Analyzing Addiction Addiction is everywhere‚ from celebrity tabloids‚ to television‚ and possibly to a family member or close friend. There is alcoholism‚ drug abuse‚ and gambling addiction; the effects of such are devastating. For example‚ the following excerpt is from the harrowing Leaving Dirty Jersey: A Crystal Meth Memoir by James Salant: “I gave Doug the spoon and I tried to pull thirty units of water into the syringe. Doug hit me on the side of my head and said‚ ‘Your shaking too much
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Ali Alsarraf 1600-101 RWG 23 January 2015 Melissa Vile The psychological cause of internet addiction The Internet is very peculiar it’s an object making information more accessible to the world. In this era the internet has become an integral part of many peoples work and personal life. It has helped in so many different aspects from being able to create connection of communication with family and friends all the way across the world‚ to
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Webster’s dictionary defines addiction as a habitual psychological and physiological dependence on a substance or practice beyond one’s voluntary control. The essence of all addiction is the addicts’ experience of powerlessness over a compulsive behavior‚ resulting in their lives becoming unmanageable. The addict is out of control and experiences tremendous shame‚ pain and self-loathing. The addict may wish to stop --- yet repeatedly fails to do so. In this sense‚ there are many things that can
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organized by workplace‚ school‚ or college‚ or other characteristics. Facebook allows anyone who declares them to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin‚ Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The website’s membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students‚ but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area‚ the Ivy League‚ and Stanford University
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developing Facebook addiction‚ something they attribute to the social nature of Facebook. Dr Mark D Griffiths‚ Professor of Gambling Studies in the International Gaming Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University in the UK‚ writes a response to the study in the same issue of the journal. In a personal blog about his response‚ he says that while he had no problem with the study by Andraessen and colleagues‚ he wished to comment more widely on doing research into Facebook addiction. Griffiths says
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Netflix: Is binge streaming the new college addiction? 12/18/2013 by grantziegler Netflix headquarters in Los Gatos‚ Calif. Photo courtesy of Associated Press. By Jodi-Ann Jarrett Contributing Writer “My name is _____ and I’m addicted to Netflix.” At first glance‚ this statement reads like the opening line of a comedy bit‚ but could it be a serious cause for concern? Not according to NLC student Stephen Barton‚ “I’m not addicted to Netflix‚ I’m addicted to television and entertainment on any type
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Albert Einstein is that‚ “Computers are incredibly fast‚ accurate‚ and stupid; humans are incredibly slow‚ inaccurate‚ and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagine.” (Einstein). Stated by Einstein himself‚ PC’s are powerful with humans and that still holds up to this day. Computers are a better option for a improved life rather than playing games on a console. PC gaming is a better option for gaming than Console gaming because of its better performance in-game‚ serperior graphics‚ and
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nothing‚ as it doesn’t even make a difference to you. so as to get over the compulsion you have to handle the things that are bringing about your addictions. We ought to be gaining from a junior age the negative impacts that the web can have on you‚ and that the web ought to be utilized for your profit. Dependence on the web isn’t similar to the addictions that you typically catch wind of‚ for example‚ liquor and pills; it is a behavioral issue and is most basic with individuals who have enthusiastic
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Initially‚ Americans in this era limited legal gambling opportunities to the Nevada casinos‚ charitable bingo‚ and pari-mutuel gambling‚ such as horse and dog track racing. Popular forms of illegal gambling‚ such as offtrack betting‚ back room casino games‚ and numbers‚ were associated with organized crime and were treated as vice crimes by law enforcement institutions. Then‚ beginning in 1964‚ gambling expanded greatly after New Hampshire initiated the first modern state lottery‚ signifying a change
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Aubrey Christensen March 12‚ 2014 Katherine Kinkel Reading Response Strike Sparks Overall‚ as a text‚ I really appreciate Sharon Olds Strike Sparks. I think that it is wonderful that someone‚ especially a woman‚ can write about such vulgar things in a very poetic way. Although I did find some of the poems to be very disturbing‚ I was overall shocked at how moving most of the poems are. In Olds’ poem The Girl we hear the story of a rape victim‚ not only was she assaulted‚ and left for
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