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Quitay Morris Jake N.
Professor Rafie Paz
ENGL 1013
July 29 2013
Why are Teenagers so Lazy Today? The youth is the hope of the nation. That is the sentence that defines what the teenagers’ worth to the country is. We are supposed to change what the country is now. But the question is . . . Can we? From what I observed is happening now, instead of being the country’s biggest hope, we seem to be one of its burdens. There’s pre-marital sex, prostitution, juvenile delinquencies, and the list goes on and on. However, one of the biggest problems our teenagers are facing is . . . laziness. I, myself, as a teenager, admit that. And we all know that laziness is not an illness. Now what are the reasons why teenagers today are lazy? According to Sara Broers from her article Why are teens so lazy today?, one of the reasons why teens are “the advancements that have been made in our world of technology.” While according to Kathryn Hatter in her article Why are Teenagers Lazy?, “one common behavior that afflicts many adolescent is a lack of motivation”. Although both of their reasons are related, they refer to two different causes of laziness in teens.
1. According to Sara Broers “Our teens do struggle with pulling themselves off of the couch just as much as teens did twenty years ago,” said Broers. But in today’s world, there is much more to keep them sitting. Looking back twenty years ago, teenagers like us only had television to keep them sitting on their seats. But today, more and more types of technology improvements are happening. Now, we have our cell phones, computers, video gaming system and the internet. “Many say that teens have taken laziness to a whole new level due to our increasing use of technology.” 2. According to Kathryn Hatter Aside from the technologies that really helped in making our teenagers become lazy, there are also other reasons. From Kathryn Hatter’s article, lack of motivation is one of the reasons why. “While some
Professor Rafie Paz
ENGL 1013
July 29 2013
Why are Teenagers so Lazy Today? The youth is the hope of the nation. That is the sentence that defines what the teenagers’ worth to the country is. We are supposed to change what the country is now. But the question is . . . Can we? From what I observed is happening now, instead of being the country’s biggest hope, we seem to be one of its burdens. There’s pre-marital sex, prostitution, juvenile delinquencies, and the list goes on and on. However, one of the biggest problems our teenagers are facing is . . . laziness. I, myself, as a teenager, admit that. And we all know that laziness is not an illness. Now what are the reasons why teenagers today are lazy? According to Sara Broers from her article Why are teens so lazy today?, one of the reasons why teens are “the advancements that have been made in our world of technology.” While according to Kathryn Hatter in her article Why are Teenagers Lazy?, “one common behavior that afflicts many adolescent is a lack of motivation”. Although both of their reasons are related, they refer to two different causes of laziness in teens.
1. According to Sara Broers “Our teens do struggle with pulling themselves off of the couch just as much as teens did twenty years ago,” said Broers. But in today’s world, there is much more to keep them sitting. Looking back twenty years ago, teenagers like us only had television to keep them sitting on their seats. But today, more and more types of technology improvements are happening. Now, we have our cell phones, computers, video gaming system and the internet. “Many say that teens have taken laziness to a whole new level due to our increasing use of technology.” 2. According to Kathryn Hatter Aside from the technologies that really helped in making our teenagers become lazy, there are also other reasons. From Kathryn Hatter’s article, lack of motivation is one of the reasons why. “While some