Cellphone market penetration in the U.S. approaches 9 in 10 citizens. Jupiterimages/Brand X Pictures/Getty Images The cellphone is one of the defining technologies of the early 21st century‚ with a December 2012 Pew Internet study showing that more than 87 percent of American adults own at least one. While the negative societal consequences of cellphones have been well documented‚ it ’s also true that they can bring many benefits. Mobile technology allows users to interact with family‚ friends
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Many Native American tribes responded to the changes through violence and resistance due to the unfair mistreatments and laws that were forced upon them. As the second industrial revolution grew‚ it threatened the important cultures and values that many Native American tribes shared. As the Indian tribes clashed with the white settlers‚ extreme violence broke out between the two groups‚ killing ninety percent‚ along with diseases‚ of the Native Americans years later. One of the biggest threat to
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Original Article Singapore Med J 2006; 47(6) : 476 Premarital sexual intercourse among adolescents in Malaysia: a crosssectional Malaysian school survey Lee L K‚ Chen P C Y‚ Lee K K‚ Kaur J ABSTRACT Introduction: Sexual intercourse among Malaysian adolescents is a major concern‚ especially with the worry of HIV/AIDS. This study was done to determine the prevalence of sexual intercourse among secondary school students aged 12 to 19 years in Negeri Sembilan‚ Malaysia. Methods: This is a
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The failure of the Philippine economy to achieve a full industrialized state is a confluence and a result of political and economic policies that can be traced back to as far as the post war period. The Philippine post war economic policy is said to have taken the trajectory of Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) —which puts premium in strengthening the locally owned industries catering to a huge domestic market to contain dollar outflow and encourage domestic entrepreneurship (Kuruvilla
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LED-backlit LCD TV: Sony KDL-55XBR8 Hoeun sousdey Part time Group II Level 11 A few weeks ago Senior Editor David Katzmaier reviewed Samsung’s LN46A950 LED-backlit LCD TV and declared it‚ "The most advanced television money can buy." He also said it "represents the peak of flat-panel LCD performance and picture quality." But then the Sony KDL-55XBR8 arrived and stole the crown from the Samsung. In the world of LCD TVs‚ the hot feature is LED-backlighting--and it doesn’t come cheap. The
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to have sex. Studies show that by the age of twenty‚ 75 percent of Americans have lost their virginity. In many high schools - and an increasing number of junior highs- virginity is regarded as an embarrassing vestige of childhood‚ to be disposed of as quickly as possible. (Garity 768-771). Peer pressure is something everyone has to deal with at some point in their life. It can influence the way you dress‚ the music you listen to‚ what clubs you join‚ and even your choices regarding sex. “The American
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Is societies violence the media’s fault? This is the question that has been asked since before television was in every American’s house. Of course there are the different types of media today ranging from newspapers‚ to on-line reports and stories. There have been arguments upon arguments about this issue‚ and over 3‚000 studies conducted. Unfortunately there isn’t one single result‚ there is only an array of supposed answers to this undying question. CBS president‚ Howard Stringer is pointing to
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Mary Huang Soo Lee UNESCO PROAP Regional Clearing House on Population Education and Communication Bangkok‚ Thailand‚ 1999 United Nations Population Fund Lee‚ Mary Huang Soo. Case study‚ Malaysia: communication and advocacy strategies adolescent reproductive and sexual health. Bangkok: UNESCO PROAP‚ 1999. 27 p. (Communication and advocacy strategies: adolescent reproductive and sexual health; series two) 1. YOUTH. 2. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH. 3. SEXUAL HEALTH. 4. IEC. 5. COMMUNICATION POLICY
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Sex Education in School Curriculum Due to not having the correct amount of information about the consequences of sex‚ teenagers between the ages of 15 and 18 are drastically dropping out of high school‚ due to having unwanted pregnancies and the responsibilities that follow having a family. Over the last 30 years in the United States has been experiencing a drastic increase in teenage pregnancy‚ and significant increase in STD’s among these adolescents. Since then sex education programs have been
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A man named Avis D. Carlson wrote in a New Republican article “The impact is like a shovelful of sand flung against the face (The Dust Bowl of the 1930s). By “impact” Avis was referring to “Black Sunday” in the “Dust Bowl.” The Dust Bowl was made up of parts of Colorado‚ Oklahoma‚ Kansas‚ and Texas. The Dust Bowl was an area of the Great Plains that was devastated by depression and drought. The area was 150‚000 square miles‚ had little grass and soil‚ and‚ unfortunately‚ had abundant winds. “Black
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