era has been filled with high-speed computers‚ game consoles‚ cell-phones and two-way messengers. In today ’s classrooms‚ many youth are plugging formulas into their graphing calculators rather than working it out on a piece pf paper. This era is very different than that of our parents ’. Pen and paper have gone to the wayside and laptops are the new notepad. Is technology helping the youth of today or turning us less intelligent? When computers started showing up in the late seventies and early
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Competing representations of Youth homelessness: Media Vs. Advocacy Discourses Introduction Youth homelessness in Canada is a paradoxical reality: although the country has the high GDP‚ the large economy and the high consumption rate in the North America and even the whole world‚ there are still a large number of young people who have to face the lack of basic living conditions‚ such as employment and housing. Today‚ youth homelessness‚ which is recognized as a serious social issue in Canada‚ has
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Alcohol Advertising to Youth Many people are unaware of the prevalence of underage drinking in the United States. Every day in the United States‚ more than 4‚750 kids under age 16 have their first full drink of alcohol. More youth in the United States drink alcohol than smoke tobacco or marijuana‚ making it the drug most used by American young people. Youth who start drinking before the age of 15 are five times more likely to develop alcohol dependency or abuse in their lifetime than those who
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The Denver Youth Survey‚ Pittsburgh Youth Study and The Rochester Youth Development Study was a longitudinal project conducted to research and conclude such findings as‚ steady change of delinquency‚ drug use‚ damage produced to youths records due to reoccuring arrest and victimization derived from the isolation of these youths. The Denver Youth Survey‚ • randomly sampled households in high-risk neighborhoods of Denver Colorado. 1‚527 youths (806 boys and 721 girls) ages 7‚ 9‚ 11‚ 13‚ and
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The Effects of Violence on Today’s Youth In recent years‚ the advancement in entertainment technology in the field of and the increasing liberalization of America and its media have led to the creation and marketing of violent forms of entertainment. This includes such technologies movies‚ TV shows‚ video games‚ and news outlets. Today’s youth have easy accessibility to many of these violent forms of entertainment and are increasingly exposed to them at younger ages. The exposure to gore and violence
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Cell phones are as common in the market today as a wrist watch on your arm. They are always at our side whether you’re young or elderly‚ ready to be answered‚ receive text messages‚ check email‚ or update our Facebook status. Cellphones have almost become a necessity in society and these devices are usually harmless until there has been a growing interest in trying to make the time spent on the roadway more productive and use a cellphone while driving. Unfortunately this leads to drivers being distracted
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feeding bears? This is an excellent question that went well with this paper. This question also goes right along with our country’s economic state‚ which is what this writer‚ Timothy Burns‚ is writing on. In his paper he starts off with a story about his life and he uses an example of feeding bears to connect to what our government is doing in our economy. Even though Timothy starts with a story of his life he still has the four points to justifying and evaluating a paper: a well-presented subject‚ a well-supported
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Recently‚ an increasing number of North American youth are committing violent crimes. Although the consequences of these violent crimes are easily apparent‚ the causes behind them are often abstract and obscure‚ making it difficult to pin blame on a single source. Moreover‚ this deviant behaviour among young people can be attributed to a combination of several generalized factors. Leading contributing factors of youth violence include the media‚ the influence of family life‚ widespread abuse of
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Youth and Civil Rights The Civil Rights Movement in the sixties were in a large part caused by the youth of the time. Not only did colored youth feel like there was a transition needed but white youth felt that something needed fixing. The youth of the time founded organizations that were built to fight racism and the youth effectively held and organized protest for equality for all throughout the nation from Alabama to Washington D.C. Youth had the greatest impact on society and were the
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ASEM Trust Fund for the Asian Financial Crisis Implementation Completion Memorandum Philippine Out-of-School Children and Youth Development (POSCYD) Project ASEM Trust Fund No. 023514 Background and Objectives: In the Philippines‚ the trend for the past ten years show that for every 10 pupils who enroll in grade school‚ only 7 graduate. The same ratio is experienced among the high school students. Main reasons cited for dropping-out are mostly poverty related. While basic education is free‚ many
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