Essays on Many Young People

Education is one of the basic requirements for survival today. In the past people used to ignore the importance of education because there were diverse ways of survival. Despite the desire for many adults to acquire knowledge through learning, a challenge of balancing between school and life responsibilities takes the center stage. I believe between college, and life responsibilities is a big challenge for many adult learners especially those with families. The following paper is a synthesis of the problem as a barrier to adult learning. The adult education program in collaboration with adult students and instructors should join ...

Alex Kotlowitz follows the lives of two young boys, Lafeyette Rivers and Pharaoh Rivers, in their Chicago neighborhood, living in the Henry Horner Project, a housing scheme for underclass black people. The boys grow up in a rough neighborhood, where the only option is to join a gang once they enter adolescence. Their mother is 35 years old, and she had eight children, among whom, one is serving a jail term and the second born, an eighteen-year-old, has been arrested for a record forty-six times, making him a strong candidate to serving jail terms like his elder brother. When ...

Reducing Alcohol Abuse in Mississippi

A school-based intervention is one of the best programs that the public health of Mississippi can use in combating alcohol abuse. This initiative targets young people in high schools mainly because, it is during high school years that many young people begin to indulge in alcohol (Frieden, 2005). This program includes both parents and teachers of students and targets many schools within Mississippi. The elements of the program include; teaching young people of the negative effects of alcoholism, disputing the perception that everybody else is taking alcohol, and teaching the youth on ways to say no to alcohol. The ...

Introduction According to Erik Erikson’s theory, youth is a time of self discovery (Alice and Landale 2011). A young person attempts to seek individual identity which is separate from family. During this period, the youth tend to think in terms of establishing a life philosophy which is free from conflict. This is in contrast to the reality, which is laden with conflict. In this process of self discovery, the youth tend to be rash and ignorant and in a sense consider themselves ‘immortal gods’. This can be illustrated by the carefree attitude they adopt (Hunt et al., 2009). Many ...