Nowadays‚ Malaysia is facing a serious issue regarding on baby dumping which getting more chronic and cause a lot of attention. This social problem can be seemed on all type of media such as newspaper and mass media. For the past few years there are many new born babies have been found‚ dead or live in the most unlikely places like rubbish dump. This is shows clearly that baby dumping is really serious problem that currently happen in our society. Baby dumping became chronic it is because teenagers
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TEENS & PEER PRESSURE • To be a member of a peer group is the primary goal of most teenagers during adolescence. The feeling of belonging and social acceptance is very strong at this stage of development. This is why peer influence plays a huge part in steering the experiences and interest of teenagers. When teens are searching for their identity and the concepts that they want to define themselves by‚ social influences and peer interaction play a huge part in this process. These two factors
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American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry‚ suicide is the third leading cause of death in adolescents and emerging adults ages fifteen to twenty-four. “According to the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH)‚ about 8 out of every 100‚000 teenagers committed suicide in 2000. For every teen suicide death‚ experts estimate there are 10 other teen suicide attempts. (teendepression.org)”. Adolescence is a very vulnerable time in one’s life; adolescents are faced with many changes and or obstacles
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"Let Teenagers Try Adulthood" Leon Botstein explains in his essay "Let Teenagers Try Adulthood"‚ about how high school is run by the jocks‚ and how the community only supports the high school when the "varsity team" succeeds. Botstien talks about how the "...rules of high school turn out not to be the rules of life." He also talks about the whole "puberty" issue and how it effects today’s teens‚ in school and in life. He explains how elementary school should start earlier‚ and you should graduate
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Why do Teenagers use drugs? Young people try drugs for many reasons including relaxation‚ socializing‚ curiosity or peer pressure. Alcohol‚ tobacco and cannabis are the most commonly used drugs by teenagers. Around one in five teenagers have tried cannabis at least once. Parents can reduce the risk of drugs for their children with some strategies Some strategies to avoid children using drugs may be: * Model appropriate behavior such as drinking moderately‚ not smoking and not using illicit
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wonder where my sweet little girl went? Then I reminded myself how when she was a toddler‚ I couldn’t wait for her to grow up. Little did I know there wasn’t much of a difference between the two. Having a teenager or toddler can both be rewarding and extremely stressful. I have found that teenagers and toddlers may have their differences but to my surprise have many similarities as well. In fact one similarity that never crossed my mind is how similar
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internet on teenagers and young adults Nowadays is the age of information‚ and surfing the internet is the fastest ways to find information. With the development of computer technology and economic，the proportion of internet users is increasing quickly and more than 90% teenagers and young adults who are living in developed countries use the Internet ‚so young people are an important group which are affected by surf the internet. In this essay‚ the discussion how the internet affects teenagers and young
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Challenges of Hong Kong Luxury Hotels Facing Nowadays Hong Kong‚ as a Special Administrative Region of China‚ is a popular destination for travelers from Mainland China and also other countries (Tasci‚ & Denizci‚ 2010). Tourism is one of the pillar industries of Hong Kong’s economy‚ and has made significant contribution in recent decades. One of the main elements of this rapidly growing industry is the hotel industry‚ which is also flourishing in Hong Kong with plenty of hotels for visitors. However
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A Day in the Life of a Muslim Teenager Wednesday‚ September 5‚ 2012 Dear Diary‚ My name is Walliyah. You don’t know me but soon you will know everything. I am Muslim‚ 15 years old‚ and going to Eagle Rock High School. It was my first day today. Everything is so different. The people here in America don’t pray 5 times a day. I tried to but it was hard without being made fun of. During lunch and nutrition I went into the garden to read a little bit of the Qur’an and pray to Allah‚ but I could
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make a valid point‚ or is he entirely mistaken in his judgement of a technology-controlled generation? Is it presumptuous to assume that this preoccupation with social medias can be construed as stupidity‚ or is it entirely valid in its claim that teenagers have lost the susceptibility and ravenousness for knowledge that had been present in generations that preceded them? It is a heavily biased discussion often based on generalization‚ where both sides need a prospect for thorough review to be able
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