As soon as I’m old enough
Класс: 10 А
Учитель: Ратанова Е.Ф.
2014 г.
The problems of teenagers
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Youth is the time when a person is trying to find his place in the world. And during this
search he or she comes across different problems which are as important as those of the
adults.
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The youth of the 21st
century face almost the
same problems which were
acute to their parents when
they were young. One of
them is a generation gap.
Every generation is unique
in its experience. It has its
own ideals and a system of
values concerning every
aspect of human life. Adults
always complain that the
young people do not blindly
accept the ideals of their
parents. And this is
inevitable as different
generations take different
directions. Grown-ups
always teach the young
how to live. But the latter
want to live their own life.
And it generates the
conflict of the generations.
• Another problem of the youth is the
problem of love. Young people fall in
love when they reach the age of
Romeo and Juliet. Romanticism and
idealism very often accompany the love
of the young. It is regrettable, but the
young are not always ready to have
stable relations. For a happy family life
two people must understand and
respect each other.
• It should be said, that the young
have other problems as well. They
are concerned with education
(which is rather expensive), money,
employment, hobby, spending, their
free time, communication and the
like. And of course, one of the most
urgent problems is the
accommodations problem. Not
many young people in our country
have their own apartments. In the
main, they share the apartments
with their parents even after getting
married. As far as I know, many
young Americans do not live with
their families. They prefer to live in
apartment blocks or residential
areas where everyone is more or
less of the same age.
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One more problem should be
stressed. It’s the problem of
the youth unemployment. The
number of young people
looking for job is constantly
increasing. They are looking
for job not only for the sake of
earning money, but because
they want to be independent
from their parents. Job gives
the young people a chance to
adjust themselves to the real
life of adults and stir their
ambitions. School-leavers can
be part-time workers, seasonal
workers and so on. In general,
their job is not welcomed. Very
often preference is given to
adult people. We think that our
government should work out
some social employment
programmers.
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Our young people can be considered only a
part of our society. So just the same problems
our society is facing nowadays, are typical of
the young people. They are drug-taking,
alcohol, smoking, prostitution, hi-jacking,
murders, stealing, kid-napping, robberies and
the like. Young people are more violent then
ever. Many people say that their lives have
been made miserable by young people out on
the street late at night. All those groups or
subcultures are awful, because all of their
members are violent. They only think about
rebellion against society, its laws, they reject
everything, they protest against their parents
and school.
• If you don’t like noisy clubs and
other places of entertainment,
you can make friends without
leaving your apartment. The
Internet gives such an
opportunity. But the problem is
that people can sit at the
displays for 24 hours without
eating, sleeping, having a rest,
working or learning properly. I
am sure, that it’s a great
problem of the present and
future.
The End =))
Thank you for your attention=)