Essays on Young

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).
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With approximately 50% of adolescents sexually active by the time they are in Year 10, what skills and knowledge do they need to have to make, good decisions about their personal health? Discuss.
Introduction
“The development of a positive, healthy and responsible sexuality requires information, education and improved access to services. Increasing the available options enables young women and young men to exercise informed, self determined decisions”. (Youth Health Council – South Australia)
There has been a drastic change in our life styles, family structures and social system in the last two decades; today’s youth is much more technologically Continue reading...

Rüdiger von Kries, Berthold Koletzko, Thorsten Sauerwald, Dietmar Barnert, Veit Grunert, and
Hubertus von Voss. Breast-feeding and obesity: cross sectional study. BMJ. 319 (147) 17 July 1999.

The article tries to evaluate the impact of breast feeding on the threats of obesity and vulnerability of being overweight in children at the stage when they are suppose to start their education. The authors took a cross sectional analysis of children below the age of six years. With the analysis, they attempt to give definition of the term overweight in relation to what Continue reading...

A country without a focused young generation has got a dark future. The youth plays an important role in the development of a society. The indicators of a possible prosperous state are measured, using the present young population. They are quite often associated with creativity, innovation, high work rates and a burning desire to achieve big personal and career targets. They mature into adulthood, to become role models to the young. Besides that, they also engage in many, social functions like partying with friends. It’s during such functions that, most of them would want to practice, what they Continue reading...

In Literature for Today’s Young Adults, Nilsen and Donelson write that one of the first things an author does is to “figure out how to get rid of the parents” so that the main character of the story can accomplish something alone (28). The most important moment in Cut arrives when Callie realizes she wants more than anything to get well. Though she arrives at this decision after an important talk with her father, Callie finds the strength within herself Continue reading...

Introduction

Recently, the Antiquities Chief of Egypt, Zahi Hawass, has been asking that several prominent museums return several of the biggest and most well-known artifacts of that country back to Egypt. Among them is the Zodiac of Dendera, which is located in the Louvre, as well as the Rosetta Stone, which has been displayed in the British Museum for two centuries. Already, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has promised to return nineteen items that were found in the Continue reading...

Driving a vehicle while intoxicated with alcohol is one of the most treacherous things a person could ever attempt. This is mainly because a drunk driver is not only a danger to himself/herself but also to other road users and pedestrians. Unfortunately, alcohol is the most widely abused drug among the youth. When adolescents begin drinking they face a number of potential risks. Alcohol as a depressant slows down the reactions of the body and working of the brain. Some of the risks involved with drinking include violence and alcohol related accidents. There are also legal consequences to drunk driving such as going to jail, press coverage, paying heavy fines, court appearances or even losing one’s driving license. In addition, the more a person imbibes alcohol; their ability to make decisions becomes impaired.

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With the advent of communication technology, the way in which many activities are done has changed over time. Whether these activities are ethical or unethical, there has been a rapid development in the methodologies that people use to ensure that they achieve their objectives. The internet and communication technology are major developments that have changed the way people do their duties over the last two decades (Trestan 2). Bullying, itself a vice in any given community, has been changed from its previous mode where young people would bully others physically and at a given location, to a situation where Continue reading...

Health Care in Russia vs Health Care in the U.S.

According to the Institute of Medicine of National Academy of Sciences, the United States of America is a single developed industrial country that does not have universal health care. Instead there is a powerful health insurance system, partially funded by government through national programs. As a result 45% of total health care expenditures are spent on these programs (Sultz and Young 154). Unlike the U.S., Russian Federation has free universal medicine, and state constitution guarantees each citizen free health care services. Numerous Continue reading...

Introduction

"This is a story of an upper class Indian family (Ashima and Ashoke ) who moves as relatively new immigrants into Cambridge, Massachusetts with an aspiration for better and perhaps encouraging opportunities, and the focus mainly on their only son, Gogol. The whole family though struggles to have themselves conformed to the way of life of the average American. The major theme of focus on the story portrayed as a struggle for identity goes about Gogol life. Born to immigrants in Boston, Gogol is brought-up in the suburbs of Boston though with a name he hates- Gogol. To this young man, what frustrates most is that it is neither Indian nor even an American name. He moves to Yale for college from Boston and graduates to be an architect and later to live in New York City where he encounters a rich and attractive non-Indian girl. He feels the wailing difference in their family backgrounds and ultimately breaks up when his father passes on. He later meets a lady his mother later recommends, though equally American just like Gogol, she turns out as a very interesting one. They get married but she is not like him. Her needs lead to conflict in their lives.

Gogol struggles with the identity crisis can be seen in the book in several episodes and encounters, first Gogol’s internal struggle to negotiate between the private and public spheres is a central theme of the novel. It is the major reason why Gogol legally changes his name to Nikhil. Gogol, however, realizes that changing his name alone does not mean complete transformation of identity. He in fact questions his dad on why he was given the unique name. The foundation on which the story is laid is the unusual naming of the protagonist, Gogol; an accidental naming thrust on his parents by the need to feign some identity. When his father comes up with the name Gogol in the hospital, it emerges to him as a blow from a crisis from his own past -- a past he does not share with the son and The Namesake until Gogol, who has come of age abandon the name, is a senior in college. The story told by the father seems to increase the young boy's confusion. She writes: "Gogol listens, stunned, his eyes fixed on his father's profile. Though there are only inches between them, for an instant his father is a stranger, a man who has kept a secret, has survived a tragedy, a man whose past he does not fully know. A man who is vulnerable, who has suffered in an inconceivable way. When the young Gogol forcefully enquires why he was not told the story before, we encounter the following dialogue:

"It happened so long ago. I did not want to upset you."
"It does not matter. You should have told me."
"Perhaps, his father concedes, glancing briefly in Gogol's direction. He removes the keys from the ignition. "Come, you must be hungry. The car is getting cold."
However, Gogol doesn't move. He sits there, still struggling to absorb the information, feeling awkward, oddly ashamed, at fault. "I'm sorry, Baba."

The scene comes to a conclusion: “And suddenly the sound of his pet name, uttered by his father as he has been accustomed to hearing it all his life, means something completely new, bound up with a catastrophe he has unwittingly embodied for years. "Is that what you think of when you think of me?" Gogol asks him. "Not at all," his father says eventually, one hand going to his ribs, a habitual gesture that has baffled Gogol until now. "You remind me of everything that followed."

Gogol also tries to overcome this identity crisis in other instances, although little is told about his adolescence, we only visit him on his fourteenth birthday and on a brief foray we join him into a party among his college associates who are students at MIT where for the first time a lady kisses him. I think Gogol felt “trapped” in South Asian culture and it is for that reason that he dated Maxine; because her family was different from his own. Why would Gogol eventually marry Moushumi? Since Gogol always had an interest in white women, how could he suddenly change and marry a Bengali woman? I fail to make any sense of this sudden turn. More of these identity crises is portrayed when Gogol’s mother Ashima forcefully asks him to marry Moushumi yet she (Moushumi) didn’t love Gogol and in fact had an affair with another white man. I also think there is a struggle that every young South Asian must deal with. Should every young South Asian person go after his or her heart feelings and upset their parents and community? I just imagine though, that there are some South Asian families that are open to new ideas in connection to relationships?

However, after the death of Gogol’s father, he changes his personality to please his mother. He also tries to show how dynamic the young man was and how he would get to greater heights to please especially because of the sympathy he had for his mother after the death of the father. Gogol first loses his public name, (bhalonam), and later his private pet name, (daknam) how does he endeavor to remake his identity, after choosing to change his name? This brings the dynamism and confusion in the young man who is in a constant struggle to become a “modern” American. In his endeavor to engage in relationships with white ladies, Gogol's encounter with romance is quite different from what the parents had as an experience and their expectations for him. What draws him to his numerous lovers, especially to Maxine, Ruth and eventually Moushumi are different from what influenced the marriage in the case of his parents. What draws these ladies to him is perhaps his new and interesting way of life. All these struggles in the life of Gogol is to ensure that he conforms to the new way of life he sees in American people and to shade off what he perceives of the Indian culture, he lacks identity and personality to defend his own cultural belief systems and the way of life and therefore prone to manipulation by the dominant cultures.

References

Haroun, R. Conflict of cultures: Lessons from Bosinia. Dhaka: University Press Limited, 1998.
Jhumpa, L. The namesake. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004.
Ruth, O. Conflict of Cultures. New York: M. Cavendish, 1990.

Boudjeltia et al., in their study “Sleep restriction increases white blood cells, mainly neutrophil count, in young healthy men: A pilot study,” examined what would happen if sleep were restricted to around four hours a night. The title itself is extremely appropriate; it gets directly to the point, and even indicates the results of the study, thus intriguing the reader and making them want to know how this was determined. It focuses on the results moreso than the purpose of the study, which is interesting and intriguing – the big picture (atherosclerosis and/or cardiovascular events) is not elaborated upon, Continue reading...

Negative Impacts of Video Games on the Youth

Video games are a popular form of entertainment among the young generation. However, repeated exposure to video games with violent content has been identified as a cause of increasingly aggressive and antisocial behaviors among the youth. The addictive nature of these games causes young people to waste a lot of time playing their favorite games. This may lead to low performance in academics. Though video games are an effective tool of learning in schools, majority of the youth use it for entertainment purposes only. Given that these games enhance Continue reading...

Influence of Media on Youths’ Thoughts and Behavior

Over the last century, the world has witnessed great innovations in media. Media can take many forms which include newspapers, magazines, radio and television networks (McManus, 2008). The last half century has particularly seen an unprecedented growth in one of the most popular forms of media today – the internet. Other forms of media include video games (McManus, 2008). These media outlets have undoubtedly changed every human society. They have brought about faster communication means and enhanced businesses through advertising. The media has also enabled openness in societies, which has Continue reading...

According to survey carried out in 2009, just over half of American youths between the ages of 12 and 20 claimed that they regularly consumed alcohol (Edwin and Harald 10). Alcohol abuse is a major issue among today’s youth and a solution needs to be found to eradicate the growing problem.

Despite the introduction of tougher laws against underage drinking, the issue has actually worsened (binge). One of the key problems with underage drinking is that a teenage brain isn’t fully developed in terms of judgement. As a result of this, adolescents are well-known for making bad Continue reading...

1)How does your organization gather and apply customer input to its new product or service development efforts?  Is this process effective?  Why or why not?  How might it be improved? (1page)(2 reference)

My organization uses customer interviews to evaluate the outcomes of a customer interaction. We take them through every step of the process and figure out how the customer feels about a particular step. Whatever steps we see need improvement, we take steps to shape them according to the customer’s wishes, bearing in mind their particular needs and requirements. We only interview customers, and not Continue reading...

Arguably, the food we eat in our entire life are imperative to long term stability, as well as health. The most important people who should give more focus nutrition and diet are children due to their continuous and active growth and development. In fact, losing weight and growing thinner is the global trend that media focuses on. This influence has tremendously been reflected on the eating habits of people. The argument in this case is that vegetarianism is a pathway of developing serious eating disorders, especially by focusing on vegetarians’ psychological and physiological health, as well as the reasons behind the behavior adoption. Vegetarianism is one of the practices that encompass following plant-based diet such as vegetables and fruits, with or exclusive of egg or dairy products, as well as exclusion of meat. There are various reasons why individual choose to be vegetarians, it includes religion, ethics, and health. Research clearly supports the benefits of following plant-based diet. Most widespread vegetarian practices include vegans, lactovegetarian, Lacto-ovo-vegetarians, pesco-vegetarians, as well as partial-vegetarians.

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The cell phone is undeniably a great technological innovation of the twenty first century. It started off as an expensive gadget used by security agencies, government agencies and members of the high society. Gradually, the cell phone became a very important tool of communication especially in business. For quite sometime, the cell phone remained a symbol of status and not many people talked about the possible hazards posed by its continued use. The few members of the society fortunate enough to own a cell phone continued to use the device oblivious of the dangers they got exposed to. As Continue reading...

Abstract

Management has the power to select either hard or soft dimension in HRM. The management choice is based on that management purely depends on whether the management emphasis is placed on the employees or the firms resources. Soft dimension seeks to let workers grow over time through coaching them it is based on McGregor theory Y. On the other hand hard dimension is based on McGregor X. In reality management borrows from both dimension so as to make labor policies human and applicable.
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Fostering Creativity in Children’s learning

Development of children both intellectually and psychologically is a systematic cycle that requires the collaboration between different social and environmental factors. Music is one such influence to the development of a child’s brain. By making an analysis of different academic materials, it will be easier to determine the true effects of music and arts to child’s development. The study will make it possible to understand the impacts of such approaches to a child’s academic and creativity and hence determine their effectiveness towards enhancing proper brain development.

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Thesis Statement

Credit card companies should not be on college campuses marketing to students. Credit card debt is already spiralling out of control in the U.S. and with their parents already embroiled in heavy credit card debt, the credit companies are now keen to capture the next generation of consumers. In the course of this essay, I will discuss why I hold this opinion and attempt to persuade the reader to my view through a presentation of statistics and facts concerning credit card debt and their crippling effects.

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Introduction

The novel ‘Night’ covers the life of Weisel and his experience with his father Shlomo. The story is a personal experience and gives an insight of what Weisel went through with his father. He narrates how they suddered in the hands of the military personnel that even led to the death of his father. The setting of the story is in the Nazi German Concentration camps. This was towards the end of the Second Continue reading...

Often, an author will write about what they know best. Which, invariably, is their own experience of life, love and everything in between. Authors do this for a number of reasons: because they know it so well that they can make an excellent story of it; because they usually have a message that they wish to convey to the world as a result of that experience. Tell Me a Riddle is a collection of short stories, written by Tillie Olsen, first published in 1961. Continue reading...

The current demographic, economic, and career paths trends are changing the more traditional conceptualizations of midlife as defined by certain roles or a stage of parenthood or of marriage (David, 1998). Traditionally middle age has involved middle years of parenting and career peaking with the later phase of midlife being a time of relinquishing the employment and parenting of children. However, given economic recess, many middle age individuals are reconsidering and delaying the anticipated retirement age hence the age /cohort boundaries of midlife are not static and are likely to continue to evolve with further demographic, economic, and social/ Continue reading...

In Sarah Dessen’s 2009 novel Along for the Ride, we follow Auden, a young girl just graduating high school, who, rather than making friends and going out, spent an inordinate amount of time studying and maintaining her good grades. While this has allowed her to be accepted to a very reputable university, it did cut her off from the normal childhood experiences that most kids go through. What’s more, a very bitter divorce has left her two parents in separate places, with people that Auden can’t stand, Continue reading...

History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical … Published by Noah Webster is a book that begins by giving the creation account as well as men’s dispersion on their attempt in building Babel; gives a description of the ancestors , Japheth’s descendants as they were seen before the era of christianity. Saxon ancestors were briefly discussed since they conquered Britain hence improved their art life which eventually led to their reformation. The peopling of America and the aboriginals character was also put into account in this book. Puritan’s origin and cause of migrating to America was also given a brief description in this book by Webster. History patterns of settlement and the U.S Constitution has been written with brevity. Continue reading...

Tyler, K., Hoyt, D., and Whitbeck. The Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Later Sexual Victimization among Female Homeless and Runaway Adolescents. Journal of international violence 15 (3) March 2000 235-250.

The authors Tyler, Hoyt, and Whitbeck wrote this article focused on the risks magnification and victimization approaches. They used path analysis to examine the influence of child and youth sexual abuse. The study involved investigating behaviors and background information on some homeless females and adolescents in different Midwest states. The authors found out that the child and youth sexual abuse have an affirmative direct influence on sexual persecution of adolescence on the streets. They also confirmed that child and youth prostitution raises the possibilities of later sexual persecution indirectly by raising the amount of time at risk, abnormal peer relations, and occurrence of survival sex. The article also discusses on the repercussion of some of the child and youth behaviors that they will carry on to later lives.

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It is not a surprise to hear people talk of early child hood in the current world and society. The amount of people conversing on childhood development is enormous and greatly increasing since the historical times. Various people have come up with various thoughts and definitions of the same word and several others theorized on what really it involves when someone talks of early child hood. The age at which early childhood starts has sparked a lot of debate and controversies such that up to now it is not clearly visualized when early child hood starts.

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The Lost Generation, Bloomsberg Businessweek, October 8, 2009, Your Name
Peter Coy in his article “The Lost Generation” analyzes high unemployment among young people, starting their career during or right after the economic crisis. This trend does not only refer to high school drop outs, but also to college graduates, and MBAs. However, it’s not the unemployment itself that is frightening but its consequences both for businesses, not hiring young talented employees, and for the whole generation of people, forced to work in positions below their abilities and. The author stresses, that actions should be taken both by Continue reading...

INTRODUCTION

In the article “Music for their Minds,” Shore and Strasser (2006) offer the primary point that music should be incorporated into early childhood education, with several supporting points to back up this assertion. In this paper, we will examine those points, reflect on their validity, and hear perspectives from other authorities in the realm of childhood education. Shore’s and Strasser’s suggestion is completely sound; the integration of music (particularly complex music) into the education of young children helps their cognitive abilities and their aptitude at mathematics and music.

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Marcia Lorry, a young civil liberties attorney in the year 1973, challenged the operations of the foster care systems in New York by filing a very controversial law suit against the system. The case later became known as the Wilder case. The young attorney based the law suit on the argument that the foster care was not protecting the children under its care as it was supposed to because the system used a categorization procedure based on convenience and not on the needs of the children. The plaintiff of this controversial case was a thirteen year girl Continue reading...

The Pokot is a tribe in Africa living in both Kenya and Uganda. However, most Pokots live in the Northern part of Kenyan Rift-Valley which lies along the Kenya /Uganda border. An interview with Daniel Lotodo, a 78 year old man from the community revealed a lot about the ethnography of the community
The Pokot for a long time are predominantly pastoralists’. Their occupations of cattle keeping has been necessitated by environment factors. The area is semi arid and agricultural produce can hardly do well. However, through barter trade with neighboring communities such as the Samburu Continue reading...

In tragedies, characters tend to become isolated. In Romeo and Juliet, this is especially true for Juliet who is abandoned by her parents, her Nurse and the Friar, Analyze how these characters force Juliet into isolation. Be sure to use specific examples to support your answer. Finally, in your conclusion, discuss how even Romeo abandons Juliet in the end.
It is not uncommon for tragic characters to become isolated through circumstances, through their own actions or through the actions or attitudes of other characters. Romeo and Juliet, it could be argued, are isolated from the moment they fall in Continue reading...

Why people abuse prescription medication

Introduction
There are several prescription drugs that are abused mostly in the United States. These are opiods, narcotics, pain relievers, depressants and stimulants. People of all ages abuse prescription drugs. The highest rate of abuse however is found in teenagers and young people. In 2008, 1.9 Million teenagers between the ages of 12 and 17 abused prescription drugs ( Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2009) The abuse of the drugs increases among the youth as they grow older being very high in the late teens. It begins to reduce past Continue reading...

In this paper this paper will examine very closely four stories by Flannery O’Connor and justify the use of the phrase ‘the pain of the past’ in the title. O’Connor’s life and background will be briefly examined, as will the historical context in which she wrote her stories. I will also examine other common features that are characteristic of her stories. The use of symbolism in her stories will be considered. Continue reading...

Introduction

As part of his presidency bid campaigns, president Barrack Obama had promised people of the United States that he will do changes in the countries systems for the advantages of the people. Iin addition he made several promises for the purpose of making better the life of the American people. Due to his successful win over his opponent, he succeeded to become the president of the United States. He had the roles therefore to fulfill the promises he had promised his people.

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Introduction:

The Voss Foundation is a public charity 501(c) (3) based in the New York City. Its major goal is providing clean drinking water to African communities. The Voss Foundation was formed by the directors of Voss Water in 2008, as a non-profit foundation. Voss Chief Executive Officer Knut Brundtland together with his wife Cecile Brundtland formed the organization after taking a trip to Africa where and as a result, faced the magnitude of water crisis. After returning to their home country Norway, they went to Voss headquarters in New York and launched the process of the foundation. Continue reading...

Essay one

America has been a land of people from varying cultures for centuries. Native Red Indians, Europeans, Asians and other many people from different cultures have been and are still represented in America. This expansive region was opened up by the Europeans but major constructions were by immigrants from different regions of the world including Chinese and Irish immigrants.
Chinese immigrants were in high demand for many hard jobs on the American continent. They were hardworking people and worked in many places on arriving in America. Chinese laborers are credited for the construction of the continental Continue reading...

The short story by William Falkner ‘A Rose for Emily’ is a tale that tells a story about an old lady. Her name is Emily ad she lives in the town of Jefferson. The story represents the classic Faulkner’s technique of a stream of consciousness. It is a story that illustrates the struggle between traditions and radical widespread change. Jefferson is a town that appeared to be at the very crossroads of modern commercial future and the faded glory of the past. This past is represented by the old town cemetery where the soldiers of the Civil War Continue reading...

Crossing the border has metaphorically demonstrated the determination one can develop for a better future. Ann Jaramillo uses her ground-breaking novel, La Linea to talk about the life of a boy named Miguel who lived in San Jacinto, Mexico with his grandmother and thirteen year old sister Elena. At a young age, Miguel’s parents left Mexico to cross the US border for a brighter future for their children. Ever since his parents left Mexico it has been Miguel’s dream to cross the border and unify with them. Addendum to this dream, he also sees himself as Continue reading...

The elegy “Barbie Doll,” by Marge Piercy is an allegoric portrait of the negative traditions in which females have been forced into accepted wisdom of their bodies and manners in relation to a patriarchal idyllic. This principle is a slender hitherto curved body structure, with proportioned, ideal facial quality. The protagonist in Marge’s “Barbie Doll” gives up her own self image to accomplish the societal expectations of an ideal woman, a structure of community society dominated by the male species with their expectations on the ultimate ladies.
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