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in today's society over half of marriages are ending in divorce. an alarming rate of these divorces are due to the fact that people are getting married too young. when a girl is in her teenage years she is more vulnerable than she ever will be. so this is often leading them to believe that they are in love and that other person is the one that they are supposed to be with forever. well majority of the time they are very much wrong.
i think that marrying too young can be dangerous, not only physically but mentally. men who are also get married too young have no self confidence and this leads to being controlling of the girls and vice versa. being controlling can lead to abuse which is leading to divorce, if the woman is smart enough to get out. for example one of my best friends thought she was in love just because he was in the military so she waited for him, then left all of her family and friends to move states, got married, and is now no longer allowed to talk to any of us because he will get mad at her. the only reason she listens is because she is scared, scared he'll not only yell at her, but physically abuse her. also i had gone through the same incident over a year ago. me and this kid though we loved each other and got engaged. well after being together long enough i realized he was controlling my life and i was allowing it. i didn't hang out with friends, or do anything for myself. so even though i had to end it while he was over seas, it was a much needed thing, unless i wanted to move away, get married and live a miserable life.
these examples are only light compared to the other things that people have to go through. marrying too young can lead to danger and teenagers should really hold off on it. we have our whole lives to get married so why not just relax and live while you have the chance to do so.

the power of images

while using images in writing is a very powerful thing. images can be used for many different reasons. whether its to persuade, scare, shock, or influence.
images can be used for letting the reader know what the paper is going to be about. images can also be used for relating to something that is in the paper as well.
many writers will use images to scare their reader. and i don't mean just scare as in ghosts and goblins, even though they can be used for that. what i mean for example is a woman form the central Illinois area was arrested and did jail time for being addicted to meth. in the story about her they show a before and after picture of her from the use of drugs. writers will do this in order to scare people out of making the same mistakes that someone else once did.
writers will also use images that will go along with statistics they might have in their paper. sometimes these consist of pie charts, maps, and graph charts. some times they will use actual pictures to shock people like the bill board of drunk driving versus buzzed driving to show people that it is the same thing.
using images in your writing can play an important role for a paper. some examples of how writers use them are shown above. the use if images are used in many different ways and should be taken advantage of from all writers.

media and advertisement

I think that some of the stuff that the FCC has allowed to be on television is somewhat ridiculous. Almost all television shows have profanity, vulgarity, and show public displays of affection. I think that this is influencing the actions of young kids and teenagers.
The media publicizes just about everything now a days, anything from condoms, to profanity, and even Tiger Woods cheating on his wife. All of this is not needed to be published as frequent as it is. Because when it comes down to it no one really gives a crap one, and two there are bigger, more significant things in everyone’s life that we need to worry about.
Young kids and teenagers are influenced by everyone. Most of them also watch television most of their free time most of the time. So if they see a famous person or their role model on their favorite t.v. show smoking or having sex, then what do you think this influences them to do? Go out and do what they see is happening on that show.
I also do not think that it is necessary for every other commercial to be selling condoms or feminine products. Girls and women know about that stuff already and know where to buy it if they need it. Also by publicizing condoms it is not teaching people to be safe about sex but it is saying go out and do it, your okay as long as you use a condom, which really it is not okay to just go out and have sex.
Media sends mixed messages out to people so that they will buy products. I think that not only should commercials be more censored but also television shows.

expressions

There are many ways to express your feelings. I am not good at expressing how I feel. I am a person with a lot of opinions but majority of the time I am too nice to say how I really feel about people or things. I think that expressing feelings are an important way of writing. When someone expresses their self in their paper it sets the tone and lets the reader know that they are serious about what they are arguing. In my next paper I am going to talk about tanning and why I think it is not as bad as it seems. also in the paper I am going to talk about the new 10% tax law that Obama put in any tanning products that a person buys. I think that the best way to get my point across would be to argue my side and set my tone for the whole paper.
I also think that by expressing your views in a paper is really important. It’s always nice to have reliable sources but by showing how you feel about the subject can help people relate to what it is that you are talking about. I think that stuff like this is an important piece of writing.

Video Games

There have been many controversies lately about violent video games and whether or not they are bad for young kids and teenagers. Well I think that It does affect them, but it’s not just the video games fault it the parents. I think it is unhealthy for young kids and teenagers to just sit inside all day long. What happened to looking forward to summer so you can go ride your bike or building snow men in the winter? The perfect example is my younger step brother who is like 13 or 14. Every day he wakes up and plays video games, gets home from school and plays video games, stays up all night to play video games. The video games haven’t made him violent or anything which is good, but his vocabulary only consists of a few words, with “fuck” being number one. The rest are followed by other curse words. I never see him do homework and the last I knew he was failing a subject. But it’s not just because of the video games, but also because of the discipline that he doesn’t receive. His father lets him say and do what he wants when he wants and as far as I know his mom woks late and also comes home and plays video games. I think that there should be a distinct time to where there should be homework and chores done and another time for playing. It is unhealthy for kids to sit in front of a television or computer all day. It is impacting their learning abilities, and also it hurts their eyes. Also people always say that the youth is our future, so is this what our future is going to contain?

paper 1

This first paper was not as bad as I thought it was going to be. When I first started out it was hard to think of a topic. Once I started writing it didn’t take long because I think it is easier to just get it all done with at one time instead of stopping and having to continue with it later. I really like how we get to pick any topic we like because I think it’s easier to write about things I am interested in rather than be given a topic to write about. I also think that the endorsement groups are helpful because I feel like they pick up the pieces in order to make the papers better and I like how they catch little things that may have been missed. I am also glad I got it over with before spring break so that way I didn’t have to work on it while I was on vacation. I think that the writing criteria was pretty easy for it and I think that the worst paper will be the one where it has to be formatted as an editorial.

lifes better blonde

every one knows the classic joke... "why do blonde's" or "how many blondes." well the truth is blondes are not any more dumb than any other color of hair. the only reason that people think so is because of these jokes that people made up. and the only reason blondes are good at playing the part is because they are allowed to and can get away with it easier. this is because if people already think that a blonde is dumb and make fun of them for it then they will step in and act dumb when truthfully they re not really dumb.
i know a lot of people who are blonde and majority of them do act dumb and act like they don't have any common sense. but usually they do.
also a lot of times if they do make a mistake or say or do something dumb they blame it on their hair color because they are allowed to because many people see them as being dumb anyways.
really though, people who have blonde hair are not any dumber or smarter than a person with brown, red or black hair. how smart you are does not come from what color hair you have, but how well you may apply yourself. so the next time you think about telling a blonde joke, think again, because the joke may be on you.