Essay 11

Essay 11:

Problems For Teenagers

An Essay by Inpyo Hong

8^th Grade English

Pine Point School

April 06, 2011

           Recently, problems for teenagers are regarded as significant issues on all of the world’s seven continents. One of the major predicaments of adolescents, who study in a foreign country, is “major depressive disorder” - the extreme depression that occurs when someone feels deserted. According to a research, approximately forty percent of the United States’ international students - the students came from Korea, are in this disorder. This is hazardous because some of them may decide to suicide due to the feeling of being deserted. For example, the president of Samsung’s daughter - one of the wealthiest international students, was in major depressive disorder; she did not have a friend in the United States nor in Korea, and suicide because she felt abandoned from Korean and American society. Increasing drug uses and smoking of teenagers are malicious dilemmas. Even though drug uses and smoking are prohibited to teenagers in every country, there are numerous youngsters who break these laws. For instance, one of my friends at different school uses the drugs - the illegal drugs that make a person hyper, and got a disease that may malfunction his tongue. In addition, Korean parents and teachers’ punishment to their teenagers is considered as an obstacle for the Korean teenagers. In Korea, it is legal to give a teenager a physical punishment - spanking a youngster’s hands or butt with a stick such as a stick of wood. Most of the young children, who were physically disciplined, often tend to be hostile, defiant, and aggressive socially. Thus, major depressive disorder, drug uses and smoking, and physical punishment are the three major quandaries that are regarded as the important problems for teenagers. / Thus, the problems for teenagers are debatable issues that may astound a society.

           Not only do other teenagers have problems, but I also have obstacles in my life. Recently, I am not doing well in academics - the subjects such as English, History, and Science. I need to receive better grades in those subjects to register for high schools that I want to attend. However, even though I try my best to do better in the subjects, I do not get satisfying grades that I expect to get. When I was at Rectory School - the school that I attended before I transferred to Pine Point School, I always received grades of an “A” and “B” in every subject; on the other hand, it is arduous to get such grades at Pine Point. In addition, one of the reasons that cause this dilemma is because I go to bed late. If someone is born in Korea, the one must be trained to go to bed late because numerous Korean students study until the midnight comes. They stay up to study until they feel extremely tired from studying; and I was also trained by Korean students’ traditional and cultural habit. However, this malicious habit does not allow me to go to be before eleven o’ clock, and this affects being awake during the classes at school. Therefore, I confront these obstacles like other teenagers face their predicaments.