Research Galore!

As time has gone on, I have continued to research on my topic, knowing that I will soon receive the final assignment and due date. I was having a little bit of a problem deciding what to do with the two different topics that I wanted to connect but I am working on that today. I would love getting to talk about both teenage sex and eating disorders but there just is not a very prominent connection between the two of them. It seems like the more I search on teenage sex, the more interesting information I find that is really easy to relate to. For this reason I am going to write my research paper on the initial influences that increase teenage sex and the results of these cases. There is a lot of information that I feel no one my age has even heard of so I would write the paper in order to inform my peers about the influences our bodies receive regarding sexual acts. I want to learn myself and teach others through this process.

There are a lot of points that I would like to cover in my research paper. One that I found very interesting is the findings that suggest raunchy lyrics increase the likelihood of teenagers engaging in sexual intercourse. I want to talk about this study and about the results that were discovered because I think that I could provide really good information for other teenagers. One really interesting fact was that teenagers who listen to sexually explicit lyrics are twice as likely to have sex within the following two years. This is definitely some serious stuff here.

I also would like to discuss how sexually active teenagers are affected because of their actions. You can refer to this by talking about depression rates and suicide attempts. I found a really good site that talked about the differences between sexually active teens and non-active ones in reference to how many had became depressed or had attempted suicide. This is valuable information and I don’t think that many people realize how much sex can impact our lives. We worry about pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections but fail to think about the lesser symptoms that can result.

A third section that I would like to talk about is some basic facts about teenage sex rates. These numbers have been increasing rapidly over the past years and I think that these little facts would be able to tie into the story easily. Many of these facts are not known to very many teenagers and I feel that they are important. There are many different advertisements that increase sex rates and the outcomes that can result. Contraceptives are becoming more useful, but there are still some teenagers who avoid them. This then results in increasing rates of pregnancy and STD’s among the teenage generations.

There are still some other aspects that I would like to include in my paper but I still need to do some more research on them. I want to talk about popular advertisements for clothing that encourage sex, such as Abercrombie & Finch and Dolce & Gabbana. These are very popular name brand clothing stores for teenagers and these ads do have an effect on the people looking at them. I think that this topic could create a really nice research paper and I think that I will be able to learn a lot about myself through the process.

Lose 30 Pounds Today!

Oh yes of course by reading this I will be informing you on the quickest and most up to date method in losing your next thirty pounds. Yeah right, I am seriously just kidding. The problem is that many people would turn towards such a headline like this. Our society has grown to depend on the marketing of products and the inventions of new and better ideas. Words such as instantly and fast try to persuade us even more that these new diet tips will help slim down our bodies.

One of many problems involved with this is the fact that most of these methods simply do not work at all. The health problems and side effects end up causing more harm than the innocent obese people believe is possible. These fast programs are really just ridding you of your muscles which then slow down the process of burning fat calories into energy later on. An even more surprising health problem that can happen is the slowing of your metabolism. These so called amazing diet plans simply are making your later years even harder by making our bodies believe that we are constantly starving ourselves.

Another huge roadblock to these diets is that many of them simply base their entire plan off the idea that you need to stop eating when you are full. This is almost impossible. It is human nature to eat food when they are bored, lonely, or stressed out, and a diet cannot stop that. However, we still go and follow these links and advertisements. Continuously Americans and other people around the world have grown to believe that the only pretty people are the skinny ones. This is so not true.

There are few diet programs that simply limit the entire plan to eating healthy food. We must eat healthy, exercise frequently, and obtain from excess alcohol and drug abuse. All of these factors are oblivious to many Americans but we still don’t find our obesity rate dropping one measly percent. I wonder now what will happen in the future to these same Americans.

Negatively our future adults are growing up in a generation that is completely surrounded by the news of celebrities and stars. We tend to believe that they are always right and that they are the ones who are the most beautiful. This affects our opinion on how we look; it completely ruins our once positive self concept. Now we need to look past these catchy headlines and hyperlinks; we need to look towards the future and the generations that will be affected by our actions today. Diet plans are supposed to be healthy but in the gist of it they are nothing even close to that idea.

Death Count

Recently I have been wondering how much people in the United States really care about the war that their men and women are fighting over in the Middle East. Sure we all think about it once or twice a year, on 9/11 and the war anniversary, but do we really pay attention to what is happening over there? Just recently the death toll for the United States soldiers has reached a high number of 4,000 lives. That is 4,000 families affected, thousands of friends impacted, and millions of Americans citizens concerned.

As the presidential election is nearing, I feel like I am constantly bombarded with speeches by the aspiring candidates and their stance on the war. There is no way that anyone can say that they enjoy being in the war, so really why is it that big of a deal? The one thing that differs between each of the candidates is their choice of when they will remove the troops from the Middle East. These are simply terrible lies. First of all these future presidents will not physically walk into Iraq and pull out each soldier individually. They don’t have the power to do so and their Congress would never be able to control it.

I wonder how much this talking gets to the Americans across the country. Don’t we realize that each day Americans are dying, all while fighting for us? When I read the statistic on reaching the big 4,000 American deaths, it came as a huge surprise to me. Yet I get completely annoyed hearing about the Iraqi government and their leaders, I would enjoy hearing more about the individuals who are fighting for me. These men and women are heroes and their achievements are hardly near prevalent.

The influences that the American citizens receive from our world news stations don’t always seem to be very colloquial either. I have not felt invited to participate in a Support the Troops project and I don’t believe that many people have. Though many of us support the people in the war, almost no one supports the war itself. I question how many lives we are going to filter through before something serious is done about ending the war. The number of deaths is only increasing and on this rate we will be down 100,000 citizens in just a few years. Something needs to be fixed.

I feel like I hear more about pointless celebrities than I do about the war our country is fighting in. Of course the war is much more important, but then why do we still hear only about Jessica Simpson and her new boyfriend? Living in a controversial world, we still argue on entering the war in the first place. However, that does not make the situation completely wrong. Now that is has started and we have lost so many lives, we can not back out from it, we must now support the troops even more. I would like to try doing my part better in the future. I have realized that the war will be happening for many more years and that there is simply nothing left to do but work hard on getting us out of it quick.