Summary Arguing Against The Proposal

Summary Arguing Against The Proposal

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8177990.stm

• ·      Parents have been playing a more active role in their teenager’s life and are spending more time with them.
• ·      Teenager’s current bad behavior might be caused due to the peer pressure or cultural influences that surrounds them.
• ·      An Oxford University professor named Professor Gardner did not found any prove that the reason to why teenagers are behaving badly is because parents have failed to control their children.
• ·       Parents have been monitoring their teenager’s whereabouts and activities more often compared to the previous years.
• ·      Adolescences are dependent on their parents which will make parenting difficult, thus increasing the depression rate for those low-income and one-parent families. 

Summary Arguing For The Proposal

Summary Arguing For The Proposal

Link: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/teenager-crafts-early-detection-tool-for-cancer-20130301-2f9yq.html#ixzz2MKKXGCq

• ·      A teenager named Jack Andraka have discovered a cheap way to detect cancer in the organ.
• ·      He had started researcing about pancreatic cancer at the age of 13 years old.
• ·      He learned that most pancreatic victims found out that they have developed cancer way too late.
• ·      Through google and wikipedia he found out that the first step to pancreatic cancer is the existence of a particular protein, named mesothelin.
• ·      Jack had found the way out to detect cancer in a biology class, when he was reading an article under his desk.
• ·      He made paper sensors in order to detect the protein in the blood.
• ·      He had been awarded the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair grand prize and the Smithsonian magazine’s first annual American Ingenuity Award for youth achievement.