persuasive speech :
welcome to twinkle’s press a friend service ! for a outgoing and fun-loving friend, press one. For a mature and quiet friend, press two. For a funny fiend to go HOHOHO with, press three. For a cool and funky friend, press four. BEEEP. You will be notified shortly. Thank you for calling twinkle press a friend service, have a nice day.
This, which is so small and fragile means the world to us. I dare say that NONE of us here could live without our friends. I for one cannot ever do so. That’s right. the topic today is about friendships.
Have you ever felt the joy and love of having friends around you ? have you ever experienced the pain and agony of being hurt by their actions ? ever gone crazy fooling around and laughing like mad hyenas over the dumbest of things ?
That’s what friends are for. Its ever so amazing what friends can do.
True friendships are hard to find and even harder to maintain. It’s a balance of giving, taking and mutual trust. This takes years to build, yet can be shattered in an instant.
The students’ in the university of Aberdeen did a project based on the importance of friendships to teenagers. They found that even though it is the relationships with parents that determine in large measure our long term preferences, attitudes and values, during adolescence, it is often relationships with friends that cause most concern and which pre-occupy the thoughts of young people as they grow up.
The main reason of it being such is because friendships involve more sharing and exchange. Teenagers, make a move of imtimacy, a willingness to talk about oneself and to share problems and advice. Friends tell each toher almost everything about what goes on in their lives..
Standards and styles set by the peer group can set HIGHLY INFLUENCIAL markers around acceptable and unacceptable behaviors for young people, it id in individual friendships where young people find support and security, negotiate their emotional independence, exchange information, but beliefs and feelings into words and develop a new and different perspective about themselves.
The style of a dress, hairstyles, interest, speech and language use, leisure activities and values are among the characteristics that teenagers appear to learn by watching and comparing themselves to others. furthermore, teens also learn methods of handling social relationships by observing and imitating peers. The influence of peer groups appear to be particularly marked where parental influence is not strong.
Of course, being liked, accepted and defining one’s role within a group are important features to life at ANY stage, but as peers play such a major role in the lives of adolescents, social acceptance is an urgent issue for most teens. The people in the project were asked to identify which items influenced popularity and unpopularity among friends.
These findings clearly highlight the IMPORTANCE of peer pressures in adolescence. the peer group gives out clear signals to its members both about style and fundamental values and perspectives. conformity to the group is the price that has to be paid for approval and acceptance by peers.
such groupings clearly have developmental POTENTIAL in enabling young people to make the social adjustments necessary for them to operate in the adult society. the importance of friendships is boldly shown as friends impact one another. i'm sure many of us feel it too. let us use such influence to make a difference, to bring joy to the liove of many others. this may sound preposterous, but its astounding true. thank you (:
