Addiction among Greek University Students: Demographic Associations with the Phenomenon‚ using the Greek version of Young’s Internet Addiction Test Christos C. Frangos1‚ Constantinos C. Frangos2 and Apostolos P. Kiohos3 Abstract Internet addiction (IA) is a new disorder described in 1996 by the psychologist Kimberly Young. The aim of this paper is to estimate the percentage of IA among Greek university students. Results of a sample survey among 1876 Greek university students‚ 18-27 years old‚ are presented
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ending unallowable parts. Censorship can be a good‚ or a bad thing. The good part about censorship‚ is that it helps end things that are not useful. The bad part is‚ it sometimes is not needed‚ extremely debatable whether it should be questioned or not‚ or it can cause a huge ruckus. In the article‚ “Fighting Against Tradition‚” by Emily Scott‚ it talks about how Emily’s high school newspaper staff used censorship to try and stop students from disrespecting their school mascot in a manipulative way
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The educational system in America is a popular and controversial topic. Opinions on what school can do or cannot do for our youth vary by who is speaking. John Holt‚ author of the essay‚ “School is Bad for Children‚” makes a plea in his essay to‚ “Free children from the classroom‚ a “dull and ugly place‚ where nobody ever says anything very truthful”(72). Throughout the essay‚ he expresses his emotions clearly against sending children to school. He believes that sending and having a child taught
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A Bad Day Everyone has gone through bad times in their life. It is the moment when you wish the earth would open up and swallow you. The embarrassment and discomfort felt during that time which may only last a few seconds feels like the time has stood still. I woke up at 6.00 am‚ when I was rudely awakened by my screaming alarm clock. I pounded on it until I found the ‘snooze’ button. My eyelids felt heavy and dropped down. Tiredness got the best of me. I rolled back over to catch a few more
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Smoking is Bad! According to the American Lung Association‚ there are estimated 50 million people who smoke. Smoking kills more people than any other disease in the world‚ 5.4 million death in 2004 and more than 100 million over the twentieth century. However‚ smokers do not fully understand the risks they take by smoking. It affects a person physically and mentally‚ economically and socially. First of all‚ smoking affects a smoker physically and mentally. Nicotine in cigarettes or cigars is a
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with a mind set that D’s were passing and at the time that’s all that mattered. It gave me more time to be with friends and less with school. But I was in for a wake up call my second year of high school when I was called in by my counselor. “Okay students‚ I’m going to pass back your transcripts so you can review what you have taken and what you need to take.” At the time I felt pretty confident after all‚ I had not failed any classes freshmen nor sophomore year. As Ms. Foster went down the list of
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motivation and you want to make them proud‚ so you try your hardest. Homeschooling you have the choice of what you learn‚ or will learn‚ sometimes even your parent’s interests or morals as well. Homeschooling is one on one attention‚ and in most cases is bad since parents are the only teacher’s it is easier to just do their child’s work for them if they do not understand it. One on one attention is only good if you have a child that has special needs and needs more time learning. Also if your parent is
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including over 60 known to cause cancer. Some of these substances cause heart and lung diseases too‚ and all of them can be deadly. Tobacco smoke also contains tar and the poison gases carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide. The ingredient that produces the effect people are looking for is nicotine‚ an addictive drug and one of the harshest chemicals in tobacco smoke. Smoking accounts for at least 30% of all cancer deaths in the United States and 87% of lung cancer deaths. Smoking also causes cancers of the
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Smoking A Bad Habit There are lots of negative effects of smoking. Smoking has been proven to be very dangerous for health. As one cigarette contains more than 4000 chemical substances‚ therefore‚ it causes for many dangerous diseases such as heart attacks‚ asthma‚ bronchitis or lung cancer. According to a recent report in Britain close to 3‚500 people are killed each year in road accidents and 120‚000 are killed by smoking. Furthermore‚ smoking costs governments millions of dollars because of the
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the more land the more power. Because government leaders want power‚ there is war‚ and because of war millions of people are fleeing their countries to Europe where they could be safe from war. Most people would agree that if a leader did something bad out out of greed and power the people should not be blamed.Non powerful people should not be killed for the ruler’s actions.
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