...Outlining your speech December 3, 2013 Instructor Candice Murray Title: Emotional Challenges are the Biggest Challenges Youngest Adults Face Today A. General Purpose: To inform B. Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the causes and effects of the most prominent emotional challenges young adult face. C. Central Idea: To inform my audience about the causes and effects of the most prominent emotional challenges/problems young adults face by first looking at single households, by second, reflecting on low self esteem due to bullying and certain environmental factors and by third, looking at the trying time youth have in forming their own identity and purpose in life despite outward pressures. I. Introduction A. Growing up in a single parent household has been found to cause emotional challenges for young adults. B. Having low self esteem due to the environment and/or bullying by peers is also a source of the emotional challenges that young adults face. C. Discovering who they are, where they want to go in life, and having the personal strength of character to make that certain dream a reality in a world of adult pressures/expectations and peer pressure is a turbulent process that has shown to be an emotional challenge for young adults. II. Body of Presentation A. Growing up in a single parent household has been found to cause emotional challenges for young adults. 1. About 6 out of 10 children who live with only their mother are living...
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...TITLE: Speech on Three Challenges Young Adults Face INTRODUCTION Today, I want to explain some challenges that affect young adults which if left on detected can cause serious harm not even death. Three main challenges I feel that affect young adults health complications, depression, and suicide. In today’s young adults they are serious issues that go undetected to parents faculty and other family members and friends. Many young adults are faced with the pressure of being the top senior, honor student, best older brother and many times most popular with awesome grades. These things can be very difficult to meet and young adults can go to great lengths to make everyone around them happy and not disappoint anyone. BODY (One challenge of young adults is health complications.) Firstly, as we know young adults inherit many conditions because of their parents’ genes, but that is not the only factor. Stress has been known for many years as the “catalyst of diseases”. Stress weakens the body, causes organs to work less or harder, and prevents sleep, inhibiting the body from resting and healing itself. Many times young adults take medications not prescribed in order to assist with their performance and achieve the high expectations they have for themselves and others. Illnesses such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes are the most commonly stress related. High Blood Pressure, Heart Attacks, High Cholesterol, Poor Blood Circulation, Anxiety, Insomnia, Headaches...
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...The challenge of working with young people relating to promoting positive sexual health Teenage pregnancies and early parenthood have been recognised to be associated with poor health and social exclusion. There have been debates on whether teen mothers and their children are the consequences of the teen mother’s age or socially disadvantaged circumstances Sexual health is a subject that’s affects many counries, especially when young people are being infected with STIs, it a subject of amusement, fear, embarrassment and complexity. unplanned pregnancies that will force most young girls out of school and being lone parents or which is a burden to health services and the economy, most of these young women end-up having more than one child, living in poverty relying on state hand-outs and most of them end up being unemployed and creating other generations of deprived children, some prostitute themselves to support themselves and their children resulting in them getting sexually transmitted infections such the ones mentioned above. The cases of young people is worrying the governments, local authorities and even families because the of the age these young people are experiencing their first sexual intercourse are getting younger despite the fact that in great Britain the age to consent sex is 16 years, young people as young as 11 year are sexually active, example of this is the case of Alffie an 11 year old year boy who believed to have fathered a15year old school’s child...
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...What I see as the biggest challenges young adults face today A. General Purpose- The general purpose of this speech is to inform people on what I think are the biggest challenges that young adults face today. B. Specific Purpose-The specific purpose is to persuade young adults to make better choices to overcome their present (and future) challenges. C. Central idea- I think that young adults should consider their futures. I also believe that they should follow the past life examples of the generations before them and use them as a blueprint to their lives. Introduction One of the contributing challenges in a young adult’s life is the factor of employability that many face in this day and age. A. Key point #1 The lack of employability caused by criminal convictions. B. Key point #2 The lack of education. C. Key point #3 The absence of work ethics. II. Body of the Presentation A. Main Point #1-Young adults sometimes make lifestyle choices that are detrimental to their future. 1. Supporting material-Some young adults make choices to indulge in criminal activity. 2. Supporting material-A lot of young adults adopt the “Sink or swim” mindset because of a sense of urgency causing them to do so. B. Main Point #2-Many young adults believe in coasting through life without lack of responsibility, thus not achieving educational goals. 1. Supporting material-Many young adults still have their parents assisting them in this mode of life...
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...The challenges for providing effective HIV prevention program to young adult are pretty similar for women and children, which we discussed in the last week. But there are some differences. Young adults always refer to teenagers, such as college students. Teenagers have high-infected rate of HIV, 10 times than others. And one of the biggest challenges face to young adults is that many teenagers are lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS. Take Chinese students as an example, many students do not have sex education during high school. They only know the term “HIV”, but they do not know how it transmits and the ways to prevent it. In fact, this situation happens in many poor and developed countries due to the insufficient education. The second challenge is that young adults or teenagers are tending to have sex more frequently than elder adults because teenagers are in puberty. Puberty is the thing teenagers cannot avoid, and it is part of the live. According to Avert.org, it mentions, “teenager years are the time of great change, your body develops and changes during puberty as you become an adult, and these changes often go hand in hand with lots of emotions” (“Being Young And Positive”). So teenagers need to learn how to manage themselves during puberty, and the way correctly using condoms. The third challenge is financial constrain. Many countries do not have enough finance support to promote the HIV prevention programs because those programs are very expensive and required many resources...
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...Jessica faced many challenges in her childhood leading to her young adulthood. I believe the most important point that she describes is, that hard work and focus will pay off. The story begins with Jessica awakening very early to the sound of her alarm clock. This day is like every other day; she struggles with getting out of her nice, warm bed. She knows that she must get up, or an argument will ensue with her father. The hefty load of daily farm chores lies ahead, and she struggles to open her eyes. First her daily rituals must take place before heading out to the barn. Jessica must coordinate with her "sisters Angie and Mellissa, and brother, Nick", for bathroom time. The cows that her family tends too must be milked and fed, and cannot wait. The first point she makes is that responsibility was instructed to her at an early age. Others rely on you, and you must be responsible for your actions. If Jessica did not get up from the bed, her contribution to the chores would have to be spread among her siblings. These actions would add to the long list that already awaits them. I believe the purpose of Jessica's story, was to describe how time management can better improve your life. Stress can be controlled, by taking the extra time to configure the task that lie ahead. Her life from the beginning, has set her up to manage the massive load of school, extracurricular activities, and work. Life was much different for her than from others. Her goal at a young age, was to be able...
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...Teen Rebellion- Violence on College Campuses In every generation, there have been many advances in technology, culture, and the ways people perceive social issues. Teenage rebellion seems to have never outgrown itself. Generation after generation teens seem to go through stages of violence, ultimately leading into or starting in college. Teen rebellion is a problem that has been around ever since teenagers have and continues to be a concern to this day. The freedom that college provides is a perk of growing up but should be taken responsibly as a young adult. Parents, students, and university staff are all concerned about violence on college campuses. The mentality of average teens is everything will be handed to me and that no work needs to be put in. Teens are considered lazy, unmotivated, self-involved, messy, smelly, and a plethora of other self-esteem killing adjectives. Usually teens are content with complacency, Teenagers themselves recognize these low expectations, and many live down to them. Realistically with more freedom comes more responsibility. In college there is no time to mess around; necessities like decent grades, a job, a license, and a car seem to be unwanted. Dating, booze, and going out, have replaced these necessities. Most people today have low expectations for teens in college. Recently, at the University of Central Florida there was a sexual assault investigation after a call for help was made by a girl on campus. In the parking B garage, the...
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...English 101 May 10, 2009 A Media Driven Society Raises Today’s Youth “Beep!” “Beep!” “Beep!”… Its 7 o’clock am, I rise to an alarm set to 94.5 where I hear the latest news and media gossip. I jump into the shower where I continue to catch up on the world’s news reports. My pre-set coffee brewer has coffee already prepared for an on-the-go person such as myself. I grab my laptop, cell phone, ipod, and jet off to work. After work I stop at a local café where I can pick up free wi-fi and sign in to my online classes. I email a few friends in the process of emailing a professor about the assigned paper. I can’t forget to check my facebook to catch up on the latest gossip while listening to lecture notes podcasted from the previous day. Once finished, I stop at the local grocery store to pick up dinner and while standing in line at the cashier I feel compelled to buy a magazine to keep up on the celebrity gossip and check out new poperotsy photos. On my way home a billboard advertising the new corona makes me stop at the local 7-elleven for a six-pack. I speed home to pop my tv dinner in the microwave and sip a beer. While I wait, I turn the television on and watch the news on one screen while watching another show on the split screen monitor. After a long day, I set the coffee pot, my alarm, plug the ipod, computer, and cell phone in to charge and lay my head on my pillow. As I close my eyes, I think of all the information I’ve seen, heard, and communicated...
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...rearing children, there does not appear to be a single solution to the problem. Upon investigation it quickly becomes apparent that various groups can look at the same issue and will ultimately form different solutions that reflect their own skew on the problem. A closer look at example solution’s utilizing life skills through school settings, community resources, and Socratic home environments will demonstrate this concept. As an educator I believe that preparation is gleaned through understanding and understanding is gleaned from education. My solution would involve taking an active approach in educating the future educator by preparing the young to facilitate life skills for themselves and their own children one day. Equipping children with life applications of what they potentially will face as an adult is much like training a soldier for battle. Our county does not expect our military personnel to enlist and not receive training for what they will expect to encounter. Our children should not be expected to receive any less training for the battles they will face as well. This could be delivered through the current school system which is established and widely accepted as the standard for receiving a core education. This mode of delivery would also fit snugly into most families’ normal routine and would allow all children equal access to the training. A general guideline of a child’s...
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...And how does the general public contribute to this? I am here today to represent to you the truth about ‘Teenagers’ or ‘young people,’ who are lost in the attack of the media. Society seems to be very closed minded when describing teenagers. We are not rewarded or celebrated for the good things we do but instead are portrayed as pregnant, drug abusing, binge drinking, violent, jobless juveniles who engage in underage sexual intercourse and don’t care about anything. Or else we are victimised as the hopeless future of the world we live in. Both are true, to some extent, but why stereotype teenagers in such a negative way when the majority of us are working hard to benefit the future and are working hard to please our parents and society. Where are OUR news headlines? Where is OUR acknowledgement? We’re not all bad, in fact majority of us do the right thing. It is a small minority or percentage of teens who are overshadowing the majority us who are making valuable contributions to our communities. Everyone makes mistakes, not adults apparently…Imagine a 30 year old man robbing a petrol station. Now imagine a teenage boy doing it. Which one would be targeted by the media? Why? Why does society discriminate us? For being a teenager? I think adults forget they were one once too. We are undermined because we are learning. We are undermined because we are young adults. We are undermined because WE are the...
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...Adolescence, age group typically from 13 to 18, have many challenges for individuals irrespective of gender. These challenges include that on an emotional, physical and psychological level. These challenges may differ between males and females but the level of difficulty in trying to cope with the changes both physically and psychologically are equally difficult Young people of this age group are particularly vulnerable to external influences such as advertising as they are self-aware and are trying to define and assert themselves in the world around them. They are trying to find themselves and therefore are easily influenced.“Maturation does not stop at age 10, but continues into the teen years and even into the 20’s. What is most surprising...
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...which determines the fate of a nation and battles against monstrous foes. This story contains a few different themes which seem to be universally represented in many works of literature. The epic cover tales of love, strength, humility, wisdom and death. While Gilgamesh was young he lived as many young men have throughout history. He was strong, fearless, virile and foolish. As a king with no equal he lived as such. Young Gilgamesh was without any love, humility, or mature wisdom. Besides being a fearless warrior he lacked any traits or characteristics of a good king. He spent endless days in athletic contests and defeating all his competitors. Gilgamesh would lay with all the women of his land without regard to morals or ethics. If the tale was laid out as a human life from birth to death then this section would be his adolescence. He was energetic, rambunctious, and risk-taking. There was no consequences for his actions. Teens often have a need to push the limits of life to learn their physical and mental ends, coupled with the need for adventure cause dangerous actions and behavior. As with most teenagers, later in the story he began to develop mentally, emotionally and socially. As a young adult does, he gradually increased his mental and emotional strengths. At this point his interest began to shift to the need for friendship and love. His story mimics the stages of life. Each journey he takes move him to a different life stage. After meeting his friend Enkidu, he began...
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...he finds himself in a room with all its windows open towards the outside world.” (Kassim Wais) Education serves as the means to bring about the desired changed in society, to develop a generation of virtuous individuals and thus contribute to the development of good human beings. It also serves as the means to develop oneself physically mentally and socially. Education to the youth manifests itself in terms of the need to cultivate the youth of society into mature individuals. It is important for them because youth is their growing stage it is also the time to develop the principle of life, make career decisions and begin to pursuit of one’s goal. It is important that the education to aims at youth developing social awareness in these adult-to-be (Manali Oak). Education is vital to the healthy growth and development of one’s personality. In making the ‘beings’ ‘human’ to produce ‘human being’ lies the importance of education to youths. But the transition of teenager’s attention from studying from the feeling of love has grown up. Right from the schools, teenagers find themselves getting attracted to the opposite sex in schools, neighborhood or even because of media which influences their feeling in many cases. Teenage affection has more chances of resulting just because of infatuation. It is highly probable that because of the hormonal changes in this phase of life, we are excited and keen to interact even more. Until we discover that it’s getting difficult for us to live...
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...Eillan Jennings Professor Annie Murray English 1550 Research Essay 18 November 2011 Does Anyone Really Know How Parents and Teenagers Co-exist? Well I know anyone can relate to having an argument or two with their parents over the course of time but does understand how that the adolescent stage of a person’s life is this most important stage of their life. I believe personally that parents should allow their teenagers the freedom to make their own decisions because of the circumstances that will be soon to come. I am writing this essay to describe why teenagers should be able to express their rights as adults. Either the term close restriction or freedom of expression, of the young teenage mind is meant for some than the other. We are all lucky that we live in a country where freedom becomes a right and I believe that along with conducting themselves responsibly that teenagers should be able to express themselves and be able to experience the freedom they will receive in adulthood, which is expressed into greater detail in the news article “Psychologist Explains Teens’ Risky Decision-Making Behavior” from sciencedaily.com which elaborates on why teenagers have the tendencies that they have. Well as anyone can relate everyone we know in one way or another was raised differently from each other, including myself in their matter. But we all have one thing in common, we feel that at times it is wrong for a certain person to be dictate our lives as if we had no way of being...
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...and health-affecting habits. Middle adulthood differs from young adulthood in social needs (although the basic need for socialization remains the same), and represents a shift in attitude about relationships and vocations that moves from fluidity to stability. Health practices are also at work here, with factors such as diet, exercise, and drug use in young adulthood impacting middle adulthood later on. Erikson believed that people need constant contact with others throughout their lives, from birth to death, whether that contact is romantic intimacy or a relationship with friends and family. In romantic relationships, young adults tend to be “serially monogamous” [ (Berger, 2010) ], or remaining emotionally or sexually involved with only one person for a period of time, though the relationship is rarely permanent, and the young adult may have many of these relationships during this stage of his or her life. This is typical for the age group, which is characterized by an unwillingness to commit permanently to a job, a spouse, or even an educational program. Young adults today are markedly different from young adults in the previous generation, in that they marry later and may not start families or enter a permanent vocation until they are well into middle adulthood, or around their late twenties or early thirties; this is in part due to greater life expectancy and more accessible birth control, allowing young adults to experiment before settling down to permanency [ (Berger...
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