issue is academic success or lack thereof and lastly lack of motivation.
We have yet to settle down and truly comprehend young adult’s relationship hardship, not being able to maintain academic success and lack of motivation from their families. When young adults do not find support from their family members they tend to exhibit major depression, and confusion. They are prone to fail and to maintain their academic success. Young adults find that they are over whelmed with great difficulty in making these changes especially in today’s society where drugs and alcohol plays a major role in young adult’s lives. It’s strenuous and stressful for one to remain motivated and maintain academic excellent. Something drastic may happened and change their lives could cause depression, for instance maybe their parents are filing for divorce, a death in the family, or their boyfriend/ girlfriend breaking up with them because of the demands and frustrations in the contemporary world, many young adults find themselves engaged in excessive alcohol consumption and drug abuse. Which will compromise their academics in today’s society we judge young adults, and we criticized them as being lazy but we have yet to understand the underlying issue they face every day. It should also be note that young adults
Cited: • Twenge, J. M. (2006). Generation me: Why today’s young Americans are more confident, assertive, entitled, and more miserable than ever before. New York, NY: Free Press. • Smith, C., Christoffersen, K., Davidson, H., & Herzog, P. S. (2011). Lost in transition, the dark side of emerging adulthood. Oxford University Press.