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  • Youth Suicide

    Youth Suicide

    Suicide claims a life approximately every forty seconds worldwide. Australia’s youth are not exempt, and are in fact particularly susceptible, with over 2000 adolescents successfully suiciding each year and more than 60 000 attempting it (Joiner 2005). This paper will attempt to discover why. What propels some young people into suicidal behaviour, and how are they resisting nature’s strongest instincts of self-preservation? As well as attempting to answer these questions, indicators of suicidal behaviour will

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    Essay Length: 660 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 17, 2010 By: Steve
  • Chasing the High - Prescription Drug Abuse Among Teenagers

    Chasing the High - Prescription Drug Abuse Among Teenagers

    Chasing the High: Prescription Drug Abuse among Teenagers ( 12-17 Years) Prescription Drugs are medications that are prescribed to patients by a doctor to help in many ways, such as relieve pain, treat symptoms of a disease, or to help fight an infection. They are very safe when used properly and under supervision of a physician, yet if used without approval of a doctor they can be very harmful and in some cases could lead

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    Essay Length: 1,084 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Steroids Negative Effects in Teenagers

    Steroids Negative Effects in Teenagers

    Many people, even professional athletes and super models, want to improve something about their bodies. Whether it is steroids or weight loss supplements, drug dealers and drug companies all claim to have the answer to happiness through products that claim to improve our bodies. But they never tell you about the price that you can pay: the cancers, depression, liver damage, acne, balding, or anger that can result. Happiness and athletic success don't come from

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    Essay Length: 564 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Physician Assisted Suicide

    Physician Assisted Suicide

    Physician-Assisted Suicide Physician Assisted Suicide has been a controversial issue long before Jack Kevorkian assisted Janet Adkins commits suicide using his homemade suicide device in the 1990s. Physician Assisted Suicide occurs when a individual with a terminal and sometimes excruciating disease expresses a desire to end their life to a doctor who then helps them commit suicide. Medical breakthroughs are common around the world every day. The advancement of medicine has given people with a

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    Essay Length: 1,181 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Depression in Children and Adolescents

    Depression in Children and Adolescents

    What is depression? Depression is the most common mental disorder, not only for adults, but for children and teenagers as well. The DSM-IV classifies depression as a mood disorder. It states that an individual has suffered a major depressive episode if certain symptoms persist for at least two weeks, including a loss of Depression in Children and Adolescents enjoyment in previously pleasurable activities, a sad or irritable mood, a significant change in weight or appetite,

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    Essay Length: 2,682 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: May 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Teen Suicide

    Teen Suicide

    Seventeen-year-old Mike Emme drove a '67 Ford Mustang. It was bright yellow. He had worked really hard to restore the old car. A gifted student, Mike was happy, helpful, and a young man with a future as bright and cheerful as his car. Friends called him "Mustang Mike." Mike was a kind and considerate young man. He had ordered a brand new transmission for his Mustang, but canceled it and bought two used ones from

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    Submitted: May 21, 2010 By: Max
  • The Causes of Depression in Young Adolescents

    The Causes of Depression in Young Adolescents

    Teenage depression is getting more and more common. Many of young adults get into depression, as early as 13 to 15 years old. Because they hide their feelings, they are not usually diagnosed for it and that causes them to carry this depression until they are adults. This could be very frightening and life threatening to some people. Depression is a disorder or illness that involves many parts of a person's life. Depression in children

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    Essay Length: 887 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 23, 2010 By: Jon
  • Suicide

    Suicide

    Teen Suicide According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry teen suicides have become a serious issue in today's teens. AACAP says that the third cause of death for individuals between the ages of 15 and 24 and the sixth for individuals between the ages of 5 to 14 is suicide. A study given by the American Academy of Pediatrics showed that suicide attempts were most prevalent for white (5.6 percent) and Hispanic

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    Essay Length: 1,273 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 25, 2010 By: Mike
  • Alcoholism and Suicide

    Alcoholism and Suicide

    The movie When a Man Loves A Woman starring Meg Ryan and Andy Garcia clearly represents some psychological concepts discussed in class (cause, effects, denial, recognition and rehabilitation). I had seen the movie before and enjoyed it, but now, since taking this class, I understand so much more about the movie and the characters. This movie is one that clearly depicts the many and varied effects of alcoholism on a family. Emotional, psychological, and even

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    Essay Length: 1,585 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 27, 2010 By: Janna
  • Edna Pontellier’s Suicide

    Edna Pontellier’s Suicide

    Edna Pontellier’s Suicide Suicide has been defined as “the act of self-destruction by a person sound in mind and capable of measuring his (or her) moral responsibility" (Webster 1705). Determining one’s moral responsibility is what all of humanity struggles with and strives to achieve. Many forces act toward the suppression of this self-discovery, causing a breakdown and ultimately a complete collapse of conventional conceptions of the self. So then the question presented becomes whether or

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    Essay Length: 1,574 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 28, 2010 By: July
  • Teen Suicide

    Teen Suicide

    As a young girl (14) who has dealt with lots of suicidal and depressed teenaged girls, I can say this about the ones I deal with. 1. They have lots of friends. 2. They have problems at home. ie. divorce, addictions, disease 3. They usually really enjoy drinking. 4. They have either been told they're fat/ugly, or look at themselves in the mirror and think it. 5. They are obsessed over a guy. I have

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    Essay Length: 499 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 28, 2010 By: Victor
  • The Consequences of a Rebellious Adolescent

    The Consequences of a Rebellious Adolescent

    Crystal Hayes Instructor Cearley Composition 1 February 25, 2007 The Consequences of a Rebellious Adolescent “Experience is life’s greatest teacher”. You may here this statement quoted by many adults who had a life changing experience during their childhood or adolescent years. I truly didn’t empathize with that statement until I had a life altering experience of my own. In 1997, I started my first year of high school. I was like your typical teenage girl;

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    Submitted: May 29, 2010 By: Top
  • Teen Suicide

    Teen Suicide

    Teen Suicide Each year, thousands of teens are dying, not from cancer or car accidents, but by their own hands. They make the choice to take their lives. The number of teenagers who take their lives is increasing each year. Teen suicide has increased in the last few decades and is now the third leading cause of death among youth 15-25 years of age ('Teen Suicide,’ NP). In youth 5-14 years of age, suicide is

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    Submitted: May 30, 2010 By: Max
  • Suicide

    Suicide

    Suicide is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States.(1) Based on the assumption that suicide is not a rational choice, society has long sought to prevent or discourage the practice. In fact, society has generally regarded a suicide attempt as a plea for help or an indication of a need for psychiatric treatment. The debate about legalizing assisted suicide and euthanasia has challenged these assumptions, suggesting that for at least some individuals,

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    Submitted: June 1, 2010 By: Artur
  • American Beauty and Virgin Suicides Comparison

    American Beauty and Virgin Suicides Comparison

    Reality. Merriam Webster’s Online Dictionary defines reality as “something that is neither derivative nor dependent but exists necessarily.” But what is real by today’s standards? Does what appears to be normal equal reality? By looking at two different films it seems that the old cliche stands correct. Things aren’t as they appear. American Beauty and The Virgin Suicides give classic examples of how “normal” and “happy” suburban life is anything but. American Beauty, directed by

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    Submitted: June 1, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Premarital Sex to Teenagers

    Premarital Sex to Teenagers

    Teenage Sex Sexually active teenagers, in America, are a significant problem we must look at. A question that rings in the minds of teenagers everywhere is when to have sex. Our Catholic teachings, instruct us to wait until one is in a loving marriage to have sex. Not only is the church preaching abstinence, but now public schools are also teaching students on the advantages of abstinence. Premarital sex is a growing, and important issue.

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    Submitted: June 4, 2010 By: Victor
  • Assisted Suicide

    Assisted Suicide

    The downfalls of “choice” in today’s argument of euthanasia can take us on a rollercoaster ride of emotions, and leave even the most head-strong person staggering in their steps. There are many social, moral and political reasons for standpoints people have taken over the years when it comes to physician assisted suicide. I personally have found myself in a quandary, stuck between my religious beliefs and the strong feeling of importance for people who are

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    Essay Length: 1,094 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: June 4, 2010 By: Monika
  • John Tucker Must Die a Tale of Teenage Revenge

    John Tucker Must Die a Tale of Teenage Revenge

    “John Tucker Must Die” A Tale of Teenage Revenge He’s tall with dark hair and light eyes. The star of the basketball team, a crowd favorite, and he’s quite the ladies man. Every guy wants to be like him and every girl wants to be with him. Everywhere you go you here the glorious name of John Tucker. While managing his basketball career, and obtaining his great reputation, John loses track of the three ladies

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    Submitted: June 9, 2010 By: Monika
  • Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide

    Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide

    Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide Introduction The history of the debate for physician assisted suicide has been long, tracing back to the Greek and Roman times. The term euthanasia is actually a Greek word meaning “good” or “noble death,” which was coined in the seventeenth century by Francis Bacon (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). The term was later abused, when German physicians willingly participated in the killing of more than 200,000 helpless people. Anyone that

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    Essay Length: 1,994 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: June 10, 2010 By: Victor
  • Adolescence

    Adolescence

    The Outsiders is a theme in itself. Looking at life as an outsider and feeling as though one is being treated as an outsider is a matter of perspective or point of view. Someone who always feels like an outsider may conclude that life is unfair. Adolescence is a time when teenagers may consider themselves to be adults, but in reality teens are still under the control of others. Parents, teachers, and other authority figures

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    Essay Length: 407 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: June 13, 2010 By: Jon
  • Adolescent Cognition

    Adolescent Cognition

    Adolescent Cognition: Thinking in a New Key Throughout history, adolescents changed their styles and their location in which they associate. It went from wearing penny loafers and hanging outside of drug stores to wearing athletic sneakers and hanging around the malls. Adolescents follow the reasoning of Aristotle: all men are mortal, Socrates is a man, and therefore Socrates is mortal. The first age of reasoning was focused on concrete operational thinking. Concrete operational thinking enabled

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    Submitted: July 28, 2010 By: Dina
  • Adolescents in Transition in India

    Adolescents in Transition in India

    ADOLESCENTS IN TRANSITION Ever since Margaret Meed (1928) published her famous study, Coming of Age in Samoa, scholars from different disciplines have disagreed over the extent to which adolescence – as a life stage or as a development period – is biologically programmed. Biological factors contribute in no less way than other factors in determining the timing of adolescence. Simmons and Blyth (1987) conducted a pioneering study on how biological changes accompanying puberty may have

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    Submitted: July 28, 2010 By: Dina
  • Some Develop Countries Are Aware of Tobacco Harmful People's Health and Influence Growth of Teenagers

    Some Develop Countries Are Aware of Tobacco Harmful People's Health and Influence Growth of Teenagers

    some develop countries are aware of tobacco harmful people's health and influence growth of teenagers Advertising and Promotion is one of the strategies and have a very important position in marketing. For most companies, they chose advertising to attract more customers to promoting consumption. Then they can obtain more benefit. However, the tobacco is a particular commodity; it can influence the health of people. So when the company in the marketing planning should pay attention

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    Submitted: April 21, 2011 By: wangw
  • Meranao Teenage Marriages: Problems, Issues, and Prospects A.Y 2007-2008

    Meranao Teenage Marriages: Problems, Issues, and Prospects A.Y 2007-2008

    If you are still a teenager right now or as a teenager, would you prefer to be married with the one whom you love in the stage of your life right now?If your parents want you to be married at your very young age, would you say yes or would you say no?The term teenage marriage comes a common practice among Meranaos to have their children married when they reach the age fifteen and

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    Submitted: May 2, 2011 By: norsaima_umpara
  • Impact and Future of Arabian Currencies Linked with Us Dollar

    Impact and Future of Arabian Currencies Linked with Us Dollar

    Impact and Future of Arabian currencies linked with US Dollar The US dollar has hit fresh lows against the euro, yen and other major currencies including and looks set to weaken further in the year ahead. Dollar weakness has been the overriding trend in currency markets this year. its expected to dominate for at least another year until the US current account deficit is brought down to more sustainable levels. Since the Gulf currencies are

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    Submitted: May 8, 2011 By: bingo75

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