Week Seven
1521 words by Mizdooley687
As everyone knows my project is about teenage pregnancy. It’s not so much that teenagers are having sex but it is the fact that they not properly protecting themselves with the right contraceptives. I want teens to know every possible way to protect themselves from being pregnant and to wait until they are financially stable.
The overall U.S. teenage pregnancy rate has declined 17% between 1990 and 1996, from 117 pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15-19 to 97 per 1,000. But after 1996 the rate went back up by 12 percent.
78% of teen pregnancies are unplanned, accounting for about 1/4 of all accidental pregnancies annually. The facts tell me that now people don’t plan anymore to get pregnant. I can’t speak for every teen but I think that most teenagers don’t want to get pregnant but when it happens, they feel as if they are ready for this responsibility. First of all most guy don’t want to be any where near a female that want to have a baby in their teenage years. The only way a guy would want to be there is if the relationship with girl has been going on for a number of years. Say that happens, with my program and my practice she will know that being pregnant is not an option. All she has to worry about then is STD’s, which is almost just as bad.
6 in 10 teen pregnancies occur among 18-19 year-olds, which is my generation. That’s why I want to start at the high school level because by 18 years old it’s to late. They have probably been practicing that unsafe method and it’s hard just to stop without practicing it.
Teen pregnancy rates are much higher in the United States than in many other developed countries–twice as high as in England and Wales or Canada, and nine times as high as in the Netherlands or Japan.
• Steep decreases in the pregnancy rate among sexually experienced teenagers accounted for most of the drop in the overall teenage pregnancy rate in the early-to-mid 1990s. While 20% of the decline is because of decreased sexual activity, 80% is due to more effective contraceptive practice.2
83% of teens who give birth are much more likely to come from a poor or low-income family. I think that is because most low- income families have very little guidance, because the parent usually is working more than one job or just doesn’t care what there chill is doing. 61% of teens that are pregnant have abortions, which is not good. I am not against abortion, but as a teen it could damage their inside for the rest of their life.
7 in 10 teen mothers complete high school, so that means that if they don’t go for higher learning they will not be able support baby. Which will put them in the category as a poor or low- income family.
• In part because most teen mothers come from disadvantaged backgrounds, 28% of them are poor while in their 20s and early 30s; only 7% of women who first give birth after adolescence are poor at those ages.
• 1/3 of pregnant teens receive inadequate prenatal care; babies born to young mothers are more likely to be low-birth-weight, to have childhood health problems and to be hospitalized than are those born to older mothers.
• The method teenage women most frequently use is the pill, followed by the condom. That is big reason why I want to push my pill method because most teens use it and they won’t have to rely on the guy to have a condom.
Source: www.guttmacher.org/pubs
The argument that “Jesus was a black man because he had wooly hair” is a weak one because my dog has wooly hair when it get matted up. Many people refer this to black people because our hair isn’t as manageable but the not enough evidence.
In Judges we see a recurring of the Israelites neglect God and worship false gods, and of course, God punishes them. God allows the Israelites to be mistreated and demoralized by invading nations. Finally the Israelites recognize and realize that the only way they are going to delivered from the situation is to pray to God. After they pray and beg for God’s forgiveness he ignores or put off the problem by sending a judge to do the work.
The authors of the 6th and 7th BCE wrote stories like this to show several things about human nature in general and the Israelites. Once Adam committed the first sin, humans have been committing sins deliberately and sometimes not even knowing ever since and the Israelites are so different. I feel that we take Gods mercy for granted and it takes us getting involved in a messy situation before we decide to call on his name.
It is difficult to say which whether Joshua or Judges is a more accurate account of what actually happened. But the best decision I could make would be more likely to believe the events of Judges. Joshua tells about the conquest of the promise land and the story seems really accurate. The problem I saw that made it unbelievable was is that the promise land wasn’t easily conquered. In Joshua all the people and their kings were completely wiped out. Judges seems more convincing is because the Israelites had trouble conquering the land. They weren’t able to conquer the promise land in easy manner like they did in the story told in Joshua. Another reason why Judges seems more convincing is because Judges gives an accurate account of the events for the time period.
Divine election is explained to be that the Israelites are the chosen people.
Since they are the chosen people, it seems that they have more responsibility. God will be harder on them because he expects more of them but he will protect them, which that’s where the judges come in. The judges were hand picked by God Himself. God sends a judge by the name of Ehud to rescue the Israelites from oppression from the Moabites. In order to trick the evil king of Moab, Ehud makes a shortened dagger to kill the king. Ehud pretends that he has a message to deliver to the king. The king sends all of his attendants away and he and Ehud are left alone. Ehud calls the king to him to tell him the message and when he arises, Ehud stabs him the stomach, where the dagger gets lost in his fat and Ehud is able to successfully escape. The attendants do not rush to check on
the king because he lost control of his bowels and so they thought that he was relieving himself. After some time passed, the attendants discovered that he was dead. As a result the Israelites are able to defeat the Moabites.
The Promised Land I, which was a covenant between God and Abraham, is the land of Canaan that was promised to the descendants of Abraham. If God didn’t keep that promise, He would have broken one of his commandments and God will not do that. So I believe that the idea of “divine election” and “the promise land”.
J. Cheryl Exum writes in her article about feminist criticism seeks to show the strategies by which men have justified their control over women. Also, how women have been able to cope with being second-rate to men and not being allowed to take on certain positions or roles. She also tells how the Bible was written by men and that the Bible portrays women as men see women. The story of Judith to me is what a female would have to deal with in olden days. She lured the general into his tent got him drunk and them cut his head off. She used her femininity and sex appeal since she was woman.
In the article, “Were the Ancient Egyptians Black or White?,” Frank Yurco explains how there are many different skin colors in Egypt depending on what part of Africa you were from. It starts off by explaining how the bust of Queen Nefertiti was shown as a light skinned Egyptian and raised controversy when a doll was made of her being white. For discussing biblical issues it really shouldn’t matter because racism and race is something we created.
In the article, “Beyond Identification,” Randall Bailey takes on an African American criticism to explain the Bible. He raises the question of why there are few black people in the field of theology because of the lack of money and the need to learn so many languages. He explains that the Bible does not give credit to the black people that were in the Bible or the places that were typically black areas.