Ethical considerations in the research of applied linguistics JIAN HE Monash University 1. Introduction In applied linguistics researches‚ there are unlikely considerable issues related to ethics or morality due to the harmlessness of the nature of language study. And in most cases‚ the participants are even able to get more or less some benefits from the research. For example‚ the participants may have an opportunity to gain certain knowledge of a target language via practicing
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Outline I. Introduction A. (Opening Device): It is a huge problem in the American society today‚ something that can be prevented with more outside play. Can anyone think what it is? Childhood obesity. There are way too many kids in America that just sit at home and play video games all day. Or put too much junk food in their diet. This wouldn’t be such a big deal if kids actually got out and exercised. Take me for example‚ I play a decent amount of video games and I will be the first one to admit
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Conroy‚ Fall 2009 10/30/09 Childhood Obesity A Big Problem A survey taken by the National Association of Children’s Hospitals in January of 2007 showed that over nine million children ages 6 to 19 in the United States were obese; that comes out to about 16 percent (N.A.C.H. 1). While this is a disturbing statistic in itself‚ a more problematic statistic is that the number of obese children in the U.S. has triples since 1980 (N.A.C.H. 1)—proof that obesity is a huge problem and will not be
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real-world phenomena with a variety of function” and “represent and analyze relationships using tables‚ verbal rules‚ equations‚ and graphs”. The standards also urge teachers to give students the opportunity to be actively involved in math through data analysis and statistics that are integrated into the curriculum. My hope is to show that these types of activities can be incorporated into an algebra I course as a way of teaching slope‚ y-intercept‚ and linear equations. I plan to teach a
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Socioeconomic Factors: Rarely is childhood obesity caused by a medical condition. A child’s environment is very complex and includes family‚ peers‚ school‚ community/neighborhoods‚ and society at large‚ as filtered through media‚ advertising‚ and prevailing social norms. Socioeconomic status is an important determinant of standard of living and health status‚ as it influences the incidence and prevalence of various health conditions such as childhood obesity. Several ways of measuring socioeconomic
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Ethical Considerations and Applying Design Principles Ethical Considerations As a programmer you have to think about ethical issues that may appear in our user interface design. I believe we should think about these ethical issues early in the design process‚ even before building a prototype or developing the interface. The requirements should cover ethical issues. Ethical concerns raised by features of the system should be considered in the very first phases of systems development. If ethics
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Childhood Obesity Journal Childhood obesity is a growing epidemic. However many aspects need to be considered in order to help any child who is overweight. Children that are overweight need to be assessed to determine if the weight problem is due to psychological issues‚ or lack of nutrition and physical activity. Once the causing factor is determined the proper steps can be taken to help the child and the family to live a healthy happy life. Growing up I enjoyed home cooked meals‚ and I was
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percentage of children who are overweight has more than doubled‚ while rates among adolescents have more than tripled since 1980.” (Wechsler‚ 2004). Childhood obesity in America is becoming an increasingly severe problem. Conditions such as type 2 diabetes‚ heart disease‚ and depression are becoming more prevalent as a result of obesity. The childhood obesity pandemic in America can be traced to several causes‚ however‚ topping the list is public school systems and their inability to provide quality nutritional
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These past few decades have shown drastic changes in how health is perceived. With childhood obesity raising every year this is something that needs to be recognized with a change following it. The percentage of children aged 6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 18% in 2012. Similarly‚ the percentage of adolescents aged 12–19 years who were obese increased from 5% to nearly 21% over the same period of time (Center for Disease Control and Prevention).
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physical activity and a questionable nutritional experience. Consequently‚ Johnny suffers from childhood obesity‚ contributing to the nearly doubled rate over the past decade. Obesity in American children is no longer a rarity; it is rapidly escalating‚ and furthermore destroying the health and emotional status of the children affected. Unfortunately‚ many people in the general public do not consider childhood obesity to be a problem of more than aesthetic dimensions‚ even despite the fact that three hundred
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