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    Many citizens attempt to discover the reason for the obesity pandemic occurring across the world‚ however few understand the true cause. Media attempts to portray the simpler cause of inadequate energy balance‚ consuming the proper amount of calories to energy expenditure. Conversely‚ the quality of the calories consumed drastically alters the end result. For example‚ consuming excess sugar with limited fiber leads to the creation of fat. The directors of Fed Up raise awareness of the many other

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    Slavery in the South Slavery in the south was a very negative experience for the Africans that were forcefully enslaved and brought over to North America more specifically Jamestown‚ Virginia in 1619. The journey across the Atlantic was treacherous many didn’t survive due to sickness‚ starvation‚ or merely being murdered like cattle and thrown overboard. Eventually the sharks started following the ships for food because slaves were being thrown over so frequently‚ the sharks didn’t have any reason

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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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    Negative Effects of Media on Children The media evidently has a noticeable impact on our lives and behaviours and especially the immature‚ impressionable and weak-minded people in our society. In a short span of time‚ most children can imitate a movie character‚ sing an advertising song‚ or show other impressions of what they learn from media. These examples may include posing indecently or expressing violent behaviour. Children only have to put a movie into a DVD player‚ open a magazine‚

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    The world is constantly changing and evolving. Humans have played a large role in these changes. We have come far since the time of man creating the wheel. One of the areas that humans have improved on the some of the years is medical technology. The life expectancy for the average human being is now eighty years old compared to back in the day where someone would be lucky if they made it to their mid thirties. Medical advancements have done more than just help humans live longer. In today society

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    confinement can be defined as torture because it often causes prisoners to lose their mental stability‚ or make their mental state worse. Social interaction is beyond important to humans. Humans are social creatures‚ and it can cause detrimental effects on us if we don’t socialize regularly. Forcing humans to go without this interaction can cause them great mental harm. There are a whole host of psychological consequences that are associated with long-term solitary confinement in Supermax prisons

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    editorial staff to ensure the reliability of information. • Can be manipulated and rigged • By simply linking a large amount of web pages to a certain site to increase its popularity. (“Google Bombing”) • Social networking sites can have negative implications on relationships o Causes superficial (lack of intimacy) relationships • Under the illusion of intimacy • We are being kept in the loop with what our friends and family are up to‚ so we wouldn’t have to regularly call them up or go

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    many different types of ways. Sometimes conformity can be used in a bad way like in behavior like changing to fit in. Then‚ it can be used in a good way like when a person can look up to someone to be there for them. Conformity can be used in many negative ways like a person changing who they really are just to fit in. When one is forced to be like by others part self respect is lost because never should a person to like something because they have to. “You lose something priceless and precious

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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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    exploration. Columbus sailed and found that the European colonists and explorers sounded the horn first‚ encouraging them to set off a wave in succession to the new world‚ thus opens the process of human globalization. Countries such as Spain‚ Portugal‚ Italy‚ Germany‚ Britain‚ and the Netherlands have traveled immediately throughout the new world. Whereas Christopher Columbus and his crew were not the first people to cruise the western hemisphere‚ they were the first to be heralded for discovery the

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