Quinceañera

Quinceañera is a movie about a 15 year old chicana named Magdalena who is having a quinceañera but,she faces many problems along the way. Magdalena's cousin Maria just had her quinceañera and it was what Magdalena dreamed of, stretch hummer limo, great music, lots of friends, and a gorgeous dress. However, her Quinceañera won't be as big as Maria's because her family isn't as wealthy as her aunt and uncle. She finds out that she won't be having a stretch hummer limo or a great party, but worst of all she won't be wearing a dress of her own instead her dad decided to ask Maria if she could lend her dress to magdalena. So then she goes to her aunt's house to try on her cousins dress but since she's a little bugger than her cousin they have to make the dress a little bigger. Magdalena's dad is the preacher at church so his expectations for his daughter are very high, but she has a boyfriend named Herman which her parents aren't aware of. To make matters worse she later finds out that she is pregnant! But she doesn't understand how because she swears she's a virgin. Magdalena has a pretty close relationship with her boyfriend and he seems to be comforting and understandable, even when he finds out that she's pregnant. However, when he suddenly stopped calling she decides to go look for at his house, but when his mother opens the door she informs her that Herman has left the state. Worse of all Herman's mom tells Magdalena to leave Herman alone and to stop perverting him and she doesn't believe that the baby she's having is Herman's.

When Magdalena tells her dad that she is pregnant he gets furious and she decides to run away to her great uncles house. There she finds support from her uncle and cousin who is also staying at her uncles house. Later on she finds out her uncle is gay and soon after that her uncle dies. Thankfully her cousin tells her that he'll take responsibility for her baby. At the end her father forgives her because she lets him know that she didn't have sex, what happened was that some of Herman's sperm landed near her and got her pregnant. Magdalena has a quinceañera even though she is pregnant and "lives happily ever after."

This movie relates to my topic because it shows all the problems a pregnant teen can face.

Library research

Most of the research i found wasn't really that helpful because the article was published in 1998 so the information wasn't that accurate. However there was some surprising information that I did not know about. For example i did not know that up to nine times as many teenagers give birth in the United States as in other industrialized countries. Another fact that made think was that back in 1998 American youths under the age of 15 were becoming sexually active, so if that was 9 years ago i wonder at what age youths become sexually active today??? I do wish i would have found some more recent articles on my topic, but this article did help me find out somethings i did not know before.

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=5ZKCA2azp8M (part 1) http://youtube.com/watch?v=fu_qqyiWgsg (part 2)

This video is very informational in several ways. Her story reveals the true details behind a pregnancy, details that plenty of young teenagers do not know. I like how she describes every step of her pregnancy with so much detail that she illustrates a picture in your head. At the end she provides some advice to all the young girls who are considering the fact of having a baby or who are having sexual intercourse, about how it completely changes your life. She says that she does adore her baby but that she does wish it would of happened later on in her life. Her situation was quite moving because she gave birth to her child knowing that she wouldn't have the fathers support considering the fact that he was in jail. I believe this video is such an educational video to so many young girls who are ignorant on this topic.

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Teenage pregnancy is a topic which everyone should be informed of. Plenty of teenagers at our own school have gotten themselves into a not so great situation by getting pregnant. My belief is that there might be a probability that many students are not well informed on sexual intercourse and how to prevent it. Plenty of students have sexual relations without being aware of the dramatic consequences which they can face. Almost all of the teenagers who have gotten pregnant haven't gotten pregnant because they wanted a child it is mostly because unprotected sex or an "accident." However this "accident" as they may call it is an enormous responsibility that changes your life completely, this why many teenagers turn to abortion as a solution to their "accident." I believe all teenagers should be well informed on what sexual intercourse can bring and ways to protect yourself from getting pregnant. as mentioned before getting pregnant is a huge responsibility. This topic relates to my life because many of my young family members have gotten pregnant without being ready mentally or physically.