Negative effects of stress on students Stress is a person’s response to a stressor situation such as environmental condition or an external stimulus. In other words‚ is a body’s way to react to a challenge or a stressful event. Stress typically describes a negative condition‚ but can also be a positive condition that can have an impact on a person’s mental and physical well-being. Stress symptoms may be affecting your health‚ even though you might not realize it. You may think illness is to blame
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Why student athletes get drug tested Student athletes should get drug tested before they get to play the sport they want to play. If a student athlete get drug tested it increases their chances of going to colleges‚ if the athlete does not get drug tested then him or her will have serious problems in the future like poor academic outcomes‚ and finally is that schools are making their campus a drug and smoke campus. The first one is that if they get drug tested it increases their chances in going
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known to many as drug abuse is the recurrent us of a substance referred to as a drug whereby the user consumes the substance in quantities or methods neither approved nor advised by the required professionals i.e doctors and this definition also applies when certain activities are performed using the substances contrary to the policies and rules that govern their (drugs) originally intended use. In addition to there being many drugs already on the global market ‚the commonly abused drugs may most at
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English 12 10 December 2012 Bullying and it’s Effect on Students In many schools today it is hard for students to do well due to constant harassment by their classmates. Studies such as “The Effects of Bullying on Children in School” have shown that bullying may lead to depression‚ low self-esteem‚ mental illness‚ and even suicide. According to Bullyingstatistics.org rates of Bullycide‚ a term used to describe suicide as a result of severe bullying
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EFFECTS OF DRUG ABUSE ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE INTRODUCTION Drugs are chemical substances either synthetic or natural when taken that alter the normal physiological functioning of the body. Drug abuse relates to excessive use of psychotropic substances resulting to changes in behavior and normal functioning of the body. This paper looks into the effects of drug abuse (on academic performance)‚ the common drugs abused and ways and means of mitigating the same. It also looks into the common
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Students and the Effects of Social Networking Because roughly 150 million people use MySpace and Facebook‚ the door for social networking abuse is left wide open. Over the past several years‚ social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook have exploded in popularity‚ especially among children‚ teenagers and college students. However‚ recent events involving child predators and other dangerous individuals using these sites have raised concerns about safety and security. Many parents view
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Cause and effect Serious causes of computer addiction Technology has developed so much that it is almost crucial to have electronic devices at home. Our life has gotten so used to having technology around us that we can’t imagine our lives without them. However‚ while having electronic devices at home could be comfortable and handy at times‚ it could also have negative effect on children‚ especially on teenagers. Parents usually buy computers for their children’s educational resource. But teenagers
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on correlational data in a draft manuscript that had not been published‚ or even considered for publication. This paper attempts to replicate the results reported in the press release using three data sets: one with a large sample of undergraduate students from the University of Illinois at Chicago‚ another with a nationally representative cross sectional sample of American 14– to 22–year–olds‚ as well as a longitudinal panel of American youth aged 14–23. In none of the samples do we find a robust
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can still impart those skills to older players. The issue with many "brain training" video games is that they want you to believe that you’re "getting smarter" by increasing your cognitive ability‚ or somehow protecting your brain from decay or the effects of aging by playing them. That may not be true‚ but games carefully designed to build problem solving‚ critical thinking‚ and reading
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Marijuana Addiction Jerry Tibbs Liberty University Online Abstract Addiction is a serious problem in the world today and marijuana addiction is one of those problems that many people nationwide face in their daily lives. Part of the problem lies in whether those substance users actually believe addiction is possible with marijuana. What can be seen though‚ by the average person‚ is that marijuana can be addictive and cause addictive behavior in users. These addictive behaviors have negative effects
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