3.0 Drinking Behaviour in Malaysia Over the last decade, alcoholism is a dangerous pattern of alcohol consumption among young adults and a public health concern in the United States (US) (Naimi, Brewer, Mokdad, Denny, Serdula, and Marks, 2003) as alcohol can get easily from everywhere. In US, binge drinking usually peaked around 20–22year (Kuntsche, Rehm & Gmel, 2004). One of the predictor of alcoholism was the level of financial resources. In US, there is a research which include 700000 of respondents
independance From Peer Pressure When it comes to a time of teenage years, many obstacles come with growing up. Peer pressure is a major difficulty in most teens/student’s lives, these distractions and influences submit teens to turn away from the right path. By abstaining from peer pressure we could be better educated and teens wouldn’t be stereotyped as amateurs. In modern day, and in past years peer pressure has broken relationships within students and families. By the banishment of peer pressure more
and language use among three Asian American adolescent girls who integrate some elements of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) into their everyday speech. A group interview was conducted and the data gathered from the three girls was analysed in terms of its AAVE features and sociolinguistic variables in order to identify the relationship between the subjects' language code choice and their identity construction. Subjects expressed their fondness for AVVE
Students who have high connectedness to their school environment on a social emotional level are stated for to have acquired benefits, for example, academic achievement, future orientations and emotional stability (Lariviere, M. L., and Slate, J. R. 2014). The emotions and states of mind that are evoked by a school's situation are referred to as school climate (Goodenow, 1993). School is considered as a community, an ecological concept that allows the recognition of nature and school process that
component which influences empathy development in related to the context around children. As mentioned before, there is a relationship between the cognitive buildings of social competence, such as empathy, taking into account the individual differences facing conflictive situations. On the other hand, specific contextual factors in the environment around the individual which have own demands and expectation from the subject perform important roles in empathy development and students self perception
are the two identities that I have struggled with for as long as I can remember. Conflicted with two polar identities, students often feel helpless. Their weak will and confusion with which I presented myself to society led the nobleman to take advantage. He offered to protect me from the mocking prattle of the outside world - to make me forget about the hurtful comments from my peers and social stigma regarding my family income. He wore a mask, disguising himself to fit the norms of society, and I
The issue of student absenteeism is currently the focus of intense activity in schools. It is also a high priority policy concern (DfES,1999; DfES, 2002, as cited in Malcolm, Wilson, Davidson, & Kirk, 2003) for the Ministry of Education (MoE) has set a target for every students to have attendance not less than 95 per cent throughout the school year. This issue also becoming a big topic in local newspapers a number of times in the early year. According to Acting Director-General of Education, Hj Abdul
is one of the reasons why school plays a major role in educating students about drug and alcohol abuse, prevention and early recognition. Moreover, not only this education help these students to stay away from drug abuse, but serve as source of information about drugs for those who are already addicted to drugs or the ones going through emotional trauma. Ominously high amounts of illegal drug use remain a problem among Indian students besides so many efforts collectively made by family, society, schools
one of my best students, it would be a perfect student for university. He is capable of excellence and will do very well in campus. It is truly a remarkable person in every aspect and i think it an excellent candidate for admission to the university. John Smith is extremely intelligent and creative approach to the solution of the problems never ceases to amaze me. Has maintained a high level of academic excellence in rigorous classes, and makes the best qualities among their peers. To continue, Smith
control the desires and interests a person has, the impact of negative peer influences must be counteracted in a different way. Peer influence is one of the largest contributing factors in the likelihood of an adolescent taking part in risky behaviors; therefore, I believe that adolescents can reduce the potential for risky behaviors by choosing friend groups that encourage healthy behaviors and decision-making. Topical Support: A peer group can be defined as a set of people who share at least one common