...“peers”. When you were a little kid, your parents usually chose your friends, putting you in playgroups or arranging play dates with certain children they knew and liked. Now that you're older, you decide who your friends are and what groups you spend time with. Your friends — your peers — are people your age or close to it who have experiences and interests similar to yours. You and your friends make dozens of decisions every day, and you influence each other's choices and behaviours. This is often positive — it's human nature to listen to and learn from other people in your age group. As you become more independent, your peers naturally play a greater role in your life. As school and other activities take you away from home, you may spend more time with peers than you do with your parents and siblings. You'll probably develop close friendships with some of your peers, and you may feel so connected to them that they are like an extended family. NOW I CALL KEDARESA TO GIVE YOU ALL A BRIEF IDEA ABOUT THE NEGATIVE WAY OF INFLUENCING THE FRIENDS:- “You grow to fit your environment, so make sure your environment breeds excellence and positivity.” KEDARESA:- You're older and established. You think that you’re way beyond the days of peer pressure. But you’re not. No matter how old you are, or even how strong, independent and centered you may be, you’re still susceptible to the influence of others, especially your friends. The influence is not always as direct as depicted in...
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...3 to 5 • Personal Health Series Peer Pressure KidsHealth.org/classroom Teacher’s Guide This guide includes: • Standards • Related Links • Discussion Questions • Activities for Students • Reproducible Materials Peer pressure gets a bad rap. For many people, it brings to mind an image of kids influencing other kids to do risky things like smoke, drink alcohol, or shoplift. But it can also be a force for good, exposing kids to positive new ideas and role models. Help your students explore the benefits and pitfalls of peer pressure with these activities. Related KidsHealth Links Articles for Kids: Dealing With Peer Pressure KidsHealth.org/kid/feeling/friend/peer_pressure.html How Cliques Make Kids Feel Left Out KidsHealth.org/kid/feeling/friend/clique.html Standards This guide correlates with the following National Health Education Standards: Students will: • Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. • Analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors. • Demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health. • Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks. • Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health. • Demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health. • Demonstrate the ability to practice...
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...nurture influences a person more is one of the most studied topics. Each can impact someone’s life but what impacts you most is the factors from the nurture aspects. The factors range from the people you grow up with to where you grew up. These factors are just few of what really influences you. An important influence is family. When you’re young, you get taught the moral of the people you are with on a daily basis. These form your personality and affect who you become and how you do things. “Environmental factors such as nutrition, learning opportunities, cultural influences, exercise, and (unfortunately) accident and illness also determine our phenotypes and whether genetically possible behaviors will be displayed” (Rathus 56). This is a list of contributing factors to the nurture portion of your influences. Nature is the other big topic. It is the things you are born with and can affect nurture. An example of nature is an illness. If you are born with scoliosis, that condition will impact how you do almost anything. The nature portion plays a role in shaping who you are but it doesn’t exactly constantly make you learn new things. “But can the role of heredity really be dismissed so easily?” (Davies) is how one scientist put the debate even though the bigger impacts...
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...that greatly influence your life. There always be something to be said about individualism, but who you associate with will reflect your own personal values. It will shape you, it can change your outlook on life, and it will affect your other relationships. “You are the company you keep.” When you choose your friends, you need to first assess yourself and who you are, and who you want to become. Your “company” is the people that have the most influence over you, and vice-versa. These people will have the most influence over you through peer pressure. Because of this, it is important to be careful who you are friends with. You especially need to understand your priorities in life. Priorities are the stepping stones to success. If you don’t have them, it will be very hard to reach the top. Once you have figured this out, only then will you be able to correctly choose who you want to befriend. It is important to know and understand the morals and desires and beliefs of who you are connecting with, and how it could affect you. Friends have a huge influence on your life, and you also have influence on other people, so think about your words, actions, and what you represent. I think that this quote and its surrounding idea is a major key in high school. It can make your life easier and more relaxing, or harder and more stressful. Who you associate yourself with, who you call your friends, your bros, your buds, represents who you are to your parents, your peers, and to your teachers...
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...Peer Pressure Peer pressure is one of the most difficult issues facing youth today. Peer pressure is the pressure to conform, to act against your will or judgment for social reasons. It forces you to do things you are not comfortable with. Think about it. Your teenager spends much more time with peers than with family members. The communication is direct, and much more powerful than the influence of teachers and other authority figures. Peer pressure can lead to testing drugs and alcohol, skipping school, and various high-risk behaviors. If you notice a sudden change in your child's appearance, clothing, and attitude, especially if accompanied by secretive behavior, he or she may be give in to the influences of peers. Youths: Have you ever felt like you had to act the way your friends did. You may think to yourself even then “this isn’t me”. Or you were given a cigarette or some alcohol and felt you had to try it so that everyone could see that you are cool, or at least, not “un” cool. Peer pressure comes at you in many forms, from many directions and can affect you on daily basis. Think: “What pressure did I face today?” But peer pressure is not always negative. There are negative and positive effects of peer pressure. Peer pressure can be positive if the peers help change the person for the better. However youths are not the only ones who feel peer pressure. Adults feel it too, even though they don’t admit it. In fact, most advertising on radio and television takes advantage...
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...Research Paper About 70-90% of children who get A’s or B’s in schools report they are encouraged by parents to do well in school. This is just one of the many reason how your everyday influences can affect your academics. Some other influences are school and social media. All of these influences have played a major part in my academic success. In this essay I will explain how these influences can affect your academics in a positive and negative way. First off a major influence in everyone’s life are parents. My parents supported me to complete high school and further my education by going to college. They also told me to do my best. My parents do a lot for me and I don’t want to let them down by getting bad grades. Parents are responsible for raising their children to be responsible and reach their full potential. Now not all parents do this but the ones who do make their child successful in school will get them extra help if they are struggling with a course and encourage them to do their best in school. The parents who don’t raise their child well affect the child’s academic success. Those parents are care free and don’t understand the importance of an education. Most kids inherit parent’s beliefs so if the parents don’t understand the importance of school then the kid will think the same. Some children can tell the differences from right and wrong with out the parent support but it’s a low percentage. Parents don’t need to take that chance. Our...
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...millionaire mindset club essential book summaries HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE by Dale Carnegie INTRODUCTION When Dale Carnegie first sat down to write How to Win Friends and Influence People he really didn’t realize exactly what a best seller it would be, nor did he realize that over 70 years later it would still be in print - and be acclaimed as ‘the best all time’ self-help book in the world. The book was first published in 1937 and was developed from the real life experiences of hundreds of people, rather than from just one person’s opinions. The idea for the book was brought about by the results of an investigation conducted by the Carnegie Foundation that was carried out to determine how people became financially successful. The investigation found that success took only fifteen percent of actual technical knowledge, and that the actual key to success rested on the other eighty five percent. This eighty five percent was identified as possessing skills in human engineering: the ability to get on with others well, your individual outlook and people skills. These results came as a shock to many at the time as these skills were not widely taught in courses or classes. A new concept had been discovered and a large hole emerged that needed to be filled by a new peopled-skilled class. This is how the Dale Carnegie Course In Effective Speaking and Human Relations was born – and the book a mere set of ideas on memo cards which were discussed and lectured on. These...
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...matter how you look at it, we have all been influenced by something. This something could be anything a person, place, or even a fictional character. In my case it was a fictional character. I loved batman when I was younger, I wanted to do what he did, talk like he did, eat what he ate, its a little weird but that is how I was influenced. A bigger influence would be the influence Martin Luther King Jr. had on Barack Obama. President Obama would say how large of an influence MLK had on him. Influence can be a small impact or a huge impact in someone’s life. We ourselves also make a huge impact on family, friends, and peers. Anyone that has a younger sibling has heard his or her parents say “Set a good example.” This is an example of influence we have on family members. We influence everyone around us. A person may think its cool or normal what you do so they follow what you do. Everyone is a role model in a way. We are influenced and we also influence and family is a huge part of that. Think about the group of friends that you hang out with. Now think of why you all are friends. There has to be a common denominator amongst yourselves to show why you all are friends. It could be you all listen to the same music, play the same sport, or act the same way. This is an influence. Everyone influences each other. We are all influential. This is why people say to surround yourself with good people because those people influence and impact your life. Usually your older...
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...TECHNOLOGY IN THEIR SCHOOL PERFORMANCE” THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION What is peer pressure? How does peer pressure affect on the school performance of the criminology student? There are such several factors that affect in their school performance. There are some programs on how to control and manage peer pressure. People grow older; people may be faced with some challenge decision. Some don’t have a clear right or wrong answer. Other decisions involve serious moral questions. Making decisions on own is hard enough, but when other people get involved and try to make pressure the people one way or another it can be even harder. People who are teenagers and adolescence, like classmates, are called peers. When they try to influence how the act, to get to do something, it’s called peer pressure. It’s something everyone has to deal with, even adults. Maybe others want to do it, and just don’t have to courage to do it and friends talk them into it. Peer pressure can be broken down into two areas, good peer pressure and bad peer pressure. Peer pressure was always thinking of it in bad terms. In terms of pressuring others into, smoking, do illegal drugs, drink alcohol, have promiscuous sex, engage in criminal and quasi-criminal, behavior, do violence, join gangs, and so on. Thinking of the many good ways that peer pressure can influence and neither do the parents of teens. It is tough to be the only one who says no to peer pressure, but they can do it. Paying...
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...wonder how people ended up so bad. You may ask yourself are people just born bad? No they are not the people in their lives are a big influence in their lives poverty is a problem because. If you have no money then you will do about anything to get by. Then the people you are around everyday is a huge impact on you because if you hangout with bad kids you are more likely to do bad and stupid things. Your parents are your biggest influence they set rules and give you responsibilities to give you stability and structure. So kids are not born bad. People in poverty are more likely to be criminals. If someone grows up in poverty he or she are going to find ways to get money, such as join gangs for money and protection. The most people are probably going to start robbing people because they are hurting for money. If a person was robbing people they might kill someone because there would be a struggle. So he or she would end up in jail and ruin their lives. If they go to prison they will have a hard time finding a job because, people do not want to work with murderers. So that is why people in poverty are more likely to be criminals....
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...How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the first best-selling self-help books ever published. Written by Dale Carnegie and first published in 1936, it has sold 15 million copies world-wide. Leon Shimkin of the publishing firm Simon & Schuster took one of the 14-week courses given by Carnegie in 1934. Shimkin persuaded Carnegie to let a stenographer take notes from the course to be revised for publication. In 1981, a new revised edition containing updated language and anecdotes was released. The revised edition reduced the number of sections from 6 to 4, eliminating sections on effective business letters and improving marital satisfaction. Major sections and points Twelve Things This Book Will Do For You # Get you out of a mental rut, give you new thoughts, new visions, new ambitions. # Enable you to make friends quickly and easily. # Increase your popularity. # Help you to win people to your way of thinking. # Increase your influence, your prestige, your ability to get things done. # Enable you to win new clients, new customers. # Increase your earning power. # Make you a better salesman, a better executive. # Help you to handle complaints, avoid arguments, keep your human contacts smooth and pleasant. # Make you a better speaker, a more entertaining conversationalist. # Make the principles of psychology easy for you to apply in your daily contacts. # Help you to arouse enthusiasm among your associates. The book has six major sections. The core...
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...pressure is commonly applied to younger people especially to us teenagers. Responding to peer pressure is a part of growing up that some teenagers more likely to give in. Peer pressure is the only thing that all teens have in common and some of them can't escape it because it’s almost everywhere. Peer pressure is the way that people influence another individual to take an action or adopt certain values to be one of their social groups. Teenagers are very quick in making their own decisions and judgements. When communication is lacking at home, teens may seek it among their peers instead to their parents for them they know that their peers are always right because they're feeling what you also feel. You think all of you have a lot in common. This outcome indicates that teens may find it more difficult to control their behaviors when their friends are around. They are visible and expressive when it comes to their peers but when it comes to their own parents they are invisible. They always keep in their minds that their parents will never understand them as their peers do. In the bright side, it can also have a positive effect. Peer influence is not necessarily bad at all times. Fellowship with other youths can also sharpen our personality and make us a better person. They can also be a good instrument for us teenagers if those peers have mature and healthy attitudes. They often encourage each other, encourage others to do well. A teen might get good outcome when it...
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...Smart girls decide for themselves™. How old are you? Where do you live? | For this survey there were 860 responses, 810 being from girls, 31 from boys and 19 people chose not to answer. The majority of the responses came from people between the ages of 12 to 15 years old with a range from 10 to over 21 years old. 331 SmartGirls said they were the oldest in their family and 289 of the respondents are from a town. | Age | | | Have you had sex? | The majority of respondents said that they had not had sex (529 responses) while the remainder said yes (314 responses). | Had sex? | | | How old were you when you first had sex? | Most respondents said they first had sex between the ages of 11-15 years old (230 responses), with the 16-20 year old age group coming in second with 84 responses. | Age when first had sex | | | Were you comfortable with the decision to have sex? | There is a difference between having sex before you feel ready and having it when you feel comfortable with the decision. Of the respondents who had answered yes to the previous questions regarding having sex, 251 said they felt comfortable with the decision, while 79 said they did not feel comfortable with the decision to have sex when they first did. | If you had sex, were you comfortable with your decision? | | count | percent | Comfort | | | yes | 251 | 31.41 | no | 79 | 9.89 | nosex | 469 | 58.7 | | | We wondered if you had ever received...
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...and its influence on Hong Kong culture We are students in the degree program of Business and Administration Management, De Montfort University. We are doing a survey to analyze the Korean trend and its influence on Hong Kong culture. We collect personal information voluntarily provided by the respondents, and the information will only be used for academic research. After this study, all the information obtained will be safely destroyed. 1) Your gender □Male □Female 2) Your age □Below or 15 □16-20 □21-25 □26-30 □31-40 □Above 41 3) Your education □Primary below □Primary/Secondary □Degree/Bachelor □Above bachelor 4) Your income per month (HK dollars) □0-5000 □5001-10000 □10001-15000 □15001-20000 □>20001 5) What is your occupation? □Service industry □Retail and sales industry □Self-employed □Computer and technology □Professionals □Student □Unemployed □Others (Please specify): _________ 6) Do you love Korean Pop music (K-Pop) □ Yes □ No 7) What K-pop artists do you know? (You can choose more than 1) □2AM □ 2NE1 □2PM □ 4minure □ C.N. blue □ F. T Island □f(x) □ Big Bang □ Se7en □ T-ara □ SHINee □ KARA □ BOA □ IU □ Beast □ G.O.D □JYJ □ Super Junior □Girl’s Generation □ other: 8) Do you like to watch Korean drama? □ Yes □ No 9) How often...
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...instrument presented here are found on the research. The review of the literature for this study focuses on procedures used to identify teaching and learning styles. Related Literature Local According to Angelica Y. Yang “By choosing their friends wisely, they survive-amazingly”1 You should note that the stage of adolescence is the most dangerous stage that a person goes through, because during this stage there are many physical, mental, emotional and sexual changes. We have to be intelligent by choosing our friends, we have to choose friends who accepts us for who we for who we are not to those who will pressure us to do something bad just to be accepted. According to Jose Salvador “Peer pressure is the prime driver of risky sexual behaviors among school adolescents” 2 In general, peer pressure is a form of social pressure by a group upon an individual who must take action in order to be accepted “Teenagers focus on going out to parties and being under the influence each weekend rather than give importance to matters such as school.—Patricia Medina, 19, De La Salle University (DLSU)”3 Being so young we are driven to do so many things, whether it is spending time with family, hanging with friends, trying to excel in academics, or play sports. We try our best to fit all our activities and adventures we want to...
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