Emotional Teenager: Brett Baxter

At the beginning or Raw, Brett attempts to perform a skilful robbery on a liquor store. His failure to be stealthy and quiet lead him to rush the whole operation which resulted in him severally injuring his ankle. Because of this, he was caught by the police in the end. After being caught and braking your ankle you would think that Brett would have learnt his lesson. However this wasn't the case. After going to court the law sent him to a rehab farm in the rural states of Sydney. During his stay he caused more unnecessary conflict between cell mates and the warden Sam. Brett gave me the notion that whenever things get tough and he doesn't know how to handle them he runs. This opinion is backed up by his attempt to flee the rehab farm. With

of a person who makes the most of what he has. But he never loses hope that

“The Perpetual Adolescent” is an observational piece by Joseph Epstein. He suggests that modern adult acts much more childish than the previous generations of middle aged people. A big part of acting like a younger person is dressing like a younger person. According to Epstein, the dressed down adult is the immature adult, which in turn leads to many adults trying to copy the modern and hip youth culture. This in turn created more relaxed environments across all career fields, leaving less “true” adults. He feels that American now want to stay young forever instead of maturing into the adults of their parent's generations. Epstein believes that this mentality is flawed, leaving the people in positions of power striving

Another trait regularly found in common folk is search for contemptment. Much like an ordinary person, McCandless begins his journey with the mindset of achieving fulfillment. Most find happiness with material good, but Chris believes that one can not have

Teens are wild, mad, insane, and occasionally deranged. We’ve all seen it, and if it wasn’t obvious enough then read “The Terrible Teens” by Elizabeth Kolbert. In her essay, she uses various rhetorical devices such as, metaphors, and climatic word order to keep her writing intriguing. She even keeps the essay credible by showing personal examples of her own teens. Throughout Kolbert’s essay, she effectively uses rhetorical devices, and methods of development to help establish the idea that neurology helps to explain teenagers wild behaviour.

His response to talking about working hard, doing your best, talents, and achievements is, “I just wanna be average.” Mike Rose is quickly flabbergasted by Ken’s comment. “Average?! Who wants to be average?” Rose thinks to himself. (28) This is due to Rose’s opinion of everyone has a story, everyone has a different upbringing and we all bring something to the table with our individuality. If we were all the same there would be no fun in that. But after years of contemplating what Ken meant by just wanting to be average, Rose believes he is finally starting to understand

L is a 16 year old, Caucasian female student admitted to the adolescent mental health unit of a major Brisbane hospital due to active suicidal ideations manifested by taking a recent overdose. This was also accompanied by thoughts of harming herself and ending her life. L has a history of suicidal ideation, an eating disorder and self-harming. L was picked up from school by her stepfather and later disclosed that she didn’t want to be here anymore and wanted to die.

In “How Teenagers Find Themselves”, Charles Q. Choi writes in order to help explain teenagers self- consciousness. Choi wrote “ How Teenagers Find Themselves” to help explain the self-consciousness that teenagers have, and how it got there. In the text it says, “One way we build a sense of self is by reflecting on how others perceive us”. This evidence shows that he is telling us about how we create our own self-consciousness. Also, in “How Teenagers Find Themselves” Choi is helping inform everyone about teenagers self-conscious.

Just another man with a vivid imagination and desperate feelings for a woman who doesn’t feel the same. [I] However, through his journeys, Walter begins to discover that when you set your mind to something you really believe in, it can become a reality. [J] Walter begins to realize that although he may not be able to change or affect the outcome of very many circumstances, he can still enjoy things as they come his way. [K] As stated in the article “The Will and Ways of Hope”, “Optimism involves a positive expectancy for future outcomes without regard for one’s personal control over the outcome” (Scott, 2).

As a student, Kevin Louis is quite the typical kind of person somewhat can call a "nerd" or "geek". Currently a senior at Deerfield Beach High School in his last year of being in a public school, he still has a long way to go to hopefully do something great in his life and succeed at something good. Challenges from the past such as living in quite a harsh lifestyle with his family to make ends meet to sometimes not being able to eat between two to three days intervals, he tries his best to continue his education as a way to hopefully support his family in the end. With him being not so spolied in the past due to the limited amount of money his parents had to raise him, it quite help him be a bit discplined and be thankful of what he has. Though,

Chris Gardner excels at his stockbroker internship in Dean-Witter, earning the attention and respect from his superiors. However, his personal life plunges exponentially. He loses his money and has to resort to sleeping in homeless shelters and subway station bathrooms. He begins to think that happiness can never really be achieved, but he is proved wrong when he feels happy for the first time in the longest time after he lands a job in Dean Witter.

Adolescent aggression is becoming an ever-increasingly serious social and mental issue in today’s world. A large body of research had been done by Western scholars to indicate that low socioeconomic status (SES) was strongly associated with high adolescent aggression. The researchers of the current study wanted to verify many of the findings by using a large sample of test subjects from a metropolitan area in Pakistan. Additionally, they wanted to study the mechanism through which SES determined adolescent aggression, specifically, the mediational role of “Executive Functioning” (EF) between SES and adolescent aggression. “Executive functioning” was defined as a combination of problem solving and flexibility of thinking abilities. They had

The movie thirteen is a raw psychodrama directed by Catherine Hardwicke is based on the life of a young teenage girl, Tracy Freeland whom catapults from pre adolescence/childhood to a wild and rebellious thirteen year old girl. Filmed in Los Angeles, Tracey and her mother’s relationship are put to the test when she befriends Evie. Evie is a popular girl from junior high school who introduces her to the world of sex, drugs and self-mutilation. We see a physical and psychological change in Tracey almost overnight, as her kinship with Evie transforms into a toxic relationship. Tracey’s early traumatic life experiences, manifests into a co-morbidity of depression and borderline personality disorder that affects her ability to cope with an

Right at this moment, I can promise you, that there is nothing more troubling then having to sit your teenage self-down on the sofa for a conversation. There is no way to say: ‘Hey! I’m you, well not you you, but older you, we need to talk…’ It’s impossible and yet, here I find myself standing at the doorway, looking towards younger me who is sat there watching older me (that’s me), trying to find the courage to start this conversation. Wait- this is all getting a bit confusing, let me start again.

We originally see Lars is introverted, withdrawn and a social recluse, but through the unconditional love and lack of criticism provided by Bianca, a life sized ‘real’ doll, we see him grow into a mature man who has found his place in society. The support the community shows, offers Lars the encouragement needed to develop healthier relationships with real people. Gillespie challenges the audience to accept those around us who may not fit in. He makes it our job to not give up on people, even when they have given up on themselves. As an audience we come to appreciate the healing power that one community can