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    The peer pressure also can supervise students in stopping illegal activities, inappropriate behaviors, and something could damage students’ health. When the good advice comes from peers, students are more likely to change. In addition, it always has the positive results when students learn the bad consequences from their peers. According to the Red Cross (2006), peer pressure is commonly used in preventing HIV around the world, and it actually has already achieved effectively and successfully results

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    Do People Have the Natural Tendency to Fit In? Peer pressure not only influences teens, but everyone to make decisions for the better or worse. Everyone experiences peer pressure whether they give into it or not. There are two kinds of peer pressure: there is good peer pressure and bad peer pressure. Giving into peer pressure is all up to the victim and how strong their beliefs are. Some people feel that peer pressure can be avoided but peer pressure is everywhere and can affect many people whether

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    My task is “Peer Pressure” can help us grow or cause our downfall.” Everyone in their life will get confronted by peer pressure whether it is helpful peer pressure or corrupt peer pressure. “No I don’t want a drink… Suppose one can’t do that much harm, go on then”, I don’t want to go in and ask for a job… - but you need it – okay I’ll ask…”, it can change the way people act or treat other people. Peer Pressure is one of the cause of teenage depression. It often leads to feeling out of place in one’s

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    Influence of Peer Pressure on adolescent Alcoholism Wedad Aljari Indiana State University 12/8/2014 Influence of Peer Pressure on adolescent Alcoholism The social influence that I have identified is peer pressure in alcoholism. Allen, Fretz, et. al (2008) explain that the increased use of alcohol among adolescents can be related directly to peer pressure. This stand is supported by Bourke (2010) of ABC News who reports that teenagers usually end up drinking alcohol even when they do not plan

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    Peer pressure. Bad decisions. Close calls. Consequences. In the reflective song “The Art of Peer Pressure”, Kendrick Lamar details a day where he was under peer pressure, made bad decisions, had close calls, and narrowly escaped the consequence of his actions. Lamar was with some friends smoking blunts that ended up to be laced with PCP. The combination of the PCP and peer pressure from his friends caused Lamar to agree to go along with his friends plan to rob a house. Throughout the song “The Art

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    through the environmental influences that may promote or affect the development of behavior and achievement through peer pressure and classroom quality (Adams, Ryan, Ketsetzis, and Keating,

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    Many people in the world are being pushed into peer pressure. In the movie Rebel Without a Cause the same thing is happening. In this movie two characters (Jim and Buzz) are pushed into something called the “Chickie Run” and this comes from a knife fight early in the movie and it gets broken up by the police. Then Buzz Pushes Jim into doing the chickie run to prove himself to Buzz’s gang. But before the chickie run happens Buzz goes to talk to Jim and he tells Jim that he likes him. Then Jim asks

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    two days. The hasten to finish makes the tradition seems as if unwanted and to be done as quickly as possible. The villagers seem to only participate in this ritual become it has been practiced for so many years. I will argue in this paper that peer pressure from others can cause unlikely behavior among people and cause suppression of woman fertility as the result. The tale continues to speak of the process of this tradition by explain it should be done by noon so that all get to supper. The children

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    Peer pressure influence and high school students’ attitudes (feelings) towards school Adolescents’ happiness or the lack thereof is highly related to personal and social demands that come from members of their peers to force them to follow norms and beliefs of the insistent group. A recent study, Happiness and Peer Pressure among Adolescents, argued that peer group influence could be either positive or negative. Positive elements include fostering educational achievement, engaging in wholesome

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    Teenage and Peer Pressure Peer pressure is difficult to withstand during teenage years especially when on campus far away from parents or guardians. In Marjane Satrapi’s memoire, Persepolis, the chapter titled “Croissant”, does not suit the story in the chapter in my opinion because, most of the events that happened in the chapter have nothing to do with croissant. The story was about a young girl named Marji who was sent abroad by her parents during her early teenage years to study because there

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