outside through sprinklers on a hot June day‚ sipping hot chocolate inside on the blizzardy evenings of December with siblings‚ or cherishing those hilarious family dinner conversations. Now‚ it seems like children of this decade are diseased with this epidemic of technology. Instead of playing outside‚ children are inside in a shadowy cold room with their eyes glued to a television with scenes of gory video games of people shooting each other’s heads off. Family dinner talks turn into family members scattered
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The SARS Epidemic WGU Community and Population Health The SARS Epidemic Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)‚ a form of viral pneumonia‚ emerge as a problem in the first half of 2003 when an unknown virus appeared in Guangdong Province in China‚ and spread to various parts of the world is causing many deaths and panic. "It jolted these countries economic growth‚ disrupted the social life of their citizens‚ and created much stress and strain on their political system and governance"(
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The Effects of Affluenza on Our Fragile Environment _Introduction_ Imagine a world where the impacts of pollution have caused global warming to get to such an extent where it causes the ice caps to melt. This problem will cause the sea levels to rise and as a result thousands of homes will be underwater never to be lived in again. Affluenza is usually described as an endorsement of the flow of wealth that causes a division of classes‚ and loss of financial‚ environmental and emotional balance.
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The Epidemic Of Homelessness And The Impact It Has On The United States Jeff Damitz One of the sociologic problems that have always faced society is the presence of homelessness population in a percentage of societies’ citizens. The National Health Care of the Homeless Council (2014) describes the official definition of homeless at “an individual without permanent housing who may live on the streets; stay in a shelter‚ mission‚ single room occupancy facilities‚ abandoned building or vehicle;
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The politics of land reform and land settlement in Sri Lanka By Sunil Bastian Introduction It is possible to analyse land reforms using a variety of frameworks. The most common one found in literature‚ especially among those concerned about the economy‚ is to link the land reform debate with the objective of achieving agricultural growth. For others who are concerned with rights‚ the purpose is to ensure land rights and poverty alleviation. In recent times the notion of rights based development
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Poverty Negatively Effects Academic Achievement The epidemic of poverty amongst students has been shown to consistently have a negative impact on student’s academic opportunities and achievements. Sadly poverty affects a large amount of students found in the world today and to make matters worse poverty has the power to effect student’s progress even when it strikes in the most indirect of ways. Poverty is affecting a significantly large amount of students worldwide and even though the United
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building outside the Westfield Bondi Junction. And so the ritual begins‚ and it is‚ undeniably‚ the highest and most horrific date on the consumerism calendar‚ Boxing Day. Thousands flock‚ as if like pilgrims to the Vatican‚ where the mall is their cathedral and the ads are their bible. Boxing Day is the reigning idol of consumer religion‚ a senseless and degrading modern tradition that has stemmed from nothing more than the greed of human nature. So what effect does this economic materialism have on us
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Careless Consumerism How much more should we get engrossed in blind consumerism before we take a second to realize its harmful effect on planet Earth‚ our universal home? Nowadays‚ with developing technology and growing globalization‚ all areas of the Earth are brought closer together; however it is only a matter of time before we see it falling apart due to excessive and harmful consumerism. According to the English Oxford Dictionary‚ the modern meaning of the term “consumerism” is “emphasis
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Consumerism is a social and economic order that encourages the purchase of goods and services in ever-greater amounts. The term is often associated with criticisms of consumption starting with Thorstein Veblen. Veblen’s subject of examination‚ the newly emergent middle class arising at the turn of the twentieth century‚ comes to full fruition by the end of the twentieth century through the process of globalization.[1] Sometimes‚ the term "consumerism" is also used to refer to the consumerists movement
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In today’s society consumerism is often portrayed to be a negative aspect of people’s lives and purchasing behaviors which inevitably leads to materialism. Many of these viewpoints can be analyzed as being subjective in that they focus primarily on "frivolous" products and "debts" created‚ but yet fail to acknowledge the processes of the concept of Consumerism. Consumerism is defined as‚ "The movement seeking to protect and inform consumers by requiring such practices as honest packaging and
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