English Essay about Childhood-Adulthood 托福谈成年未成年

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Writing topic

People recognize a difference between children and adults. What events--experiences or ceremonies--make a child an adult? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your answer.


Outline 大纲

Thesis主题--the difference between childhood and adulthood is measured by age and mentality
Structure结构--4 paragraphs, focusing on thesis
Content内容--reasons and examples supporting thesis

1.起 ages are celebrated by ceremonies in life, and mental maturity through experiences
2.承 ceremonies mark stages of life
3.转 experiences quide childhood to adulthood
4.合the state of mind always allows childhood to stay in adulthood


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Age is a period of time as well as a state of mind. It is physically recognizable between children and adults. But that is more than we can say for immature minds and mature minds. There are ceremonies such as birthdays and baptism to mark physical life from stage to stage, while it takes experiences in experiments characterized by confusion in no-longer childhood and not-yet adulthood. This confusing period of prolonged adolescence witnesses a child becoming a man or a woman.

Teenagers are adolecents clearly marked in ages from 13 to 19, apparently time enough to find their way to adulthood. It happens to be the most difficult, if not the most important stage of life, being a transitional period for physical changes which are to leave childhood behind. During this prolonged period, it is generally agreed that girls tend to advance physically faster than boys into adulthood because of biological differences. That transformation is, of course, easier to tell than what is less obvious: maturity.

The immature minds of adults-to-be show a lack of experiences in being responsible for themselves and for others around them. Maturity grows up along with responsibility. The carefree childhood seemingly has to disappear, giving way for adulthood to enter into life. When the time comes, young minds become ready to face an adult life on their own, independent of the protection of their parents. That is, the child turns into the adult.

In fact, childhood never dies in adulthood. It just fades away. This is particularly true of the period of adolescence moving from the stage of childhood to the stage of adulthood. Now crying like children, now dreaming to conquer the complexity of life like grown-ups. In later stages of life as a journey, being sometimes childish in adulthood does nothing wrong to maturity. Human beings grow old. But it does not mean having to lose innocence altogether.