ARGUE: Teen Brain has traits that can lead to success as adults.
HOOK: "Adults have long reckoned with ways to protect adolescents from their own misjudgments. Only recently, however, have researchers really begun to understand how the teen brain is wired and that some of what appear to be teens’ senseless choices may result from biological tendencies that also prime their brains to learn and be flexible."(Maia Szalavitz, TIMES Magazine, Why the Teen, TIME, Oct. 02, 2012, 1, Web, Mar.26, 2015)
TRANSITION: Alternatively, these senseless choices are there for a reason.
THESIS: Viewed through the eyes of evolution the teen brain can develop traits that may lead to success as adults, such as the following: seeking sensation, company of those who’s their age, and a final key to the brain's remarkable adaptability.
2nd PARAGRAPH: Though teens are known for dangerous and hectic stunts, this trait of seeking sensation is actually one of the many things that are, well, good. Seeking sensation doesn't have to mean impulsive behavior, for example, going on an adventure, skydiving, or a fast drive. Although seeking sensation can lead to pressing behaviors, it can also develop positive ones: The urge to meet more people, for example, can create a wider ring of friends, which generally makes us healthier, happier, safer, and more successful. Arguably, the most successful people today are teens, for example: Malala Yousafzai. This young teen in Pakistan was shot in the head while riding to school. She later on became the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Malala took a reckless path, considering the safety endangerment she put herself into, she went against Taliban rule and began to promote girls' education. Malala has set up a life for herself as she is listed as one of the most influential teens in 2014 by TIME's magazine.
3rdPARAGRAPH: This brings me to my second example, teens prefer the company of others who are close to the same age. This passion for same-age peers merely reveals the social realm that teen's generic attraction to uniqueness: Teens offer teens far more novelty than familiar family. Yet another more powerful reason is to reason why teens gravitate towards peers: to invest in the future rather than the past. Think about it, teens live in a world created by their parents, but teens live most of their lives in a world run and redone by their peers. Bearing, accepting, and creating relationships with them carries critically on success. In consequence, teens act on social reactions as if our life depends on it, the sense of social rejection is perceived like a threat to existence.
4thPARAGRAPH: Lastly, the teen brain has a remarkable way to adapt to surrounding objects, such as environment. This is just the prolonged plasticity of those late-developing frontal areas as they slowly mature. You see, the brains' white matter is crucial; "This makes the period when a brain area lays down myelin a sort of crucial period of learning—the wiring is getting upgraded, but once that's done, it's harder to change." So basically, the brain is more flexible during the teens and late 20s. Making it easier to learn such as a second language.
5th PARAGRAPH (RESTART): David Dobbs, Maia Szalavitz, Alison Gopnik, and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore argue this:
HOOK: "Adults have long reckoned with ways to protect adolescents from their own misjudgments. Only recently, however, have researchers really begun to understand how the teen brain is wired and that some of what appear to be teens’ senseless choices may result from biological tendencies that also prime their brains to learn and be flexible."(Maia Szalavitz, TIMES Magazine, Why the Teen, TIME, Oct. 02, 2012, 1, Web, Mar.26, 2015)
TRANSITION: Alternatively, these senseless choices are there for a reason.
THESIS: Viewed through the eyes of evolution the teen brain can develop traits that may lead to success as adults, such as the following: seeking sensation, company of those who’s their age, and a final key to the brain's remarkable adaptability.
2nd PARAGRAPH: Though teens are known for dangerous and hectic stunts, this trait of seeking sensation is actually one of the many things that are, well, good. Seeking sensation doesn't have to mean impulsive behavior, for example, going on an adventure, skydiving, or a fast drive. Although seeking sensation can lead to pressing behaviors, it can also develop positive ones: The urge to meet more people, for example, can create a wider ring of friends, which generally makes us healthier, happier, safer, and more successful. Arguably, the most successful people today are teens, for example: Malala Yousafzai. This young teen in Pakistan was shot in the head while riding to school. She later on became the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Malala took a reckless path, considering the safety endangerment she put herself into, she went against Taliban rule and began to promote girls' education. Malala has set up a life for herself as she is listed as one of the most influential teens in 2014 by TIME's magazine.
3rdPARAGRAPH: This brings me to my second example, teens prefer the company of others who are close to the same age. This passion for same-age peers merely reveals the social realm that teen's generic attraction to uniqueness: Teens offer teens far more novelty than familiar family. Yet another more powerful reason is to reason why teens gravitate towards peers: to invest in the future rather than the past. Think about it, teens live in a world created by their parents, but teens live most of their lives in a world run and redone by their peers. Bearing, accepting, and creating relationships with them carries critically on success. In consequence, teens act on social reactions as if our life depends on it, the sense of social rejection is perceived like a threat to existence.
4thPARAGRAPH: Lastly, the teen brain has a remarkable way to adapt to surrounding objects, such as environment. This is just the prolonged plasticity of those late-developing frontal areas as they slowly mature. You see, the brains' white matter is crucial; "This makes the period when a brain area lays down myelin a sort of crucial period of learning—the wiring is getting upgraded, but once that's done, it's harder to change." So basically, the brain is more flexible during the teens and late 20s. Making it easier to learn such as a second language.
5th PARAGRAPH (RESTART): David Dobbs, Maia Szalavitz, Alison Gopnik, and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore argue this:
"Over the past five years or so, even as the work-in-progress story spread into our culture, the discipline of adolescent brain studies learned to do some more-complex thinking of its own. A few researchers began to view recent brain and genetic findings in a brighter, more flattering light, one distinctly colored by evolutionary theory. The resulting account of the adolescent brain — call it the adaptive-adolescent story — casts the teen less as a rough draft than as an exquisitely sensitive, highly adaptable creature wired almost perfectly for the job of moving from the safety of home into the complicated world outside.
This view will likely sit better with teens. More important, it sits better with biology’s most fundamental principle, that of natural selection. Selection is hell on dysfunctional traits. If adolescence is essentially a collection of them — angst, idiocy, and haste; impulsiveness, selfishness, and reckless bumbling — then how did those traits survive selection? They couldn't — not if they were the period’s most fundamental or consequential features."(Maia Szalavitz, TIMES Magazine, The Half-Baked, TIME, Sept. 16, 2011, 1, Web, Mar.26, 2015)
"with the most exasperating traits" - what do you mean here?
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