Saturday Climbing
By: Tajvinder Singh
Throughout the years different generations experience different challenges, what today youths face might not be that of what tomorrow’s generation faces. Some of these challenges today youths faces that previous generations wouldn’t be too concerned with are appearances, technology advancement, drug influences , and finally exposure to sexual content at young ages.
The first challenge today youths face is appearance, or other words how we look. Even though past generation deal with this, they did not have the media constantly telling an individual what’s wrong with their body and how they should look. An example of this would be men; from being kids to adults they are constantly told by the media you need six pack, big arms and chest in order to be a man or attract girls. From being little kids they give action figures of their favourite heroes but all these action figures are made muscular so at a young age it is encrypted in their head to be like their heroes they need to look like them. Men aren’t the only ones dealing with this struggle women also face the challenge of what the media tells them they should look like. Women also get the idea of a slim figure is a good figure from a young age because like men they are given their favourite toy but with a slim figure, this makes some girls think they need to grow to be like the doll. This type of obsession with being skinny can be deadly because women begin to have eating disorders and some women might be completely anorexic but all they keep seeing the mirror is a fat girl. This obsession of wanting to look like how the media tells us leaves some teens wanting to get plastic surgery just to enhance their natural beauty because of self esteem issues caused by the media.
By: Tajvinder Singh
Throughout the years different generations experience different challenges, what today youths face might not be that of what tomorrow’s generation faces. Some of these challenges today youths faces that previous generations wouldn’t be too concerned with are appearances, technology advancement, drug influences , and finally exposure to sexual content at young ages.
The first challenge today youths face is appearance, or other words how we look. Even though past generation deal with this, they did not have the media constantly telling an individual what’s wrong with their body and how they should look. An example of this would be men; from being kids to adults they are constantly told by the media you need six pack, big arms and chest in order to be a man or attract girls. From being little kids they give action figures of their favourite heroes but all these action figures are made muscular so at a young age it is encrypted in their head to be like their heroes they need to look like them. Men aren’t the only ones dealing with this struggle women also face the challenge of what the media tells them they should look like. Women also get the idea of a slim figure is a good figure from a young age because like men they are given their favourite toy but with a slim figure, this makes some girls think they need to grow to be like the doll. This type of obsession with being skinny can be deadly because women begin to have eating disorders and some women might be completely anorexic but all they keep seeing the mirror is a fat girl. This obsession of wanting to look like how the media tells us leaves some teens wanting to get plastic surgery just to enhance their natural beauty because of self esteem issues caused by the media.
The second challenge today youths face that previous generations did not have too much concern for is technology advancement. Even though technology advancement can be great for advancements in the medical career or any other career, today youths completely rely on technology for everything. An example of this would be a calculator, 30-40 years ago you couldn’t use a portable calculator to solve equations in math class but now you can. This attachment to using a calculator for every math problem has left some high school students in grade 10 who don’t know their own times table! They can’t even do simple multiplications and soon as a math tests comes and their calculator breaks they completely shut down and fail the test because they didn’t have to do these math problems in their head before. Another example of how technology has left some challenges for youths to face are computers , we are so use to writing essays on the computer where the writing program checks the spelling and grammar for you. When it comes to an English exam we have no clue what to check for or how to even use our own dictionaries because we never really had to.
The third challenge youths face today is the exposure to drugs has increased , kids as little as 12 start smoking weed , or start drinking. In our parents generations you wouldn’t find songs talking about smoking weed and drinking as a thing that makes you cool. The three main themes of popular songs today is either love, drugs, and sex this is a problem because little kids listen to these songs and when they hear doing drugs is alright or makes them cool they might consider experimenting with them. At ages 11-16 kids are very impressionable and might just do them to fit in especially , for example when I was in middle school people I knew would start drinking just because they think it made them cool. Finally another problem youths face is sex , this is a problem because kids as small as 12 years old are getting pregnant , you would never hear about this in your parents generation. The fact that at this generation we aren’t surprise shows that kids are exposed to sexual themes at a young age. Kids might see it on tv or on the internet the fact is parents can’t control what their kids watch 24/7 . Also these kids think its alright to get pregnant at 12 or 11 year olds they think they can take of a baby and it will be like taking care of a doll they saw on tv. The truth is they can’t , they can’t even make themselves breakfast in the morning but they think they can take care of another human being.
Yo Taj, i thought you made some very strong statements concerning calculators, drugs, and a persons physical appearance. I agree that our generation has become more reliant on certain things such as calculators and we are also faced with more challenges now more than ever with drugs. The media has become more influencing than before and thus we shape our lives that way. Great formatting and even better evidence to show proof for your statements.
ReplyDeleteThe blog adresses the prompt very well. The point of the blog is established clearly, it provides greatcontext, provides room for response but it doesn't refer to the text enough. Your post was great, I enjoyed reading it and I appreciated teh fact that many of your ideas were not fresh, not overdone. Please keep blogging.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you are saying about appearances, technology advancement, drug influences , and finally exposure to sexual content at young ages, and also have some strong statements in your journal.
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