Late Night Energizer?

Late night after late night I often find myself having to force my eyes open so that I can finish up with homework and studying. There are millions of teenagers across the united states who go through the exact same process multiple times a week; sacrificing everything so that they can pass well through high school. Many different methods have been used lately so that students are able to stay awake into these late hours of the night and many of them prove unhealthy. One of the most dangerous are the Caffeine Tablets, which provide an extra burst of energy to the pill taker. However, there are very dangerous side effects to taking drugs like this.

There are many other methods to getting energy at these awkward times of the day. My favorite would have to be the popular energy drinks that are highly advertised to work on everyone. Even though I am quite doubtful of these drinks actually working I still continue drink them because of the taste. I don’t understand how there is proof that AMP works to energize people when there are no natural products in it. Really I am unaware of the real risks that I am exposed to from drinking such beverages. The energy drink companies tend to avoid advertising the bad effects of energy drinks and focus more on the flavors and sparks of energy that they provide.

The many different flavors that the AMP Company has developed in the past year have gathered larger numbers of drinkers who have since become almost addicted. Now some parents have begun to keep energy drinks like this away from their children because of the problems that they can cause. It is true that these drinks provide energy but the problem is that they only come in short bursts. They can wake you up for an hour but then during the next hour you will have an even harder time trying to stay awake. The drinks are only temporary relievers and still they have continued to grow even more popular.

With less homework to do I would be able to go to bed at an earlier time, but I know that the limits I am pushed towards will only get worse as I get closer to college life. I don’t support the ideas of using drugs to relieve low alertness, but I can not exactly diss on the energy drinks since I am a trendy user. These beverages still are popular in my hands and I am learning to accept the responsibility of taking care of the problems that could occur from this in the future.

The Desire To Belong

While attending high school for four straight years, the personalities of many different teenagers change in order to satisfy not only their own beliefs, but also the opinions of others. I remember my high school principal telling me at the 9^th grade orientation to write down the names of my two best friends. She then said to check and see if those people are still your friends by the time that you graduate. This ended up being completely true for me; my once best friend and I never speak anymore, and neither of us feel the need to do so. This is just one of the stories of how people change while they are in high school.

Cliques are often discouraged in high school, but they still seem to appear quite often in many different forms. There are even names given to each of these groups that are then used to classify individuals through various situations. You might call someone Emo because they are friends with someone who has a boyfriend who dresses in an emo-like fashion. This is completely stereotyping someone and it happens everyday to almost everyone in every high school across the world. Even though these criticisms are often taught to be avoided by teachers and parents, the problem continues to persist year after year.

Sometimes people are put down by these clicks and it can lead them to feel worthless and unimportant to the rest of the world. Of course some people feel so terrible that they end up killing themselves so that they can relieve the pain that they feel from the abuse. Others chose to confront the other students; either through extreme violence, language, or possibly even murder. It makes me sad to hear the stories about school shootings because this is the place where they usually start. After the young man was treated like crap from a certain group of people he might chose to bring a gun to school; killing his teachers, a couple of the students, and then eventually himself. All of the shootings seem to arise from a situation just like this one.

Teenagers now have the deep desire to belong to one of these clicks, or important groups of people. They begin to depend on these same people, all while forgetting about the old friends that they used to have. Sometimes this desire ends in deadly consequences and can ruin the lives of these normal teenagers. If we could just be friends with everyone we would never have to worry about a problem such as this one. The problem actually has continued to get worse and there is a deep need to stop the abuse and desire of teenagers to belong to one specific group of people.

Two Questions

I am finding it quite hard to start talking about this graphic essay, for some reason or another. Maybe because these types of writing are so new to me or maybe because I don’t completely understand exactly what I read. I am not sure. Again I found this essay a quite interesting one in fact. The entire idea of using pictures and words together to form a cohesive piece of informational writing is really beginning to interest me as I read more examples. You can add a lot of humor and different points of view through essays like this all by simply adding a picture and a speaking bubble. That was probably the best part to this essay, entitled Two Questions.

Many of the pictures in this essay were not very well drawn but they still had a very strong prevalence to the entire essay. It seems like there was always the main story highlighted in each section by a box, which contained the author’s views and narrative. Then surrounding the main idea and interconnected with the pictures was extra tidbits of information, including describing words, opinions, and simple connotations. This is a different form of writing and then a very different form of reading an essay for me and many of the other students in my class.

Overall, I thought that this essay was very weirdly written. Again it is probably because I am not used to reading graphic essays and paying attention to their tone. The tone seems to be less formal so that it can be referred to many different types of people. The style of the essay is much less organized and even less formally written. The sentences were not always complete and the ideas from the author seemed to be jumping around from one part of the picture to another. There were words that are considered severe slang words but there actually fit the perspective of the essay. This graphic essay was an insight to another type of essay writing.

I wonder what the possibilities are for producing graphic essays because the only two that I have read included information on the idea itself. They were both simply graphic essays that discussed information regarding graphic essays. Are there limits for this type of essay? How do you start in creating a graphic essay when you have never been expected to write one in the past? How do you incorporate different ideas and visual aspects into a graphic essay without being able to have done it already in the past? These are just a few of the many questions that I have regarding graphic essays. If I have to write one in a couple of weeks I am guessing that I will find myself confused and stressed out. I should start now on learning more about them.

All For The One You Love

“Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em”. This common expression relates well to the problematic issue of long distance relationships, because when your relationship is put through this particular test, its time to decide which of these opposing statements applies to you the most. Every year, millions of teenagers leave their significant other behind, while going away to college. Sometimes they travel 30 miles, 100 miles, or sometimes even 1,000 miles. Either way, they are around a new crowd, with new friends, and knowing that their boyfriend or girlfriend is alone back home. Trust and listening are the key factors in making it through a long distance relationship.

Trust is one thing that will be talked about a lot over the next year or two while the lovers are apart. It will be a topic of discussion almost every week, if not every day. I believe if two people are willing to maintain their strong commitment throughout this what seems to be long time period. They are going to have to learn to trust, and accept many situations that they were not forced to accept before. Such as weekends, of course a college student is going to want to go out with his or her friends that weekend, as well as the high school student. However, one may disagree with the other one going out, and that is just how easy an argument appears unexpected out of thin air.

If a person in the relationship gets back from class, and wants to talk about how they had a bad day, the other person really needs to listen, otherwise the person that had the bad day will find someone else to talk to, and may even begin to get close to this person. Therefore, you should always be willing to talk, and listen whenever a problem occurs, even if you’re not a factor in the problem, or are unable to provide a solution to the problem.

Long distance relationships can be best separated into three categories: remaining faithful, dating loosely to see what happens, or breaking off the relationship altogether. Whichever category is chosen depends largely on which stage of the relationship you are at. Most couples remain faithful until about the third or fourth month into long distance relationships. Dating loosely may come after faithfulness, however, usually beginning once the person has moved away. Finally, breaking up can come at any point in the relationship from the moment information is given about the plan to move away, until the very last day the person comes back from home.

Although long-distance relationships are often hard to cope with, many couples endure the struggles and survive their time apart. This distance only makes the people stronger in the end, and even though they hate the entire process, many are thankful for it eventually. Teenagers have to deal with relationships all throughout high school, but college is much different. It is important to pick your partner carefully, and to try in any way possible to protect, care, and love that person, so that you can avoid ever losing them in the future.