The Cause of Addiction COM/156 Each year‚ there are more deaths and disabilities in the U.S. from substance abuse than from any other cause. In the United States alone‚ it is reported that roughly 18 million Americans have alcohol problems; 5 to 6 million have drug problems‚ and more than 9 million children live with a parent addicted to alcohol or illicit drugs. Drug addiction continues to be a growing concern‚ prompting medical and scientific research on a global scale into the possible
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EFFECTS OF TWITTER AND FACEBOOK IN THE ACADEMIC STANDING OF STUDENTS A Library Research Paper for English 2: College Writing in English Shera Marie B. Camposano English 2 W – 4R Moses Villanueva‚ Instructor March 22‚ 2012 Introduction According to Kirkpatrick‚ twitter and facebook maybe useful‚ destructive or both (83). Social networking sites such as twitter and facebook are now prominent in the society. A vast amount of people engage in these kinds of website every
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Will your children survive the Facebook-apocalypse? Baroness Susan Greenfield begins her feature by asking a‚ to her‚ relevant question;” Can you imagine a world without long-term relationships […]?” This might seem as an exaggeration of the possible outcome‚ considering the topic in hand; children’s use of Facebook. It is however the rhetoric used throughout the feature from 2009‚ but don’t let it scare you from reading a different view on the common household item. Susan Greenfield is a neuroscientist
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Addiction We are going to talk about addiction and what it means. There are a couple text book definitions to what this means. Addiction in one form or another is common to most people. Addiction in the dictionary says‚ “The quality or state of being addicted.” With that being the case‚ look at what addicted means. Addicted also means to devote or surrender to something habitually or obsessively. Most of the time we hear this word is because we associate it with drugs. When most people think of
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UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH BUSINESS SCHOOL. MARK1117: DISSERTATION PROPOSAL ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/13 Name of Student: Orynbayeva Zhaniya Faculty: BA(Hons) Marketing Management‚ Year 3 Semester 5 Proposal Short Title: The investigation of effectiveness of Apple Incorporation Company towards offering their product and price quality to customers. Research Title: The investigation of effectiveness of Apple Incorporation Company towards offering their product and price quality to customers
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view regarding abuse/addiction is superficial and during this time I think it’s merely a wrong decision. But as I grew and exposed to this through peers‚ school and church teachings I saw that there are a lot of factors to consider why an individual resort to drug and/or alcohol abuse/addiction. Emotional factors: I learned this in-depth during my college life (a couple of years ago) when I was introduced to Maslow’s pyramid of human needs. There is a high risk for addiction for people who have
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these understandings on addiction to social care practice. The word “addict” originates from Roman law where an individual is compelled to his or her creditor place of payment of debt (Ross et al‚ 2010). As Dunnington states that addiction is defined a number of different ways. Addiction is defined as a “brain disease” personifies by “compulsive use of drugs” this definition comes from the Institute of Medicine (2011). The National Institute on Drug Abuse defines addiction as a “chronic‚ relapsing
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people who would say addiction is not a disease but a choice. Those people are looking at it in an object manner without even scrapping the surface of the true issue. Daniel Akst‚ a writer from New York’s Hudson Valley‚ wrote that‚ “Addiction is voluntary rather than compulsory” (Akst). While indeed the first act of engaging in drug use is voluntary the spiraling downward effect is caused by addiction taking over a person’s brain. Mr. Netherton implies in this statement‚ "Addiction is a crutch word that
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Abstract The Effects of Facebook Communication on Social Penetration Theory This paper examines a possible study to measure how CMC -- specifically Facebook communication -- is changing and evolving social penetration theory (Altman & Taylor‚ 1973). More specifically‚ the surveys are designed to determine if self-disclosure is happening more quickly in Facebook relationships. Altman and Taylor examine the stages of self-disclosure in social penetration theory and this study will determine if
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Effects of Computer Addiction to Students Study Habits Research Report Presented to the Catanduanes State University Author’s Note This Research paper is for compliance In English 2 subject‚ Writing in the Discipline‚ this Second Semester School Year 2013-2014 Introduction DOTA (Defence of the Ancient)‚ DOTA 2‚ LOL (League of Legends) and other offline and online games are some of the most played computer games in
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