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In what ways does peer pressure affects students lives in 7th and 8th grade?
=** CONCLUSION: **= = = =** Peer pressure causes devastating consequences to the people affected. **= =** Consequences that ruin their lives and affect them forever. Peer pressure is a persuasive action, everyone has to deal with it in one point of their lives, you have to control the frustration, if not you wont be able to say no which is one of the hardest things to deal with because the persuaders call you names, pick on you, exclude you, bully you and possibly hurt you. When you become an addict there is no going back, your body starts to need and ask for drugs/alcohol. Few people recognize when they had crossed the line, on the other hand others don’t even care. The addiction affects the academic performance and brings it to the depths of life, then you could end poor in the streets. When you spend lots of time with a crew you change without realizing, you become like the others from the group and you think that they are true friends when they only wish to affect you. Also there is good peer pressure, that is when your friends try to impulse you to do **** good things. **= = =

Mariajose Orozco 6A/ 8/05/12

WHAT IS PEER PRERSSURE?

Peer pressure is one thing that all teens have in common. In some of the causes you can't escape, Is everywhere. Whether it is pressure to conform to a group norm or pressure to act, peer pressure is something everybody has to deal with at some time in his or her life.

Children, especially during adolescence, begin to spend a lot more time with their friends, and less time with their family. This makes them more susceptible to the influences of their peers. It is important to remember that teenage friends can have a positive influence on your children, you should therefore help them find friends that have similar interests and views as those you are trying to develop in your children, including doing well in school, having respect for others and avoiding drug use, smoking and drinking, etc.

Teen peer pressure is the influence a teen's social group has on him or her. Peer pressure is a part of life for everyone, but it can be an especially strong influence during the teen years when peers are very important to a teen's identity. This means that teens need to learn to handle peer pressure, and to recognize when it is positive and when it is negative.

==== A teenager is exposed to several groups of peers during his adolescence, in the neighborhood, at playgrounds, and so on. All of these groups may have unique traits, norms, cultures or characteristics. ====

==== Peer pressure is not always negative and, at times may reinforce family value systems. However, the chances of peer pressure having adverse effects are always much greater and needs to be guarded agains. ====

Also Peer pressure is the influence of a social group on an individual.

What is bad of peer pressure?
l Bad peer pressure is being talked into doing something that you didn't want to do because your friends said that you should. Bad peer pressure is usually the result of wanting to be accepted by your peers. How can bad peer pressure affect you? lBad peer pressure usually leads to doing something bad such as drinking alcohol, using drugs, or smoking.

lIt can lead to trouble with the law, with your parents and it can affect your health.
obse/experience:

a patient of muy mum stop smoking and consuming drugs because he start to have problems on the brain and the heart, so he must stop consming for all her life, and he stay in weelschair and he cant walk more in her life.

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peer pressure can affect you usally cames from doing something bad such as drinking alcohol, using drugs, or smoking. Also it can causes problems beetwen parents and you because mabye your parents dont agree with your decicions! or something like that. also it can affect you health..

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 * http://www.faqs.org/health/topics/76/Peer-pressure.html
 * http://library.thinkquest.org/3354/Resource_Center/Virtual_Library/Peer_Pressure/peer.htm
 * http://www.google.com.co/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CJkBEBYwBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.gsu.edu%2F~wwwche%2FWhat%2520is%2520Peer%2520Pressure%2520updated.ppt&ei=5m6qT6qmGIaUtwfO3oihCA&usg=AFQjCNFPt0zvcr3T9q0jUJf9OWXjo5CYxg&sig2=4NU5B5kNkXVSdH92g5FSrg
 * http://www.teen-drug-abuse.org/
 * http://www.ehow.com/about_6192126_peer-pressure-drug-abuse.html

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prior knowledge: mariajose orozco

===Peer pressure is a part of life for everyone, but it can be an especially strong influence during the teen years when peers are very important to a teen's identity. This means that teens need to learn to handle peer pressure, and to recognize when it is positive and when it is negative.===

Gabriela de Lemos 10/5/12

Prior Knowledge:

A teenager is exposed to several groups of peers during his adolescence, in the neighborhood, at playgrounds, and so on. All of these groups may have unique traits, norms, cultures or characteristics.

Peer pressure is not always negative and, at times may reinforce family value systems. However, the chances of peer pressure having adverse effects are always much greater and needs to be guarded agains.

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====**There is a high likelihood that your teen will be exposed to drugs and alcohol, and according to drug statistics from the National Institute on Drug Abuse there is a good chance that your teen will try drugs. Teens as young as 13 have often already tried drugs as powerful as cocaine. Teens might tell themselves they will only try a drug once, but many teens find themselves under continual peer pressure to continue to experiment with drugs and “join the party.”**==== =OUR TOPIC=
 * Most teens don't start using drugs expecting to develop a substance abuse problem, and while most teens probably see their drug use as a casual way to have fun, there are negative effects that are a result of this use and abuse of alcohol and other drugs. The biggest consequence to casual drug use can be that it develops into a true addiction. Very few addicts recognize when they have crossed the line from casual use to addiction.**
 * Most teens don't think that they will become addicted, and simply use drugs or alcohol to have a good time and be more like their friends. When teens become addicted they lose friends, develop health problems, start to fail in school, experience [|memory loss], lose motivation, and alienate their family and friends with their negative behaviors and often unpredictable emotional swings.**
 * If you are a parent who is concerned about your teen, the signs to look for are declining interest in activities your teen once enjoyed, changes in school performance, and unpredictable mood swings that seem to be about more than just teen hormones.**
 * Abuse of drugs and alcohol can also change friendships, as teens begin to move away from old friends who don't approve of their drug use and begin to associate with fellow drug users who will encourage and support one other's drug use. Parents should be very concerned when teens dump one group of friends for another, especially if they are secretive about the new peer group.**
 * Most teens who are addicted won't see a problem with their behavior or their drug use. Drugs make them feel good, and are a way to relieve the stress of school, problems at home, disagreements with friends, and other pressures of growing up.**
 * The sooner you can recognize that your child or your friend is abusing alcohol or other drugs, the sooner you can seek help. If you notice changes in behavior, changes in friends, lying about after school or weekend activities, changes in mood, or depression your teen might have a problem with substance abuse.**
 * If you or someone you care about has a drug problem, talk to them about it and encourage them to get help. [|Addiction treatment programs specializing in teens] can help your child build a strong foundation for long-term recovery.**
 * If you are a teen concerned about your own drug use, parents are probably the last people you want to ask for help, but they can but they can help you to find the treatment program that will support and guide you through recovery. If you are a parent or friend of a teen who has a substance abuse problem, talk to them about their problem and encourage them to get help. The sooner you or someone you love gets help, the more likely they are to achieve successful recovery**.


 * Our topic is peer pressure, but we are focused in peer pressure in bach. That is our target .**
 * We choose the topic because we've seen it and lived peer pressure, so the experience is helping us in the**
 * exhibition, but we also want to interview other victims with delicate cases to gain more info to have a good**
 * quality exhibition. But we didn't chose the topic just because we've experienced it, also because we want**
 * that this conflict to end, we want to make an action, help you and the people around.**

=**WHAT IS PEER PRESSURE**=
 * Peer pressure is when someone or a group of people intends to tempt you or influences you to do something that**
 * benefits them (sometimes) and affects you. In most of the cases the persuaders are from the popular crew, and**
 * they take advantage from the non popular people because they know that they will try the impossible to become**
 * popular, so they influence them to: consume drugs, alcohol, pills, go to strange places, hurt someone, get/sell drugs**
 * murder and many nasty bad things. The victims accept to everything the others say because: They want popularity**
 * (actually they don't become popular, as soon as the victims consume something or accomplish certain tasks they**
 * are left behind, and the persuaders don't come back or talk to them ever, they simply disappear), and because they**
 * fear that if they deny then the persuaders will pick on them, bully them, injure them or beat them up. Other strong**
 * method used in the conflict is falsely seducing someone, when a girl or boy finds out that others have a crush on**
 * them they take advantage of the others because they know that they wont deny nothing to the one they love.**
 * is like a way to persuade being seductive and kind with others. Some even pretend to fall in love**
 * falsely to profit from the real people in love, and when they get what they want they break the hearts of the victims.**

=**My conclusion**=


 * If peer pressure continues soon most of the people could become weak, drug addicts, killers, gangsters etc.**
 * then our world will be full of useless people. What is the most affected ones are workers, then factories and**
 * industries will have low production, they could break and many people would be unemployed and that is a**
 * global issue or conflict. On the other hand drug dealers would increase and become powerful, many people**
 * could be arrested for consuming illegal drugs or for being under age, also riots and revolutions could be realized**
 * for the government to allow drugs. Many other things could also happen. People must act, peer pressure isn't only**
 * a school conflict of popularity, is way much bigger. What I fear the most is that maybe a terrorist group, guerilla or**
 * corrupt people could persuade powerful people such as presidents, prime ministers, the council, military leaders**
 * etc. To attack other countries and that could be the beginning of world war III.**


 * //Prior Knowledge:// The easiest way to fall into drug addiction is by peer pressure. Consuming drugs has thousands of consequences, loss of memory, depression, low efforts at school, develop health problems etc. Most of the drug consumers say just once but they can't control it, others just keep doing it, but very few put a stop, say no more and realize what is happening to them. Most teens consume drugs just to look like their friends.**

Prior Knowledge:
peer pressure is when a group of people or an individual person push you to do something you dont have consient. The majority of the teens fall into peer pressure because they dont want people to think they are losers or nerd, oviosly persons dont want to be know as a nerd at school so for them to became into a group start saying yes to every thing they say to became part of a group. So instead of being themselves they follow the drug consumers personality and then they just cant go back because its to late, so these teenagers are living with mental problems, drug consumption, healthiness problems and they just dont care because the drug make them live in their own world. When teens see their friends consuming drug they just want to join because they want to catch people attentions and feel popular.

Peer Pressure:

Gabriela De Lemos

Peers influence your life, even if you don't realize it, just by spending time with you. You learn from them, and they learn from you. It's only human nature to listen to and learn from other people in your age group

Peers can have a positive influence on each other. Maybe another student in your science class taught you an easy way to remember the planets in the solar system, or someone on the soccer team taught you a cool trick with the ball. You might admire a friend who is always a good sport and try to be more like him or her. Maybe you got others excited about your new favorite book, and now everyone's reading it. These are examples of how peers positively influence each other every day.

Sometimes peers influence each other in negative ways. For example, a few kids in school might try to get you to cut class with them, your soccer friend might try to convince you to be mean to another player and never pass her the ball, or a kid in the neighborhood might want you to steal with him.

Peer pressure is when "friends" persuade you to doing something that you do not want to do. But maybe you want to do it, and you just don't have the courage to do it and your friends talk you into it. Peer Pressure can be broken down into two areas; good peer pressure and bad peer pressure.

Bad peer pressure is being coerced into doing something that you didn't want to do because your friends said that you should. Friends have a tendency to think that they know what is best for you, and if your friends are like some of ours, they always offer their opinion whether it is wanted or not Well, if friends are going to tell you what to do, what can you do about it? The most basic thing that you can do is to say "No, I don't wish to do that!" or if you want to do it, say "Yes, give me a try!"

For instance, if one of your friends offered you a cigarette, you might say "No, that just doesn't interest me." But being able to say no may not be the problem; the real problem arises when your friends repeatedly ask you to do something. This is where you have to be able to say to yourself, "I made a decision and I truly feel that my decision was the correct one", and then be able to express that repeatedly to all of your friends, and have enough respect for yourself to stand up and not give in. This seems like a difficult task, doesn't it? It takes a tremendous amount of will power to be able to stand up to the people that you know, trust, and respect ... your friends.

One of the major problems with peer pressure occurs when you get sucked into something that you really didn't want to do and subsequently, become addicted to it. Usually, people get backed into a situation to try illegal drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes and more times than not, these behaviors can become habit forming.

If and when someone comes up and offers you one of these substances, it is your decision whether you want to try or continue to use these substances. You should be prepared to make these decisions and to make a good decision you must be educated on that topic. For instance, say you were going to buy a stereo. You wouldn't just go out and pick the one that looked nice, you probably would go to the library and look into it. You might do some research in a few magazines, ask a few friends what they thought, go to the store and listen to each stereo through multiple speakers and finally make an educated decision. Before engaging in a specific situation, you should take the time to read about each one and the possible drawbacks before you decide to try or not to try anything.

Our reasoning behind not telling you what to do with each decision is because through out school, we were always told "Say NO to drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes." You see, we may have always been taught other people's opinions. We think that it is better that one finds out what will happen, how it will happen, and get whatever information that you need to make an educated decision. So, arm yourself with wisdom and knowledge and some decision making skills, so you can live your own life and finally accept the consequences of doing or not doing something.

Good peer pressure, on the other hand, is being pushed into something that you didn't have the courage to do or just didn't cross your mind to do. However, as you think about it, it seems like a good thing to do. Good peer pressure can also be a situation when your friends convince you not to do something you were going to do because it wasn't in your best interest. Some people say that good peer pressure is when you get pushed into something that you didn't want to do and it turned out well. Well, this may be nice, but ask yourself this question: how do you know "ahead of time" whether what you are doing will turn out good or bad? Can you? Most people can't, but if you can, your problems may be solved! When the time comes for you to make these big decisions, it is important to think before deciding. Take as long as you need just to think about whether you want to do it, think about whether you should, and finally think about the consequences. These are the important things that must be done before any big decision is made. Also, knowing who is asking you to do something helps you make the decision. If the person is not your friend, you should really consider what they want you to do, but if you know, trust and respect this person then you might seriously consider what they ask.

Prior knowledge: Mariajose Orozco 9/5/12 Peer pressure is when a group of people or sometimes one person manipulate you to do the things they want to do, you let yourself be manipulated because you want to be part of the popular group and you want them to talk with you, so when you tasted for the first time a drug you’ll feel proud because you are form the popular group, but you’ll will also feel upset because you know that a drug causes addiction and the first time you taste them there’s no turning back.

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE: Gabriela De Lemos

There are always 2 types of peer pressure the good one and the bad one the good one is when your friends give you a push to take out the courage you have to try something you always want. But the bad one is when they manipulate yourself to do what they want you to do and you accept it even if you know its wrong and you accept it because you want to fit in. Peer pressure will always exist around us even if we dont realize it because, when you are with your friends you learn from then and then learn from you so both influence each other. they can offer you positive effects and and negative effects it all depends in what they do for example if they like to consume drug its obviously that one day it may offer you however if it someone who doesn't like drug one day that person may help you to take out your courage.

José Tomás

7/05/2012

peer pressure

**Peer pressure** is the influence exerted by a peer group, encouraging individuals to change their attitudes, value, or behaviors in order to conform to group norms. Social groups affected include //membership groups//, in which individuals are "formally" members (such as, political partys and trade unions) or social cliques in which membership is not clearly defined. A person affected by peer pressure may or may not want to belong to these groups. They may also recognize //dissociative groups// with which they would //not// wish to associate, and thus they behave adversely concerning that group's behaviors.

Peer pressure is most commonly associated with youth, in part because most youth spend large amounts of time in (schools and other fixed groups that they do not choose and are seen as lacking the maturity to handle pressure from friends. Also, young people are more willing to behave negatively towards those who are not members of their own peer groups. Peer pressure can also have positive effects when people are pressured toward positive behavior, such as volunteering for charity or excelling in academics or athletics, by their peers. This is most commonly seen in youths who are active in sports or other extracurricular activities where conformity with one's peer group is strongest.

Say you're invited to a party where you know there will be alcohol or drugs. A friend decides to cut class. Someone offers you a cigarette. Or friends talk about having sex with their boyfriends or girlfriends. How do you respond? Are you tempted to follow their examples, or can you stand strong in your own belief system?At some point, everyone has the desire to fit into a group. If you're interested in sports, you might hang out with the "jocks." If you're interested in music, you spend time with others who enjoy music. You belong to that group, and feel secure when you’re part of it. The group identifies who you are and what you’re about.But what if people in "your group" start doing things that are wrong, hurtful, or even illegal? And what if these same people are your friends?This is what we refer to as peer pressure -- the pressure to conform to the behaviors, attitudes, and personal habits of "the group."

Prior knowledge: Gabriela de Lemos 10/5/12 You can find peer pressure all around the world because is imposible to finish with it however is posible to warn people so in a future this may not happen to them, when a very close friend talks to you about consuming drug or drinking alcohol you will follow its attitude because you dont want to sound like an angel but then you and your friend will keep on talking about that and one day your friend will offer you drug or alcohol hopping you are going to accept it because of what you have talked about, so you are scared to say NO because you dont want him to feel sad but you know that of you say YES your life may change completely, but you take a risk and answer that you will like to taste it. And as soon as you taste it you will like it and you will keep on doing it until you feel thats normal for your life.

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