Madison Gregory
English 101
Editorial Essay
September 28, 2015
Peer Pressure
Fifty-one percent of teens thought that peer pressure has positively affected their lives, according to Survelum Public Data Bank survey. Peer pressure materializes when a student's actions are influenced by the people around them. It is human nature to listen to what a friends tells another to do and follow the crowd. Even though peer pressure is usually condemned for having a negative influence on younger people, peer pressure can also have positive effects because it can encourage teenagers to give up bad habits, adopt good habits, and strengthen morals.
Peer pressure can assist a person in giving up bad habits and inappropriate activities. This is especially accurate when talking about rehabilitation clinics or mental hospitals because of people residing in a place with positive surroundings to reduce the number of problems a patient could be facing. Another example of this is when someone tries to encourage a younger person to “just say no” to drugs and alcohol. When a large group of kids follow this advice, an individual would be less likely to try drugs or alcohol in order to not stand out among his or her peers.
Just as easily as peer pressure helps diminish bad habits, good habits can be made. When friends are made, whether good or bad, people seem to mimic a few of their new friend’s personality traits. If the friends made have positive traits or habits, then it is more likely for a person to imitate these behaviors. An example would be having a friend who is straight “A” student. That friend would more than likely spend free time studying or doing homework, so that person in turn would be more likely to imitate these behaviors and make better grades doing so. Peers might also push a person to get out of his or her box to try something new, like participating a school play or trying a new sport.
Not only does peer pressure help with choices, it will strengthen morals. Each time a person makes a decision that person has to choose whether or not the choice they can make is morally correct or not. When influenced, that person must decide to stand on his or her beliefs or succumb to the influence of another. Being pressured will cause a person to look upon him or herself and decide where that stand on many subjects, in turn helping that person become more mature and develop.
Not only when influenced to do something, but when a person is attempting to persuade another person to do something they should look at how the other person stand on that topic before influencing a person to do something they would not be okay with doing. For the fifty-one percent of teens who have said peer pressure has positively affected them, they have proven against the stereotype that peer pressure is a negative influence on younger people, considering peer pressure has also shown these positive effects: encouraging teenagers to give up bad habits, adopting good habits, and strengthening morals.
English 101
Editorial Essay
September 28, 2015
Peer Pressure
Fifty-one percent of teens thought that peer pressure has positively affected their lives, according to Survelum Public Data Bank survey. Peer pressure materializes when a student's actions are influenced by the people around them. It is human nature to listen to what a friends tells another to do and follow the crowd. Even though peer pressure is usually condemned for having a negative influence on younger people, peer pressure can also have positive effects because it can encourage teenagers to give up bad habits, adopt good habits, and strengthen morals.
Peer pressure can assist a person in giving up bad habits and inappropriate activities. This is especially accurate when talking about rehabilitation clinics or mental hospitals because of people residing in a place with positive surroundings to reduce the number of problems a patient could be facing. Another example of this is when someone tries to encourage a younger person to “just say no” to drugs and alcohol. When a large group of kids follow this advice, an individual would be less likely to try drugs or alcohol in order to not stand out among his or her peers.
Just as easily as peer pressure helps diminish bad habits, good habits can be made. When friends are made, whether good or bad, people seem to mimic a few of their new friend’s personality traits. If the friends made have positive traits or habits, then it is more likely for a person to imitate these behaviors. An example would be having a friend who is straight “A” student. That friend would more than likely spend free time studying or doing homework, so that person in turn would be more likely to imitate these behaviors and make better grades doing so. Peers might also push a person to get out of his or her box to try something new, like participating a school play or trying a new sport.
Not only does peer pressure help with choices, it will strengthen morals. Each time a person makes a decision that person has to choose whether or not the choice they can make is morally correct or not. When influenced, that person must decide to stand on his or her beliefs or succumb to the influence of another. Being pressured will cause a person to look upon him or herself and decide where that stand on many subjects, in turn helping that person become more mature and develop.
Not only when influenced to do something, but when a person is attempting to persuade another person to do something they should look at how the other person stand on that topic before influencing a person to do something they would not be okay with doing. For the fifty-one percent of teens who have said peer pressure has positively affected them, they have proven against the stereotype that peer pressure is a negative influence on younger people, considering peer pressure has also shown these positive effects: encouraging teenagers to give up bad habits, adopting good habits, and strengthening morals.