Chelsea McMillen’s Persuasive Speech Outline General Purpose: To persuade my audience Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience into being in favor of distributing contraceptives (condoms‚ birth control pills‚ spermicides‚ etc.) in high schools. Thesis statement: In order to explain why contraceptives are becoming such a necessity in schools today‚ I will share how teen parenthood is being glorified‚ reasons for such an increase in teenage pregnancies‚ and how effective distributing
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Jefferson Almonte Cause & Effect Essay Professor Zaluda November 11‚ 2012 Teen Pregnancy In today’s society‚ many young teens have begun to experience unprotected sex. Having unprotected sex may result in sexually transmitted diseases (also known as STD) and/or pregnancy. Although some STD’s are curable‚ they would have to be cured immediately. As for the main focus‚ teenage pregnancy‚ many teenagers do not realize the responsibility‚ commitment‚ and hard work they have to
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Introduction The main determinant of teenage pregnancy is commonly seen to be poor or lack of sexual education‚ but this essay will outline and explore further options such as social and economic issues including the involvement of education via both schooling and the media on sexual attitudes influencing adolescent sexual behaviour. Pregnancy amongst adolescents is common around the world; however different cultures and different geographical regions have various explanations for teenage pregnancy
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negative behavioral and emotional consequences. The prevalent and socially accepted adolescent sexual behavior in the United States has resulted in misguided views‚ risky activities‚ negative consequences for those involved‚ and a lack of effective sex education. Adolescence in the United States is defined by Miller (2007) as “. . . a person between puberty and marriage” (p. 157). The majority of studies involved in this research are teenagers between the ages of 14 – 19 years of age; their age group
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Sexuality of the Teen and Young Adult How can we educate our teen and young adults about sex in society today? This subject is very sensitive in the home‚ in the school and even in the church. Our teens today need to be educated on this subject as statistics show that there are growing numbers of teen pregnancies and HIV/ STD cases today. In an article written by Deborah Myers‚ Educating our Teens about Sex‚ she writes that it is extremely important they we as parents start to talk to our children
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1 million adolescents becoming pregnant every year (National Women’s Health Information Center). Teenagers are engaging in sexual activity‚ and at the same time they are choosing not to practice safe sex. Why are they partaking in such behavior? There are many reasons as to why teens are having sex such as love‚ media influence‚ poverty‚ and family. The result of this adolescent behavior is childbearing‚ which has many negative effects and most teens are unaware of them. A couple of these negative
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the United States are two times as high than those of Canada‚ France‚ and England. "Each year more than 1 million U.S. teenagers become pregnant; one in nine aged 15-19 and one in five who are sexually active. " How does environmental factors‚ sex education‚ etc; lead to ; lead to sexual activity which can cause pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases". Female teenagers in 1995 had first sexual intercourse at a younger age than in 1988. Females who have had their first sexual
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because the barkada has a more profound influence than parents do and they exert pressures and expect the adolescent to conform to the rest of them. Youth today‚ from ages 15 to 25 admit to having a premarital sex experience. Almost all of them do not even use contraceptives the first time they have sex. Many of the youth are clueless that even on a single intercourse‚ they could wind up pregnant. Furthermore‚ sexually active adolescents face a variety of risks‚ including malnutrition‚ inadequate prenatal
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Academic OneFile. Web. 10 Dec. 2010. McGrew‚ Martha Cole‚ and William B. Shore. "The problem of teenage pregnancy." Journal of Family Practice 32.1 (1991): 17+. Academic OneFile. Web. 10 Dec. 2010. O ’Donnell‚ Lydia‚ et al. "Saving sex for later: an evaluation of a parent education intervention." Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 37.4 (2005): 166+. Academic OneFile. Web. 10 Dec. 2010
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1) In the first passage‚ the writer claims that sex-education should remain a family matters‚ that if kids are expose to sex-education at young age could prove detrimental rather than helpful for the children. They reasons that the issues[sex-ed.] at hand “removes family involvement with the children‚ put kids in an uncomfortable position‚ stripped any sense of morality‚ promote promiscuity‚ and encourages experimentation.” In the passage‚ I have identified the logical fallacies that the author utilized
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