Getting distracted by mobile devices while driving‚ can lead to many fatal accidents. According to the National Safety Council‚ there are over 1‚600‚00 accidents every year caused by distracted drivers using their cell phones on the road. That’s nearly 25% of ALL car accidents! A great majority of reason why drivers use their phones while driving isn’t solely because of texting- as that is one of the more common reason people are used to hearing. Instead‚ many drivers are carelessly checking on their
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any substance taken by some people to get certain effect‚ such as happiness and excitement. Driving from these definitions above‚ drugs can be classified into two categories; 1] the soft Drug e.g. antibiotics and analgesics. 2] The hard drugs e.g. cocaine‚ marijuana heroin e.t.c. Consequently‚ a drug addict is said to be someone whose life has become dependent on drugs‚ hence drug abuse. Cause of drug abuse among youth; There are two primary causes of drug abuse among the youths. These are 1] peer
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Global Warming: Causes and Effects The term “global warming” is often used synonymously with the term climate change‚ but the two terms have distinct meanings. Global Warming is a gradual increase in the earth’s temperature. Novdia explained that “global warming refers to the documented historical warming of the Earth’s surface‚ based upon worldwide temperature records that have been maintained by humans since the 1880s” (Global Warming). Global warming is a major crisis in the world today. Three
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heavy drinking on the brain remain hot topics in alcohol research today.” (NIAAA) The effects of alcoholism have been divided into groups. There are physical effects‚ psychological effects and effects that contribute to many other health‚ safety‚ social and econimical problems. Some physical effects of excessively drinking alcohol can be extremely serious‚ or even fatal. One physical effect of alcoholism is causing cancer in the liver‚ kidney and stomach. Alcohol abuse is the leading
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Childhood Obesity: Cause and Effect December 3‚ 2012 Childhood Obesity Gone are the days of children playing hide and seek outside‚ walking long distances to and from school‚ walking to a friend’s house to play on the weekends and walking to the bus stop to go to mall with friends and in essence exerting physically. It is rare to find a child carrying a sack lunch to school which would include a healthy lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches‚ an apple and perhaps a cookie or chips
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Causes and Effects of World Hunger There are many causes and effects for World Hunger. One cause of world hunger is the political condition. Another cause for world hunger is the economic conditions. World hunger is also cause by the environmental conditions. Whenever‚ there is a war the food production actually stops and so does the marketing. The food supplies are often given to the soldiers during a war and the children actually suffer from health issues as a result of the lack of food
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The Causes and Effects of Poverty Sociology 402 “What is poverty? Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job‚ is fear for the future‚ living one day at a time. Poverty is losing a child to illness brought about by unclean water. Poverty is powerlessness‚ lack of representation
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the Earth is warming‚ it is also about how fast it is warming. There have always been natural climate changes – Ice Ages and the warm intermediate times between them – but those evolved over periods of 50‚000 to 100‚000 years. A temperature rise as fast as the one we have seen over the last 30 years has never happened before‚ as far as scientists can ascertain. Moreover‚ normally the Earth should now be in a cool-down-period‚ according to natural effects like solar cycles and volcano activity‚ not
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which is worse‚ the causes or effects of selling drugs. The causes of selling drugs are the desperate need for money in most cases. They think they can get rich overnight and that will solve their problems. Most of the "ghetto" drug dealers happen to grow up in that type environment all their life and they tend to pick it up. Selling is believed by the drug dealers as the easiest and quickest way to make money. It has become a trend for some people. Selling may be easy and fast‚ but it carries many
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The Cause and Effect of a Great Marriage Your Name Instructor: English Composition I April 31‚ 2013 The Cause and Effect of Getting Married
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