Articles by shayladenise

A group of friends

Wanting to drink

At a party

Past their curfew

Just to “fit in”

In 2008, 36% of car injuries were because of drunk driving. It was estimated that $261 million were spent of drunk driving injuries in 2008. 1,700 college students die from drunk driving each year (ages 18-24). About 599,000 are injured from being intoxicated. About 25% of students are having academic problems from drinking. About 696,000 students have been assaulted by a drunk driver. More than 150,000 students are having health problems. Plenty of issues happen from teenage drinking!

Drinking isn’t cool, so you better go to school!

-Rhyming

Who still drinks now days? Where they do that at?

-Sarcasm

Teens who drink… “Don’t Think”

-Tony “The Tiger”

Shayla? The goofy one? Yeah that’s her!

-Myself

A young man

Laying on the ground

In the middle of the sidewalk

At four am

Because he’s passed out drunk

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A mother

Sitting in silence

In her room

On a bright and sunny day

Because her daughter is in rehab for alcohol abuse

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A: Addict

L: Liver

C: Cry

O: Obsession

H: Hennessy

O: Overdose

L: Liquor

If the world seems like it’s ending, don’t turn to alcohol to solve your problems. It just causes more.

Tomorrow is always going to be a drag if stick to drinking every night.

My father had said once drinking is bad!

A good friend will understand your drinking problem and help you

Pressuring someone into using alcohol is not cool.

Jumping off a bridge is like drinking your life away.

Love will always solve your problems, not alcohol.

Genuine friendships are the key to staying above the influence.

The grass is not greener on the other side if alcohol is involved.

When you feel down and out, push harder until you can’t anymore, then go some more.

Picking friends is like putting the alcohol down when you’re addicted, it’s hard.

Being alone is not going to help your drinking problem, you always need someone there for you.

No matter what drinking isn’t cool.

Live life to the fullest but make sure you do it with no regrets.

A philosopher once said drinking is nasty.

The weatherman’s forecast states there’s going to be a storm in your life, but drinking isn’t the best way to get out of it.

Your future is in danger if you keep drinking.

If I were to chose alcohol to cure me, my family would be very disappointed

The media isn’t any help with trying to influence teens not to drink.

If I had an app it would hypnotize people to stop drinking.

A photo describes emotions of an alcoholic, drug addict, etc.

A mother’s love is always a better alternative to a drink.

A father’s love is also a better alternative to a drink.

The world could be a much safer place if people could control their liquor and be smart about drinking and driving.

Getting struck gives you a reality check on life, and shows you that alcohol isn’t the way.

Using an escape rope is like finding your way out of being an alcoholic.

There is no need for drinking, point blank.

If I could I would convince my family to help my great-aunt with her drinking problem, and not drink around her!

Dear Mr. President, can you only make drinking legal in the privacy of someone’s home.

Media influences alcohol by the different songs that are made. Such as the song “Bottoms Up” by Trey Songs ft. Nicki Minaj. The song contains lyrics about drinking all you can. The music is catchy, so all ages are going to listen to the song, which also gives teens the wrong idea. Alcohol is effected my age group because we like to try new things, and we are an troubled age group. If someone says that we shouldn’t do something, such as drink, we do it. So that’s why we’re effected by it. I live above the influence by not drinking, and being around people who won’t pressure me to drink. If the age limit was lowered, then a lot more dangerous things could be happening! Such as drunk driving, and more. The night life would be very dangerous, because younger people would be drinking, and acting like fools! Very scary!

Here are some of the questions that were asked:
1. How did you get to where you are now?

2. How much does it cost to make an advertisement?

3. How do you determine which star to choose for the advertisements?

4. Do you have to be interested in baseball to be where you are?

My experience at the stadium was fun, I learned about the building of stadium. With the president of marketing, I learned that you have to be interested and know what you are talking about when it comes to baseball in order to be in his position. We also walked around the stadium, learning and talking about the important suits/seats.

I think youth now days are smoking because either they have nothing else to do with their lives, and think its really cool, or they are being pressured to things they don’t want to do, and end up being addicted, or they are relieving stress. For some people it might be hard to stop because they are addicted, and their body is craving the nicotine. They also have chemicals in their brain, that are making them want to smoke something. For some other people, it might be that they’re stressed about smoking, and they can’t stop smoking because they are so stressed, then they start stressing about smoking because of the stress that they had before. So it just goes in this big cycle. I choose to be smoke free, because personally females smoking is not cute to me. I also don’t want to have yellow teeth, and smoking has too many risks of dying. Plus, my mom would kill me!! And I feel fine without smoking, I feel people don’t need to smoke to enjoy their lives…

This picture shows to be a model you have to be pretty with all this make up, and be skinny, cause that’s what they’re advertising on this magazine.

Abercrombie and Fitch are advertising that if you get their jeans, then you’ll have this perfect body, and have all the ladies drooling. Little do they know that this isn’t even what the actual person looks like. Its all photo-shopped.