Teens, Dating and Abstinence Video

Explain the importance of communication in a teen relationship.

• In the relationship, communication helps partners in the relationship to express his/her desires, needs, wants, concerns, and feelings. A lack of communication can result in unwanted sex, misunderstandings, a feeling of being used and could lead to things you don't want. Communication is important in a teen relationship as it sets boundaries in the relationship and allows you to have limits with what you don't and do feel comfortable with.

How does the media influence do to provide sexual stereotypes?

• The media provides many sexual stereotypes which teenagers are exposed to over countless amounts of times a year. It shows two people having steamy moments quite early in their relationship without considering contraceptives and the possible after-affects of sex. According to the video, this leads teenagers into thinking that physical interaction and sex is acceptable and is wanted by their partner; which actually very rarely the case.

Explain 4 wrong reasons to have sex?

• To impress someone or your partner
• Peer pressure
• Under the influence of drugs or alcohol
• If you have been going out for a while and your partner thinks it is "time"

Stress Tips

Choose 5 that you have used before from the 2 page handout.

1: Sleep or sit down on the chair 

2: Listen to music

3: Exercise

4: Laugh

5: Prioritize 

Choose 2 that you will try in the future

1: Talk to people that you are close with. 

2: Make a list of how to prioritize. It's easier for you to organize yourself in this way.

I-Statements

I-Statements 

1. I feel frustrated when you give us a lot of homework because I have to study for a test tomorrow. I would like you to reduce the amount of homework that you give us.

2. I feel grateful when you give me good grades because I feel accomplished and that pays off everything I've done. I would like you to keep continue to do this. 

3. I feel left out when you don't invite me to your birthday party because I'm one of your best friend and best friends 

Stress - Portrait of a Killer

1. EXPLAIN the relationship between stress and hierarchy

From the video we watched in class, we can to the conclusion that stress is more common for those who are lower in the hierarchy or who are in multiple hierarchies. From the experiment of the baboons in Africa, we could see that there was one dominant male who was extremely carefree and expected everyone to follow him; he could pick a fight with those weaker than him and there was more aggression in the overall group of baboons. After that disease killed all of the dominant males in the group and left only the weaker, smaller baboons it was clear that there were now low levels of aggression with no alpha males around meaning that there was no stress in the group anymore. Also, with the experiment of the 28,000 British social workers, it was stated that diseases were more common for lower ranked people in the hierarchy. The women social worker who had more power stated that she had never been ill and had to miss work before, whereas the male social worker who was lower ranked (ranked 7) said he had been ill and missed work almost half the time he had been working which was three years. With this, we can see whoever is 'dominant' has low stress hormones and are healthier compared to people who are submissive who have high stress hormones. 

2. DESCRIBE the relationship between stress and control

This relates to the first one with social status and stress. The more control you have ( the higher you are in the hierarchy), the less stress there is since you get more freedom to think for yourself and your life. The goal should not be to get rid of stress, but to find the right time and to have control. There are two main types of stress, acute and chronic. Acute stress is more of a 'good stress' like stimulation; whereas chronic stress destroys bodies, minds and lives, it is the never ending stress which is extremely difficult to get away from if even possible to overcome. With stress, control is not an option. You can't choose when to get stressed or not, it will just happen and you will have to deal with it. Researchers in the video stated that in society every person is included in multiple hierarchies meaning it is more common for us to get stressed. We need to find control in our hierarchies in order to become less stressed; if we are submissive, we feel more stressed, and need to find another hierarchy to be dominant in in order to ease the stress. Overall from the video I can conclude, we can't control how much stressed we become we can only try to avoid getting stressed by making ourselves feel more important in other things. 

 3. LIST the physical problems the 5 scientific studies have linked with stress.

• Depression
• Heart diseases
• High blood pressure/heart attack
• Poor judgement
• Aches and pains
• Diarrhea or constipation
• Frequent colds

A Letter to Mr.Chmelik

Dear Mr. Chmelik

Being the international school ISKL, is, we hold diverse culture and we are here to talk about the food waste that we have made in daily life. After we hold this interview for each student at our school, there are several people who thinks the food is too much for them and often throw it away to wrong trash cans. Our school has provided two types of bins for our food waste; normal trash can and food waste trash can. But still, there are people who have troubles throwing the food waste to the wrong bin or they don't even know if those trash cans are exist. But the rest of the school population have their lunch packed from home and bring them to school daily. These people find the canteen food not as delicious as the food they bring from home or find the portion of the food a bit too much/ too little so they decide to pack their own lunch with their own amount of food and etc.

There are three lenses of food waste; Economic, Social, and Environment. According to the person that we interviewed, he finds that the canteen food is too expensive, the portion of the food is too much for him, and also it's not as healthy as he thought it would be. Spending a lot of money on food can lead to the economic of the society and it's an advantage for the canteen owner but it's a disadvantage for him. In my case, I ,sometime, bring my food to school but I still find the canteen food really expensive and almost spend, at the very least, RM 15 per day, which is a lot of money to be spent on food. Some people, including myself, have troubles between spending more money on food or save it for the next day. On the other hand, the social impacts such as business can create positive social outcomes by donating unsold food to charities that support people in need. Donating food that we waste each day or limit your food portion to charities is an excellent wat to promote your business, enhancing your business reputation and keeping food waste out of landfill. Currently, charities only collect a small portion of the food that is potentially available and it's not enough to meet demand.

How often do you bring your lunch from home per week?

0	1	2	3	4	5
19	0	1	1	1	4

According to this table, a lot of people in our school buy their lunch from the school canteen, meaning that is it important for us to be providing food that people like, in order to prevent them from wasting it.

Why do we throw it away? too much? sucks? Not hungry?

Doesn't taste good	Not hungry	Too much
2	5	3

As seen in this table, one of the main problems is that there is too much food, which is causing them to waste. This issue can be easily solved, this should be taken to action. If they reduce the portion sizes around 30%, they should reduce the price too and with a more accurate system it’ll be easier for people to purchase the right amount of food. When people get meals that are more “personalized”, the chances of food waste are less. 

I think our main problem is wasting too much food. We would like to see campaigns being spread around, as it is clear that people are not aware of the problem that ISKL possesses. Students don't really care that these composting bins are even exist and some of them don't even know about it. Our idea to force people to use composting bins is to create bigger and brighter bins that get people to notice them. Currently they are little waste bins, which are half the size of the trash bins, and since they are in a dark grey color, they just sort of blend in. A fact of nature is that people are naturally lazy, and having to press on the petal to open the lid is a deal for many people. It would be easier to just have a brightly colored open-lid bin rather than a dark-grey color small bin. This way people will take notice, and hopefully start composting food like they should be.

As a conclusion, we believe that this is a huge problem in our school and we all think we should improve this. It disgusts me to see a lot of food to go waste but I think all of us feel strongly about trying to fix this issue. It is important to save food for people who really need it.

Thank you,

Sincerely,

Sarah Tarigan

Marijuana

Detail the arguments for and against Marijuana legalization   (10 marks)

Marijuana - the gate way drug

• It's a gateway to introduce other drugs such as heroine, cocaine, LSD and others
• There is a higher chance or risks of having high people driving, behaviors and others
• There is an increase risk of young kids to buying it
• More physical damages to the person
• Become more popular or widespread
• Cause legalization of other drugs as a chain effect
• Some people who are addicted can't stopped at times
• Cause more newcomers to try drugs

Marijuana - legalization

• It's not more harmful that alcohol/tobacco if used in moderation.
• Limiting drug usage is limiting personal freedom
• If you lower the prices, there is less problems with poverty and related crimes
• Medical benefits 
• There is fewer drug disputes on the streets
• There is fewer drug dealers
• FDA can monitor quality/safety of drugs.

Peer Pressure

Explain the 4 types of (peer) pressure and give 2 examples of each.

Indirect peer pressure happens when someone doesn't force in making you do something but indirectly encouraging you to.

• When everyone else around you is drinking/smoking/doing drugs and you feel pressured to join them and do the same thing, though they don't ask you or offer you any.
• When everyone else has an iPhone or Samsung while you have a Nokia or an older phone and society is indirectly pressuring you to advance and move along with times.

Friendly peer pressure happens when someone gives you pressure, not in a serious way and more likely to be in a friendly way but this happens on an everyday basis. 

• When your teachers pressure you to meet deadlines and do your homework.
• When your parents pressure you to get good grades or clean up your room.
• When your popular friends pressure you to join them drinking alcohol.

Teasing peer pressure happens when someone starts verbally/through action teasing you about something or someone. 

• When you get teased about not going out on weekends or drinking/smoking/drugs
• When you get called by names for not doing something.
• When one is teased of behaviors and is expected to conform and change.

Threatening peer pressure

• Non violent: It happens when you threaten someone but not using violence (such as: verbal threaten). Verbal threatening to someone, if there's someone who's doing drugs that threatens you in a way to push the drugs to you. For example; threatening to take something away from you if you don't follow his/her instructions.
• Violent: Threatening situations where violence plays a big role. For example, asking someone to buy you lunch or you'll beat them up later. Or for example, if you threaten to go hunt down one's siblings of relatives if they don't do something.