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    Issues Affecting Teens Good Morning/afternoon Miss Blanch and class‚ I’m going to be talking about teen violence and factors that can trigger it. I select this issue as I think it’s an issue worth talking about because teen violence is the worst especially when it causes injury or even death. This issues is not expressed in The Formal but it is still a very important to talk about‚ many Australian teens have experienced violence either with friends or at parties where alcohol and/or drugs is consumed

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    LEGAZPI CITY‚ Albay - Teenage pregnancies in the Philippines surged by 70 percent over one decade‚ a ranking official of the United Nation Population Fund Agency (UNFPA) said on Monday. Ugochi Daniels‚ UNFPA country representative‚ said the rising number of teenage pregnancies in the country is an area of concern that the agency is giving serious attention to‚ exposing as it does adolescent girls (10 to 19 years old) to high risk. Daniels said a strong advocacy campaign is needed to educate

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    Teen Violence Author Note Teen Violence Teen aggression and violence is a growing concern in our society. It appears on the news almost daily‚ from bullying to weapons on campus. When we hear the words teen violence‚ most of us think of school shootings. The situation has escalated over the past few decades and now more and more of our youth are dying by the hands of their peers. In this paper we will explore the situation of teen violence‚ causes of aggression‚ and what we can do to prevent

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    Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA)‚ a 1978 amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of pregnancy. The impetus for the act was a 1976 Supreme Court decision‚ General Electric v. Gilbert‚ in which the Court held that denial of benefits for pregnancy-related disability was not discrimination based on sex (Gelb‚1996). This holding echoed past management decisions by which married women faced job discrimination and pregnant women were routinely

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    Teen Alcoholism

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    Cited: Egendorf‚ Laura K. Teen Alcoholism. San Diego: Greenhaven‚ 2001. Print. Gottfried‚ Ted. The Facts about Alcohol. New York: Benchmark‚ 2005. Print.

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    Structural Functionalism Parsons divides the social system into four subsystems; community‚ fiduciary‚ polity and economy. These action systems are intended to address the functional requirements that must be met by society. Each of these subsystems are capable of evolving in order to meet the current needs of society. At its core‚ Parsons sought to address the issues of adaption (economy)‚ goal attainment (polity)‚ integration (community) and pattern maintenance (fiduciary). These concepts

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    Abstract What exactly is teen depression? Teen depression is considered a disorder that takes place during the teenage years. It includes continuous sadness‚ discouragement‚ pessimistic thoughts‚ loss of self esteem (Teen). Teen depression can be caused by a wide range of factors. These factors include‚ but are not limited to family dynamics‚ social settings‚ peer pressure‚ and genetics. Depression symptoms vary for each person but the most common symptoms are: harming themselves physically

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    The three main paradigms in sociology are social conflict‚ Structural functionalism and Symbolic interactionism. These paradigms are known as a set of concepts and theories that guides our perspective on certain concepts in society. If a person applies the theory of social conflict then he/she thinks of the world as a hierarchy of inequalities .They usually sees life as a competition and focuses on the distribution of resources and power. If a person considers themselves as a functionalist then they

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    Why is it Wrong to say that “What is Good for Society‚ is Good for the Individual” Structural Functionalism focuses on the idea of how Institutions within society are structured‚ and work together in order to eventually form a functional society. It doesn’t study the individuals of society‚ but provides analysis on the overall social system‚ its functionality‚ and how it affects human behaviour. This theory can also be understood by looking at the metaphor of organs within a system. Organs‚ much like

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    Relativism is the metaethical theory that moral standards and values are created by groups of people… and that morality is nothing more than socially approved customs.” (Boss‚ Ethics for Life. 2008) Boss furthermore concludes that this theory of Cultural Relativism can be used to exclude a certain group or groups of people based on perceived moral standards or values (Boss‚ 2008). This theory can easily be applied to the world of Cyberbullying and its affect on the tween and teen set. Over 33% of all youth

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