Overcoming Peer Pressure
opinion Essay
568 words
"The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel." -- Walt Mueller, Understanding Today's Youth Culture
Overcoming peer pressure always proves to be a challenge; being in the moment with the intention of rejecting the pressure tends to breed fear. There are all types of pressures in life from people, to possible addiction causing agents, and the desire to have fun. Personally at UC Irvine people may say there is not much to do, but there are a variety of things if you know where to look –seen in another Zot blogger’s posts. The peer pressure at UCI in terms of drugs or alcohol is not excessive, but the possibilities of neglecting your studies is. Involvements, going out to eat, and taking a break all prove to be major time consumers from studying. There are ways that can relieve you of too much of these temptations, and that you can be productive; however, there are also ways to not be persuaded by negative peer pressure as well.
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In this essay, the author
- Opines that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive and cruel.
- Advises that time management, even if not highly detailed, can be your greatest tool. spend more time with those who don't pressure you to ignore your studies.
- Opines that drugs and alcohol aren't a massive factor, but realize there are people around who consider it an occasional reliever. cigarettes may be suggested to you but do not help, they harm!
- Opines that drinking is the most present in any college, but hopefully your experience compares to mine. the choice is always your own, and everyone stands accountable for themselves.
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- Explains that in the united states, there are a lot of individuals who experience peer pressure. peer pressure usually happens around the time when children are turning into an adult.
- Narrates how they interviewed two college students about peer pressure as an adolescent, kelsie brooks, and michael ward. both responses were interesting.
- Narrates how one of the popular girls at kelsie's high school encountered peer pressure during her adolescence.
- Narrates how one of michael's good friends was having a get-to-gather which was just for boys only. they were having pizza, movies, and games, but some of the boys were dipping. michael finally gave in and tried some peach flavored dip.
- Opines that michael and kelsie have not been encouraged to participate in antisocial acts. they explained that their friends never forced them to act in a hostile or unfriendly matter towards another individual.
- Explains that kelsie and michael both gave into peer pressure, but did not have any consequences from their parents because they hid it from them.
- Analyzes how kelsie handled peer pressure that went against her personal beliefs. she reminded herself that everyone makes mistakes, and most individuals learn from their mistakes.
- Explains how they relate things from the textbook to the situations that emerged throughout both kelsie and michael's lives.
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- Explains that social anxiety disorder is a big problem when it comes down to learning or asking questions in school because one may be afraid to ask for help in front of others.
- Explains that true clinical depression is a mood disorder in which feelings of sadness, loss of anger, and also frustration interfere with everyday life for weeks or longer. it affects teens in high school or middle school hard because they might not want to attend school.
- Explains that teen females suffer with depression twice as often than men, and opines that depression can destroy the essence of a teenager's personality.
- Explains that anger is turned inward against some part of the self. depressed people have a way of making everything their own fault so no matter what happens, they can blame themselves.
- Explains that teenagers may go online to escape their problems, but excessive computer use leads to reckless behavior and out of control drinking. teens who commit suicide often suffer from depression.
- Explains that suicide is an act of a person taking their own life. suicide thoughts often result from feeling like you cant cope when you are faced with too much stress.
- Explains that theories and thoughts on suicide have changed over the years, reflecting trends in religious beliefs, pop culture, and academics, but suicide is still a misunderstood and confusing topic.
- Explains that severe depression is accompanied by a pervasive sense of suffering as well as the belief that escape from it is hopeless.
- Opines that suicide is based on a reasoned decision, often motivated by the presence of painful terminal illness from which little to no hope exists. these people aren't depressed, psychotic, or crying out for help.
- Explains that bullying is linked to suicide, as suggested by recent bullying-related suicides in the us and other countries. parents, teachers, and students learn about bullying and help students who may be at risk of committing bully related suicide.
- Opines that some schools or regions have more serious problems with bullying and suicide related to bullying due to an excessive problem at the school.
- Opines that words destroy people mentally, but also destroy lives and sometimes ends them. peer pressure can lead to many different things.
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- Explains that saying no to friends is like disobeying the parents of a teenager or even more. teenagers are easily influenced by the persons around them especially when they have gone to new environments and meet new people.
- Opines that teenagers must make their priorities right and do things that are not against the will of their parents. every parent wants their children to be successful and have a good future.
- Explains that they chose this topic because peer pressure is being the trend for teenagers of this generation. all of them want to be belong to a certain group or circle of friends that will make them look cool.
- Explains that peer pressure is when a person cannot decide for oneself and just depends on what their friends’ decision is.
- Opines that teenagers should learn to be dependent and stand-alone by having more trust to themselves and be more confident of what they can do.
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- Explains that peer pressure is the influence of a social group on an individual. teenagers feel social pressure to conform to the group of peers with whom they socialize.
- Opines that peer pressure can motivate a teen to conform to healthy behavior, but sometimes peers influence each other in negative ways.
- Explains that some kids give in to peer pressure because they want to be liked, to fit in, or to worry that other kids may make fun of them if they don't go along with the group.
- Explains that almost everyone ends up in a sticky peer pressure situation at some point.
- Explains that peer pressure can only bite you if you let it. the secret is to assert yourself without becoming self-righteous.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains the importance of earning a college degree is higher than ever. students have to learn how to balance schoolwork, social life, and extracurricular activities.
- Explains that the biggest pressure students faced is economic. the average college student in 2015 accrued about $35,051 in debt.
- Explains that parents want their children to do well in school, so they can have a stable and financially rewarding career. zinsser says the job market is competitive and the personal debt is at all-time highs.
- Explains that peer pressure has a big impact on college students. students are constantly around their peers while away at college, which gives them plenty of time to judge themselves off against what they are doing.
- Explains that self-induced pressure goes hand-in-hand with peer pressure. zinsser states students view that the "transcript has become a sacred document."
- Explains that economic, parental, peer, and self-induced pressure has been a problem faced by college students for many years, but it has too many negative effects on students.
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- Explains that peer pressure is something that is not quite normal, but your friends pressure you into the situation because they do it.
- Analyzes how the main character in orwell's "shooting an elephant" could have dealt with the peer pressure in the story by ignoring the person.
- Analyzes how gideon, in doris lessing's "no witchcraft for sale," could have solved peer pressure by simply walking away. he became famous throughout the medical world to share his thoughts and how he had accomplished this.
- Opines that gideon would double up with polite laughter and look sadly at teddy, who was grinning mischievously at him across the kitchen.
- Opines that even though peer pressure happens to most human beings, there is nothing worse than doing something that you know should not be done.
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- Explains harris, j. r., "where is the child's environment? a group socialization theory of development."
- Explains that conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to what individuals perceive as normal of their society or social group.
- Illustrates how peer pressure can conform a person into dismissing their values and following the group.
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- Explains that peer group influences affect children much earlier than researchers have suspected, according to a university of maryland-led study.
- Explains that the study appears in the may/june 2013 issue of child development, and is available online. the researchers call their work "group dynamics of childhood."
- Explains that the findings refute an older view that conflicts between group loyalty and fairness are not yet part of elementary-school aged children's everyday interactions.
- Explains that even at this early age, children show moral independence and will stand up to the group, but it is also a setting where the seeds of group prejudices can develop, if not checked.
- Explains that peer groups aid children's development by providing positive friendships, relationships, and social support. the downsides include the undue influence of a group when it imposes unfair standards, especially on outsiders.
- Explains that children may need help from adults when they face conflicts between loyalty to the group and fairness to outsiders.
- Explains that the researchers conducted extended interviews and surveys with representative groups of fourth- and eighth-graders from a mid-atlantic suburban area.
- Explains that children have a sense of fairness early on in life, but soon enough they belong to groups that sometimes want to do something unfair.
- Analyzes how children support members of their own groups that will tell the group to divide up resources equally, not unequally.
- Explains that children are more positive about a peer who advocated for equality than about doing something that reflected group identity such as the conventional act of wearing the club shirt.
- Concludes that children can apply their understanding of fairness to social groups, and recognize what makes group dynamics complex.
- Explains that killen and her team demonstrated the development of moral reasoning in young children, finding that they care about fairness, will help others solve conflicts even when they don't benefit directly, and spontaneously cooperate without rewards.
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- Analyzes how group peer pressure led george orwell to commit the inhumane killing of an elephant in lower burma.
- Analyzes how orwell felt a great deal of remorse over the killing of the elephant. the pressure he received from the crowd led him to conform to the villagers' desires.
- Analyzes how jonestown began when the reverend jim jones founded the peoples temple in california in 1965. his preaching stressed the need for racial equality and integration.
- Analyzes how jones brainwashed 900 members of the commune to commit mass suicide by drinking kool-aid spiked with cyanide.
- Explains that peer pressure is prevalent among high school students and plays a major role in teens' decisions regarding drugs, tobacco, alcohol, and sex.
- Explains that as a teenager, your child's task is to break from you and your influence and develop aseparate sense of self. friends become of utmost importance during this developmental stage.
- Argues that peer pressure plays an enormous role in everyday society. it creates huge and destructive problems and moral struggles as seen with orwell, the victims of jonestown, and the thousands of teens that fall prey to it.
1415 wordsRead More - What Is Peer Pressure Essayanalytical essayPeer Pressure: A Change in Perspective Alert! Alert! We 've all seen it on TV shows and in the movies: a good kid with a good home and a good family life, but questionable friends. Soon enough, the kid is going out every night smoking, doing drugs, and partying.
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- Describes the milgram experiment, which was designed to better understand how nazis were able to manipulate people during world war ii.
- Argues that peer pressure perpetuates many positive qualities within a number of social situations.
- Explains that peer pressure in school can be a good thing, causing some students to work harder and strive to match their peers.
- Argues that peer pressure is beneficial in social situations, increasing compassion and support for a cause. it depends more on who the peers are than the pressure that comes from them.
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