Teenage girls

Qualities of a Strong Teenage Girl Being a teenage girl, I know what it is like to be let down, put down, and feel completely alone. But I also know what it takes to get back up, be courageous, and fight. One quality a teenage girl must have is courage. Courage to stand up for yourself and others. To succeed, a teenage girl must have smarts. Street smarts as well as book smarts are important. However, one quality that most teenage girls have is a carelessly open heart; letting anyone in that tries

Alyssa is the ordinary teenage girl, she loves her makeup and cellphone. There is however one problem with Alyssa that other teenage girls don’t normally have difficulty with and that is boys. Every other teenage girl has her first boyfriend at 13 with plenty experiences of having first kisses. At the age of 16, Alyssa faces her first romantic encounter with her fellow neighbor, Cody. Her awkward and unique personality always plays out a different outcome then normal teenage girls. Cody is Alyssa’s

you no longer feel like yourself, however you feel like the most gorgeous girl in the world. A man then announces; “The winner of Miss Gorgeous 2017 is…” Your name was not called. You no longer feel beautiful. Only that one girl who was announced does. Your self-esteem levels have dropped lower than ever, now realising you must not be beautiful at all. In the Lifetime hit reality TV show, Kim of Queens, teenage girls, Rayven, Addison and Hannah, are put into that exact situation every week.

false representation of teenage girls. But firstly what in fact is representation? Or stereotypes? Representation Representation is the process by which the media present us to the 'real ' world and how they re-present something back to us. For a huge number of us the media is a main source for us to understand the world around us. Stereotypes A stereotype can be what we call an inaccurate ideology. It is targeted at a specific group or individual such as teenage girls. An ideology is the beliefs

Abortion a problem for teenage girls The purpose of this essay is to bring awareness to the medical procedure of abortion, which is a very dangerous procedure that needs to be solved. The target audience is those teenage girls that are deciding to abort using irrelevant procedures. This problem is an increasing trend that is affecting younger and younger girls as time passes due to poor sex education involvement in schools, and family discussions. Sometimes girls have rational reasons of why they

Teenagers tend to rely on the more common ones like the pill or condom but some do use the others. The most common contraceptive for teenage girls is the Oral Contraceptive Pill (OCP) (Committee on Adolescence) or as it is commonly known, the Birth Control Pill. This form has a 9% fail average (healthychildren.org) but a 15%-20% fail (Committee on Adolescence) for teenage girls because they forget to take it or don’t take it at the same time everyday. There are many more forms of birth control for females

As we can see in the first set of advertisements above, there are toys that are specifically intended to capture the interest in boys and girls separately. Here we can see how certain features in the advertisements help aid in the socialization of children in regards to gender. Over the last couple decades, it’s been custom to shower little girls with pink and little boys with blue while they are young, before they learn to choose their own favorite colors. These colors of pink and blue then become

Projected Findings When asked if environmental factors had an influence on major decisions teenage girls made pertaining to their body 40%(ten out of twenty-five) of the teenage girls stated that environment factors have influenced their decision on their body. Thirty six percent (nine out of twenty-five) of the young ladies surveyed responded that they have people they can talk to in their home or neighborhood when making decisions. Sadly, only 20% of the young ladies recorded being aware of the

Princess Leia Youmans English 122 Sather February 25, 2017 Reality Shows: Helping or Hurting Teenage Girls?            While teenage pregnancy has been on the rise in America since the 1950’s, researchers have been trying to look for an ideal solution that will help solve the problem by declining teenage birth rates. Perhaps there is a potential solution after all. What could this solution possibly be? Well, it might be as simple as the reality shows “16 and Pregnant” and “Teen Mom” on the MTV network

to teen girls without a prescription because they can prevent unintended pregnancies. Also, the staggering abortion rates could be lowered due to the use of oral contraceptives being available at any time. If condoms can be bought in stores to help guys protect themselves, birth control should be over the counter. Birth control pills should be available to teenage girls because teenage boys have availability to condoms, it would lower teen pregnancy rates, and lastly it gives young girls control