to the extreme. The advances in the cell phones have had a large impact on everyone‚ but especially today’s youth. Teens have taken the use of technology to an unsafe level. These bad habits can affect them for the rest of their lives. Teens are to distracted by their cell phones. Texting is causing teens to be distracted while driving‚ limiting their social skills and is causing teen texting tendonitis. Traffic crashes are the leading causes of death in the United States (Berry). Many traffic crashes
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Drinking and driving (stress on body and mind) If you love your life‚ you would never drink and drive. It is very interesting how human beings ignore the simple rules that end up costing their lives or their money. Every injury and death caused by drunk driving is completely preventable. This phenomenon of alcohol-impaired driving has remained to be an international problem that affects many people each year. Drinking alcohol has resulted to an increase in the number of orphans and single parents
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Teen Depression A depressed person sits surrounded by people. They talk‚ laugh‚ and act totally normal. However‚ it’s just a cover. Inside that person sits loneliness that washes through them… an unexplainable sadness that they constantly feel. They fear speaking of it… of admitting the hatred they have for themselves. How many people must live like this person? As stated in athealth.com” Every six months people feel this way and the illness affects 1.2 percent of the American population. Do you
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his wife Lulu‚ confirm it is all right for her to go out‚ but first they had to meet the boy and told her she had to be home by curfew. "I want to speak to him‚" Dr. Betancourt told Alicia. He even reminded her to avoid distracting him when he’s driving (Stafford‚ 3). Sometimes Alicia would complain about her early curfew‚ but she always obeyed it. That night she didn’t come home. Several hours after Alicia’s curfew the Betancourt’s began to worry so they decided to call the cops. The dispatcher
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for most teens to get their license was reaching their 16th birthday‚ a written exam and a road test. Teens were free to drive anywhere‚ any time with anyone. Although‚ times have changed. Now graduated driver ’s license laws appear to be saving young lives. States all over the U.S. are going to the graduated driving system. Although some people say it is unbeneficial‚ others beg to differ. Some say that laws that restrict 16-year-old drivers from carrying passengers and from driving at night
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someday‚ it’s best to start off young learning” I didn’t know if I was more nervous than driving or driving along. So I took a deep breath in went through with it‚ I was doing well until I was coming around a curve in didn’t realize a mailbox was on side of a curb. Before I knew it “BANG” I ran into the mailbox‚ a fence‚ and a garbage can. The cause of that happening was because I was already nervous about driving; it was new to me by coming around a curb I was just getting use
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how youth use tattooing and body piercing to express their way of thinking and how they feel. It also explores the various key reasons that lead to the decisions of youth to tattoo. Youth and tattoos is a growing trend in the US and parents of these teens that decide to have tattoos and piercings are concerned with their decisions. In this article Dr. Martin views tattoos in a positive way. This is shown in the last paragraph where he mentioned‚ “they (tattoos) can often be understood self-constructive
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Biggest issue within the United States today relates to driving skills between young and older age adults. Of course there are differences that create the reaction of the cause and effect within adults that are experienced with motor vehicles. Timing is also considered another factor on what type of vehicle is being utilized due to; braking capability‚ weather factors and experience of other drivers within the surrounding. Young age and old age driving comparison shows completely different aspects from
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Texting and Driving vs. Drunk Driving Over the last century‚ technology has helped society move forward‚ making things faster and easier. Having a vehicle has allowed people to reach a destination faster than they would if they had to ride a bike or even walk. Also the ability to now text using a cell phone speeds up the communication process even more. With all the new technological advances you have to many people taking advantage of it; by texting while they are driving to make business or
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and other emotional issues. Causes of teen pregnancy and tips to surpass it Family problem affects the thinking ability of a teenager. It makes them to create decisions that they think it’s good for them‚ they ask advices to their friends than their families. This is also the time that teens are starting to learn to drink alcohol and use prohibited drugs to satisfy their selves and to forget the problems between his/her family. One thing that the teens think can help them to get away from their
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