Teen violence is a growing concern nowadays. Violence in the media--whether through cartoons, movies, tv shows or music--has strangely lead people to believe that it is alright to cause harm or violence out in the public. In fact, many believe that the media is to blame for causing our youth's dilemmas. Teen violence is also thought to be triggered through social, cultural, and individual factors such as bullying and being exposed to a violent environment.
Facts: By age 12, the average kid would have witnessed at least 8,000 murders and more than 100,000 acts of violence on TV. Statistically, 1 in 5 kids admit to being bullies or being bullied. Also, one of the main reasons that children become violent is through their exposure to violence in their own homes, whether it is directed towards them, or towards others.

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Our generation lives sedentary - lazy – lives so we’re are physically inactive, 14% of us are obese, therefore; our health is at stake! We teenagers have bad sleeping habits as well. Fact: 20% of high school students fall asleep in class. I see plenty of people fall asleep in class, and I may fall asleep too if I didn't get enough rest. It all starts with making bad decisions; we Americans love our fast food! Fact: The average American consumes about three hamburgers and four orders of French fries every week. That's 90 grams of fat and 2,520 calories, when the average person needs about 2,000 calories for a day. But this addiction to fast food may have started when we were just kids. A recent study shows that children ages 3-5 years of age preferred McDonalds branded foods to other alternatives. French fries were the biggest winner; almost 77% said the labeled fries tasted best, while only 13% preferred the others. 54% preferred McDonald's-wrapped carrots versus 23% who liked the plain-wrapped sample (fact). Is it the fast food corporations fault as to why we eat and live unhealthy, or is it our own fault that we're sacrificing our health for the comforts of life?

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This is an issue among teens because most of the accidents that occur are related to either drugs, or alcohol. The reason why teens use drugs is usually because they feel the need to "fit in". They also think that it's a way to solve their problems, obviously, it doesn't. It only makes matters worst. Most teens wants to relax, to "chill", so they use these. Well, they do get relaxed, but at the same time they're destroying their bodies. Some of them use drugs and alcohol to get attention from their parents. Teens try it out first, unfortunately, most of them end up getting addicted to it. Once taken, drugs and alcohol will take over someone's life to a point that nothing else matters; food, friends, family, health, etc.


Facts:
Females absorb alcohol faster than males because their bodies contain less water.

Drugs are capable of creating both physical and psycological cravings that'll make it very difficult for users to stop.

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Ya teens keep on just keep on becoming influenced by teir freinds. Its easy for the kids to get their hand on drugs because its everywhere. I think they feel that its a group thing to do .

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I chose this topic because I knew very little about it. However after I researched the subject, I learned that children, teens, and even adults are affected by media.

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Media affects women/teens of all ages and sizes. Magazines are covered with articles telling women/teens that if they were twenty pounds less, their life would be perfect. This causes women/teens to feel insecure about their bodies. Therefore, they buy clothes, beauty products and diet aids. Alone, the diet industry is worth approximately $100 billion a year. One of every four college-aged women use unhealthy methods of weight control. In some cases, weight control measures are being taken in by girls as young as nine years old. In a report from teen magazine in 2003, it said that 35 percent of girls ages six to twelve have been on a diet at least once. Also, it reported that fifty to seventy percent of normal weight girls believe that they are overweight. In most cases, media images of women are only achievable by a ridiculously small number. Today’s models weight 23 percent less than the average woman, when twenty years ago, models only weighed eight percent less. Women’s magazines have ten and one half times more articles and ads promoting weight loss than men magazines. Also, over ¾’s of the covers of magazines have at least one message about how to change a woman’s appearance.

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summary: I chose media violence because I'm interested in how the teenage mind thinks. Watching violent programs and commercials can affect the viewers mood and their personality. The most common emotion is anger where the viewer watches a violent commercial and feels angered by the viewing. The viewer will tend to forget the commercial, but will ultimately be affected.
Fact: People tend to act out what they see on television or what they've played on video games. A test was done by an organization, which found that 6 percent of these programs displayed passionate kisses, 18 percent showed flirting, 15 percent showed implied sexual intercourse, 4 percent showed sexual intercourse and 6 percent depicted intimate touch.

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Summary: It's affecting a lot of American young people today. Researchers shows that around 19% of children ages 6 to 11 and 17% of young adults ages 12 to 19 are overweight for their age. A look to the future indicates that perhaps up to 50% of the children in North America will be too heavy for their height and body-frame build by and in the year 2010. These young people will start to develope a higher risk of diabetes, heart conditions, high blood pressure, and cholesterol, and they may even shorten their lives because of these health problems.

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Summary: I picked this topic because when I saw the title I was kind of confused; I thought that only famous people where hassled by the media but I was wrong some of the thing that people put in the news and say in the paper about today’s youth really make teens and young adult look at the way they’re portrayed.
Fact: From the article “who is just think?” “According to the study released with this headline by Reuters in 1999 only 37% of adults believe the country’s youth will play a productive role in society as adults.” (pbs.org) This article also says that “ the media” is responsible for why the adults say that. Also from the article “powerful influences?” “ long before Columbine High School entered the national consciousness, there was a debate underway over whether violence in the entertainment industry affects young people’s behavior.” (pbs.org)

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This topic seemed important to me because drugs are one of the most dangerous teen issues. Substance abuse has been common among teens for decades. With growing popularization of soft drugs, more and more high school students start smoking marijuana and trying other substances.
I have learned that underage drinking costs the United States over 60 billion dollars every year. Each year, 100,000 teens are treated for marijuana dependence.

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This is a real problem that is affecting the youth in this world, not just america, the media promotes, glamorizes the violence in teens and that is something that really disturbes me; I have seen it, in my family, on the streets, in school, etc.
Youth violence, and particulary violent crime committed by youth, has recently increased dramatically, 5 out of every 20 robbery arrests and 3 of every 20 minutes murder, rape and aggravated assault arrests are of juveniles, in numbers 3,000 murder, 6,000forcibe rape, 41,000 robbery, and 65,000 aggravated assault arrets of youths annually.(youth violence and the media, Surette Ray)

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