Essays Tagged: "young adults"

Romeo and Juliet Persuasive Essay. Which is better, the book or the movie?

ROMEO AND JULIET PERSUASIVE ESSAYRomeo and Juliet is a play about tow young adults that fall in love with each other. The only thing that is holding these tow lovers back ...

(1 pages) 67 0 4.3 Nov/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

Drug Testing in Schools

ople stop complaining and start testing. One of the largest areas ofdrug use is among teenagers and young adults. This can be the first place to takeeffect for a drug free environment. A mandatory dru ... facility, it can be aprime place for drug selling and contributing. Many highschool students are tooyoung to really understand just how harmful these habits can become and that it hasgot to stop one w ...

(2 pages) 152 0 4.1 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Death of the Superstars

ke him! Anyway, it was called something like, 'They Have a Great Band There!' It was a story of two young adults driving along a country road, the young man driving was obviously lost but wouldn't adm ... d the counter of the local pub that they were in looked a lot like John Lennon. They also noted the young lady singing in the corner looked and sounded incredibly like Janice Joplin. The book or shoul ...

(5 pages) 101 0 4.6 Mar/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Smoking

er, the percentage of women who smoke cigarettesincreased. Smoking also became more prevalent among young adults, with about 29 percent of highschool seniors admitting to smoking in 1975; but by 1987 ...

(1 pages) 52 0 3.7 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Mumps

glands, on one or both sides of the jaw, swells. Mumps usually occurs in school age children, but young adults may catch the disease. Everyone born before1957 has already had mumps. After one atta ...

(1 pages) 38 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

AIDS

can Republic, Kenya, Rwanda, Thailand, Uganda, theUnited States, and Zambia.Illness and death among young adults due to HIV have reached suchproportions in some countries that overall national economi ...

(1 pages) 56 0 3.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Treating Diabetes with Transplanted Cells

Seventy-five years ago the type of diabetes that affected children and young adults was lethal. In the 1990's investigators found that a hormone, that was produced in Isle ...

(5 pages) 66 0 3.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

A simple essay on multiple sclerosis.

iods of exacerbation and remissions.The crippling disease is a major cause of chronic disability in young adults. It usually becomes symptomatic between the ages of twenty and forty with twenty-seven ...

(2 pages) 76 2 3.7 May/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

"Jackaroo" by Cynthia Voigt. Gwyn Versus Tad

en during this time period, they had certain standards in which they were to follow developing into young adults. From their transition into adulthood, Gwyn and Tad went through considerable changes. ... Gwyn and desire for the Inn were predominantly the reasons for Tad growing up and becoming a mature young adult. Tad started out as a lazy, irresponsible brat. He was only ten years old, but he acted ...

(5 pages) 25 0 3.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"The Catcher in the Rye" by Salinger. The first novels written with young adults in mind

The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, is one of the first novels written with young adults in mind, though it is a classic within mature reading circles. It is written in first-p ...

(6 pages) 78 0 3.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Drinking and Driving and what you can try to do to stop your friends from drinking,

e increasing instead of decreasing. Outright denying teens of alcohol doesn't work. That just makes young adults want alcohol even more. What's sad about drinking under the influence cases is that eve ...

(2 pages) 128 0 3.0 Jun/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Simple essay on Multiple Sclerosis

iods of exacerbation and remissions.The crippling disease is a major cause of chronic disability in young adults. It usually becomes symptomatic between the ages of twenty and forty with twenty-seven ...

(2 pages) 75 0 4.5 Jun/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Legal drinking age - 21 For Everyone?

d by many of our peers?The opposition may say that the higher drinking age discourage teenagers and young adults from consuming alcohol. They say the laws that force merchants to refuse to sell alcoho ... ition also believes that the laws against underage consumption of alcoholic beverages will dissuade young people from drinking alcohol.The laws that prohibit merchants from selling alcohol to persons ...

(3 pages) 154 0 4.3 Feb/1995

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Diabetes

ust take daily insulin injections to survive. This form of diabetes usually develops in children or young adults, but can happen at any age. In Type II diabetes, the body produces insulin, but not eno ...

(3 pages) 161 1 3.7 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Lowering the drinking age

death, but cannot buy and consume alcoholic beverages legally? It is hard for me to comprehend as a young American that we can be permitted or subjected to perform actions that affect the lives of oth ... olves one's own life. By setting the standard drinking age at 21, a taboo was placed on alcohol for young people. Perhaps by settling the standard drinking age to 18 young adults would no longer see a ...

(4 pages) 269 1 4.1 Oct/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Genetics

gs of mainly Caucasian Americans,but affects about 'one in 2000 people- in all, 30,000 children and youngadults in America.' The research was started in 1990 by a group ofscientists , who discovered t ...

(2 pages) 48 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Uniforms: An Idea That Just Doesn't Fit -- An essay refuting mandatory school uniforms.

.Everyone knows that school uniforms can be extremely expensive, and we furthermore understand that young adults and especially students are not made of money. The initial cost of a uniform requires a ...

(3 pages) 219 4 3.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

"The S.A.T's: A Fair Fight?". This paper argues against using the S.A.T's as a "standardized" test of your I.Q capacity.

ht?-------------------------------------------------------College is the aspiration of thousands of young adults everywhere. In today's modern society, you cannot typically excel in life without it. T ... ard GPA. Here I see a related issue with today's higher education debasing itself. We are taught as young children, "why worry about your grades, when you can get through life with sports." This is wh ...

(4 pages) 149 2 4.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

This is an essay about abortion. It is well researched and has many good points. This is an excellant paper

ven oppose, her rights as an American.Certainly today's society needs to clean up it's act. In most young adults, good morals aren't commonly used. But they do use their common sense. Young adults are ...

(5 pages) 225 3 4.4 Jan/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

This is a paper I did for debating. It argues about about coke and other soft drinks, their affects and the need for kids to consume.

foods that provide vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients).Regular soft drinks provide youths and young adults with immense amounts of sugar and calories. Both regular and diet sodas affect American ... instead of an occasional treat, as they were treated several decades ago.Moreover, many of today's younger parents grew up with soft drinks, see their routine consumption as normal, and so make littl ...

(5 pages) 122 1 4.3 Jan/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine