Medina, Aisha Akta

Everything, Everything Resume By: Nicola Yoon Maddy, about to turn eighteen, lives in Los Angeles. She has spent her whole life indoors, due to a diagnosis of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID). Any contact with the outside world puts her at risk of a fatal infection or allergic reaction. The house is elaborately sealed, with an airlock at the front door. Maddy is cared for by her mother, who is a doctor, and by a full-time nurse, Carla. When Maddy was just a few months old, her father and brother were killed in an accident. A new family moves in next door. The father drinks and is violent. Maddy and the boy in the family, Olly, become friends over the Internet. They also pantomime conversations through their bedroom windows. Eventually, Carla agrees to let Olly come over for in-person visits. Carla monitors the visits and does not tell Maddy’s mother about them. Soon, Maddy and Olly’s relationship takes a romantic turn. After Maddy impulsively rushes out of the house to intervene...

Introduction  Social media has deeply infiltrated everyone's life, including adolescence, and is thought by some to have a detrimental effect on individual people as well as society and local communities. However, while I believe that such either sites or applications are mainly beneficial to the adolescent, I agree that they have had a damaging effect on local communities. Positive Effect First, it can encourage creativity and innovative thinking. For teenagers like us, I think social media is an ideal and great place to share our work and get encouragement and feedback from others. Also, it can help us to come up with fresh and innovative ideas. In this way, social media can be a tool for creative teens. Second, it helps us develop social and communication skills. It gives teenagers the chance to interact with their peers and perhaps to make new friends in a safe way too. Social media can help teenagers who might struggle to communicate offline to develop their social skills in a...