Essays on Growing Up

Growing up can mean many different things to people. You could have a different perspective on when to ¨grow up¨ than another person. Personally, I’ve had to grow up faster than most people my age because of past experiences that involved me needing to be…

“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you know, the more places you’ll go” – Dr. Seuss. So, how I learned to read and write? Reading has always been important to me even though it has not always…

For many years, growing up with a single parent children has been viewed as different. Being raised by only one parent seems impossible to many. The problem lies in the difference between children raised by single parents versus children raised by both a mother and…

I chose this topic because it seemed interesting to me because im one of those kids and I don’t think it affected me much but im hoping to find out whether it affects others in some way and if it does I want to find…

Without the role of a strong, loving and supportive father figure in the house it can break a family and cause significant damage to the child mentally and cause a lap in many areas of their life. There are very instances where families flourish and…

Eight years ago a family was traveling to San Francisco with not a worry in sight. The car swerved left to right before losing control and flipping over three times. When all was said and done a father had never returned to his family. It…

Family is the first and probably the closest connection we all have since we were born. Forming a complete family requires both parents and children to help each other in finances and to be there for each other whenever they are in need. Unfortunately, not…

For teenagers, the aging process, that is the human experience of growing older, is important. The theme in Sandra Cisneros’ novel The House on Mango Street is coming of age/ growing up. And how Chicago represented in the novel’s setting is problematic for the coming…

In many people’s lives, there is something, someone, or somewhere that helps make them learn who they are.¨The Namesake ̈ is a book by Jhumpa Lahiri which is about a boy named Gogol Ganguli born in America to two Indian immigrants as parents, throughout the…

Montana’s land runs from the Rocky Mountains and the Continental Divide in the western part of the state to rolling plains in the eastern part of the state. Two-thirds of Montana is in the Great Plains. Montana’s beautiful landscape includes forests, prairies, highlands, and valleys….

There comes a time in a person’s life when they realize they are no longer an adolescent, but an adult. Events in life become more evident and situations are more reoccurring. Characters in the following short stories have their own life experiences to coming of…

Aging Effect Kotler & Keller, (2009) discuss that age often determines what type of food, clothes, music and recreational activities consumers like. Mode of purchase among teenagers, youth and aged respondents is dominantly individual. Among the middle aged the practice of purchasing with spouse is…

The Journey to Adulthood Teens usually have mixed emotions about growing up and maturing into an adult. Some are excited and others are afraid or even anxious about their future. Either way, however, we all know that this stage of development can be difficult. In…

Growing up is complex, especially in a society with different cultural background. This is the major issue the novel Looking for Alibrandi discusses. A realistic view through the eyes of a seventeen-year old Italian girl, Josephine is presented. Josephine s like many teenagers that have…

The Garden Party: Laura’s Interrupted Journey to Womanhood The short story ‘The Garden Party’, was penned by Katherine Mason, a burgeoning short story writer from New Zealand, and the story was first published in 1922 in “The Garden Party and Other Stories.” This short story…