Historian Daniel J. Boorstin once said‚ “Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge”. Boorstin believes that technology is fun and is helpful to society‚ but technology can be overused and can take over our knowledge‚ which can take over our thoughts‚ feelings‚ and emotions. Nowadays most people prefer reading online rather than reading a print book‚ which has changed our society today in numerous helpful‚ yet hazardous ways. Ray Bradbury’s
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Technology helps problems created by it! Quote Anonymous. For the skeptic minds‚ this quotation is enough to rest the debate‚ however for many‚ it becomes important to make them see the other side of the picture as well. Social networking‚ news and knowledge on the go‚ cures and diagnosis of many diseases‚ connectivity around the world and turning the world in to a global village are some of the benefits of the technology. Sadly‚ humans have become so shallow that we close our eyes to any harmful
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become the best in their league are now falling short due to overuse injuries. With childhood obesity increasing‚ U.S. citizens have overlooked the overuse injuries that affect the active youth. In 2003 more than 3.5 million children under age 15 suffered a sports injury that required medical treatment‚ thats about one attended injury for every 10 players‚ and seventy-five percent of those injuries were the result of overuse (Hyman‚ 2009). Overuse injuries occur over a long peroid of time and occur after
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seen sports injuries are overuse injuries‚ strains‚ and skeletal injuries. An overuse injury falls into the soft tissue injury category. Overuse injuries are subtle and usually occur over time‚ making them challenging to diagnose and treat. They are the result of repetitive micro-trauma to the tendons‚ bones‚ and joints. Common examples include tennis elbow‚ swimmers shoulder‚ pitching elbow‚ runners knee‚ Achilles tendinitis‚ and shin splints. Te best way to treat an overuse injury is to stay off it
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pitchers tend to overwork themselves‚ and the parents encourage the intense training because they are blinded by competition. Intense training or overworking is more formally known as overuse. According to Dr. Eric Parks‚ the author of "Prevention of Overuse Injuries in Young Baseball Pitchers‚" the definition of overuse is the repetitive micro-traumas a player experiences (Parks and Ray 514). Eric Parks is
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An ongoing‚ and unfortunately growing‚ problem in the United States is pediatric overuse of antibiotics. The audience to whom the responsibility of this problem falls includes pediatricians and family practice physicians who are in the position to prescribe and administer antibiotics to children. Antibiotics have been one of man’s greatest discoveries in the medical realm; saving thousands of lives that would have otherwise succumb to harmful‚ disease-causing bacteria.1 However‚ with the discovery
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What are the effects of the over-use of computer on people’s health In modern society ‚ the computer has become an indispensable tool in people’s lives and work ‚ but it also increasingly becoming a ‘double-edged sword’.When it bring people’s live and work quickly while also quietly endanger people’s health. According to the survey‚ those who over-use the computer feel tired eyes accounted for 83%‚low back pain accounted for 63.9%‚ loss of appetite and headaches accounted for 56.1% and 54.4%‚
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occurred in our world is the development of technology. Technology has been invented to address society´s problems and to fulfill its growing desire for speed and convenience. We “interact” with technologies on a daily basis. However‚ technology is not always the panacea it seems to be‚ because it carries a lot of problems with it. Whereas in the past‚ technology was a relatively rare ocurrence‚ in recent times it has become commonplace. Technology has changed our lives forever. A good example
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Human Overuse of Resources Calls for Second Earth According to a UK study‚ growth of the population and an increasing consumption of resources could leave humans in need of a second planet as early as 2030. Human demands on natural resources have doubled in less than 50 years‚ according to the Living Planet Report. The rate at which resources are being utilized with the population as is – or growing – will exceed the capacity of the planet in about 30 years. The report also said tropical
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Groundwater Use and Overuse The biggest reservoir of fresh‚ liquid water on earth is groundwater. There is more than 20 times as much water stored within the ground as in all the lakes and rivers combined. In many parts of the world‚ agricultural‚ industrial‚ and domestic water demands can only be met by pumping water out of the ground. As you’ll see in the diagram below‚ wells work only if they penetrate the water table - the name given to the subsurface boundary that separates saturated and
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