Alves,+Joel

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My social issue that I want to research is teen pregnancy. I’m interested in this particular issue because it’s something that one of my friends is going true right now. I know that she is not ready to have a baby because she is always acting like one. I know when she has the baby her mom will be the one taking care of the baby. Teenage pregnancy is a common problem is our community because it’s affecting teenagers’ life by causing them to drop out of school and preventing them from getting a decent education to become a mother when they are not ready. //Joel, it's good that you have a personal interest and connection to the topic. It will make it more meaningful to you.//
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I think the solution to teen pregnancy is to educate kids early in life to teach them, not only teach them but show them what happens when you have a baby when you are not ready to. //This is interesting, how could you show them?// Parents should talk to their kids and not think that talking about sex with your child is taboo, if you don’t talk about it with them they will think it’s something ok to do because you are not telling them it’s wrong. I think most of the teens are getting pregnant because they are having unprotected sex, I would consider that condoms would be more widely available because maybe they are too shy to go ask for it or wait until you are old enough to have sex because they’re diseases out there and you never know what you might get. //You have a lot of good ideas. How could access to condoms be made easier for teens?//

My purpose for writing is to let teenagers know to plan their lives first and finish school, we know out there without school it’s getting harder to find a job especially if you have a child to take care of it, will be a lot harder. Teenager need to understand that they are not ready yet to be a parent because not only they are not physically ready, but they are also not mentally ready to take care of a new born baby. //So is your main purpose to convince teens that they should wait to have children?//

My research action plan is that I need 8 sources. One of this source need to be a print source, three sources must be from a database, no more than three sources from a website and one to four can be interviews or surveys. //What else do you need to do? You left out the rest of the steps of the action plan.//

Joel, This is a good topic and you have a clear idea of the problems that surround the issue. As you take notes, think about who you want your main audience to be. Is it teens? Parents? Other adults? (Posted on time, good.)

//Joel, You have some excellent sources so far.//

Annotated work cited

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Teen Pregnancy." //CQ Researcher// 20.12 (2010): 265-288. //CQ researcher//. Web. 9 May 2011. this article is very helpful because it has introduction,background information,current situation about teen pregnancy Bode, Janet, Stanley Mack, and Ida Marx Spruce. "Talking about pregnancy ." //Kids still having kids: talking about teen pregnancy//. Rev. ed. Danbury, Conn.: Franklin Watts, 1999. 20 -39. Print. this book present the problems and challenges of teenage pregnancy. it also has interviews with pregnant teenagers and their boyfriends "CDC Vital Signs - Preventing Teen Pregnancy in the US." //Centers for Disease Control and Prevention//. usa.gov, 5 May 2011. Web. 12 May 2011. . this government website has statistics of teen pregnancy in the U.S, Latest Findings,causes ans effects and what can be done to prevent teen pregnancy which is the solution of teen pregnancy Fiore, Marrecca. "Teen Pregnancy Rate Hits 15-Year High." //FoxNews.com//. FOX News Network, 11 July 2008. Web. 11 May 2011. . this article talks about the health and well being of teens. it consists of statistics and some causes of teen pregnancies. Linda, Linda. "TEENAGE pregnancy -- Prevention." //The battle against teen pregnancy can be won, but must be fought by parents and adults as well as teenagers.// 30.43 (2001): 24. //EBSCOhost.//. Web. 17 May 2011. Focuses on the prevention campaign against teen pregnancy in the United States. Accounts on the results of the survey conducted by Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, a non-profit advocacy group; Factors influencing the sexual decision of teenagers; Causes of teen pregnancy; Role of parents in the sexual orientation of teenagers. Pazol, k. "Vital Signs: Teen Pregnancy--United States, 1991-2009." //Teen Pregnancy--United States, 1991-2009// unkown (2011): p. 414-420. //SIRS Knowledge//. Web. 16 May 2011. the teen birth rate in the United States remains six to nine times higher than in developed countries with the lowest birth rates, and in U.S. states with the highest rates, the teen birth rate is approximately 10 to 15 times higher than in other developed countries with the lowest birth rates.This report describes trends in birth rates among U.S. teens aged 15-19 years and percentages of high school students having sexual intercourse and using contraceptives.

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Solution

The original solution in **Proposal **: My original solution is <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">educating kids early in life to teach them, and show them in school what happens when you have a baby when you are not ready to. Parents should talk to their kids and not think that talking about sex with your child is taboo, if you don’t talk about it with them they will think it’s something ok to do because you are not telling them it’s wrong. I think most of the teens are getting pregnant because they are having unprotected sex, I would consider that condoms would be more widely available because maybe they are too shy to go ask for it or wait until you are old enough to have sex because they are sexually transmitted diseases out there and you never know what you might catch.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">After looking at your research, is your solution still feasible? Explain why or why not: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">My solution is still feasible because most of my sources recommend that talking to teens and use protection is the best way to prevent teen pregnancy <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Is the solution specific enough? Explain why or why not: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">My solution is specific enough because to prevent teen pregnancy you have to have protected sex.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Hence, your solution and overall thesis for the rest of the project is: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 21px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">Audience <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Given your thesis, what is the specific audience you seek to reach? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">My specific audiences are teens, parents, and teacher. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">What about your solution makes this the audience that should be listening to you? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">This audience should be listening to me because if we all come together we can do something to prevent this from happening. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 21px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">Research <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">List five pieces of information from your research that back your solution. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">What types of sources gave you the best information? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Database articles gave me the best information <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">What do you still need to know? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">I still need to know why is teen pregnancy rate in the United States is higher than other countries. **//(this is a good question; did you ever find out?)//** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 21px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;">Rhetorical Strategies <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Discuss how you will incorporate the required rhetorical strategies, and brainstorm ideas for at least one other that can best convey not only your solution but the information from your research. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Additional choices: anecdote/case study, comparison/contrast, classification, metaphorical language, allusion.
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Teens should not have because they are still kids
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Statistics on why teen pregnancy are decreasing
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Costs of teen pregnancy
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">What is parents are government doing
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Teen pregnancy desadvantages

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Strategy: Cause/effect <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">What have you learned? Why will it work? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">I have learned what cause teens to become pregnant and what are the outcome of it. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Strategy: Statistics <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">What have you learned? Why will it work? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The rate of pregnancy was decreasing from 1990, but it’s starting to increase again. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Strategy: Definiton <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">What key words and concepts will you define? Why will it work? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">I will be defining what is teen pregnancy because people need to know what it is. **//(what else should you define? sex education? contraception?)//**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Annotated works cited

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**//(good sources; you will just need to add a little bit to these and reformat the page, take out any you do not use in your paper for your final works cited.)//** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Goncalves, Mena. Tape recording interview. 25 May 2011. i interviewed my mother because she had me when she was 17 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Clemmitt, Marcia. "Teen Pregnancy." //CQ Researcher// 20.12 (2010): 265-288. //CQ researcher//. Web. 9 May 2011. this article is very helpful because it has introduction,background information,current situation about teen pregnancy <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Bode, Janet, Stanley Mack, and Ida Marx Spruce. "Talking about pregnancy ." //Kids still having kids: talking about teen pregnancy//. Rev. ed. Danbury, Conn.: Franklin Watts, 1999. 20 -39. Print. this book present the problems and challenges of teenage pregnancy. it also has interviews with pregnant teenagers and their boyfriends <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">"CDC Vital Signs - Preventing Teen Pregnancy in the US." //Centers for Disease Control and Prevention//. usa.gov, 5 May 2011. Web. 12 May 2011. <http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/TeenPregnancy/>. this government website has statistics of teen pregnancy in the U.S, Latest Findings,causes ans effects and what can be done to prevent teen pregnancy which is the solution of teen pregnancy <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Fiore, Marrecca. "Teen Pregnancy Rate Hits 15-Year High." //FoxNews.com//. FOX News Network, 11 July 2008. Web. 11 May 2011. <http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,380323,00.html>. this article talks about the health and well being of teens. it consists of statistics and some causes of teen pregnancies. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Linda, Linda. "TEENAGE pregnancy -- Prevention." //The battle against teen pregnancy can be won, but must be fought by parents and adults as well as teenagers.// 30.43 (2001): 24. //EBSCOhost.//. Web. 17 May 2011. Focuses on the prevention campaign against teen pregnancy in the United States. Accounts on the results of the survey conducted by Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, a non-profit advocacy group; Factors influencing the sexual decision of teenagers; Causes of teen pregnancy; Role of parents in the sexual orientation of teenagers. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pazol, k. "Vital Signs: Teen Pregnancy--United States, 1991-2009." //Teen Pregnancy--United States, 1991-2009// unkown (2011): p. 414-420. //SIRS Knowledge//. Web. 16 May 2011. This report describes trends in birth rates among U.S. teens aged 15-19 years and percentages of high school students having sexual intercourse and using contraceptives. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Vorvick, Linda. "Adolescent pregnancy." //MedlinePlus//. National Institutes of Health, 2 May 2011. Web. 17 May 2011. <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001516.htm>. this article has everything you need to know about adolescent pregnancy like Causes,symptoms,treatment,outlook,and prevention and many more.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Joel Laves <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Ms. Doherty <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Junior English <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">May 6, 2011 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">Teen Pregnancy ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Teen pregnancies are a major problem in the United States. There are more Teenage pregnancies in the United States than all other developing countries. According to the article “Teen Pregnancy Rate Hits 15-Year High” by fox news reporter and writer Marrecca Fiore about 22 out of every 1,000 girls ages 15 to 17 became pregnant in 2006, compared to 21 out of every 1,000 in 2005, because teens are having kids too early in life, schools should make sex education class and methods of birth control prevention more available for them. ==== <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> The problem with teenage pregnancies is it continues to be one of the most difficult issues that teenagers, their families, and communities face today. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 400,000 teen’s girls give birth each year in the United States. This is a problem because when a teen has a child it carries high costs emotionally, physically and emotionally to the parents and the child. Teen pregnancies mainly affects teen moms because they are the ones under pressure to make decisions that they are not ready to make like whether to have the baby and keep or do abortion and most of the time the male partner is not there to support and make the mother make decisions. In the National Institute of Health’s web site called MedlinePlus the definition of teen pregnancy is <span class="fsm" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">teenaged or underaged girl becoming pregnant. But keep in mind that in such a young age there are causes and effects of teens becoming pregnant.