the rapid boom in teenage pregnancy across various cities in America. Since the early eighties MTV has been considered somewhat of a cultural phenomenon for American adolescents and its depiction of gender has a strong impact that continues to this day (Holtzman 2000). Created by Morgan J. Freeman (director of teen shows Dawson’s Creek and Laguna Beach)‚ the show “16 & Pregnant” has been said to be guilty of exacerbating‚ normalizing and even glorifying teen pregnancy. Perhaps‚ it’s just reflecting
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Millions of teens participate in social networks. According to the 1997 Pew Research report Teens and Social Media‚ 93 percent of teens are active online. Fifty-five percent have created a profile on a social networking site. What are teens doing on these sites? Why are they spending so much time connecting with others online? HANGING OUT MOVES ONLINE Ask teens what they do on social networking sites and chances are their answer will be "just hang out." In fact‚ hanging out with friends is nothing
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Social Networking and Communication How does social networking sites impact today’s youth? Growing up as a teen in the 80’s‚ hearing the words Facebook‚ probably meant putting your face in a book and reading it; Twitter‚ a sound a bird might make; and MySpace meant exactly that‚ my space. However‚ in today’s teen society those words represent the world’s biggest trend‚ social networking. The purpose of this report is to inform society about social networking and the various impacts it has on
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Social Media & Teens Over the last five years‚ technology has been rapidly changing and expanding in every field imaginable. So these days making it without some knowledge of technology is illogical. Social Networking Sites allow teenagers to experiment with today’s gadgets‚ which will be useful to them in the future. Almost all college classes require the use of a computer. So before you jump the gun and say your teen isn’t mature enough to be interacting on social networking sites
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Effects of School Based Sex Education and the Rate of Teen Pregnancy Katherine Marsella Dr. Gayle Brosnan-Watters Arizona State University Abstract The proposed correlation study would examine the relationship between school based sex education and the rate of teen pregnancy. Teen pregnancy rates in the United States exceed one million each year‚ generating the top pregnancy rates of any Western developed country (Mitchell-DiCenso‚ 1997). This study used a group of 250 students who are enrolled
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Teen Pregnancy Retha McDonald Argument Essay Abstract The following research paper contains important information on how you can prevent your teen from becoming pregnant. The thesis is clearly stated in my argument. Topic sentences and sub-topics support my theory. Teen Pregnancy and prenatal care are very important issues but can be avoided all together with patience‚ guidance and instruction from responsible parents. Parents have to discuss issues such as safe sex‚ prevention of pregnancy
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Argumentative Essay Dr. Sykes 20 October 2014 "Teen Mom" Promotes Teen Pregnancy Reality television often has the tendency to present an unrealistic view towards issues regarding real life situations. Teen pregnancy is one of the most misleading topics presented on reality television. Tabloids feed off of the shows’ popularity by plastering the pictures of the teens on magazines and online‚ making them seem more appealing. Teen pregnancy as presented on reality television shows is irresponsible
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Americans are facing skyrocketing health care costs today. I cannot help but think disease in some way relates to health. People have long established the link between good nutrition and healthy individuals. Examples of poor health and malnourishment continue to show up in poor countries. Although the United States maintains certain recommendations for basic nutrition‚ I think Americans still consume too much of the nutritionally empty foods and health care ends up dealing with the resulting
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Ashanti Meade Kat Writing 9c April 12‚ 2013 Is MTV And Motion Pictures Promoting Teen Pregnancy Teen pregnancy has been around for more than a decade and the number of teenage pregnancy more and more in the U.S. especially for people for an African American decent or Hispanic decent (as seen on the graph below) But the question is‚ “Is MTV and motion pictures responsible for it all?” With shows on MTV like “Teen Mom” and “16 and pregnant” along with the movie “Juno” directed by Jason Reitman and
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always done everything together. They make straight A’s in school and belong to a wealthy family‚ and soon they decide to come up with a pack. The pack is for every one of them to become pregnant by their boyfriend or a random guy. Planning the pregnancy pack‚ the girls are unaware of the consequences that their actions may bring them. Now picture a young female around the age of sixteen who feels very unwanted and unloved by society and even her own parents. Feeling abandoned and alone‚ she decides
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