Adolescence is an important stage of maturity for intensification of interpersonal abilities and gaining knowledge to steer more demanding pressures and tasks. The changes that occur in the period of adolescence (social, physical as well as cognitive) create an important opportunity for education on strong relationships in addition to establishing a ground for wise decision making (Wolfe, Jaffe and Crooks 224). After ten or so years of life, a number of biochemical events start that change the size, the shape as well as the way the human body functions. The exact time when adolescence starts depends on the type of food taken and other factors. One of the most fundamental changes the come up is the development of a whole new perspective for persons to take on biological reproduction.
The discussions about the universality of adolescence are generated at times from the studies of remnant documentation in the hominid line as well as on the similarities of human beings and non-human primates like chimpanzees. Adolescence has become part of human life history since it presented important reproductive merits to our species. It has also assisted the adolescent to attain knowledge and skills on adult economic, sexual and social behavior before reproducing.
Adolescence is a distinctive human being element of the life cycle. The presence of adolescence in non-human primates provided a basis for the assertion of adolescence as a universal phase of development among human beings. Adolescence is a socially noticeable stage that is a human universal. Historical evidence and records from non-developed societies in the whole world make us believe that the experience of adolescence is universal. In industrialized countries, adolescence is taken as a process of transformation and not a distinctive stage (Bornstein and Lamb86).
The beginning of life is different for every individual. A newborn child makes use of several potential resources that help the child to adapt to the challenges of life. Most of the resources like certain reflexes are inborn while others are learned. Learning begins a few seconds after birth and continues up to death. The number and quality of resources that newborn babies have to cope with challenges in their lives vary from one child to another. These variations can increase or decrease later in life depending on the individual’s life span occurrences (Hendry and Kloep 19).
With the development of technology, researchers have managed to transplant new nerve cells in the adult brain. This is a process known as adult neurogenesis. Adult neurogenesis has become a significant topic because of its allegations for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders and basically all diseases that are related to loss of nerve cells. With the discovery of adult neurogenesis, the life span of human can be prolonged by transplanting new nerve cells in the brain.
This is because it has been justified that the death of brain defines a person’s end (Baltes, Reuter-Lorenz and Rösler 82). Despite the fact that aging is mainly associated to decline, the prospective for fresh learning and plasticity continues finely into the later decades of life. Scientific developments are producing a detailed understanding of the restrictions that biological aging inflicts on cognitive role and innovative insights into how human mind and brain adaptively act in response to the aging process.
Individual lifespan improvement is the aftermath of the co-constructive influences of ecology and ethnicity. Aging go together with global declines in brain configuration in addition to specific and changes that are confined to small areas. This decreases the overall productivity of the person. Even with change of some parts of the body there would still be low production from the person.
There are a number of social factors that affect life. The first on is the access to health care. Life can be adversely affected by lack of good health care. The health of a person largely determines the life span of that person. There are some reasons that may result to lack of good health care, including factors like insufficient funds, assumptions as well as accessibility of these health care clinics. Education is another social factor that affects life, that is, in school you interact with people of different ideologies and characters who greatly influence your life either positively or negatively. In addition, the teacher you meet influences the thinking capacity and the way of reasoning.
The type of work done in school like discussions and debates also affects life. Life is also affected by the kind of employment as well as the wages gained such that, a person employed as a cleaner will have different kind of life from a person working as a banker. These differences are brought about by the interactions and the kind of people you work with. Moreover, the kind of work you undertake may dictate your lifestyle and the way of thinking.
The kind of family that you have been brought up in can affect your life, for instance, a child born in a poor family will have a different kind of life from a child born in a wealthy family. In addition, the number of children in a family determines the kind of life that each child in that family will lead. Moreover, the relationship of the parents and their behavior largely shapes the life of the child, for example, a child born in a family where parents are always in conflict may end up not getting married or my develop a negative attitude towards the opposite sex. There are other factors like sports that affect the life of a person, for instance, sports assist the body to stay healthy and feel rejuvenated (Nies and McEwen 356).
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