Essays on Youth

Several pieces of research show the relationship between the things that an individual see and the way they behave. In this research, the impact of the promotional activity and advertisements among the youth has been analyzed in detail. This research has been carried out by...

In 2009 documentary, A Girl’s Life, Rachel Simmons gives us a view into the struggles that teenage girls face daily. The four girls we meet throughout the documentary face issues with self-image, cyberbullying, street violence, and lack of educational opportunities. During the documentary, we see...

I genuinely believe that youths are change agents when it comes to shaping the future of the world. As a tech-savvy generation, youth leaders can create social movements that can drive vital change. Young adults can engage in the issue by using different approaches. The...

The winds of war strike all, and just as spring blossoms are blown from the trees falling white to the ground, young men are killed in their prime by war before they are able to bear the fruit of knowledge. Herman Melville observed the pre-war...

Patriotism is devotion to and vigorous support for one’s country, while youth is the time of life when one is young. In the two articles written by Walter Thompson-Hernández and Jacqui Shine, these two topics are deeply investigated through the customs of Americans. What makes...

Canada is known today as a liberal democracy that promotes itself to the rest of the world as a country that allowed its citizens to enjoy political freedom throughout the country’s history. However, author Paul Axelrod reminds readers that the Canadian government’s political views were...

“Education is the key to success”. Nobody can deny the fact that education is important for bringing change in the lives of individuals. Education is important because through this, it determine the value of the world. Foster (2017) mentioned that education can make a change....

Last year, many millennials seemed to be planning near-term exits from their employers. But, after 12 months of political and social upheaval, those ambitions have been tempered, according to Deloitte Global’s sixth annual Millennial Survey. Young professionals now indicate they’re less likely to leave the...

My involvement with the Boy Scouts organization began at an early age. I began in the lower of the Scout divisions: Cub Scouts. However, the most important skill I learned was the importance of community service. The first application of community service that I learned...

Abstract When you are young, it is really very challenging to think about retirement planning. Young people are busy starting careers, families, or settling in new locations, so it is understandable that they have the unwillingness to discuss retirement planning this early in life. However,...

The definition of a helicopter parent is one who is closely involved with everything that their child participates in or the people that they are friends with. I had helicopter parents growing up. I never was allowed to leave the house because my parents didn’t...

This article examines the culture of community-based after-school programs that serve incoming immigrant youth. The author argue that through collaboration, schools and community-based after-school programs may be able to bridge the academic and cultural gaps that marginalize low-income, immigrant youth.(Francis 2008). Education researchers, in the...

I believe that Boy Scouts helps build character and certain skills and values that help you in life. Despite being a bit tedious, I believe that boys should join Boy Scouts because it helps create leaders that have the potential to world leaders like President...

“What have you thought about your future?” asked a teacher to his students. Replies came across with noise. One shouted- “Doctor!” followed by another-” Engineer, sir,” Businessman! , Pilot and so on. Between the sounds among students, someone uttered- Farmer! Everyone in the class laughed....

From the first time I have seen Caveri, the fresh born infant, I was totally falling in love with her. She is my best friend’s baby girl who is a typical Chinese girl who has black eyes and black hair with a chubby face. She...

The purpose of this documentary is to promote the learning of why we need to avoid technological addiction in teens and young adults, and its adverse effects. The point of view of this documentary is a voice over narrator filling in the gaps between interviews...

To begin with, youth violence has affected many people in America including me. Youth violence has affected me because there are people very close to my age and to see that they think that violence is the answer to everything it really makes me feel...

Poverty affects the lives of youths in Papua New Guinea Poverty is the state of being extreme poor. It is caused by many factors including lack of education, unemploymennt, poor environement, bad habits and morals , overpopulation, endemic of diseases, bad governent policy. Globally poverty...

Introduction Youth crime has long been one of the heated topics among researchers in the criminological area (Crime Statistics Agency, 2017). In the history, children who got involved with the criminal justice system were treated no differently than adult offenders. According to Carrington and Pereira...

Generation Z by Nicole Villarreal Generation Z is what they are calling those who have been using technology and social media since a young age. Technology has changed the game of high school romance. Snapchat, Instagram, and all other means of media have consumed today’s...

Youth violence, you just can’t escape it. Not a day goes by that the daily newspaper or electronic media doesn’t report a crime by an adolescent. Sad, isn’t it? Clearly, the adolescents instead of channeling their energy into productive avenues, are participating in violent acts....

As the results of this study show, Vietnamese cultural values still hold strong impacts on Vietnamese young female consumers. By the nature of collectivism society, Vietnamese young girls still have the tendency of conforming to the social norm instead of standing out of the group....

Each year, the number of juveniles that get convicted and are placed in the adult prison system is incredibly high. Personally, I do not believe that this has any benefit whatsoever. It is stated that young men/women who are sent to adult prisons are not...

According to Megan “If players receive positive encouragement and are taught sportsmanship at a young age, they will be able to model that behavior as a player or observer today and in the future” I’m for youth Organized youth sports league because it helps kids...

This report will demonstrate the significance of Youth Participation as an instrument for effective advocacy and compare the principles of the facilitated frameworks – The Active Participation Model and the YingYang Model. In this paper, an outline of the two researched conceptual frameworks and further...

Introduction The truth of the relationship between youths, ethnicity and media representation is that there is a huge difference in the way youths and ethnicity are represented by the media in various kinds of national contexts. At present, the media portrays youths as disrespectful, rebellious,...

According to John Locke’s philosophy a new-born baby is born with a ‘tabula rasa’ which is Latin for ‘blank slate’. From birth the child imprints knowledge from their experiences to extend their ‘tabula rasa’. Children continue to learn from experiences with friends, family and teachers,...

Studies have shown that nowadays a lot of young adults end up cheating on their partner. The question rises up, of whether young people like the thrill of cheating, or if they are incapable of being in a monogamous relationship. This essay analyses the possible...

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) report shows the country’s overall unemployment rate fell from 6.6% in January 2017 to a low of 5.3% in January 2018. However, unemployment in the Philippines remains the highest among the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. This...

Positive psychology has roots in developing relationships between adults and youth and impacts the effectiveness of the programming. Since restorative conversations use an adult as a mediator, there can be a gain of greater effectiveness if there is a positive relationship that has or does...