The Negative Effects Of Peer Pressure

Peer pressure can be as strong as the force in Star Wars because people can be bully someone into doing things. Peer pressure can make someone’s future really awful by making a terrible choice. Peer pressure is really bad for kids so young and teens since they make kids and teens have consequences of their terrible choice.

Americans today tend to believe that people often conform from a desire for security within a group—typically a group of a similar age, culture, religion, or educational status. I’ve always believed that teenagers would want to fit in with others around them. In addition, while they raely admit as much, teenagers often take for granted is being themselves. When it comes to the topic of individuality and conformity most of us will readily agree that teenagers don’t want to be different or themselves because they feel as if it’s a bad thing. “Individuality vs. Conformity: The Healthy Middle?” demonstrates that it’s human nature to fit in and be liked and our need to feel special.

The persuasive article Individuality vs Conformity argue, that teenagers should find a healthy middle between Individuality and Conformity. The author supports his/her analysis by describing how the high school students act towards non-conformist students. The author 's purpose is to show high school students that it’s ok to be different and themselves in order so that they learn to love themselves. The author writes in a emotional style for the readers of high school students and others interested in the topic of Conformity and Individuality.

If a teenager is smoking, I can guess that it's from peer pressure and not a self made choice since smoking is an old trend brought back but on other forms like e-cigarettes and hookah. Peer pressure happens to everyone, we follow others without notice at times and that's comely

In an article from Scholastic it states, " Say you're sitting around with some friends playing video games and someone mentions a game, that happens to be your favorite. They say, oh that game's easy, so not worth the time. The others agree. Inwardly you know that it is a game you enjoy a lot, but don't want to cause a scene, so you stay silent. " That is a prime example of peer pressure.

Teens feel like they have no choices but what there parents, teachers, or other authority figures, tell them. Just like how all the districts had no choice, but to do what the capital says. Teenagers are very rebellious and don’t want to do what authority figures tell them. Modern day teens are very much like the main character of the Hunger Games Katniss. Katniss was always being told by the capital what to do.

The significance of this is teaching young adults that peer-preausre is a huge problem and that you should know from right to wrong and do what is best for you. It is clear that the author uses this idea to explore the idea that many teenagers face peer-preasuer and it can lead to major issues suck as geting drunk, illegal activities or more. By the book’s conclusion, the author has shown that trust can take years to build, but can be destroyed within seconds.

Peers make a set of unwritten laws that most people follow out of fear of being shunned. Peer pressure can also be explained as a tool to control individuals in society, for example, “In essence, society controls us by rewarding us when we conform, and penalizing us when we don’t. We learn at a very early age that we have to “go along to get along”. (Whittaker, Liam S. "Society Controls Us." CSGlobe.)

He believes that a teen’s primary motivation for behavior is their social affiliation with others. During adolescent years, development of personality and behavior is at its most prominent. The ultimate goal of this theory is for teenagers to establish a personal

The ideal room for a teenager is one that has walls cluttered with posters or quotes of famous men and women. Every morning a teen wakes up and is surrounded by images of those that he or she admires and goes to sleep with the idol like figures watching over him or her. Everyone has a role model that they look up to whether it be a friend, a colleague, a stranger, or a super star. One cannot help but look at the life of another and attempt to model one’s own life after the other. Following someone else is how humans have survived, one sees what works and begins to do the same.

Teenagers have always sought to be their own person, to forgo rules and even recommendations in favour of In the poem "Nineteen", Elizabeth Alexander illustrates how youth's desire for freedom, to escape their reality, allows them to grow into adulthood and leads them to make choices that will impact their perception of the world. This theme will be analysed through structure, symbolism and contrast. The growth of a young adult through his or her experiences is illustrated through the structure of the poem.

Peer pressure between teenagers can have a positive or negative effect. In the text,” Back to Basics: Test Scores Don’t Lie,” the author Diane Ravich enforces the harmful side of peer pressure. Peer pressure is influenced by society, which is a major problem among teenagers. Sometimes to fit into a certain group, teenagers need to hide or lie about their achievement.

An accepting and healthy environment is needed. Many people face peer pressure because they are deemed uncool and are pressured to do uncomfortable things and things that they believe are not right. If everyone accepts everyone around them for their real selves and will not judge them, people will not commit unhealthy acts and develop undesirable bad habits. People need to surround themselves around healthy and positive company that will accept each other and have healthy core values.

For reasons of which have no excuses for them. We were all teens once and know that teens like to conform and give in to the efforts of peer pressure which often implement doing some sort of “ extra-curricular activity” such as using drugs like alcohol and marijuana. Our youth partakes in theses activities for the likes of friends and what they see. They want to be hip and cool. Be like and apart of the “IN CROWD” and what better way to be like the cool kids then to do what the popular kids do.

A hobby is an activity that people done during free time. Since it could release their stress or relaxation. But there are also some dangerous hobbies that could their behavior even live. There are so many risks-hobbies for teenagers that I am going to explain, such as party, shopping and addicted to the internet. It is already attached to teenagers in general, but this time I will discuss it more deeply.