Essays on Peer Pressure

Peers are basically the people of your age or close to it who have experiences and interests similar to yours. Peers form an integral part of our life. As we become more independent, our peers naturally play a greater role in your life. Peer pressure is the influence on people by peers, or the effect on an individual who gets encouraged to follow their peers by changing their attitudes, values or behaviours to conform to those of the influencing group or individual. It's natural for people to ...

Sometimes in our lives we are tempted to follow others. Usually these people tend to be either stronger or more popular than we are. In schools today, most students fall under the influence of peer pressure. Peer pressure is when "friends" persuade you to doing something that you do not want to do. But maybe you want to do it, and you just don't have the courage to do it and your friends talk you into it. Peer Pressure can be broken down into two areas: good peer pressure, and bad peer ...

We have all seen the scene in movies: friends gathered at the bar having a good old time drinking with each other. Yet the scenes that play out in movies are completely different from the true groups that gather down at the local pub. You can see groups of people who would never be compatible unless there was alcohol involved, or you can see the lonely guy at the bar just hoping he can something with a heartbeat to talk to him. While not every person who sits down at the bar will be greeted ...

“It’s just one toke, smoke it! Are you a wimp?! Prove how cool you say you are, you baby” What would you do? Would you smoke the cigarette, prove how “cool” you are? In today’s society, many teens are placed in situations where they are left with the choice of being looked at like the loser of the group or making an inadequate decision to be accepted due to peer pressure. There are two types of peer pressure, the positive peer pressure and the negative peer pressure. However, in today’s ...

We can’t deny the fact that as a student we experience the scenario when our teacher are checking the attendance and there is always one to two person who is always missing and when your teacher ask why this person is missing we always answered “I don’t know ma’am” then scratch the back of our head because we really don’t know the reason or “as usual ma’am I am not surprise anymore” like it is a normal scenario. And when this particular student attends classes we are celebrating like it is ...

One of the biggest challenge that the world, my country and my local community faces is the challenge of ‘Quality Education'. I believe that there is a lack of funding for education in my locality, my nation and the whole world which leads to poor people not being able to get access to education. Secondly, there is a lack of supply of trained and quality teachers. There are lot of challenges in the path of overcoming the challenge of ‘Quality Education'. All the problems mentioned are causing ...

Imagine yourself in a cramped room. Encircled by friends, one a voice shouts, "Drink, drink!", another joins in, then another. Within seconds, amid the deafening chant, you give in and feel the burning bitterness crawl down your throat as you drink the shot of vodka.This is the textbook example of peer pressure, when one is influenced to take certain actions, or adopt certain beliefs, in order to blend in with a larger group. There is no doubt that everyone has experienced peer pressure of ...