| HEALTH-PHILIPPINES Young Lives Up in Smoke By Kara Santos | MANILA‚ Feb 15‚ 2010 (IPS) - Whether they choose to light up their first cigarette on their own or are unwitting victims of passive smoking‚ Filipino youth are increasingly at risk from tobacco exposure. "The younger a child starts to smoke‚ the greater the chances of becoming a regular smoker‚" said Dr Maricar Limpin‚ executive director of the non- government group Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance Philippines
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AND BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY A. Introduction “Emo” also known as “emotional”‚ is a kind of lifestyle that teenagers adopt nowadays. It shows many manifestations like listening to a very depressing music‚ hurting oneself physically‚ “melodramatizing” simple problems‚ long fringe hairstyle‚ adapting black and dark clothes. The researchers have seen these manifestations among teenagers especially among students. Today emo is commonly tied to both music and fashion as well as an inspiration
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Information and Communication Technologies; they produce to increase the standard of living for the people to spend time. Nowadays‚ teenagers can easier to get mass media in computer; they can through computers to know different types of mass media that they want to have. Mass media brings out some of the positive and negative effect on teenagers: Positive effect on teenagers: Mass media serves as a platform on which individuals can voice their views in various issues and share information with
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drivers are teenagers. Growing up the question of drinking and driving has always been an issue‚ but most of the time the question isn’t the issue‚ the issue is your answer. Have you ever been in a car with a drunk driver? Or let one of your friends get in the car with a drunk driver? Ask yourselves these questions‚ and I’m almost positive you’ll recall at least one time. Peer Pressure has a lot to do with drinking and driving. It is perhaps the greatest influence on teenagers and their drinking
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Many teenagers join gangs because they want to “earn money either to help their parents” (Hoover 20) or just to keep it for themselves. Joining a gang is easier than getting a job which is one reason why teens join gangs. Other teenagers join gangs because it runs in the family. Their family members may be in a gang which made they join a gang. This happens because they want to follow their family’s footsteps. They just think that they should be involved in what their family is involved in. They
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Dancehall Music is a popular genre of Jamaican music. It is composed of ‘riddims’‚ fast upbeat rhythms than the traditional reggae music. Dancehall music has become a symbol of explicit sexual imagery and violence. Despite the positive effects Dancehall music might have on our young people‚ it has become more a pathway for moral degradation with our young people. Dancehall lyrics are found to be crude as it promotes sexual behaviors‚ sexual imagery and violence. It is expected that the youth of society
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Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends. It is commonly acknowledged that people are easily influenced by circumstances‚ so the most influential people to students are their teachers and friends who accompany them for much of the time each day. But the different attitudes of students toward their teachers and friends that compared to teachers‚ they hold a feeling of more affinity and trust to their friends reveal that their friends have a greater impact on them.
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Teenagers do not know the real meaning of freedom and have not learnt to savour it as those in the work force have. They do not know what it is like to have to fend for themselves‚ and have others depend on them to live as well. To have just one day where all that responsibility‚ and the responsibility of sticking to laws and restrictions‚ is lifted off their shoulders‚ would be the feeling of true freedom. Parents restrict their teenagers from doing some things and going
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Web Images Maps News Translate Books Gmail more ▼ Help | Sign in Translate too easy to believe the other. For example‚ if they felt their friends closer and more understand‚ they can easily be in accordance with what is done by friends. They forget that the "friends sometimes can not eat friends." In this situation many young adults fall into the social ills. Influence of Mass Media The mass media also contribute to the occurrence of social problems among young adults today. Not everything
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Stress Undergone By Teenagers! Schoolwork stresses most teens at one point or another. The pressure to perform well in classes determines future opportunities. For students who aren’t naturally gifted in certain subjects‚ like math or science‚ getting good grades can be an intense struggle‚ to the point where simple assignments are stressful and exams even more . When an adult works a job‚ he typically does something he is skilled at and trained for‚ but teens must often complete tasks in subjects
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