...The selected WWYD video for analysis is the Teens pressure friend to abuse Adderall. This video shows a staged act by two friends; Dominick and Lucas, at a restaurant in New Jersey where they are trying to convince their female friend, Ariane who like them is also an actor, to take Adderall. This analysis hopes to answer the question of what ethical action would I take if I were in the restaurant. Would I do nothing, while I watch the friends pressure Ariane into taking Adderall or confront Dominick and Lucas for deceiving their friend into taking Adderall or advise the lady to avoid taking it, In identifying the facts in this scenario, Dominick and Lucas are seen pressuring Ariane into taking Adderall with beer. Dominick can be seen convincing her to take the prescription drug because it is the best intoxicating drug out there. The friends expressed surprise that Ariane has never taken the drug as Lucas is seen telling Ariane that Adderall is better consumed with a beer or three. Ariane expresses reluctance to use but her friends pressed her even more to take it. While watching the situation unravel, I am faced with some options before deciding on the best course of action. One option would be to do nothing since I do not know who they are. Another option will be to...
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...“PEER PRESSURE AS A CONTRIBUTING FACTORS IN THE CRIMINOLOGY STUDENT OF NATIONAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND 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...
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...PEER PRESSURE HAVE YOU EVER BEEN PRESSURED BY YOUR PEERS INTO DOING SOMETHING YOU DID NOT WANT TO DO? PEER PRESSURE OCCURS WHEN A GROUP OF TEENS INFLUENCE OR MANIPULATE EACH OTHER INTO BEHAVING IN A MANNER SIMILAR OR ACCEPTABLE TO THEM. YES, PEER PRESSURE MAY SOMETIMES BE GOOD IN THAT IT CAN INFLUENCE A TEEN IN HOPES OF GIVING HIM OR HER A PUSH IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT PEER PRESSURE; SOMETHING POSITIVE OR SOMETHING NEGATIVE? ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH, AS CHILDREN DEVELOP, THEIR NEED TO “FIT IN” BECOMES VERY IMPORTANT. THEY WILL ALSO BEGIN TO QUESTION THEIR OWN MORALS AND VALUES WHEN LOOKING TO OTHER PEERS FOR CLUES ON HOW TO CONFORM AND DO WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE IS DOING. THAT IS WHY IT IS CRUCIAL TO TEACH ADAPTING TEENS THE IMPORTANCE OF MORALS AND VALUES, AND HOW IT IS LINKED WITH PEER PRESSURE. MANY TEENS ARE CONFUSED BY WHETHER THEY SHOULD BETRAY THEIR BELIEFS AND GIVE INTO PEER PRESSURE OR FOLLOW THEIR MORALS AND VALUES WHICH CAN CERTAINLY HAVE A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THEIR LIVES. IT IS OUR JOB AS THE PEERS NOT TO FORCE OTHERS INTO DOING SOMETHING THEY DO NOT WANT TO DO. WE HAVE TO STAND UP AND TELL OTHERS, WHO MAY NOT BE SO CONFIDENT IN REFUSING TO GIVE INTO PEER PRESSURE, THAT THEY CAN BE HAPPY. THEY CAN FIT IN. THEY DON’T HAVE TO GIVE INTO PEER PRESSURE. AND THEY CAN DO THAT BY STICKING TO THEIR MORALS AND VALUES. FIRST AND FOREMOST, PEER PRESSURE IS NOT ALWAYS BAD. FOR EXAMPLE, POSITIVE PEER PRESSURE CAN...
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...THE DARK TRUTH: NEGATIVE PEER PRESSURE Imagine getting together for coffee with a group of friends. The conversation turns to a discussion of a recent The Big Bang Theory episode. "I just love that show" you chime in (you really hate it). Later, someone suggests a movie. "Yes, let's watch it!" you reply, even though you'd rather prefer sitting and continue talking with your friends. By the end of the evening, in spite of excellent coffee, old friends and a reasonably good movie, you still feel "something" was missing. Each time you concealed your true feelings, you disregarded a part of yourself. You were missing. When we pretend to take on another's perspectives, go along when we really don't want to or fail to state our preferences, we hide ourselves from others. We become invisible and smaller somehow, diminished in even our own eyes. For teenagers, it can seem very important to "fit in." Teens are very concerned about their images, and they are worried about what others think about them. As a result, peer pressure is very influential in many teens' lives. Peer pressure is basically the influence that people of your age have on you. For teenagers, it is the influence that other teens have on their behaviour, dress, attitude and practices. Often, teenagers do what others are doing so that they can fit in - or at least not stand out. Teens like to do what their friends are doing, and be accepted. This peer pressure, though, can lead to undesirable behaviours...
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...“Drugs are very popular among teens for many reasons. Some reasons are peer pressure, stress, boredom, bad friends, and a bad neighborhood.” (Global Publishing Inc.). There can be many reasons, but the most common causes for most teens to abuse drugs are because of the easy availability of the drug, an easy escape from the stress of every day life, and to escape the many pressures from friends and peers. One cause of drug use in teens is the availability. Teens come across drugs almost everyday in high school and middle school. Boston University studies say, “80% of high school students and 44% of middle school students have reported that they have personally seen drugs used by peers, possession of drugs, or the buying and selling of them.” (Boston University). Because of this alarmingly high popularity of drugs on school campuses it is not hard for a student to come across any sort of drug. All a student would have to do is find someone using drugs, and then they can get some also. The second main cause for drug use in teens is to escape from the stress of everyday life. Teens are usually stressed over a number of things. Some of the things are, getting accepted to college, worrying about maintaining a job, staying in relationships, and not least of all handling all the responsibilities their parents lay on them. Many recent studies have shown that teens developed more stress than adults (123 Help Me). In the underdeveloped mind of the average teen, with the constant weight...
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...Jonathan Russell Comp 1112-06 Dr. Washington Research Paper Teen Suicide What possible circumstances could ever lead a teen or college student to the point where they want to end their own life? In the year 2004 it is estimated that roughly 1,600 teens between the ages of fifteen and nineteen will end their own lives (Hosansky). In the same study, it is also stated one in every five high school students consider killing themselves. It is sad to think anything could push these young people to that point. What causes them to do such a thing? Is it pressure from parents, bullying, experimenting with alcohol, or something as simple as feeling alone? Teens today have pressure coming from everywhere, whether it be from parents, coaches, or even peer pressure from friends. There is not one leading cause to teen suicide, but the pressure put on teens is one major component. Teens feel like they cannot handle the pressures of everyday life and when something goes wrong they turn to the “easy way out” and end their lives. It is sad to think they feel that death is the only way out. One way that teens in fact feel pressure is from people they consider their friends. Today it is so easy for teens to communicate without actually seeing one another face to face. Due to ease that technology presents, it is for teens to talk without actually seeing each other; cyber bullying has become more and more of a problem. In a story written by a young boy’s parents, they explain...
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...verbal, emotional, and physical abuse to positive and even negative peer pressure they put up with a lot. Teenage relationships play a big role in developing the capacity for long-term, committed relationships in their adulthood. The relationships developed during teen years have a big impact on school life with teen’s academics and the way they play in sports. The relationships teens involve themselves with can negatively affect their academic and social life. It may bring out the worst in them and may cause grades to slip and their outlook on school to change. My fellow class mate Gina stated, “Arguing with my partner during the day causes me to have an attitude at school and may cause me to focus less on my school work.” This causes grades to fall and they may get sidetracked of what really matters because they’re worried about an argument that happened with a peer. School sports also have an effect on teen relationships. My other fellow classmate Monica says, “sports put a damper on my relationship at times because volleyball and football season were at the same time and we barely had time to communicate with each other cause of games, practice and also school work. “But they -found a way to work around it by sitting together at lunch since they have the same lunch period, hanging out on the weekend, and before practices they would often do homework together. Also according to an teenage article by Teen Ink they say, “Love relationships just make it even harder for a teenager...
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...Middle Childhood and Adolescence Teenage years are times for developing maturity. At this stage, teens are usually excited because they are exploring several features in the environment. The youth struggle to identify themselves from other children as adulthood is the next big thing to them. Peer pressure in most cases supports individual development among adolescents. However, influence of significant others may not allow individual peer pressure to take effect in a teen’s life. Adolescence stage is characterized by immense influence of age-mates. It involves high levels of self-consciousness and self-centeredness. These two groups can be disturbed greatly by social pressures like drug use and abuse, sexuality and opposite sex relationships. When such pressures creep in the only remedy to these teens is normally close family guidance, which aims to mitigate stress and depressions (Jack W. Finney, 1998). There are several changes in children. Teens at this age attempt to fit into a specific social group. Peer relationships provide better social and moral climates in the society. Such climates will enable development of peer interactions within the society. The interactions lead to social support and friendships that play a vital role in middle childhood development. Adolescents develop significant relationships called peers. During these two stages significant friendships and even relationships developed normally last for very many years. Children aged four years or more usually...
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...What do Parents and Coaches need to Know? The pressures of club soccer are not only positive they can also be damaging to both families and their teens. An article by Dovepress wrote, “Pressure for early specialization to maximize athletic skills for future social, financial, and educational rewards is generated by parents, coaches, neighbors, society, and colleges” (Merkel). Parents and coaches play a large role in their teen’s life, and need to be aware of the types of physical and mental injuries that affect their teens. Parents also need to be aware of the pressures that they are not only putting on their teens but also the pressures that the family will come across. Physical and Mental Injuries After a game, does your teen complain of a popping noise in their knee, discomfort when walking, pain or swelling in their knee? There has been a trend in females who play soccer of Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injuries. An ACL injury is a sprain or tear in a ligament in the knee, and if this injury is not...
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...Peer Pressure 1 Peer Pressure Kristen McGill SOCU 391 Peer Pressure 2 Peer pressure or peer influence in today’s youth is prevalent and powerful. Youth in this day and age are struggling to find a place where they belong, or fit in with society. Teens especially and weakened by peer pressure as they strive to maintain a relationship with their friends. “In groupthink, the members sense pressure to maintain unanimity, which discourages critical and independent thinking.” (Lotz, 230) “The types of peer pressure range from direct, confrontational pressure, to more subtle pressures to look, dress and act like everyone else.” (Life123.com) Negative peer pressure can persuade a teenager or child to do things they normally wouldn’t do such as, shoplift, drink alcohol, drugs, smoke cigarettes, cheat at school, vandalize property, bully other students, skip school and participate in racist and discriminatory behavior. When it seems like everyone else is doing something-dressing a certain way or acting a certain way-teens feel a tremendous pressure to go along with the crowd and be like everyone else. Most teenagers don't want to stand out as being different. Everyone wants to fit in. Peers can be a positive influence, too. Positive peer pressure can make a teen feel like he should join a sport or a youth organization because a group he admires is doing it. Fifteen years ago when I was a teen peer pressure was an issue, as it continues to be today. But, today’s youth face...
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...purpose of this essay is to identify how preeminent teenage pregnancy has become in teens ages fourteen and up, how famous it has become in the United States and how the majority of teens do not finish their education after becoming pregnant. The sources used in this essay provide the necessary information needed for readers to understand why and how a teenagers environment has become influential for them becoming pregnant. Teenage pregnancy is affecting teens by causing them to drop out of school and not finish their education which later results in a limited amount of choices when choosing a career. Outline Thesis: The social life of teenagers influences teenage pregnancy through pressure from peers, too much access to the media and lack of sex education from parents and teachers in the United States. I. Peer pressure in the United States is the major factor influencing teenage pregnancy in the U.S. A. During adolescence, teenagers often feel pressure to make friends and fit in with their peers. B. Many times these teens let their friends influence their decision to have sex. C. The Kaiser Family Foundation states that more than 29 percent of pregnant teens reported that they felt pressured to have sex. II. Excessive access to the media plays an important role in teenage pregnancy A. In the U.S today, the majority of teens have access to phones, tablets and computers which...
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...Teenage pregnancy is one of the most alarming issues in our world today. It is s a problem that many families must endure with, and the number of families that must contend with it has increased rapidly over the years. Many teenagers engage themselves in sexual intercourse with their partners just to be “in” with their friends without considering the consequences of potential health issues, increased school dropout rates, and the life changing effects of peer pressure. Many teenagers will try to hide the pregnancy from their parents and teachers, in doing this they do not get the initial medical attention required during the first months of pregnancy. It is estimated that 33% of teenage pregnancy fail to receive necessary prenatal care. The lack of prenatal care leads to increased risk of anemia, miscarriage, and high blood pressure to the teenager. Many teenagers will hide their pregnancy because of fear of being reprimanded by their parents or teachers. Teenage pregnancy is also linked to immorality, and this can be a social stigma to the teenager. These effects make the teenage try to hide their pregnancy, which results in lack of proper medical attention. The children born to teenagers exhibit a low birth weight, and this is usually accompanied with other health complications at their tender age. These complications make the mortality rate for these children to be high. Hiding their pregnancy and not been able to come out and inform their parents, teenagers...
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...Teen Pregnancy in America Teen pregnancy is a growing problem not only in the United States but worldwide. The United States as the highest teen pregnancy rate. Teen Pregnancy occurs due to a number of reasons. One reason is teen sometime are not educated or to young to understand the consequences of being pregnant as a teen. Many teens needs to be educated before they become pregnant not after the fact. Most pregnancies are unplanned, according to Trussell (1988)”out of every teen women age, 15-19 becomes pregnant each year in the United States. Of these pregnancies five out of every six are unintended- 92 percent of conceived premarital, and the other half conceived in marriage” (p.262). According to the center for Disease Control, teenage pregnancy is 329,797 births. That is a low compared to the births in 1991(CDC, 2008). The causes of teen pregnancy in the United States can stem from many things. One is living below poverty level can sometime be associated with teen pregnancy. Teens sometimes do not have adequate supervision. Most teenage pregnancy sometime comes from sexually abuse at young age. There is also other factor the play a role in teen pregnancy. Alcohol and drugs plays a major factor in teen pregnancy. This can incite lust and passion in young people. Peer pressure that causes teens to have sexual relations just to fit in. The government has put in some programs to help curve this epidemic. In the schools, they have sex education classes and peer pressure...
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...Arely Renteria Mr. Williams English 12 October 13, 2014 Da Hood Life Did you know the ages in which most gang members are between 13 and 21? Very interesting right? Another one, your ethnicity or where you are from does not exclude you from being part of a gang. Then again there are many other reasons as to why teens join gangs. It is not because of your age or ethnicity, but because of peer pressure, family members, and the need of excitement in their life. Many people experience peer pressure and teens are no exception. In a study done in 2009 in Sonoma County it was reported that “59% of youths identified as juvenile delinquents indicated that peer pressure and the absence of family bonding were the main factors of perpetuating gang participation” (www.myelsie.org/pp.gang.html). Also, gangs aim to get at teens because they are most likely to get easily persuaded into jointing them. “If they live in a gang-dominated area, or go to a school with a strong gang presence, they might find that many of their friends are joining gangs” (www.myelsie.org/pp.gang.html) and...
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...The effects of Teenage Peer Pressure Hunter Clark Marion Technical College In today’s society, most teenagers are extremely influenced by their friends. Relying on friends more than family is very common among today’s teenagers. Unfortunately this results in poor decision making skills and giving into peer pressure. Many teenagers, before the age of 15 years old will have tried drinking, sex, and recreational drugs. Underage drinking is very popular among teenagers. Research has shown that 70% of parties held by a teenager serve alcohol. Many times these parties have no adult supervision, which can result in a disaster. When a teenager is new to drinking he/she can possibly overdose on alcohol. Drinking too much will impair their thinking process which will then lead to horrible decisions such as drinking and driving. Today’s teens are willing to do almost anything to fit in and become popular. If a teenager drinks then drives he/she not only risk his/her own life but the life of the others. He/she choose to drink to fit in with the crowd, not thinking of the consequences. Many teenagers try drugs out of peer pressure and curiosity. They think it will make him/her look cool and fearless. Many teens are actually afraid to try drugs but do it anyway because they are in an environment where others are doing it as well. Drugs can become very addictive and if they like the “buzz” they get the first time, then they will continue to use and form a deadly habit. Doing drugs raises...
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