While living in Bluff us kids learned real quick not to ever mention that we were bored, because comments like that would get us sentenced to a few hours cleaning up weeds or maybe picking up trash that would blow in. we never had an excuse to be bored, if we did it was immediately dispersed with a job offer. ... We were even well paid starting out at 3 dollars an hour at ages 5 or so and slowly graduating our way up in the income. ... Another study done by Bachman and Schulenberg showed that out of 71,863 total high school students surveyed that: 75% of males and 73% of females did paid w...

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The technology that teens use every day for multiple hours could influence or create new structures in the brain, affecting how an individual could think and how they could react to situations in the real world. ... According to a study by Kaiser Family done in 2010, today's teens spend more than 71/2 hours a day submerged in media (Ahuja). ... In some cases, teens who have met this criteria of internet addiction either escape to the internet because of depression or are depressed because of all the long hours they've spent on the internet--this is still something psychologists and r...

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Unfortunately, not every student will finish high school. Some may choose to leave school before graduation in order to pursue other things, and some may drop out due to boredom or lack of motivation. More than likely, students are not aware that dropping out of school is usually not the best choice...

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You get curious to see what's happening in the twitter world and you promise yourself it will only be a minute, then that minute turns to an hour and then your rushed in doing your homework. ... "The average Facebook user spends almost seven hours each month on the site - that's well ahead of Tumblr and Pinterest, which tie for second place for most time spent. The average visitor to Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ spends less than half an hour on the site per month....

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So we got up and decided to go out to eat, and then maybe we would make it to the zoo to walk around, this sort of thing could take hours. ... We finally arrived at the hospital at 11:15 in the morning, and after 14 more hours of excruciating pain, 10 months anticipation and worries, and 15 years of life I could call myself "Mom" for the first time. ...

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The average high school student needs ten to twelve hours of sleep, and the same average student is given, on average, two to three hours of homework a night; factor in trying to live a separate life fro...

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Statistics Canada has shown that in nineteen-ninety eight and nineteen-ninety nine "The average Canadian still spends about twenty three hours a week watching television, and twenty hours a week listening to radio" (New Society 106). ...

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Furthermore, as parents work more hours than ever, they often rely on advise from their teens. ... Teens spend almost 2.5 weekday hours on the Internet (www.mediascope.org/pubs/ibriefs/pcac.htm). ...

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" Life is hell!" This comes out of the mouth of a bright, 16 year-old boy named Max, who had seemed not to have a care in the world. Tim is quiet and polite- the model student and son during the week but falling down drunk on Saturday night. Then there is Jackie. She wrote a note to her frien...

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Stress is directly related to the misconduct in teenagers today. Many believe that the rise in drug use and other behavioral problems in adolescents are due to society's inability to manage their adolescents (Benenson). They believe that a more strict view and more severe punishments would change ho...

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Marilyn Monroe known as the blonde bombshell was the beautiful star of the 1950's. Close friend Eve Arnold said," Many people followed her career and life" "Most people felt like they knew her" ("Marilyn" 2000 pg.1) In fact most people had no idea what really influenced her Marilyn's life and career...

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As a teenager, my grandmother always told me, "The people with whom I surrounded myself can have a big influence on me." She was inspired by the scripture that said, "Bad friend corrupt good character." I always kept that advice in the back of my mind and putting it in practice was very challenging,...

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Abstract An attractive appearance is proven to be so essential to the feminine gender role, the search for correct ideal of beauty causes many problems for adolescent girls. What they advertise in fashion magazines such as in Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Vogue, and in other populous magazine brands influence their readers. These young adolescent females' allow themselves to become vulnerable to health problems that can be caused by current beauty trends which can cause mental illnesses and physical changes. This research paper will unravel the horrid truth of how fashion magazines affect the ...

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