Teen activism is when a young person, usually under the age of 25, takes charge for a topic. A common example of a teen activist is Malala Yousafzai. Malala is a teen activist because she defied the Taliban and demanded that girls get an education she is also an activist because she set up the Malala Fund which helps girls get an education. Another example of a teen activist would be Alex Lin who has helped to reduce 300,000 pounds of e-waste by convincing the Rhode Island state legislature to ban dumping electronics. A teen activist has to be willing to …show more content…
Here is one reason I think that everyone should help beat depression. Did you know that every thirty seconds someone commits suicide because of depression. To put that into another view that’s 2,880 lives taken each day or 1,051,200 lives taken each year. I think that the worse part of that is that depression doesn’t kill you like cancer might, depression makes you miserable until you are likely to take your own life by yourself. Depression is not the murderer in that case it is just inching you along trying to convince you to kill yourself. Because of depression. I believe that someone should never feel the need to voluntarily cut their life short. There is no magical pill to take, or a magical drink to make your depression just go away. The only known cure for depression is just to talk to a psychologist or psychiatrist. This is one I think that everyone should band together to help stop this awful life-taking