Symbolism is another rhetorical device used to portray life through the eyes of a young person. ... In the passage, the narrator used first person point of view to show her mind. ... The poem uses third person to show a group of teens and how basketball keeps them in tact with their life. ... By using different point of views, the readers were able to obtain a different perspective of life through the young person. While, the reader was able to gain experience through that one person from the passage, you was also able to see a group of teens" life in the way they handle, especially one teen w...

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Another popular person that is often brought up during conversations regarding violence in music is Marilyn Manson. ... The parents are the ultimate role model in a child's life, not a musician. ... Parents should explain that every person deals with their problems in a different manner and that just because Eminem uses music and explicit lyrics; that is no reason to go hurt or even kill someone. ... The violence that psychologists say is caused by explicit lyrics can be destroyed by positive role models in a teenager's life. If parents need to be more active in their children&#x...

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How to Examine the Effects of Personal Hardships Hardships occur in and usually greatly impact the lives of everyone, especially those who are at an age where they are still discovering who they are and how they fit into the "big picture" of life. ... Essentially, by the time a person hits legal age, they have experienced events that will forever change how they view themselves and the world they are about to enter. ... Wang Lung's hardships were mostly pecuniary, but turned him from a modest farmer into the type of person he use to resent. ...

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Peer groups are important in this stage of life. I believe that peer groups are an essential factor for a happy, healthy life because friendships help a person cope with stress, talk about their problems, and helps in developing trust and understanding with other peers. ... A person, no matter what age, needs to have adequate health care in order to be and stay healthy. ... Being and staying healthy can help a person with their self- esteem and the way they view themselves. ... If these factors are practiced, a person can lead this kind of life. ...

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What does it mean to be a fake person, you ask? ... I have personally had to deal with this type of situation more than once in my high school life, and even in younger years as a junior high student, and each time it left a scar that helped form the person I am today. I do not know if others would agree that I should have let it or not, but dealing with this type of person so often has definitely affected the way I view the world and life in general. ... I am a believer in getting back whatever you give out in life. I know that people who are fake and put image before personality will eve...

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I am going to college because I want a better life for myself. ... I don't think anybody would want life like that. ... I am blessed that I am getting a chance to make a better person out of myself, by going to college. ... I moved away from people that I had gone to school with most of my life, and had grown up with. ... I want to become educated person who have professional person. ...

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The young person impacted by outreach will improve the local community, enrich their own life, and find a direction for their future. ... His efforts help bring out his friends still trapped in the life of a young reprobate. ... The involved youth will find that helping people not only changed the person in need but also gave themselves a desire to succeed in life. ... Though every person involved in an outreach program may not become a Pastor, they will discover compassion that will impact a life forever. ... How do I know a low-income outreach program can change a life? ...

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One person's salary can provide food, fun, and entertainment for an entire family. The only way to enjoy life is to enjoy work, but many teenagers work in environments that provide minimal advancement that are on the bottom of the pay scale. These jobs do not provide enough money for a person to become self-sufficient. In order to demand more privileges or complete independence, one must have a job that pays well even if that person lives on a very tight budget. ... Life without parental supervision can have many benefits, but any teenager looking down the road for life to pick them up wi...

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When I come across this point in life, it is one of my weak situations. ... I am not really a hard person to please and I do not feel embarrassed much. ... I am not the type of person to judge anyone. ... Together personality and character are important to notice in a person. Usually, that makes the person. ...

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Many of these ideas stem from each person's life experiences. The environment in which a person is raised effects his or her own philosophies on life issues. ... Gates' number-one rule: "Life is not fair "get used to it- is not a new idea. ... If life were perceived as nothing but fair, where would we all be? ... If Gates' believes in the advancing of each young person's quality of life, than why would he encourage such a disgraceful profession? ...

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But Holden's struggling through his adolescent life. ... Holden likes her style and shows how he doesn't care about anything, let alone his life. ... Jane symbolizes Holden's childhood and how she's a very happy and content person. ... Jane and her kings are an important scene in this novel and symbolize Holden's life. ... Holden can either try to earn a good education and win the game of life, becoming the person he chooses, or give up and admit defeat and live among the phonies now surrounding him. ...

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Everywhere you look, there is an example of a person being tied to, or answering to another. ... A person could decide to do as he pleases, but eventually, he will literally be "in chains". ... It may be your job, but life is so much easier when you can laugh a little and enjoy yourself more. ... Yes, education is one of the best things to ever get in life, but you have to ask to do everything. ... When it is all said and done, no person can really go anywhere without ever having to answer to someone else. ...

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"How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie" by Junot Diaz, is a short fiction story in which the protagonist speaking in second person is used also as the narrator. ... This demonstrates how a person's expectations of other are determined by their generalizations in terms of race or social class, but also how a person tries to control other people's perspective in search of that social acceptance forced. ... It is that own story which make a person unique and different from others. Each stage in life has a reason to exist and adolescence as such, it allows people ...

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After all, everyone in their life was or will be a teenager at some point. ... Being kicked out of school after school, Holden has practically lived his entire life in dorms or on the streets. ... Holden is the person of this fact. ... He seemed to be a cocky self-centered person who thought the world revolved around him. ... From the begging of the novel, he does his best to be independent and revolt against everything restraining him in his life. ...

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Does being popular mean a life where everything is perfect or is it just a fazade. ... A screen of security that gives a person an identity, even if it isn't their own? ... And to fit in to that world, a person must have similarities to all the other popular persons. Things that come into this include a person's image, culture, background, family and money. ...

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A human being is a person; it is belonging to, or having the qualities of, man or mankind. ... There are many ways to classify a person, by social standards, race, and sex. ... At the moment that you"re born you start your life as a child. ... The next stage in a person's life is being a teenager. ... For men they may go through a mid life crisis where they believe that they are getting to old and may go out and buy a new sports car or get a younger girlfriend. ...

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If they explore the roles in a healthy manner and come up with a good path to follow in life, they will develop a positive identity. ... Erikson believed an individual identity must be achieved before a person is able to share a relationship with another person. ... Failure in this stage leads to stagnation, where a person is unsatisfied with there life and achievements. ...

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Dissonance is a very powerful way to shift a person's believes or attitude. ... Counter attitudinal advocacy is when a person states an opinion or attitude on something that runs counter to their private belief or attitude. ... Some people may state things that they do not truly believe because they do not want to feel like an outcast or hurt the person's feelings. ... On the inside I was extremely upset because how could this happen to my cousin at this juncture of her life. ... I find that pregnancy is not in a person's control unless they practice abstenance....

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Do you know someone who says they hate life? ... Is this person in their teenage years by chance? If you answered yes to all of these questions, most likely that person is dealing with teen stress, possibly depression. ... Finally, I had to step in and show him what he was doing to his life. ... In today's life, teens are more often to try drugs. ...

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When a young person commits a violent crime, resulting in a death of an innocent person, how many lives should be lost? ... Many people who favor teenagers should be sentenced to life in prison, argue that we must first consider the victims. ... Jenkins states, "Some persons will shun crime even if we do nothing to deter them, while others will seek it out even if we do everything to reform them.... She begged for the life of her unborn child as he shot her.... Overall, juveniles who commit serious crimes should be sentenced to life in prison because teenagers need to understand the circ...

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"On Self-respect " faces the every day pressures of adolescent life. ... Peer pressure is a very major dilemma in that friends or peers try to get a person to do what they, the majority, like and not what the individual likes. ... Therefore if one teen tries it he/she is supposedly accepted as a more mature person, so more people will follow. ... Another kind of pressure is adult pressure ,adult create many dilemmas in a teens life. ... They make things harder in that adults pressure teens into colleges, jobs, careers, and life over all. ...

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According to Common Sense Media (2012, "Introduction" section, para. 1) Adolescence is a time of life that is both exhilarating and daunting. ... In the teenage years it's about exploration and finding out the person you are. ... In the study many teens mentioned that access to the sites made them do things they wouldn't normally do in person. Such as asking somebody out, or saying mean things about another person. It almost gives them more confidence, and a shield that they don't otherwise have in real life. ...

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I have always considered myself a fairly unique person, and believe that I possess many strong qualities that could contribute to my success as a college student. First and foremost, I have always considered myself a sociable person. ... I believe that going away to college without your previous friends and relationships can be a difficult experience, but being an amicable person could dramatically ease the transition. ... I know what I would like to do with my life and am willing to work as hard as I must to achieve this. ...

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Teens and Stress The teenage years are years that a person might never want to forget, but can also be years that that same person does not want to remember. ... It is very easy for a teenager to momentarily forget that life is not all about fun. ... A person needs to have someone else to talk to and to relate with. ... As a person grows up, their body changes. ... Stress is a fact of life that needs to be stood up against and conquered. ...

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Teens and Stress The teenage years are years that a person might never want to forget, but can also be years that that same person does not want to remember. ... It is very easy for a teenager to momentarily forget that life is not all about fun. ... A person needs to have someone else to talk to and to relate with. ... As a person grows up, their body changes. ... Stress is a fact of life that needs to be stood up against and conquered. ...

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