The Pressures Of Today's Youth
Beginning of paper
Many young people in this day and age are tying to look act, and
overall seem older. Youths face many dilemmas in their trek to adulthood
yet, they still try to obtain adulthood earlier by going through the
"proper" rites of passage. These rites create dilemmas which can help or
hinder lifetime ....
Middle of paper
.... yourself for
anyone to respect you. Both essay's rely on self respect to relate to the
rites of passage in today's society.
Peer pressure is a very major dilemma in that friends or peers try
to get a person to do what they, the majority, like and not what the
individual likes. Peers create some of the so-called rites, then when
one follows more start to follow, then it becomes the scenario of the
lemmings following their leader off of the face of a cliff.
Some teens think that drink ....
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Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
