Essays on Growing Up

In the US the push for “family planning” as sex education is sometimes known began in the 1960s with federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Initially, the objective was to prevent teenage pregnancies and the spread of venereal diseases but other groups saw that sex education provided “an exciting opportunity to develop new norms” as one educator said (qtd. in Sowell 171). Feminists, for example, viewed Sex Ed as “a tool of empowerment” which would “help envision a society where women…

Family is unequivocally a critical part of what it means to be human. As social animals, each and every one of us is heavily influenced by not only our culture, but more importantly the people we have come to know and love throughout our lives: our family. Family is defined as “a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together; all such people (including related subfamily members)…

This is a unique way to describe the process of maturing. Jem matures greatly throughout the course of the Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird. He grows up but never fully leaves childhood behind. This is shown in the book on page 166 when the trial he is not sure if they will win or not but once his dad makes it obvious that Bob Ewell did it he is sure (Lee 166). He does not completely know why,…

Rodriguez writes Hunger of Memory to share an experience readers can understand,and be educated by growing up as a minority. Rodriguez organizes his book in sections that focus on the different experiences in his life that affected him the most. In chapter 1, Rodriguez focuses on his early years of boyhood,and being a bilingual child “I was reminded by Spanish of my separateness from los otros,los gringos in power” and how “Spanish seemed to me the language of home”(pg 14).…

Being a teen is complicated and confusing your grow into a young adult. trying to fit in and please everyone is what being a teen is about. Learning who you are and what you want to be is probably the hardest thing about growing up. You have more decisions you can make on your own decisions and pick right from wrong, 33.2 percent of high school seniors still report drinking alcohol . Teens go through obesity, 20 percent of teens…

In 'Sorting Laundry' by Elisavietta Ritchie, a woman uses the action of folding laundry to compare to her relationship, each piece she talked about represented an aspect of her relationship. In the beginning the reader compares “folding clothes” to folding someone “into [their] life”. By the exaggeration having to fold someone into their life. The reader is learning how to mix her present life with her new partner. Another example of an hyperbole is when the authors talks about the…