increased over the years at an alarming rate and can be fatal to a person’s health. In this paper‚ I haven’t chosen to elaborate on any particular drug; just drugs in general and the effects they have on our society and our youths. A survey was conducted and showed that most people found it to be true that youths between the of 14-22 use recreational drugs. Recreational drugs are not limited to any particular group in society‚ meaning that a very wide variety of people choose to use the drugs;
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The Effects of the Western Fast Food Diet In recent decades there has been a change in the global food and nutritional profile‚ where "left the scene" the traditional food‚ and fast foods came on to the scene. With the convenience of today’s world and with all the technological advances‚ people are induced to sedentary conditions‚ thus leaving to conduct physical activity and lose weight. The energy regulation‚ determined by alimentation
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the study The youth of today no longer seem to spend their leisure activities like in the olden days; outdoor games or playing with toys‚ instead‚ they spend their free time in their homes‚ internet cafés or computer shops simply to satisfy their hunger; and that hunger is Online Gaming. Online gaming has such a profound impact on not only the young‚ but dynamically every age group as well. So far‚ virtually anyone is able to go on a computer and punch through
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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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the youth‚ are all out to ape the Western culture. It has become a craze among the youth to have a lifestyle like that of Westerners. No doubt that this is an impact of print and electronic media on our generation. The elders in the society state that our generation has become a slave of Western culture. Some of the orthodox minds go still further to stress that the Western culture takes our youth to a wrong destination and that the strange behaviour of our youth is due to the ill effects of Western
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underdog? Every society is faced with an underdog‚ and in many cultures this idea is very straightforward. These would include the United States/Western culture‚ India’s culture‚ China’s culture‚ and Africa’s culture. The United States/Western culture has very defiant features. Therefore being an underdog is not easy to hide. Many times in this culture being an underdog is simply paired with the idea of personal judgment. This culture looks at it as because you have this or you don’t have this
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point in human history; almost every aspect of daily life was influenced in some way. The industrial Revolution eventually brought positive effects to everyday life‚ but the price of attaining this modernization created an immense amount of human suffering. Although industrialization happened rapidly‚ one can see a long steady build-up toward it in Western Europe over many centuries. The extensive use of water wheels‚ windmills‚ and other labor saving devices all put the European mentality in touch
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children? There are pros‚ and cons to parents like this and the effects can have very different outcomes. The effects of these parents can last for a long time. Youth sports are made to be fun but the parents want scholarship money from their child’s athletic ability. Parents that want the money often are the ones that are considered “sports parents.” They yell and scold their kid if they do not do well‚ this can leave long-term effects. The child doesn’t even have fun when they play but they are
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subscriptions to magazines like YM‚ and Seventeen. After adding internet usages‚ newspapers‚ videos‚ and books‚ the sum adds up to media being a significant part of the adolescent experience. Recently there has been a debate on the effects of mass media on the youth of the United States. This refers back to the nurture verses nature theory sociologists have been disputing for years. Does what our children watch‚ hear or read on television‚ radio‚ video games‚ newspapers‚ magazines‚ and the internet
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Youth is a hard concept to define due to the many sociologists who have different opinions on the time period in which it takes place. However‚ youth is a social construction because of cultural relativity which means that what is normal in one cultural may be strange in another. Youth culture can be seen as being created by the media however it can also be seen as being created by consumption‚ style and the economy. Youth culture can be seen as being created by the media because of the role models
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