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 Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 12:50 am
lol. Library. You forget, I live in a rural area. Screw going to the nearest library, that would take like an hour on bike.
I suck at driving. sad Haha.
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:08 am
I live in SoCal. There's no such thing as a rural area.
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:12 am
SoCal? Southern California?
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:19 am
Hai
easiest place to be homeless
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:31 am
Sucks. sad I really feel for those who have nowhere to turn.
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:33 am
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:40 am
All right, I'm gonna go to bed.
Gotta wake up early tomorow...Er..today...
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:43 am
lol.
I'll be up, writing the script to this video I'm making.
For the teens! Woohoo!
I'll post it up here once I'm done my rough draft. I doubt I will be able to fit all of this in, in 4 minutes, but what the hell.
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:15 am
So, here goes, tell me how yea think. It's pretty obvious to me without anyone saying that its a tad too long. Suggestions of what to cut would be helpful. Even though all the links to where I got the info isn't up on this rough draft right now, I have cited all the places I got information from. The Troubled Teen (rough draft) Your teen years; a time in your life when you are discovering who you are, and defining it as you go along, like writing a book.
During this period, usually, you are at a point where you no longer see things in black and white. Symbolism becomes important.
Not only just variables in algebra. But in what we do, how we act, what we wear. That defines us at this stage.
As well, kids might try to place themselves amongst others in a group that have similiar lifestyles. As well, it is common to see kids place other kids into the groups themselves, at least on the subconscious level.
It's called labelling. We've all seen it before. The terms jock, punk, goth, nerd, druggies, many others.
Even if you yourself don't do this kind of labeling, you usually make a map in your mind of who hangs out with who, and what those groups of people do.
Teens strive to be accepted, and appreciated.
A very rare few suffer from eating disorders brought on by continuously unfairly judging their own appearance. Disorders like anorexia, where people strive to be thin, and in doing so erode their body's willingness to eat.
And bulimia, where people will eat, and then force themselves to binge out the food later. Bulimia also entails over-exercising and following unhealthy diets. While bulimics usually are around normal weight, the disorder gradually wears them down.
Of the total number of those with eating disorders, 33% are ages 11-15, and 43% are ages 16-20, says ANAD. 20% of those with serious disorders die from them.
Juggling around school, sports, a job, family issues, friend issues; it can be quite the stressful. Often, but not always, kids start to drift away from their family at this time.
It's a jungle out there. Wants and needs might cross into each other, making it difficult to sort out priorities. It's not all bad though; you are given many oppurtunities at this stage of your life.
School isn't all that glamourous either. It's a system. You could put a lot of effort into a project, and end up with a lower grade than someone else who did the same work because of the way you walked into the classroom that day.
Adults become irrationally suspicious of the age group in general. For example, take the case where 11 year-olds, 7 girls and 3 boys, were strip-searched down the the underwear because a girl had lost $10 and the school officials thought it might have been one of the kids. That is taking theory a little too far. In the end, it turns out, a teacher ended up taking the cash.
Great. (August '05 http://www.zerointelligence.net/archives/000506.php)
That is only one example of what goes on. The Zero Tolerance guidelines have gotten many kids arrested for idiotic reasons.
And that stays on their record. Way to ruin a kid's life, congradulations.
It's true, teachers often stereotype as well. It comes naturally,: its one of the many ways a teacher handles the stresses of teaching in a classroom. There are often loopholes in the work one must do as well.
Some kids honestly rather have nothing to do with school, nor people. While the way teens act is considered natural, some find it arrogant, stupid. Some teens find it stupid how others can blindly label them without knowing them. Some might have given up on those around them altogether.
It doesn't make it any easier when the way these kids walk into a classroom depicts their grade, when they honestly don't want to be there.
Getting out of bed might be considered a hassle. Some wonder why they go to school at all. Some lose faith in the system, and lose motivation. To do anything.
In ways, it is injustice. Highschool can often seem like it does more harm than good, and yet you need to go to school to make it anywhere in life.
When parents seem to be a world away, or not even worth going to for advice, and when the stress builds up, it comes to a point where even the little things people say can infuriate you. True, this isn't how it is usually is. But...
Some might crack. And do something violent, that countless kids and those connected to them would regret. Sometimes even to themselves.
Officials are quick to blame violence on video games and TV. This is all a patented lie. Truthfully, these past few years, where reporting teenage crime has been the lowest, also seems to be the period in which violent games flourished. Refer to the graphs, straight from the Bureau of Justice:
http://gr.bolt.com/articles/violence/doj_chart_1.gif
http://gr.bolt.com/articles/violence/doj_chart_3.gif
"..., this does not necessarily mean violent media has created aggressive people. It is more likely that aggressive people are attracted to violent media. Blaming violent media would be like going to the Opera, noticing that most people there are rich, and concluding that opera makes people rich. (Classical opera, by the way, is chock full of lust, incest, murder,
suicide, and revenge.) " - Duke Ferris, Game Revolution (dot com)
There are many reasons why a kid might crack and do the unthinkable. Reasons no one cared to look at.
It isn't a pretty world out there, that is for sure. If people get anything out of this video, I would want it to be a more enlightened idea of what life is like for a teen, and what might be going through their heads at any given point.
As well, I would like if adults loosened the chain a little bit, and stop asuming we're all a bunch of "bad kids". That is to say, try having an intelligent conversation with teens, instead of harping on them. I also strongly advise teens to do the same.
Kids can learn much from their elders, just for the mere amount of years they have been living on earth longer. Trust me, you wont regret having a conversation now and then with your old folks, or vice versa for the adults reading this.
So there you have it, my take on "The Troubled Teen". Thank you. Took maybe 2 hours... Hurm...
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:26 am
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 2:28 am
My eyes are twitching and are hurting, so I'm hitting the sacks. Please read and comment on my script, folks. It would be appreciated. smile
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:41 am
i will in a minute- i have so much to read
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:48 am
thats intense man
love the stats- they always work well in speeches
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:05 am
Wonderful! Wonderful!
-claps-
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:07 am
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