Dangers of Communication Technology What can a parent do when they have a teenage son or daughter who texts while driving at 87mph? Or they were talking to an online predator? What could a parent do to prevent something from happening? Many people have cell phones and internet and there are positives but there are also dangers and because of that there are prevention strategies to protect people. There are many positives to having communication technology but at times the disadvantages are too severe
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Soil Liquefaction Dangers During Earthquakes An earthquake brings a number of hazards: • Ground shaking and shifting can cause major damage‚ tearing apart houses‚ buildings‚ and roads. • Flooding that arises from broken water dams or river levees is another hazard. • Tsunamis‚ triggered by an undersea earthquake as well as seiches – waves coming from lakes shaken by a temblor – can submerge whole communities‚ sweep away edifices‚ topple trees and drown people. • Fire is another seismic hazard
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who shot unarmed black people is that they thought they were carrying a gun. The people in this video take this to the logical extreme and go around African-American neighbourhoods replacing everyone’s wallets with ones of a different colour. “The Danger of a Single Story” is a TED talk in which Chimamanda Adichie recounts how we perceive the world through stories‚ and how letting one story dominate the perception of a people can have disastrous consequences. I‚ for one‚ agree with all of their points
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The Dangers of the Drinking Age In this article‚ Jeffrey A. Miron and Elina Tetelbaum argue against the belief that a drinking age of 21 years old saves lives and prevents students from drinking. Their argument is that raising the drinking age to 21 has had many unintended consequences. These consequences include: a rise in binge drinking and disrespect for the law. They use statistics to support their major points and counteract opposing views. “For the past 20 years‚ the United States has kept a Minimum Legal Drinking Age
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The Dangers of using Performance-Enhancing Drugs A serious problem in sports today is doping (e.g.‚ performance-Enhancing drugs) due to the fact these drug are dangerous when use at high doses; Especially Amphetamine‚ anabolic steroids‚ and the human growth hormone. Athletes who use performance-enhancing drugs not only risk their career but they also risk their lives. Is doping necessarily a bad thing? In 2004‚ sports academic Lincoln
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This article is another informative work on the dangers on distracted driving. This article‚ however‚ includes distractions from hands-free devices that allow one to have a phone conversation without holding a phone to his or her ear. A study showed that someone texting or having a conversation on a wireless headset drove as poorly as someone whose blood alcohol concentration was above the legal limits in Australia and Spain‚ where this was tested (0.5 grams per liter). The study also found that
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1. Is nursing in danger of losing its designation as a "profession" if it fails to maintain educational entry levels comparable to those of other health professions? Why or Why not? Yes‚ it is in danger of losing its designation as a profession because nursing allows individuals with no college course work‚ or with limited college study to be able to call themselves nurses (Huston‚ 2017‚ pg.9). As other professions are increasing their entry levels‚ nursing is not. This leads to an education disparity
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Listening to Chimamanda Adichie speak was very eyeopening. She speaks about the “Danger of a Single Story”. She talks about how if you hear a single story‚ and show people as one thing‚ over and over again it eventually becomes true and makes the group of people that thing. Adichie talks about how her American roommate could not understand how she spoke english well‚ use a stove‚ and she even asked to her Adichie’s tribal music. She talks about how her roommate pitied her before she even knew
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According to the Harvard Medical School‚ medical experts are disturbed about the dangers of using low testosterone therapy as currently‚ a significant size of the American society is on low testosterone therapy. They are of the opinion that the currently reported minimal side effects could add up to more serious dangers after a long period of use. This implies that the safety of low testosterone therapy isn’t clear yet. Fact is that low testosterone therapy can relatively boost testosterone level
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The story tells of Frankenstein who brought a human-made form into life who ultimately turns on his creator. This was a lesson on some of the dangers that are associated with technology; that keep increasing in depth and intensity as the level of development of technology increases. One of the movies that shows the danger of technology is the space odyssey‚ where the ship’s computer system named HAL starts to gradually show bizarre behavior leading up to a tense showdown between
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