marijuana are the most frequently used drugs in and on college campuses. 84% of students report they have used drugs in the last year they prevalence of marijuana rose To 24% between 93-99 ‚ 4% use cocaine ‚ and 5% use hallucinogens . The number 1 drug of choice is alcohol college students are also binge drinking ! It is impacting there social life ‚ health and there education . They are using drugs to help them stay awake to pull
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his stage name‚ Andre Nickatina‚ or by his previous stage name Dre Dog. In a review of Andre Nickatina’s album “HELL’S KITCHEN” the lyrics were described as “blunt” and “unaware” his lyrics were coming off to others and influencing youth to commit crimes and glorify drug abuse. Author Donald F. Roberts stated in an article recently
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Studies show between 25% and 50% of homeless youth are LGBT‚ and on the streets because of their sexual orientation. Half of the youth who come out to their parents experience a negative reaction and in 26% of these experiences the child is thrown out of their home. Gay teens are 8.4 times more likely to report trying to commit suicide‚ and 5.9 times more likely to report being depressed compared to teens from families that have no or low chance of family rejection. The average GPA for LGBT students
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Negative Effects of Advertising on American Youth From the past decades‚ technology has advanced at a rapid pace‚ and today‚ the technology cannot be compared to that of the past decades‚ it terms of efficiency and complexity. Technology is useful in various spheres in the world‚ including the business sphere. One of the ways through which companies use technology is through advertising and marketing. Through this‚ companies communicate with consumers‚ mainly creating awareness about their new
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Runaway youth is a serious problem that America faces today. Whether it’s just a youth’s way of trying to hurt their parent’s feelings‚ threating to run away is no laughing matter. Sometimes it’s not a threat to run away‚ sometimes they leave unannounced leaving the parent usually with grief‚ anger‚ and confusion. Between 1.6-2.8 million youth run away each year in the United States (The Truth About Runaway Teens‚ 2013). Those numbers are just the numbers of youth running away. Even when a youth runs
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children that can be more affected by watching television are the children or the youth. This is commonly noticed while the children or youth are left in the comfort of their home and boredom knocks in. Based on the previous cases studied by the researchers‚ there are two opposing effects in watching television – positive and negative effects. The main aim of this study is to investigate the effect of television on youth. In order to provide the information needed‚ there are objectives that can help
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teenagers spend two hours watching television and one and a half hours is spent surfing the internet each day. Many teens usually spend sleepless nights on social media without the knowledge of their parents. This disruption of sleep has had numerous effects on teenagers. It has led to cases of insomnia‚ mood swings and increase obesity. Studies have also shown that‚ certain groups of teenagers are prone to violence because of media influence. Watching too much television takes teenagers further away
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XXXXX page 1 Ms. XXXX XXXXXXXX Prep Writing 2 XX September 2011 The Negative Effects Of Media On Our Youth Of all the different types of media out there‚ television seems to have the biggest grip on our youth. Consider these startling statistics from studies by Dr. David Walsh. For example‚ the average house in America has 2.6 television sets and 56% of children have a TV in their room. Teenagers spend ½ hour a week with Dad alone‚ 2-1/2 hours a week with Mom alone‚ 5 hours
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The Effect of Drug Abuse on Students and Others Prakash Chandra Roy 1 Abstract Bangladesh with the most populous and poorest countries in the world faces many challenges including drug that has become an issue due to its geographical location‚ poverty and illiteracy. Although there is no precise figure of the drug dependant people‚ but is estimated around 4.0 million people mostly youths are dependant to some form of drugs‚ and increased trend among all kinds of people is alarming. The present
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THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ON TODAY’S YOUTH Let us face it – Social media is everywhere. People talk the “social media tongue” without even knowing it these days. Man made social networking sites and technically he should be changing it according to his needs but the youth today change according to the social networking site. Our world revolves around Facebook‚ Twitter and sites like that. Like every coin has two sides even this has its own pro’s and con’s. So the question
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