102-036 19 September 2014 Unit 2 Mini-Multitaskers Multitasking is something that most teens do in their everyday life. Whether it is during studying time‚ hangout time‚ or even family time‚ teens tend to engage in multiple tasks at the same time. Rebecca A. Clay‚ the author of Mini-Multitaskers‚ also agrees with this concept. Her overall main point throughout the article is that Multitasking prevents teens form learning and retaining information. In the article‚ it is made evident of where she
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disadvantages. The increased use of cell phones has had a negative influence on society. For example‚ the use of cellphones has limited socializing‚ the demand and costs have affected consumers negatively and they have also been a common factor in many car accidents‚ including fatalities. The dependency of cellphones has had a negative social effect. The cell phone is probably one of the most commonly owned devices in America. “75% of all American teens ages 12-17 own a cell phone‚ and 66% use their phones
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whole does have an effect on teenagers. But it is not a fact that music‚ videos or tv actually influence teens to do anything. Regardless to what teens hear or see‚ their going to have sex‚ do drugs‚ or join gangs because they want to. The urban community does not revolve around music. The lyrics to someone’s song is just what that person went through in their life and their just telling their story. How teens react to it‚ cannot be blamed on the artists. Some teens say media does influence
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Media and the Negative Effects on Body Image Many things contribute to how a woman feels about her body. Peer pressure‚ family history‚ and age all play important roles in how people feel about how they look. The media can also play a dominant role on body image‚ as it almost always ties success‚ health‚ and happiness with being thin. To clarify body image‚ it is how you see yourself when you look in the mirror or picture yourself in your mind. With the constant exposure to media images of the
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Effects of Antidepressants Growing up‚ I have always been aware of prescriptions drugs and their uses. My mom has been taking antidepressants since she was a teenager and I have always thought of them as being a good thing. As I got older‚ I started to see the negative effects they had on her. She became dependent on them and could not function properly without them. Seeing her go through all she went through while on those medications made me question whether the positive effects would outweigh
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Dancehall music has become a symbol of explicit sexual imagery and violence. Despite the positive effects Dancehall music might have on our young people‚ it has become more a pathway for moral degradation with our young people. Dancehall is a “style of Jamaican popular music that had its genesis in the political disturbance of the late 1970′s ad became Jamaica’s dominant music in the 1980′s and 90′s”‚ ( C.J.Cooper) “Jamaican dancehall culture is commonly disparaged as a homophobic‚ homicidal‚ misogynist
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America’s most viewed television shows. Teens are going to local barbershops to get a blowout‚ to imitate Dj Pauly D’s hairstyle. Others mimicking Vinny’s signature dance move “The Fist Pump.” However‚ even though the influence of Jersey Shore doesn’t span most of the nation‚ it certainly has influence among teens and young adults. The Jersey Shore has some negative influences such as the way sex is portrayed‚ binge drinking‚ and materialism. Despite all of the negative influences in the Jersey Shore‚ there
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Multitasking in my opinion can be a good thing but also a bad thing. Researchers say many teens and children under the age 18 are more likely to multitask compared to mature adults. Technology has been the cause of young teens not paying full attention. Teenagers feel that they will miss out on important information so this messes with teen’s concentration. The brain cannot be at two places at one time. “Not only can people not process two tasks simultaneously‚ but it also takes longer to multitask
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The Effects Music Has On Culture Daric M. Grant Comm/215 January 18‚ 2011 Rose Safir The Effects Music Has On Culture Over the years‚ music has changed noticeably. There once was a time when it was considered therapeutic after a stressful day. Music is just not music anymore; in today’s generation‚ songs have more strong lyrical content towards certain issues that can have a positive or detrimental outcome to the listener. This constitutes a simple form of brain-washing‚ controlling the
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real conversations with people‚ to a larger effect‚ it is harming their health and work ethic in classrooms and the average teen now spends on average nine hours per week on social networking sites. This accumulates to 18 days out of the 365 days of the year. Those 18 days spent sitting on a chair in front of an artificial communicating device‚ an average person could walk from Los Angeles to San Francisco and back. Due to social networking sites‚ young teens are encountering alarming and harmful changes
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