All throughout America there is an epidemic of something horrible: FWP( First World problems). This is something that all first world people encounter in their lives no matter how hard they try to avoid it. One of the main FWP I often face is the over exaggeration of hunger such as when I say “I’m starving.” In every privileged first world child’s life‚ they have in all probability likely said the words “I’m starving” referring to the slightest bit of hunger. Although some first world children
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chemistry. This chemical imbalance within the brain sometimes leads doctors to play the “hit and miss” game when prescribing medication to those who suffer with mental illnesses. This leads me to the theme from the film Depression: The misunderstood epidemic‚ according to Russ “ I can go in and ask my doctors to give me this medication and he says done‚ this other medication and he says done. They are handing out medication like it was nothing”. A lack of knowledge within the mental health field sometimes
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The Poaching Epidemic Animal wildlife is something that should be treasured and protected‚ not devastated by inconsiderate poachers. Poaching has contributed to the extinction of animal species all over the world. Some of the species that have been affected and have gone extinct are the Tasmanian tiger‚ the eastern cougar‚ the eastern elk‚ the black rhino and numerous amounts of bird species (IDA). Poachers usually kill wildlife in order to make tax free profit from the wildlife’s resources which
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Homeless Epidemic In America Being homeless is the biggest epidemic in modern day America next to health care. As the numbers climb the local and federal governments have no answers as to why. As 407‚966 people are homeless the local cities need a answer to this problem. With the homeless drug addicts roaming the streets and committing crimes. Also with them bringing down the looks of the local neighborhoods we need to build a bigger homeless shelter for this people to be able to go. That is
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Reflection Paper: Week One 1/15/2011 I really enjoyed the video for this week “The Meth Epidemic”. I did not realize the amount of people that are affected by such a drug and how it started off in the state of Oregon. In the video‚ they mentioned that meth is the fastest growing drug abuse in the United States. This is such a scary thought because of how harmful this drug is to the human body. What I found the most disturbing was the companies that made the cold medicine used to “cook” meth
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In regard to this analysis this essay will reflect on each different aspect these authors bring forth in their writings concerning the topic “Fear.” The first author who will be discussed within this essay is Frank Furedi. As he is the one that started this essay on the trail of finding how different authors reflect on this topic of fear. Furedi starts his topic with “The only thing we have to fear is the “culture of fear” itself” (Furedi‚ 2007‚ pg. 1). In stating his argument that” fear is playing
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bleed"(199) She Martian that there is no legitimate distinction between rape and pornography‚ describing pornography as "sexual terrorism" () Implicit to virtually every aspect of Mackinnon’s arguments is the assumption that women are unmitigated‚ unequal perpetual victims of human sexuality. This argument is harmful to the feminist cause because it divorces women from their sexuality. It creates a double standard in which women are inherently degraded by sex‚ but men are not. It perpetuates the
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Affluenza is an epidemic which effects millions of people in the United States. "Until this century [20th]‚ to consume was considered a bad thing" says Jeremy Rifkin an expert on affluenza ( Gross ). The victims of affluenza are consumers who work long hours at a job they hate so they can buy things which they don ’t need ( Fight Club ). Like AIDS‚ affluenza has spread quickly throughout the United States showing no prejudice of race‚ sex or color. However‚ unlike AIDS‚ affluenza
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of course‚ they got divorced. We lived together! How did this happen?” Cohabitation in the United States has increased by more than 1‚500 percent in the past half century. In 1960‚ about 450‚000 unmarried couples lived together. Now the number is more than 7.5 million. The majority of young adults in their 20s will live with a romantic partner at least once‚ and more than half of all marriages will be preceded by cohabitation. This shift has been attributed to the sexual revolution and the availability
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The Potato Epidemic One fine morning in the Kingdom of Sandwiches‚ SandwichKing and Sandwich‚ his pet‚ were going for a walk. Suddenly‚ green potatoes‚ “The SWAT‚” came out of nowhere and asked a million questions about mashed potatoes? Then suddenly‚ as fast as they had appeared‚ they disappeared. “Who was that?” asked SandwichKing‚ “And what do they want with mashed potatoes? Whatever.” Then SandwichKing and Sandwich continued on their walk. The next day‚ when SandwichKing looked out his window
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