there are other options. This is one reason why I chose teen suicide as my I-search topic. I have had personal experience with teen suicide involving my friends‚ and the next time that one of my friends comes to me saying‚ ”I want to die.” I want to be able to understand where they are coming from and how I can help them. I also chose this topic because I want to educate others on how serious of a problem teen suicide really is. Teen suicide as an extremely complex tragedy‚ that
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Xanath Campos COM V01 Teen Pregnancy General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech‚ the audience should be able to describe three major contributing factors of teen pregnancy. Central Idea: Teenage pregnancy can be defined as pregnancy of women who have not reached twenty years of age‚ regardless of their marital status. Introduction I would like to take the time to talk about a topic that’s relatively close to my heart; and that is teen pregnancy. Let me start of
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Justin Sanders Mr. Beal Freshman Composition November 9‚ 2009 Rough Draft Teen Obesity When I was a teenager I faced obesity myself. Going through high school was the hardest thing ever. I weighed over two hundred pounds and I was constantly getting bullied and made fun of. When I was at home all I did sit around watch TV‚ play video games‚ and eat constantly. I
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3 in 10 teen American girls will get pregnant at least once before age 20. That’s nearly 750‚000 teen pregnancies every year. Parenthood is the leading reason that teen girls drop out of school. More than half of teen are mothers that never graduate from high school or neither go to college. Less than 2 percent of teen moms earn a college degree by age 30. About a quarter of teen moms have a second child within 24 months of their first baby. IN The United States we has one of the highest teen
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Weirtz 1 Taylor Weirtz Susan Vogel English Composition II 1 November 2013 Why the Drinking Age should be Lowered in the United States The United Sates has one of the highest drinking ages in the world. For this reason‚ many citizens under the legal drinking age of twenty one find this unfair and defy the law. High school and college students ignore the rule and go overboard with excessive drinking. From 1920 to 1933 alcohol was prohibited in the United States. This occurred when President
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Teen Pregnancy Teenage pregnancy is an overwhelming problem in the United States. In 2006‚ the rate of teen pregnancy had increased for the first time in a decade and it remains the highest among developed countries in the world. “About 40 percent of American women become pregnant before the age of 20. The result is about 1 million pregnancies each year among women ages 15 to 19. Only half of those pregnancies end in actual births” (Casey.) Concerned parents‚ educators‚ and healthcare workers
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Teens and Stress: It’s Not Just The Hormones At the edge of darkness‚ uncertain and lost‚ there are some who find themselves in what seems like an irreversible situation. Sometimes these individuals can only see one solution left; taking the plunge into the shadows. Youth suicide has been a serious problem in many countries over the past four decades (Gregoire). Statistics show that every year 200‚000 teenagers worldwide commit suicide‚ and approximately 4 million adolescents attempt it (Gregoire)
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Teen Pregnancy Teen pregnancy has dramatically decreased within the last decade because of the increased used of contraception. In 2012‚ the National Center for Health statistics recorded 29 births for every 1‚000 girls‚ which has decreased since 1991 when 62 births per 1‚000 girls was recorded. Although it has decreased‚ teen pregnancy remains at the highest rate in industrialized countries such as the United States. Not only does teen pregnancy affect the young teen parents but the child as
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distract young teens. It distracts them on what they need to work on for school. Most students actually fall back in assignments and lack on doing homework when they spend too much time on the internet. This can affect their grades and then really have a bad effect on their future career. Obviously‚ this is why the internet can harm their education. Teens have trouble connecting with friends while they’re out because they’re on their phones practically the whole time. Sometimes teens don’t even go
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long day at school by the end of the day you aren’t even paying attention‚ or have you been sitting in class with nothing to do wasting time? The time in school should be shortened because teachers have to spend a long time at school‚ students get bored and near the end of the day they don’t actually pay attention‚ and we waste time not paying attention in classes when we could’ve spent outside getting exercise. Teachers deserve shorter times in school. Teachers have to stay at school for about 8
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