negative effect on your life? Jean M. Twenge’s essay, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” gives multiple reasons why smartphones cause negative effects on teen lives: behavior, communication with parents, depression, less sleep, cyberbullying, and suicide. Twenge proves the negative effects through personal interviews with young teens, studies showing the changes in dating, mental health, and the amount of hours you sleep at night. Twenge opens her essay about smartphones with a narrative--a conversation
attention is told from a different perspective. It is narrated by a girl, a young adult, who is responsible and decided not to drink at a party so she could drive home. On her way home, the girl was in an automobile accident and killed by a drunk driver who attended the same party. The videos use of lighting and music changes along with the second person narration is an effective way
different perspective. It is told by a girl, a young adult, who is responsible and decided not to drink at a party so she could drive home. On her way home, the girl was in an automobile accident and killed by a drunk driver who attended the same party. The video is an effective way to show that drunk driving not only affects the drunk driver, but many innocent bystanders too. This is something that more people
An eighth-grade girl is given an essay, a science gizmo, and a packet of math. This girl is also an athlete and after school every day she has a game or practice. By the time she gets home she is tired, stressed, hungry and cranky while asking about math problems that haven't been explained. This girl is also invited to walk to the park, but has to decline, for she is banished to her room fully submerged beneath piles of homework. Because it’s stress inducing, time consuming, and according to research
knowing her grandmother, her choice was to disrespect her and not help her. The author also says, “My father decides that he should stay home with my mother and that I should escort la abuela to church. He tells me this on Saturday night as I’m getting ready to go out to the mall with my friends” (Ortiz-Cofer para. 4). This excerpt demonstrates that Connie already didn’t want to go to church with Abuela because she had “better” things to do. As a result, she thought Abuela was going to embarrass
Tuttle Hansen, is “so ingrained . . . that in an anthology of writing from the women’s liberation movement . . . essays on ‘family’ are prefaced with this disclaimer: ‘We are not against love, against men and women living together, against having children. What we are against is the role women play once they become wives and mothers’” (5; qtd. in Hansen 5). However, this idea did not come out of nothing. Nowadays, many who claim to be feminists often associate motherhood with weakness, submission, and
shows how powerful art can be when it holds emotion, and meaning to the owner. If the painting had not been of my grandpa, but a picture of someone else, it would have been out of the house straight away. Espinosa’s drawing holds meaning to many because her art targets the struggle people have. Whether it be the mask that girls put on each day to cover themselves, or the prediction of impending doom for the future. Some might even think that this piece relates to people who have bipolar disorder because
At our summer Kairos training meeting, our leader told us about how she was stressed out for the majority of the past year. She realized her all the stress that was building up inside of her was due to the fact that she had not cried in a while. It was not until she shared this story that I realized I have not cried in a long time. For me crying was a burden, or something to avoid because I usually was the one being cried on not the other way around. But something happened, actually a lot of things
OLAKUNLE KASSIM Essay 1 As teenagers on the brink of adulthood go through a stage in their lives where they want freedom and do things differently from what a successful person is supposed to be. During these teenage years, they attempt and try-on different elements, such as violence, drugs, drinking alcohol, and sexual encounter and become involved in various nuisance activities. The life of a wayward teenager without morals is characterized by atrocities, one who learns the hard way, or
In chapter 1-3 of the novella we observe how these often unfair gender roles are influenced by culture and societal expectations. This essay will take a further look and analyze the roles of women in the first three chapters of “Chronicle of a Death Foretold.” The setting of the novella takes place in a small village in Columbia during the 1950’s. Young girls at that time were raised and taught to be “tame”, not to challenge authority and to at least seem to be submissive. Women were raised to