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    Because of the negative effects of casinos‚ the government should ban them from populated areas in the United States. Gambling is a growing addiction in America‚ and casinos will only provide residing citizens with a larger opportunity to progress in their gambling addictions and allow room for others to gain the ensnaring addiction. Gambling addiction is also called compulsive gambling or pathological gambling. It also is said to be a disease‚ like its neighboring addiction/sickness‚ alcoholism

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    THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF POPULATION GROWTH Some observers attribute nearly all of the world ’s maladies to excessive population growth. They claim that rapid population growth has at least three adverse effects on human well-being. First‚ it increases poverty--the number of people that are impoverished‚ the proportion of the community that is impoverished‚ and the severity of the impoverishment. Second‚ it increases environmental degradation--the misuse of natural resources--with adverse consequences

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    Being held in the prison system also has a very negative impact on the prisoners’ emotions. As a prisoner told the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health‚ “Being in prison and not knowing when you’re coming home-it smashes your head to pieces (SCMH‚ 2008).” It can be difficult to offer quality mental health

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    The Positive Effects Of YouTube In February 2005‚ three PayPal employees‚ Chad Hurley‚ Steve Chen‚ and Jawed Karim‚ beta tested the website called YouTube. Within two years Youtube gained so much popularity that the search engine Google would buy it for $1.65 billion (Dickey 1). Today‚ YouTube has become the number one video sharing website in the world. YouTube’s is now a growing business that has great potential and a lot to offer to society. Youtube has wonderfully affected society

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    uproar and complete chaos. You feel as if there’s little worth living for because nothing is as it used to be. This is the typical situation of a young boy whose tribe was invaded by European Imperialists. Imperialism in Africa had many negative effects on the natives such as poverty and famine‚ destruction of entire ethnic groups and loss of important culture; it also eventually led to civil war. During the mid 1800’s Africa became a key point of interest for many imperialistic European

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    permissiveness‚ which in turn leads to a greater risk of out-of-wedlock births and STDs. These‚ in turn‚ lead to still more weaknesses and debilities. - Research on the effects of pornography on aggression has found that violent pornography tends to have greater immediate effects on male-to-female aggression that on male-to-male Other effects of pornography -Many adolescents who view pornography initially feel

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    The negative health effects of not getting enough sleep are well-known. Everyone in this world needs sleep because it’s a normal habit for people. But when it comes too much sleep is it a good thing or in other hand. Actual fact it is true a good night’s sleep is essential for health but oversleeping has been linked to a host of medical problems. The amount of sleep you need varies significantly over the course of your lifetime. It depends on your age and activity level as well as your general health

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    In Ancient Greece‚ the geography has played a huge role in the development of the country‚ in both positive and negative ways. Positive impacts have made developments to things like trade development‚ religion‚ and city-states. Negative impacts that have hurt Greece are the volcanic zone‚ and the actual land that makes up the country of Greece. The first positive effect geography had on Greece was the mountains throughout Greece. The mountains were difficult to cross so the Greeks had to use the

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    did Enlightenment philosophers write many eye opening and thought provoking books‚ but also the reference manuals like the Encyclopedia was immensely advanced during this rise of reasoning. Along with the positive effects of the Enlightenment‚ there was also an emergence of a deadly side effect. While encouraging the people to use knowledge to challenge authority‚ the philosophies of the Enlightenment inadvertently destroyed the stronghold

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    Reasons why weed is bad for you: Effects on the Lungs Numerous studies have shown marijuana smoke to contain carcinogens and to be an irritant to the lungs. In fact‚ marijuana smoke contains 50-70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco smoke. Marijuana users usually inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than tobacco smokers do‚ which further increase the lungs’ exposure to carcinogenic smoke. Marijuana smokers show dysregulated growth of epithelial cells in their lung tissue

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