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CAUSES OF STRESS TO TEENAGERS

Stress affects teenagers almost every day. Many feel stressed-out when they have a test, job, or too many activities. It can even be caused from something as small as riding a roller coaster. Goals and challenges are the main cause because they are thought to be hard to complete. Stress is a well-known trigger for depression and can also affect physical health. It is important to identify the causes of stress in a teenager's life and try to minimize them. Stress, no matter if it is small or big, occurs in teenagers' lives today.

Stress is the uncomfortable feeling of having pressure and it can be caused from many events. The main causes of stress in a teenager's life come from school, work, activities, friends, and family. There are two forms that it comes in. The first form is called acute stress, which lasts for a short period of time. This can be caused from missing the bus, fighting with a friend, or giving a speech in school. Another kind of stress is chronic stress, which is long-term stress. Examples include repeated struggle in school, illness/disability, or an illogical fear (heights, bugs, etc). Most teenagers begin with acute stress and then gradually feel overwhelmed, which develops into chronic stress.

The causes of stress come with both internal and external effects. It depends on the person, but the internal effects include anxiety, irritability, and nervousness. External effects include breathing faster, sweating, muscles tensing, dry mouth, keener senses, and lack of energy, headaches, and sickness. A stressed person tends to have trouble paying attention and have trouble recalling facts. A person who is ambitious or a perfectionist gains stress more often. All of this can cause a person to get into fights and lose friends.

There is a process in the body that takes place when stress occurs. First, a hormone called epinephrine combines with adrenaline, which causes an "adrenaline rush". The hormones and chemicals cause the body to increase blood pressure and heart rate. These responses prepare the body to deal with and recover from a physical attack. The body also suppresses the production of other chemicals to help increase protective responses. If the brain never puts its guard down, it develops chronic stress. The ability to sleep is the first to go. These effects occur if it's real of imagined; it's what we perceive. Suicide and depression can occur. Other serious effects are high blood pressure, reflux disease, asthma, ulcers, and migraines.

Every day teenagers face situations that can be stressful, which can develop when the teenager matures into an adult. Finding strategies to avoid and control stress are beneficial so that the person can mix a happy life with work. To become stress-free, the person has to change their thoughts, attitudes, feelings, communication, response, and circumstances. Physically, teenagers must eat healthy, get enough sleep (around eight to nine hours), and exercise. Teenagers should remember to keep ideas into perspective and be optimistic. Surrounding themselves with good friends, a good level of activities, and enough time to get school work done is essential.
Each day stress builds up in a teenager's life, which can be negative as this carries into their adulthood. Once the brain understands that danger is gone, all of the symptoms of stress are gone. Sadly, some do not realize that the danger is gone, which can develop into serious problems. Most teenagers suffer from stress and need to learn how to manage their stress in order to grow healthy in the ever-changing, stressful world. 

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Social problem

Social problems among youth is a increasingly worrying phenomenon that we have to face in our daily basis. Social problems such as drug abuse, student misconduct, promiscuity and baby abortion are so widespreadly happen and rapidly growing.Just look at the newspaper nowadays.There are always the same story about social issues among teenager.

      There are many factors that cause social problems. One of the factor is family crisis.It cause the social control on children neglected. Parents who often argued would not be able to nurture and educating children their properly. This situation become worser when there is some parents who busy with the task at office until they ignore their responsibilities to watch over the behavior of their children.As a result, there are children who run away from home, socialize with troublesome friend, and from there all of the social problem that mention above will begin.

       Beside that, social problems are also caused by the influence of mass media. In this age of rapidly expanding technology, teenagers are exposed to negative influences through the Internet and many other channels so that their minds are easily poisoned by the negative elements of mass media. In addition, the claims of modernization has also put pressure on those who want the freedom to escape from the shackles of the family and demanded the rights of individuals causing the youth to reject the authority of parents to control their behavior.

        Social problems are also associated with deterioration of discipline in schools.Due to the school does not impose strict against students who violate discipline, then the students dared to do something that should not be done by a student, such as smoking,skipping class and fighting. This behavior will taken along by them when they leave school later. They will be more bold to do things that in will eventually contribute to the spread of social problems such as smoking, abuse drugs, sexual promiscuity,gangsterism and so forth.

       To reduce social problems, parents should educate and inculcate moral values ​​and religious teachings perfectly to their children so that their children will be a morally and honorable teenager. Parents need to understand the problems of their children and make their children as friends and not foes. Besides the family members of adult brother or sister should be helping their parents in monitoring and controlling their kids from doing an act that can contribute to social problems.

      At school, the students have their teacher to control them from social ills. Teachers need to closely engage all students and understanding their problems. Teachers should be aware and be open and try to give encouragement to their students and this will open up space for students to discuss and share the problems faced by them.In addition, school discipline must be tightened.Collaboration between teachers and the parents of the students should be improved. The school can also provide counseling to students with problems so that the student does not feel like he was being abandoned.

      In conclusion, to curb this social problem from continuing to spread, various parties involved should work together and play their respective roles. If all parties can work together as expected, there is no reason why social problems among youth can not be contained.

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SPEAKING MORE THAN ONE LANGUAGE IS A GREAT ADVANTAGE

  In the era of globalisation , everything has changed. Every person wants to be better. He or she will do anything to make their life better. One of the improvements done to make life better is to learn new languages. We know that there are many languages in the world such as English, Spanish, Chinese and French. We should be familiar with them as they give advantages to us in our lives. However, some people refuse to speak in other languages as they are ashamed when their pronounciation is not accurate at all. Surprisingly, it is actually much easier to learn or speak in other languages if we take away our sense of embarrasment.

  Speaking more than one language enables us to communicate with people from foreign countries and of different races. With this, the spirit of unity will be nurtured. It also enhances the relationship among people. We can also communicate with people who do not know how to speak the international language.

  Besides that, speaking more than one language helps us to recongnise the differences between people. When we know how to speak in other languages, we can go and travel to other countries. We will understand the cultures of other people more deeply when we visit them. For example, we can broaden our horizons on how advanced has the country developed.

  Furthermore, we can make new friends from different countries. Our interpersonal relationship can be improved when we have many friends. We can improve our social circle and communication skills too. When we are active in our social life, we can get the opportunity for employment easily.

  To conclude, speaking more than one language brings a lot of benefits to us. Speaking more than one language does not only enhance the relationship among people, but also helps us to recognise differences between people. We can learn other language from centres that teach foreign language. If foreign language bring many advantages to us , why are we still hesitant to learn more? Do not hesitate! We have to take action to learn languages today.

SMK DJ DRAMA COMPETITION

  The day was 21 of February , an English drama competition was held in our school. The drama competition is held in the hall in the early morning of that day. Every single one of us " Angsanians" was so pumped up of the competition. We all hope to get the first place in the competition, because all of us work hard on this drama. We all practiced hard on this drama and we had rehersed the drama scene countless of times.

  The first class to act on that day was 5 Batai, their drama has us all shocked. Their story is so creative and their actor and actress spoke loud and clear. The hall was quiet unlike usual where the hall is noisy, this is due to everyone was so attracted by their acting and they were giving all their attention to the stage. The second class to perform is 5 Balau, their drama is about a murder mystery . Their drama was so heart racing, their drama was so clear and easy to see because of the narrator and the good actors. The best of them was not their acting but their props ,their props was so finely made that it is no different from the real object.

  Next, the third team to present their masterpiece was 5 Cengal. Their drama is not like the other two groups which are serious and tense, but their drama is like more to a comedy drama added with a little of seriousness. The best of their show is the action scene, it is similar to the action scene we all see in movies like "007". 5 Belian was next in the row, their drama was so deep that it took me few minute to understand. Their drama was about a god accidentally opened a legendary pandora's box, it is said to bring chaos to the world. Their drama has added a bit of romance into it , you can say it is a Korean drama where there romance in chaos.

  Last but not least, it is 5 Angsana's turn . Every one who participated the drama gather around at the side of the hall to do a last briefing. It is a surprise to see that everyone is calm and steady, cause usually at the time of this people tends to get nervous, credits to our great director who makes everyone calm. During the whole show, everyone did their role perfectly , even those in our class who did not participate in the drama help us out by cheering for us. The most hilarious part was Tan Jia Jian singing ,every audience cannot stop laughing even us from backstage cannot stop laughing quietly either.

  At the end , every class were sitting quietly and pray that the get the first place. The surrounding was tense and everyone is nervous. The third runner up was 5 Cengal and the second runner up was 5 Balau, the first was our class! When the judge announce that our class got first place , we all jumped up happily and congrats each other. Although few classes did not win , atleast they have fun during the process. A drama is not a one man game, but its a team sport , without my precious classmate we cannot win the competition. Here i want to say is thank you for all your hardwork , we got what we deserve, it a pleasure working with you all. <3