The Bad Effects of The Internet On The Teenagers Brent Staples is an editorial writer for the New York Times. In “What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace”‚ Brent writes about how teenagers nowadays spend too much time on the Internet to communicate with each other‚ and forget to interact with families and friends in the real life. Using the Internet too much cost the teenagers don’t have socializing‚ the real world experience that would allow them to leave teenagers behind
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addressing several inaccuracies in the editorial. The title of the editorial catches our attention straight away. It establishes a sense of moral values and appeals to ethos. The “good” in the title refers to the ‘self-respecting’ citizens; the “bad” refers to the graffiti artists and the “ugly” refers to graffiti itself. This serves to separate the principled and upright members of society from the graffiti artists. The demoralizing effects of graffiti are strengthened by the accompanying
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Why is Texting Bad? Picture a bus‚ subway‚ or a party where everyone is on their phones. It looks dumb‚ right? No one is talking because everybody has their nose buried in their phones. According to techst.com‚ there are almost 16 million texts sent every minute due to the growth of texting in our society. Although texting is a valuable way to communicate‚ it takes the emotions out of a conversation. It also makes people feel insecure about having more than one thought and it alters our real life
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Late Night Cup of Coffee: Bad for Sleep Sleep is very important to human beings especially because it allows both our minds and body to rest. It sorts out and arranges our memory and it is necessary for our body to function well. In fact about 40% of a person’s day is allocated to sleep throughout adolescence. However‚ adolescents who are people aged 12 to 18 years need 9 hours of sleep but on average most teens get 7 hours only (Mindell and Owens 30). A variety of factors contributes to the tendency
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Breaking bad habits: classical conditioning and smoking Smokers find it difficult to quit because the environment is full of signals associated with smoking cigarettes. Sarah Horrigan Addictions are difficult to break as we usually surround ourselves with people‚ paraphernalia or situations that trigger the behaviour that led to the addiction in the first place. But psychological conditioning can be used to break bad habits. Over a century ago‚ the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov made a discovery
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Competition is something that everyone has in his or her life. When you are young and still studying in school‚ you would compete with your classmates for better grades‚ when you get older and go to work‚ you would compete with your colleagues so as to please the boss more with your work and get a promotion to a higher position with better salary. Companies compete with each other to get more customers and slowly expand their business. Countries compete with each other for a better economy. Even
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Bad Side of Sports Trophies‚ gold medals‚ and awards are some of the reason you might play a sport. But there is something else that you can also get in trying to achieve your goal. All the work you put in for a particular sport can set you up for success and also can set up for failure. Also‚ it can leave you with something that you will remember for the rest of your life. In a lot of the things that you do like practice‚ exercising athletics need to also protect themselves. While playing sports
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the U.S. can do become unemployed. The problem that causes a debate over outsourcing is even though it promises a better life for all involved; it causes hardships on the American workers when they are laid off. Economists argue that outsourcing is a bad choice because of the workers that are being laid off and displaced. Outsourcing affects lower skilled jobs that include but are not limited to‚ customer service representatives‚ telemarketing‚ document management‚ medical transcription‚ tax preparation
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Bad Effects of Drugs Drugs are a problem in all societies around the world‚ and have been for centuries. Drug addiction causes many of social problems‚ and causes many people to suffer from its effects. The problems can be divided into three groups: personal‚ familial‚ and societal. The first effect of drugs is addiction. Most drugs cause a very nice feeling called a ‘high’‚ which makes the drug user do anything to get that feeling again. This is called addiction. On the other hand‚ many drugs
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The author’s comments: Quotes My final piece of writing is my favorite. “Technology: Good or Bad for Youth?” is the paper I felt the most confident in turning in. I spent tons of time researching for this topic. Since this topic really relates to me I had a great time doing the research. I did not enjoy finding the truth that technology is not good for our youth‚ because I’m a technology lover myself. I really like the way I was able to support my ideas clearly throughout the paper. The thing
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