Month: March 2015

We teenagers are just misunderstood. Is it really too much to ask for to be loved and appreciated?

Not everyone knows what teenagers are going through and what their feelings are. Of course adults went through what we are going through, but that was a long time ago and they may have forgotten how they behaved and acted in their teenage years. By judging us, adults are saying they were never moody during their years, although they may have not started riots and vandalised. For these reasons I feel it is unfair for adults to judge us in a negative way.

Not all teenagers are lazy slobs. Most teenagers go out with their friends and do a range of activities. Many of us enjoy participating in sports, football being the main one. With teenagers hanging out with friends there is no way we can be labelled as lazy slobs.

Lazy, disobedient and anti-social are just some of the long list of infuriating stereotypes that wrongly describe teenagers. I’m not sure what it is that makes the rest of society despise ALL of us, not just the small few that ruin it for the rest of us.

Nothing makes me angrier than when I see how the media portrays teens in this way. Do YOU the public know why we teens sleep so often? We teenagers are constantly given such high expectations and are always being pressured to be the best that we can be. Skipping sleep may be harmful to you, particularly if you are driving, you are prone to be involved in a car accident. Teenagers are really the ones who need more sleep out of adutls and people younger than us. After having school, homework, tests, personal problems and things we do in our own time, you can not blame us for wanting to sleep for most of the time.

Us teenagers are going to be world leaders, Presidents and Prime Ministers, we need all the sleep we can get to reach the highest of our potential. You can look bad and feel moody.

I’m sure we would all appreciate it if school had started an hour later than usual. Our sleep patterns are also dictated by the light and our hormones. This hormone that is released is melatonin. Eight to ten hours of sleep will make us operate at our best.

Not all of us teens are bad, some maybe are, but that doesnt mean that through the whole of our teenage life we should be discriminated against because of our age. There are many teenagers that are 19 or on the verge 20 that are very successful and who can be an inspiration people older or younger.

Tom Wagg, a 15 year old boy who was doing his work experience at Keele University made an amazing discovery when he had least expected it. He found the planet 1,000 lightyears away. He is thought to be the youngest person to discover a planet. He was studying data of stars in the Milky Way when he discovered it. This shows teenagers can do amazing things. If a group of teens do a bad thing, all teens are criticized, whereas if a group of teens do a good thing, only this small group are praised.

Why we should praise teenagers:

1. Teenagers are more likely to do voluntary work. In fact, they are ten times more likely to be volunteering in their community than regularly be anti-social in them.
2. More teenagers than ever are staying at school after the age of 16 to study and further their education.
3. Despite the blame of most of crime being blamed on us teenagers, its is the teenagers that are mainly the victims of crime.

In conclusion, I believe that the good in most of teenagers is overlooked by a small minority of teenaers that actually are bad. I believe that we teenagers that are good, young and decent people, should not be associated with the teenagers that are bad. It is extremely unfair that adults can judge us although they behaved the same as us at one point.

‘We are running a system that works for the yobs, we want a system that works for decent people.’ Exaggeration is the language technique here because it says that all youth are yobs when there are some decent people.

‘Families on the Tranmere and Rock Ferry Boundary have flooded the authorities with complaints about gangs terrorising their streets.’ In this quotation there are two noticeable language techniques that are against youth. The first technique is exaggeration which appeared in the last quote. Where it says ‘Rock Ferry Boundary have flooded the authorities’. There is not only one, but two language techniques in this short phrase. There is both exaggeration and a metaphore here. The metaphor is where it says that people flooded authorities with complaints about the youth. It is a metaphor because complaints cannot actually flood anything. The word flood has connotations to everything happening all at once.

Hooligans

Violent

Ruthless

How newspapers depict teenagers.

Hello, my name is Joseph Deutrom and welcome to my schools opening evening. I will speak for a short while then you will be taken on a tour around the school by some of the very few students who volunteered to be a prefect. Once your tour has finished there will be application forms in the reception to collect.

What  you will find when your child  comes to this school is that your son will  make amazing progress in all subjects improving by one sub-level each year between Year 7-11. That is if you don’t decide to kill yourself by Year 9. If you do join the school you will be expected to join the Sixth form (Year 12 and 13) which has a modern looking common room which is much different to the rest of the school that looks like a WW2 boarding school. It also has a ridiculously expensive vending machine which is very reliable. It works only 10 percent on the time.

The LSC, otherwise known is referral is a place  where students are sent after bad behaviour. Students say they much prefer it to normal lessons as there is silence, class work and incredibly fast WiFi.

The chairs that the school has got are best suited for the school and most of them break after leaning on them a few times. Despite nearly going out of business, the school has a great budget and we are always welcome to buying things to make the school better. Infact the D.T department are still struggling to take two boys to Nandos after winning a competition when they were in Year 8, they are now in upper sixth form.

Due to the schools great budget the students and staff are provided with the most nutritious and healthy meals even though not one student or teacher has an attendance of 50% or higher. They all say they have come down with food poisining and the fingers are all pointed at me.

The classrooms in this school are amazing. They all have a great atmosphere and are alot of fun, for the students. I am told alot that paper balls are thrown around and that teachers get locked outside of their classrooms, but I know they are just joking and the teacher doesn’t mind, despite being brought to tears.

Thank you for listening, you will now be taken by a prefect 15 people per prefect. Also sorry for making you sit on the floor, we’re running a bit low on chairs.