In Dahlia Lithwick’s article “Teens, Nude Photos and the Law”, she talks about how teen boys and girls are sending nude pictures to their boyfriends or girlfriends. They use their mobile devices like cell phones, ipod, computers and their cameras to send their nude image. She then addresses the consequences of the nude photo that the teenager has received. The teenager that received the photo can be charged with a felony of child pornography. The author then discusses why the teenager should not be treated harshly. She states that many of the teenagers are still immature and they don’t know the consequences of sending nude photos to each other.…
Many teenagers utilize dating apps and act similarly to Connie. Teens who ‘hook up’ with acquaintances…
Have you ever looked at someone or heard something about someone and had an immediate image of them without even knowing their name or even talking to them? Everyone is guilty of judging someone before they even get to know them. Teens today have to be careful about how they dress and act if they want to fit in with the crowd at high school. According to Jay Asher, “Teens in the ‘90s had the same basic desires as they do now.” In his 1999 teen comedy Never Been Kissed, Raja Gosnell shows how teens judged their peers by appearance, gossip, and status in high school.…
Around the turn of the 21st century, the American youth were driven by self-expression. Children were told to have something to say or show, and people will care about it. When these kids entered adolescence, it was difficult to learn that very few people…
Normal teenagers play sports, listen to pop music, are extroverted, have average grade, and are physically fit. But not all of the “Normal things” are as harmless. The public view (internet) said normal teenagers don’t have mental health problems, their issues are just “being a teenager.” They should think their parents are terrible, thus clouding the teens judgment when actual abuse occurs. By telling teenagers their issues are “not normal”, teenagers are being pressured to hide problems.…
I agree with Quindlen because there will always be someone to judge and foresee what you are, could be, or might have been. I also disagree with how Quindlen does not try harder to convince her readers that this is a bigger issue then people want to believe. With the standards set so high it’s no wonder why young girls at the age as low as nine commit the unthinkable act of suicide because of perhaps bullying or not being accepted into a clique at school. Facebook, MySpace, twitter, and all the other cyber connects that the world just can’t seem to live without has played its part in the decreasing value one puts on itself. And a special thanks to photo shop for portraying women in an “airbrushed” fashion to deceive all eyes of the truth that lies behind the lense. I believe there needs to be an awareness factor everywhere to provide a normal standard, structured, suggestive way for teens to live and be confident in there own…
One of the main themes in Scott Westerfield’s text Uglies is the conflict teenagers have with where they stand in society and learning to respect and value themselves. Using examples from the text compare them with today’s world for teenagers.…
What teenagers do have is the power to create status systems and symbols that not only frustrate adults, but also hinder learning and maturing. Ironically, parents, educators, and businesses are, unintentionally, major contributors to these outcomes. Put simply, while teenagers wield little economic and political power, they can control and evaluate one another. Teenagers do this through a series of accepted norms such as clothes and style, speech and language, including body language, music tastes, money, who and how often one dates and/or hooks up, and various accessory items such as one’s car or phone.…
About half of all teens between ages 15 to 19 have had sex at least once; 29 percent of pregnant teens have abortions; teens who are having unprotected sex have a 90 percent chance of getting pregnant. (Laren, Par. 2, 5) Teenager’s sexual activity is undeniable in today’s day and age and there is no point attempting to hide it or sweep it under the rug anymore. Schalet states how one of American’s major problems with teens is due to parents lack of communication which she spotlights through her use of logos through…
Teenagers have been pressured into doing things they don’t want to do, Dan gives us an example of teenagers giving into peer pressure, forced to say that he was a student studying law at University. Teens who are being pressured by their peers think that they will become more popular if they do the [pic] ‘cool’ thing even if it can cause themselves harm. Teenagers these days are dealing with peer pressure every day, from mates telling them to lie to their friends and family, drinking when they are underage and/or don’t want too.…
Life begins with the birth of everyone and will end with their deaths. There are several rites of passages that will occur through their life time such as their graduation, wedding, and having children. The most difficult times in a person’s life is when they are going through adolescence, which is the time the person is going through childhood to adulthood. There are many obstacles they have to overcome during this difficult time. It seems with the changing times that teenagers have more challenges they have to face. It seems that teenager’s peers and the media have the most effect on a teenager’s life. It seems that they are affected by the more risqué shows and music that are in the media today. The internet has impacted teenagers the most because it can get the word spread faster than gossip in the old days. The internet is used by teenagers to pressure them into falling into other teens groups. A teen’s rites of passage are very difficult with all these new factors that are in play. Some of these rites of passage could include going to prom, getting a license, and dating.…
This is a time in an adolescent’s life where they feel the most need for acceptance from their peers. They have a need to be more experimental, innovative and sometimes controversial. They are at a time where they have to keep reinventing themselves so they fit in with their peers and society in general. Teenagers emphasise freedom but with this freedom come responsibilities and obligations that they don’t want nor do they think they need. Teenagers are at an age where they think they are adults but they don’t understand…
Over the years, the question “should parents be concerned about the portrayal of teenage girls in the media?” has become a significant controversial moral issue in society. The portrayal of teenage girls in the media is a controversial moral issue because of the cultural sensitivity and the perceived intrusiveness of the subject. This issue primarily concerns the excessiveness of sexual content and unbecoming images of young women exposed through the media. Needless to say, this question leaves many parents ill at ease. Images, perceived norms and new trends are consistently being set for how young girls and women must look, act, think, and feel in order to be successful and accepted in today’s society. There has been an ongoing debate concerning moral actions that need to be taken to regulate the appropriateness of age sensitive material being permeated throughout the media.…
According to an article written by Caroline Knorr on Common Sense Media, a parenting advice website, “Thirty-five percent are worried about people tagging them in unattractive photos. Twenty-seven percent feel stressed about how they look in posted photos. Twenty-two percent felt bad about themselves if their photos were ignored” (Knorr). These statistics represent girls, ages thirteen to nineteen and how they feel about themselves online. The problem of self-image is not due to girls being mean to each other; it’s the media influencing their idea of what physical beauty really is. An increasing number of girls now feel bad when they open up social media and see these models. Lately girls have learned how to shape their own social media to create a new sense of physical beauty. Trend’s called #nofilter and #uglyselfie and #nomakeup was created to help girls who are a part of social media feel more comfortable and content about themselves. With over one hundred and ninety-five million pictures uploaded under these three hashtags combined, many of the pictures being teen girls, it seems that social media users are making an effort to shift away from model status to real-life status. Teen girls on social media are bettering their relationship with themselves and others through…
Teenagers are insecure, judgmental creatures. Both of these characteristics feed off of each other to establish a mess of a human being. We (teenagers) will tear someone else down in hopes of building ourselves up. One thing that has remained constant over time is the way teenagers highlight each other’s physical features, as well as how insecure they are about their own.…