What is causing teens to have an interest in reading about a protagonist and their heroic journey? Today’s young adults often have an interest in reading dystopian literature. But why? Here’s a few reasons of why they might enjoy this specific genre of literature. For one‚ teens can often relate to dystopian fiction. In the passage “Breaking Down the ‘System’” it states “The system is asking a lot from teens and not giving them much respect in return so it’s no wonder that stories about that system
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Even though the process and policies has flaws‚ drug testing should be included in competitive sports to help promote fair play‚ and since these drugs provide an unfair advantage‚ all achievements while testing positive for performance enhancing drugs should be stricken from the records. Anabolic and performance enhancing drugs can ruin any athlete’s career. A large amount of athletes get stuck taking these types of drugs‚ having suspensions become too regular during an athletic season. Maria Sharapova
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Fiskum English 151 October 28‚ 2013 Performance Enhancing Drugs There has been much discussion taking place from athletes ranging in all level of sports. Almost every athlete will tell you that the competitive drive to win can be intense. Athletes will go to many lengths to win. Numerous athletes will go to extreme measures to win‚ including taking Performance Enhancing Drugs. Today you can find numerous types of Performance Enhancing Drugs ranging from oral‚ injection‚ human grade‚ and underground
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Impact of Illegal Drug use Among Teens Sandra Rocker ENG 122 Instructor Tamara Dorris January 24‚ 2011 Reducing Drug Trafficking in the United States Impact of Illegal Drug use Among Teens For over one hundred years‚ the United States has been dealing with the use and abuse of illegal drugs. The federal government has spent billions of dollars since 1906 trying to stop the production‚ distribution‚ possession and use of drugs. The war on drugs has been long and costly with
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The study: Hyper-texting teens more likely to smoke‚ drink‚ have sex appears on CNN.com by Ed Payne in the Social Media category. This article suggests teens that text in excess of 120 times each day is more likely to smoke‚ drink‚ and have sex at earlier ages. According to a new case study by the “Case Western Reserve School of Medicine” teens that are hyper-texters are‚ two times more likely to try or have tried alcohol‚ forty percent likely to have tried smoking‚ nearly three and a half times
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Explain why teens smoke cigarettes According to the BaiDu‚ more than 80‚000 young people around the world start smoking every day. Most people start smoking when they are teenagers‚ which make it more difficult to quit. The earlier the habit begins‚ the harder it is it to stop‚ although many teenagers make multiple attempts to stop smoking. There are three main reasons why teens start smoking which is boredom‚ lose the weight and as a response to the stress of school and family life. Just like
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How to help our teens from drugs? Many factors tend to influence teenagers from abusing alcohol‚ tobacco as well as other drugs. Many of young kids get high from abusing of substances‚ which range diverted prescription drugs to street drugs to alcohol. For teenagers are really easy to get in drugs due to their immaturity. Drug addiction is actually a very old phenomenon that today has manifested intense and massively in our society. . Parents and interested adults should
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Don´t Do Drugs The drug empire is growing is an article that New York Time pubished in may 11th 2012 and it says. People use drugs in societies around the world more than ever before. Why is it this way? Is it cheper to buy drugs today than 40 years ago? Or is it just easier to reach drugdealers who are selling drugs? I belive it is the last mentioned cause. That is why I also belive we must have stricter laws cocerning druguseing as well as drugdealing to make people stop use drugs. If you ask
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main reason why the adolescents are so interested in sex is because the media shows too much of sex. The United States is known to have the most rates in teen pregnancy and STD’s. Do the media support the prevention of premarital sex? Not with all of their advertisements that are using sex as a tool to sell their products. The popular magazine tells us that the media isn’t playing an important role as the environment‚ age of partner and family support‚ which they say is the reason why adolescents
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Why Teens Shouldn’t Diet Dieting can be defined as restricting calories or food groups (Deal with Diets: kidshealth.org). With the number of obese people growing‚ it’s no wonder that people are starting to diet‚ and "in 1988‚ Americans spent 32 billion dollars on diets and diet products (Baird: Women’s Health Fact Sheet)." A problem arises when teens start restricting their food‚ because dieting can be very harmful to a teenager’s still-developing body. It can also be harmful to the teen’s psychological
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