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Teenagers Essays and Term Papers
Latin America And SlaveryPrior to its independence Latin America had been controlled by external forces for hundreds of years. To be freed of control from these outside interests did not in any way guarantee Latin America a return to the status quo. In fact, the inhabitants of Latin America had done very well in ...
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Romeo And Juliet - Comparisson To West Side StoryThe play West Side Story, by Arthur Laurents, is based upon the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. Despite a few differences, both works, in essence, have the same plot. The source of violence in Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story is the ever-present hatred between families and ...
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Urban Legendsdepict the typical social acceptance of unverified stories that are meant to strike fear in people and raises several questions to be answered. No one knows who first used the phrase Urban Legend to represent the remarkable tales described by people of all ages. They have been studied as a ...
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Binge Drinking On College CampusesWhen parents send their children away to college, they expect them
to receive a quality education that will prepare them for the real world.
However, most parents do not realize that their hard-earned money is being
used to purchase hard liquor. Recent studies show that 82.5% of all
college ...
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Capital PunishmentIn 1985, fifteen-year-old Paula Cooper of Gary, Indiana and three of her friends began skipping school and participating in illegal activities. The teenagers needed video game money for entertainment and thought they had a good means of obtaining some. Ruth Pelke, a Bible teacher the girls knew, ...
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A Separate Peace - A Journey To MaturityThe novel A Separate Peace includes many important themes. The author, John Knowles, was able to make the book more realistic because of his personal experiences. Knowles, like the characters in the book attended a boarding school. Many of his dilemmas were similar to those of Gene and Finny. The ...
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Fahrenheit 451 SymbolismRay Bradbury’s satire, Fahrenheit 451, is a novel full of symbols criticizing the modern world. Among those symbols appears The Hound. The Hound’s actions and even its shape are reflections of the society Bradbury has predicted to come.
Montag’s world continues on without ...
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The Issue Of Premarital SexThe relaxation of the sexual taboos of a generation ago has
affected today's society. One of the effects of this relaxation is the
increase of premarital sex in today's society. Premarital sex can be
defined as sexual relations outside the institution of marriage.
Premarital sex may occur ...
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Peer PressureA healthy part of children’s development is involvement with their peers. This is especially true during adolescence as teenagers develop a sense of independence from their parents. Members of a peer group often dress alike, talk about similar things, like the same music, laugh at the same ...
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The Town Of El Dorado SpringsPicking research projects, sometimes for me, is an agonizing
problem that eventually turns into an enlightening experience; what was to
be my American Humanities research project was just such an experience. I
had preliminarily thought I'd look into cultural myths. While researching
myths, I ran ...
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Marijuana Should Be LegalizedThe original drafts of the Declaration of Independence were written on hemp paper.
One acre of hemp will produce as much paper as ten acres of trees.
Hemp is a source of fiber for cloth and cordage for rope.
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew hemp. Washington, our first president, ...
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Problems With Being A Teen In The Twentieth CenturyBeing a teenager of the twentieth- century, I am constantly bombarded with the, so called ‘trivial’ problems, that affect today’s teenagers. Commonly known as Generation X, this generation is enveloped in a cloud of hopelessness because we think we have no one to turn to when dealing with these ...
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Child Abuse In Today’s SocietyOne of the biggest ironies of a child’s life is that the family - a child’s primary source for love, support, and security - can be the most abusive group that a child belongs to. The significance of the family in American society has been essential to our Nation’s history and tradition. ...
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School Uniforms And DisciplineSince the recent outbreak of enraged teenagers, an overabundance of profesionals are giving their opinions on different ways society can overcome and lessen such instances. Robert Coles, a proffesor of psychiatry and medical humanities at Harvard Medical Center, offers his opinion to readers how ...
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Fahrenheit 451: A Depleting SocietyThe society in Fahrenheit 451 was very different than society today
and may be looked at as completely imaginary. Actually, when today's
society is compared with the societies both in Fahrenheit 451 and in the
past, we are indeed headed that way. The society in Fahrenheit 451 seemed
overall ...
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Nightclubs' Role In Our Drug ProblemCultural beliefs, expectations, and ideals - how they contribute to drug use.
Why they cause certain anti-drug efforts to fail
The extermination of illegal drugs has always been one of our most
important, worldwide issues. Ending the existence of drugs is one of the
toughest and most ...
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Premarital Sexis sex before marriage. The Bible calls fornication. Webster defines fornication, as "consensual sexual intercourse between two people not married to each other." Paul in writing to the church at Corinth said, " Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he who ...
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CinderellaThe " Complex" which dates back to 1981 has not only out grown its meaning but has left some women with the psychology effect that it still exists to put blame elsewhere on their conditions in society. The year is now 1999 and the fairytale of does not exist in reality, but many women still hold ...
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The Catcher In The Rye: A ClassicThere are many necessary components that make up a classic novel. Although it may be a matter of opinion, to consider a novel a classic, there are certain standards it must follow. "The Catcher in the Rye" should be considered a classic because of the style of writing J.D. Salinger uses, his use ...
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Romeo And Juliet: Tragedy, Love Story Or Both??
Shakespeare's tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, is the tale of two lovers who take
their lives for each other when their love is hindered by their feuding parents.
After reading Romeo and Juliet, apparently a tragedy, I would say that this
story contains aspects of both a love story and a tragedy. The ...
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