OPEN UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT Course Code: OUMH1203 Course Title: English for Written Communication Name: Ali Maseeh Student ID Number: S12725781 Telephone: 7959787 Email address: iammaseeh@gmail.com Lecturers’ Name: Zidhna Waheed Learning Centre: Villa Collage‚ Fuvahmulah Campus Trimester: May 2012 CONTENT Details Page Numbers Content 02 Pros and Cons of allowing death penalty in Maldives 3-5
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Media messaging has a negative effect on body image. In a recent study of fifth grade girls‚ the majority said that they were unhappy with their body image after watching a Britney Spears music video. If only one school of fifth grade girls thought this‚ could the rest of the middle school to high school students think the same? In modern day America‚ almost all icons on television‚ in movies‚ and also in the music industry‚ are all very skinny and well built. "It’s partly because fashion‚ film and
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are younger than the age of 18 have good political opinions as well. Those teenagers are left unheard‚ because they are not of legal age for political voting when it comes to electing a president. Denying them the right to vote denies them a voice in our democracy. Most people around me believe that the voting age should also be lowered‚ and each of them care more about politics than most of the adults we know. If teenagers were able to vote‚ then there wouldn’t be a controversial topic on making
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Teenage Suicide Each and every year teenagers take their own lives. Some reasons that teenagers commit suicide‚ or contemplate committing suicide are family stress‚ issues with school‚ and problems with relationships among friends‚ peers‚ and love. Firstly‚ a reason for a teenager to commit suicide is complications with family life at home. The teenager’s parents may fight a lot causing the teen to feel that the fight is because of something that they did. If parents become divorced it can
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http://sociallyactive.com/social-media-effect/ THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON TEENAGERS As parents‚ we strive day in and day out to provide healthy meals‚ drive our kids to soccer practice‚ cheer at the games; attend parent-teacher meetings at school and teach them to say “no” to drugs and other bad habits. While we are busy covering all the basics of being a good parent‚ we can be far too oblivious of the effects the social media is having on children. Kids today are as technologically connected as
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The Competition: Maintaining Advantage Maintaining competitive advantage in today ’s ever-changing business environment is not a simple task. For any company to maintain a competitive advantage‚ the company must develop the advantage such that it is "rare‚ costly to imitate‚ no substitutable‚ and nontransferable" (Snyman‚ J.H.‚ 2006). Along these lines‚ Michael Porter has provided five competitive forces that can assist any company in maintaining the advantage. These forces are "the entry of
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Competitive advantages are strengths and strategies that keep a company ahead of its competitors. It is hard to measure competitive advantage and harder to maintain it. Some competitive advantages are fleeting. The successful companies are those that leverage their competitive advantage successfully and repeatedly. As understood by us in the above example the competitive advantage that the cyrptoses enjoy is a direct outcome of its natural habitat and hence the circumstantial gain over its rivals
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Issues with Teenagers and Alcohol Abuse People have been drinking alcohol for thousands of years‚ and attitudes about alcohol have fluctuated greatly over the centuries. It has gone from being an accepted form of relaxation to being a tool of the devil and recently it has risen to the number one drug of choice among North American teenagers. Alcohol is classified as a drug because of its effects on the body. It is not digested like a food; instead it is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and
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Drug Use Among Teenagers While I was conducting my research‚ I located the actual survey results and decided to include them with this essay. (I included them at the end of my essay). ~~~ The three main drugs that are used among teenagers are Marijuana‚ LSD‚ and a variety of inhalants. The use of these drugs seem to be of an astronomical amount according to the survey conducted by the University of Michigan. Marijuana is a green‚ brown‚ or gray mixture of dried‚ shredded flowers and leaves of
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March 2013 Effects of Sex in the Media on Adolescents Everywhere we go the media is always around us. Through television‚ radio‚ internet‚ movies‚ video games; we cannot escape media’s influence. The media is full of sexual images and themes that can be unhealthy for a growing mind to view. The prevalence of overtly sexual content in the media influences teenagers to be promiscuous. The abundance of sexual material in the media is influencing teenagers to make unhealthy choices about sex
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