Model Introductions
by H. Schneider
The interesting thing about American’s is that we are all proud to live in America, but what makes America such a good country to be a part of. Is it our freedoms, our economy, or just simply the way we can live our everyday lives anyway we wish. In the 60’s young women were involved in our democracy much more. They paved the way for our generation by protesting and letting our government know what they expected of them. For example in the book Click, Jennifer Baumgardner author of “One Is Silver and The Other’s Gold” says, “…in the 60’s abortion was illegal and contraception was illegal.” It is important that we as women have the right to choose what we do with our bodies and when we want to have children. What she is trying to say here is that the young women in the 60’s did what was needed for today’s young women to have the privileges we have. If it wasn’t legal to use birth control or have abortions many young women would be in danger. In the past women went to people that weren’t qualified to perform abortions and many women died as a result. If contraception and abortion were illegal today this would put today’s young women at risk again. If our young people don’t wake up and get involved we will lose everything women worked for. Today’s youth are less involved and don’t understand why it is so important to be involved in our democratic process, which is why I will explore why our generation is so cynical about our electoral process and why it is important to get our generation educated about the officials we vote for, and explain how it is affecting our everyday lives by not voting.
by P. Elifrits
The freshman class is lined up ready to go out the door, today they are going on a field trip. The dress code was to be slacks and a nice shirt. He stands in line excited and kind of perturbed, they have been waiting for fifteen minutes for the teachers to get their shit together so they can get on the bus. He thinks to himself, “I hope this shirt is ok, the one mom laid out for me didn’t fit.” “Oh shit, here comes Mr. Ryan; please let him pass me, today, please.” “Mr. Black, You are out,” says Mr. Ryan, “I said slacks and a nice shirt and you will not be going.” Everyone starts to laugh and he walks silently back to the classroom. Unfortunately, for this child this was the last injustice he will endure. He goes to his favorite fishing spot that evening puts his gun to his head and pulls the trigger. Sadly, we are losing eighty percent of our youth report thoughts or behaviors leading to this tragedy, it is called suicide.
Model Incorporation of Outside Resources
by C. Ascheman
From the time we are little children, we are told that we can do anything and be anything we want to be. However, as we get older we find this is not always the truth since not everyone can be a vet due to allergies, a tightrope walker because they are terrified of heights, or a homemaker because they never find the right one for them. According to Jean Twenge, author of "Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled - and More Miserable Than Ever Before" more and more young people are being medicated because it seems to be to normal way to treat depression. Twenge states, "In one 1990's study, twenty-one% of teens age fifteen to seventeen had already experienced major depression." (105) Because of the high divorce rates, failed relationships, and difficulty finding jobs there is a time in almost everyone's life when they will probably have some sort of anxiety or depression. It is harder for college students to get into college and even when they do get in, there is no guarantee that they can find a job in the field they want. Once they finally graduate and find a job, there is the anxiety of trying to find a home and actually being able to afford it without working two jobs. The cost of everything is rising and making it more difficult for anyone to plan his or her life out. Most are just working themselves day and night to pay their bills every month and have nothing left over; which is a very depressing thing for anyone to do. The only entertainment most people have now are going to the movies and watching TV, however, "Characters on TV shows and in movies rarely have boring jobs working for corporations, building houses, or working a cash register. Yet these are the jobs most young people with grow up to have." (Twenge, 130) Most teens are lucky to find a job anywhere in the summer now. Most adults have to take these jobs at McDonalds or Burger King in order to pay their bills, so it makes it more difficult for teens to have their own money and have any fun; this can also lead to depression.
Model Description
by R. Hanson
In 1950 African American Linda Brown was 7 years old and walked about a mile to her bus stop, through a train switch station every morning in Topeka, Kansas to attend third grade at her all black school. This seemed ridiculous to her father Oliver Brown because there was another school just seven blocks away. However, the closer school only allowed white students to attend. Oliver and thirteen other parents attempted to enroll their children into the white school so their children would not have to walk so far, and because they felt that their school was not treated fairly due to their color. They did not have current textbooks, enough school supplies, and classrooms were overcrowded. When the parents tried to enroll their children they were turned down and told that they had to go to one of the four black schools in the city. These parents were not going to settle for this, so they went to the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), who filed a lawsuit against the Topeka Board of Education. Oliver Brown was the first parent listed in the lawsuit, so the case was named Brown vs. Board of Education.
Brown vs. Board was lost at the state level, due to the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson, which allowed separate but equal schools for blacks and whites. The NAACP would not leave it at that, so on October 1, 1951 they appealed the case to the Supreme Court. At that point similar cases from South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware were also at the Supreme Court and it was decided to merge them all into Brown vs. Board of Education to be fought as one. On December 9, 1952 the case was held and lasted three days. A year after the first arguments were heard, the Supreme Court heard the case again. After three years, on May 17, 1954 the nine justices ruled anonymously in favor of Linda Brown, and all other children like her. The Supreme Court decided it was not fair to separate black and white children into separate schools.
Model Analysis
by A. Knorr
Contraceptive use has become a big issue in the past years. Due to sexually active teens not keeping the same partner for a period of time, it is important to teach the use of a contraceptive. Most teens who are sexually active report that they use contraceptives most of the time. However this leaves these teens very vulnerable to getting a sexually transmitted disease or getting pregnant. Even oral contraceptive use isn’t going to keep young girls from getting pregnant, it might lower the chances but it still leaves them vulnerable to sexually transmitted diseases. Some teens do not know that when you are on certain types of antibiotics your birth control won’t work. Thus showing teens getting more education about sex prepares them more for what could happen. “Like adults, many teenagers do not carefully and consistently use contraceptives, thereby exposing themselves to risks of pregnancy or STDs. For example, among 15- to 19-year-old girls relying upon oral contraceptives at their main contraceptive, only 70% took a pill every day…. Only 28% used a condom every time they had sex” (Kirby 146). If you do not use oral contraceptives regularly and consistently they will not work. This is how some teens do end up getting pregnant then they continue to use the pill until they find out they are pregnant, and this could harm the baby. Also if you don’t take the pill consistently then it can mess up your menstruation process, or make you miss a period then you don’t know you are pregnant.
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