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Emerging adults have reached a step up from childhood but are not yet ready to fully take on adult responsibilities. This part of life is open to many new experiences which can be very good for the morality of this upcoming generation of adults. People find themselves changing majors in college or taking different classes to explore their interests and find out where they best belong in their future career field.

Two characters that I choose for this assignment are John Bender and Brian Johnson. In reference to Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, I categorized Bender and Brian in formal operational stage because of their age. Besides, both of them also shows characteristic of adolescent egocentrism. As for Bender, we can see that he had developed the sense of invulnerability because he had taken many physical risks and do not think about the negative consequences of his actions. Brian shows personal fable when he overestimate his own abilities, he believes that he can “handle” the subject, but when he failed, this personal fable had lead him to depression and had attempted suicide as a solution for his problem.

As we age, our lives are divided into stages with inescapable hardships. The most difficult of these stages has proven to be adolescence and young adulthood, the years in which our personalities are defined. This juncture is the pinnacle of maturation, however, it is gradually becoming a plateau wherein inactivity is most prevalent. It is indisputable that American children and young adults alike are lingering in their youth for far too long. Many in their teens and twenties are holding tight to the freedom of childhood by depending on their parents, refusing to settle down, and avoiding responsibility. Through their lack of independence, inability to commit and their indolence, certain action must be taken against adolescents

Today’s youth feel the need to be perfect. Having any flaws has been beaten into kids as an awful quality. Scared of ridicule from their peers and parents, today’s youth work hard to maintain an impossible image. Students lose sleep, a basic human need, to complete their ever-growing amount of homework. They miss out on social interaction, a key component to any healthy human’s life, just to complete homework, work a part-time job, play sports, commit to after-school activities, and household responsibilities. Young people tend to feel overwhelmed and are unable to properly control and release their emotions. Older generations think these outbursts are because today’s youth are entitled. On the contrary, today’s youth are competing on a personal, physical and even emotional level with every other person their age and older to be the best to have the best opportunity to live a good life.

Young Adults face many social roles while transitioning into young adulthood. Such transitions include; leaving home, taking on work tasks, gaining financial independence, making partner relationships, becoming a parent, renegotiating relationship with parents, making time commitments to family, starting careers and engaging with the community (Hutchinson, 2015, pp. 275). Several developmental characteristics are also associated with young adults. Physical functioning including; heavy drinking, smoking tobacco, unprotected sex, and the potential for HIV or STDs are associated with young adults. This is also a time when individuals explore their own personal identity. Cognition, Spirituality and identity are all aspects of the psychological characteristics. Young adults are entering Piaget’s formal operations stages, when they begin to develop the cognitive ability to apply abstract principles to enhance problem solving and to reflect on thought processes (Hutchinson, 2015, pp. 286). Spiritual Development is another a huge developing characteristic in the young Hispanic

This research article was an analysis run by Pashak, Handal, and Scales (2016) to evaluate the developmental assets model that has been effectively used on children to create a new survey to test on emerging adults. The researchers named their creation the Young Adult Developmental Assets Survey (YADAS). The Search Institute had already developed the 40 assets that were evaluated within YADAS, and as a nonprofit for advancement of health the institute has conducted research over the last 50 years on young people and their success or failure. Their model is one of the most widely cited youth development approaches. It is divided into categories of external assets or internal assets, both which aid in the formation of young people. Their model is known as the PSL-AB. Other researchers have studied what makes emerging adults (18-29) thrive in emerging adulthood, and those findings were also included in the introduction. For this study, researchers aimed to test the efficacy of the PSL-AB, and also to test if the program could act a support and intervention tool for universities to promote young adults’ mental and physical health.

In Posner’s belief college students are being more and more treated like children to help protect against the reality of life while they are in the stage of completing college: “We are increasingly treating college-age students as quasi-children who need protection from some of life’s harsh realities while they complete the larval stage of their lives” (Posner 185). He uses this form of rhetorical strategy to show his character towards college-age students being treated as children by their teachers. Posner feels that students during that age need to have protection from the real world, although college-age students may have a different opinion. He also backs up his thesis by including another form of ethos and credibility by stating that “[s]ociety seems to be moving the age of majority for 18 to 21 or 22” (Posner 185). Using this statement, the author gains credibility in using the word society to help him know he is also speaking for the society and not only using his opinion.

In the article “The Go-Nowhere Generation,” the Buchholzes argue that the present generation of youths has taken a turn for the worse, losing the sense of spirit that were once synonymous with people of their age and settling for meager jobs in their hometowns instead. The target audience of “The Go-Nowhere Generation” is educated older adults and parents, who are most likely to share the authors’ views. The authors implement a series of comparisons, which include statistics and descriptions, between the past and present generation of young adults to illustrate their position. However, though the authors make several valid points that are supported by solid evidence, the article falls short of being truly convincing due to its narrow views

1-Forming the goal: my five-year-old daughter and my eight-year-old son were born in the US, they could not learn Arabic.

In the six stages of critical thinking, I believe I am starting at the beginning thinker stage. I only apply critical thinking when issues will have a long term affect on my personal life or during my job when diagnosing a complaint or problem in the shop. In my personal experience, I first started applying critical thinking on my career and most recently started to recognize a similarity to daily problems. In certain situation, I did not purposely decide to apply critical thinking but I caught myself doing it. I first question myself. “Why I am over thinking this?” It took a long time and experience to realize that was the wrong question. It was not in fact that I was over thinking something is in fact my experience was

The intelligence Cycle consists of the following six steps. First, requirements; In this area the agents gather information to safeguard the nation. According to the FBI bureau of investigation “Intelligence requirements are established by the Director of National Intelligence according to guidance received from the president and the national and homeland security advisors” The purpose for the requirements is to protect the United States from national security and criminal threats. Second, planning and Direction; In this area the agents identifies, involves and draw specific requirements to support policy decisions. Third, collection, in this area the agents gather information based on the requirements. According to the FBI bureau of investigation,

Peck (1968) suggests that it is psychologically healthy for middle-aged adults to redefine the people in their lives so they can find value in their relationships (Zastrow, 2011). Michael a 45-year old male with no children, weight issues, and a girlfriend with children of whom he is uncertain about in his life is struggling with dealing with his weight and health issues. In addition, to his personal problems Michael also has his sister Taylor to look after who has been diagnosed with HIV. Michael is in the stage of his life where he is redefining his identity and questioning those around him and the

The intricate nature of youth means that while some argue it is a universal stage of life, it is seen by many as a formation of sociocultural elements. Social construction can be defined as something that has been shaped by the values, interests or practices of a culture or society and this is evident in the youth demographic through its revolution in recent years. The markings of youth are social in formulation; highlighting the way in which young people have been influenced by differing trends and movements. Youth is a transitional phase, its age bracket extending and blurring; transcending global divides and traditions. Thus, it is the social context that surrounds youth which suggests that it is not a universal stage of life. Ultimately, the idea of youth when viewed in a historical and cultural context as well as in relation to other socially influenced concepts such as adulthood, can be observed as a social construction.

There are five characteristics that all adolescents have. These characteristics are biological growth and development, an undefined status, increased decision-making, increased pressures, and the search for self. The brain and the endocrine system control biological growth and development. During the early stages of adolescence, individuals experience growth in height and weight, changes in the body, the development of sexual characteristics, and skin problems. For example, I started getting curves in my body when I hit puberty. My body started to develop changes. Our society’s expectations for children and adults are clear, but for the adolescent, expectations are inexplicit. Some adolescents are treated like children, but some are treated like adults. There is an undefined status. For example, my parents pay for my lunch, but I have to have a job so I can support myself.

Adolescence is the distinct transitional stage between childhood and adulthood in human development, extending primarily over the teenage years and terminating legally when the age of majority is reached (Rathus, 2014). However in some instances, this biological, cognitive, social and emotional maturity may not be reached until a later stage and may be dictated by gender. Adolescence is characterised by rapidly changing and unpredictable behaviour (Freud, as cited in Rathus 2014), heightened and unstable emotions (Hall, as cited in Rathus 2014), disturbances in identity, the gradual development of one’s moral reasoning (Kohlberg, as cited in Rathus, 2014) and the gradual establishment of one’s independence. Several of these changes may occur at differing phases in adolescent growth. This development is categorized into three separate stages; early adolescence, middle adolescence, and late adolescence. Early Adolescence, commencing from the ages of eleven or twelve until the age of fourteen, comprises of several features such as rapid biological development and maturity, heightened stress levels and limited coping capabilities. On the other hand, middle adolescence, from the approximate age of fourteen to sixteen, involves the gradual cease of biological change, an increase in coping strategies and declined stress levels. Furthermore, late adolescence, commencing from the age of sixteen until the age of eighteen or nineteen, encompasses physical maturity, whereby the