American Teenagers Behavior

Patrick A. Lespinasse is the Director, State Government Affairs at Verizon. He is responsible for strategic advocacy on a broad range of public policy, legislative and regulatory issues that impact corporations on the local, municipal and state levels. Lespiansse is a lawyer, adjust professor at St. John's University, and former staffer to Assemblyman Thomas

“The agriculture Department estimated in 1999 that twelve million children were hungry or at risk of going hungry.” She proclaimed. The cause of that could be because parents who can’t afford or find service programs to park their vacationing children in front of the television, lock the door, and go to work hoping for

Due to execrable food preparation prior to June 30, 1906, the United States established the Pure Food and Drug Act to ban the preparation, sale, and shipment of contaminated food and drugs. The act also banned mis-labelling and false claims of food and drugs. On June 30, 1906, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was also established to ensure the safety of the goods and the safety of the consumer.

Majority of Americans youngsters work and attend to school at the same time, due to the lack of money or for the pleasure of having money. Most of the times teen agers around junior year, start applying for jobs, it’s the perfect age to get a part time job. These youngsters mostly look out for fast food restaurants; for instance, McDonald, KFC or Popeye’s. These type of jobs are right-fitting for youngsters, since they undermine school attendance and involvement, and only requite few logical skills. Etzioni’s essay illustrates the difficulties and reasons why youngsters prefer easy, low income jobs than staying at school and get an education. Etzioni agrees that these jobs for the teen agers are unnecessary, since it distracts them from pursuing

Hunger is something that continues growing throughout the United States of America. The documentary, A Place at the Table, directed by Lori Silverbush and Kristi Jacobson, gives a look into people’s lives who are hungry and struggling to get by. One instance that is shown is a working mother who made too much money to be able to qualify for food stamps, by a mere $2. Agreeing with that, Tricia McMillan’s article, “Shift to ‘Food Insecurity’ Creates Startling New Picture of Hunger in America” states that most of the food insecure people in the United States are working families. She also mentions how the term hungry has changed over time.

America is often viewed as the country of wealth and excess, especially when it comes to food. Due to high obesity rates throughout the country, oftentimes people from other nations believe that there is no such thing as hunger in America. Sadly, this is just not true. Millions of children and families in America are either hungry or starving, and this isn’t a new development. Hunger has been prevalent in the lives of many Americans throughout history. From the early days of the first pilgrims to the Great Depression, American adults and children have known physical hunger. In the novel Black Boy by Richard Wright, Richard feels this common American hunger, but he also feels deeper hungers that influence him on a greater level. Throughout his

Teenagers are more than capable of achieving great tasks in the future as well as causing great destruction with every skill stapled in their mind as they grow. Good and evil will determine the effects of which path a young mind its taught so that’s why parents must educated well with good intensions for a better future. The age of a teenager shows history how it transformed the world including the United States by family values, the high school, and dangerous adolescences etc. What teenagers did was start a fashion changing the world and its rules, becoming rebellious toward their parents values for

About 1.7 million youth in America will encounter homelessness each year (Tompsett, Domoff, & Toro, 2013). Homelessness within the youth population in America is a serious problem and there are many associated risks and hazards identified with being homeless as a youth. For this research youth has been established to be any person between the ages of 12 and 18; in the process of maturing through adolescent stages of growth (Oliveira & Burke, 2013, p. 154). Youth whom become homeless are at risk of developing a lifestyle or acculturation to street living. Researchers are exploring the causes of homelessness in the youth population and the consequences of homelessness.

America, known for its economic success, livestocks, and some of the world’s most fortunate people, still leaves us pondering with one question: who does such a vast amount of our population go hungry? Exploring hunger in parts of the United States, it all comes back to the same statistics: one-sixth of American’s don’t have enough to eat. In 2006 the U.S. government replaced “hunger” with the term “food insecure” to describe any household where, sometime during the previous year, people didn’t have enough food to eat. By whatever name, the number of people going hungry has grown dramatically in the U.S., increasing to 48 million by 2012. This is a fivefold jump since the late 1960s, including an increase of 57 percent since the late 1990s.

Food insecurity causes health issues such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and early mortality among young single mothers. According to author Christine A. Stevens young single mothers are affected by food insecurity in two ways “first, the stress of food insecurity can lead to compounding issues of depression for this mother, second, food choice.” Factors that assist these problems are socioeconomic status and the ability to obtain adequate nutrition. These young single mothers do not have enough money to give nutritional food to their families. With limited money they do not have a choice for nutritional food and according to Stevens are forced to buy “inexpensive, high fat, high carbohydrates food” (Stevens 163). In

Throughout this story, each and every teen encounters their own issues with different strategies and help to solve them. As much as the government tried to help teens in need, not all were a success. Many did fail, as homeless teens were either killed in an act with sexual predators,starvation, lack of necessities, no shelter, suicide, or some even just refused help. Resulting them to become corrupt or developing a mental illness. Unfortunately, many were not able to be saved, leading them to a bad future or no future at all depending on their situations.

"Teenagers as young as 13 all too often play an active role in feeding their families, many taking jobs when they can or selling their possessions to help raise money for food, researchers found in a detailed look at hunger among adolescents.

Being a teenager in our times is both tough and great, depending on the current state of each individual. It is extremely tough on one side, due to the surroundings what’s around us both local and international, what’s going on here at home and around the world. As I am aware of personally, it is the toughest times I’ve seen in my short sixteen year life, for both the teenagers and generally for all types’ people. As we see today the world is going through so much trouble, crisis, lack of safety and even wars in some countries overseas. Meanwhile here home we have our own types of trouble, we see police brutality and police killing of innocent black people, labeled as racial profiling, you have that Black Lives Matter movement going on. Something that was not far from us was the recent presidential elections, where there was one of the candidates who was very controversial, and now is the elected president Mr. Donald J Trump. He has made a lot of controversial remarks including vowing to build a wall on the Mexican border, deporting Mexicans, monitoring Muslims, not letting Muslims leave the country, calling Muslims terrorists and a handful of other comments and agendas. In the meantime immediately after he won the elections, mass anti trump protesting broke out nationwide and among those were a lot of students, teenagers and youngsters. Teenagers are the most easy to influence among people in all types of things and today we have some many different types of things, teenagers are easily to get exposed to, we have drugs laundering around everywhere, radicalization, gangs,

Rational choice theory states that the person will make sensible and reasonable decisions that will benefit or gratify their interest; therefore the juvenile will choose a behavior that will encourage them to either avoid pain while seeking pleasure. It gives insight as to why the juvenile offender committed a certain crime, as we have learned crimes are committed because the offender feels a sense of reward, it was easy, thrill seeking and fun. So the juvenile is also rational and their behavior can be curtailed or adapted with the punishment of fear (Ministry of Children and Youth Services, 2013)

Teenage underrepresentation and vulnerability make a huge impact on teens this makes them consume an unhealthy amount of fast food on a daily basis which then lead to major health risks.