Brain Maturity

First of all, 21 is an appropriate age to be an adult because of the facts showing how the human brain doesn’t develop completely until one reaches their 20’s. A quote from “At What Age Is The Brain Fully Developed” states, “Although brain development is subject to significant individual

Maturity is a state that everybody tries to reach during their lives. Children spend their infancy, and sometimes adolescence, growing up and learning how to behave in the adults and work world. Schools teach them dissimilarities between these two different worlds. There isn’t a precise age in which kids become mature, it depends on the experiences they had, their society, their family and other causes. In the movie and novel The Giver, the community has a rite of passage where children, during the annual ceremony, become more mature and assume more responsibilities until they get into adulthood.

I believe maturity is not dependent on a person’s age because humans are affected by different situations, are different genders and are raised differently.

16-19 years | This is the stage where young people become young adults, and are often at the peak of their physical performance. Almost all girls will have reached physical maturity, boys will continue to mature into their mid-20 's. | By the time they have left school they will be thinking about their pathway for their career, whether it involves college or university. | Young people enter adulthood but still require advise and guidance from adults. They will lack experience and individuals will vary in emotional maturity and the way

Are you under 25? If you are, how well do you think your brain is developed? In the video “The Teen Brain: Under Construction” claims that the brain is finished developing around the age of 25. This assertion starts many arguments on whether an 18 year olds should be considered an adult. Many say that 18 year olds should be considered adults, but many disagree. I deem that 18 year olds should not be considered adults, because their brains are not fully developed yet.

maturity is a complex concept, only activated and defined by the experiences that one endures. In other words, as a child, we begin life as naive individuals but as time progresses our lives are influenced by our exposure to significant events, the people that we encounter and the consequences that we learn. Slowly we surpass into higher levels of consciousness that can ultimately represent the stages of maturation. Society attempts to artificially provoke this coming of age using physical time in order to dictate the level of maturity that should be attained by the individual at different stages in their lives. Coming of age is an natural process and will only truly occur when the individual awakens from the unconscious state of candor.

Maturity may come at any age and time in a person’s life. One moment he or she may be a carefree child, and then suddenly realize that they have been transformed into a mature adult by a powerful and traumatic experience. An experience they will remember their whole lives. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the adolescence of Jem and Scout is threatened one fateful night by a dangerous man bent on taking their lives. After this startling experience, they were never the same again. As a result, they rapidly matured into adults. Similarly, young David Hayden, the narrator of Montana 1948 by Larry Watson, also encounters an equally traumatic event. He discovers that his uncle has been sexually assaulting

No two people exactly the same, so people develop at different rates. “The fact that every person is different and develops at his own pace doesn't make the creation of policy any easier.” (Greenblatt 22). It would be extremely difficult to make a solid age of responsibility since everyone is different. Any age decided upon would be unfair for some people and perfectly fine for other. There is also the fact that there is no upper

In a Ted Talk video by Adriana Galván she mentions “that the brain matures and continues to do so” and “Your brain changes everyday and as you sit in this room your brain is reacting to my voice, to the person sitting next to you and your experiences ant the people you affiliate with shape the way your brain ultimately develops.” This means that although it is unsure if the brain keeps developing past the mid twenties it is a known fact that the brain constantly reacts and changes to the environment around it, which is completely different from the original belief of it over a decade ago. One example of the brains constant changes is in Romeo and Juliet when Friar Lawrence says “Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here! Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes” (Act 2 Scene 2). Showing how quickly an adolescent mind can change because only a day ago Romeo was besotted with someone named Rosaline but eventually engaged to Juliet. Another line is from the Capulet’s Nurse who says “I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth—and yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four—she is not fourteen. How long is it now to Lammastide?” (Act 1 Scene 3). This shows how different one can be after only a short amount of

Being an adult is the number one thing that children want to be: The desire to get older to do things that you want when you want and having no one say otherwise. However, what is an adult? An ambiguous term that really falls into the hands of the individual, where at Sixteen you can drive, eighteen you can vote, and twenty-one you can drink, for those in the USA, all varying ages that individuals could use as indications of adulthood. Robin Heinig wrote and article “What is it about 20- somethings?” where she discusses Arnett’s proposal about a new developmental stage, “Emerging Adulthood”. Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, an American professor in psychology, believes that we aren 't entering adulthood till the later portions of our twenties. For some, this may be true but for the general population including myself I find this hard to believe. Leo Hendry’s article, “How universal is emerging adulthood? An empirical example”, on emerging adulthood gives a deeper understanding to what this generation 's kids are going through. The late teens are a crucial part to the lives of a young adult. It 's the time that we spend trying to identify ourselves, escape the circumstance that we are put into at a younger age, or just had a better family income. Arnett is not wrong, but all other external factors need to be accounted for before we know, or even consider if emerging adulthood is a new developmental stage.

Maturity doesn’t depend upon age, it’s the you treat others and yourself. “... remembered what Atticus had said, then dropped my fists and walked away.” (Lee 102). Children tend to see life in a simple and fair ways but actually, life is very complicated in the eyes of adults. Sadly, life is not always simple and fair.

Maturity in my opinion does in fact depend on someone's age. For example, alcohol is set to be consumed at a certain age. People become more mature as time goes by.

United States age restrictions are mostly all based on politics. But what these politicians never really look into is the neurology of when kids actually mature into adults. The frontal cortex of the brain controls decision making. This particular part of the brain matures at around the twenties. The brain as a whole matures at age twenty-five. Although, lawmakers consider eighteen the official age of adulthood. Is this age really valid?

The way social groups perceive the age of responsibility is largely attributed to cultural and historical factors. In his article, Alan Greenblatt explained the relationship between different historical eras and their corresponding interpretation of maturity, which both fluctuates depending on convenience and the conditions of society. For example, war was a huge deciding factor that influenced the meaning of adulthood from the time of the middle ages to now, establishing the age of 21 as the age of adulthood because “that’s when men were capable of wearing a full suit of armor” (Greenblatt). Because that perception remained unopposed, 21 remained the age of responsibility until the next defining period of war, where, due to the necessary drafting

When asked the question “When do you become an adult?” many people would give an age but in reality the answer isn’t that easy. To me adulthood is when you are able and willing to accept responsibility. If you cannot or will not be responsible, you have no right calling yourself an adult. What does make you a grown-up? Is it moving out of the house? Hitting a certain age? Having a relationship? Getting a job?” How is it that we can do. those things, that we consider to be “adult”, but we still feel like kids? Or that we feel like grown-ups, we're certainly old enough, but we haven't. seemed to have accomplished any of those things “grown-ups” have done? People never seem to quite understand the meaning of being an adult.” It has always seemed to me that age is irrelevant. You can be 12 and understand things better than a 30-year-old or you can be 40, have two PhD’s and still wonder if pigeons are migratory birds”.” Many people my age think that getting out of