are at their children’s back daily pushing them to excel academically. Nothing less than As would please them. Parental pressures to pursue academic success have both positive and negative effects on their children. Some children need parental pressure to study. They have not realised the value of academic achievements. This is especially true for children who are late bloomers. Still carefree about life‚ they prefer to indulge in their favourite sports‚ television programmer and other interests
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]Teenagers and Divorce In 2008‚ an estimated forty- percent of all marriages in the United States ended in divorce. Forty- percent of those once married couples have children. Now‚ imagine being the child of divorced parents‚ not having a say in anything that goes on in your surroundings anymore. Image that you are now a teenager and you are going to your dad or moms house for the weekend like you do every other weekend‚ or every other day. Doesn’t that seem unfair? That is how the majority of
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Title: Peer Pressure Affects Academic Performance of Second Year Students Dependent Variable: Academic performance of second year students Independent Variable: Peer Pressure Objective: To know how academic performance among second year high school students is being affected by peer pressure. Introduction: To be successful in life‚ one must begin by being successful in school. In high school‚ we were all told to work hard so that we could get good grades and scores that would get
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about how TV affects children‚ so I typed it into Google. The Department of Education states that children in the United States watch an average of three to five hours of television everyday. There are a lot of negative effects from spending time in front of TV. Children who watch TV more than 4 hours per day are more likely to be overweight. The obesity problem has gotten more serious worldwide. In addition‚ television viewing burns only a few more calories than sleeping. Children who watch too
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2010 Should Children of Divorce Be Forced to Live With a Particular Parent? Many children are victims of divorce in the United States each year. The judicial system believes that‚ in each case‚ the child or children that are subjected to divorce should reside where the child(ren) would “be better off”‚ citing that living with one parent who provides a more stable atmosphere for the child(ren) would be more beneficial. Others believe that children who are subjected to divorce should be able to
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about divorce. But how much do people really know about divorce? If you ask someone what is really divorce‚ they might just tell you its definition from the dictionary or just ask you to search the definition of the word in Google or any search engines. Then let us try it their way. Divorce‚ by reportive or exical definition‚ means “an act or instance of legally dissolving a marriage” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary‚ 211). The definition seems clear but does it really explain what divorce really
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How advertising affects children obesity ? The impact of food advertisement on children’s health and eating behavior is a crucial interest‚ because of the rapid increase of obesity in children noticed in England‚ United States and many countries around the world (Reilly J et al‚ 1999). In addition to that‚ according to the international obesity task force report that nearly 20% of children (school-age) in Europe are suffering from obesity‚ Obesity overweight are defined as having an extensive
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you understand how technology influences human existence by examining the benefits and risks of different biotechnological advances. In the existence of the technology and its advantages‚ the world has been greatly affected by it and it pursuantly affects the lives of the people as it continuously advances and the easiness of people’s life. Then the youth‚ more specifically the teenagers‚ are the most affected. I believe the advancement of technology has negatively impacted our social interactions
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producing data about the American people and economy. For many years‚ same-sex households have been perceived as a negative environment for the child. But‚ in fact‚ it has been proven that same-sex households can have the same effect as a heterosexual household. Throughout history‚ studies have shown that having homosexual parents has not been proven to have a significant effect on their children. As the years have progressed‚
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Achieving Results How is achievement defined‚ and what are the values behind achieving? People can have different ideas and personal definitions about what achievement means‚ which explains why the dictionary’s definition is very broad. Achievement is defined by Webster’s dictionary and thesaurus as simply being “a result gained by effort” (“Achievement”). The definition of achievement in my discipline of Environmental Science is certainly linked to the dictionary definition‚ but the results of
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