ICT AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT BY DENNIS JOSEPH AGBA DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE/PHYSICS FEDERAL COLLEGE OF EDUACTION‚ OBUDU‚ CROSS RIVER STATE. BEING A PAPER PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL YOUTH AND STUDENTS’ ECONOMIC FORUM THEME: THINK LOCAL‚ ACT GLOBAL & BE THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC SOLUTION HOLDING AT UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS MAIN AUDITORIUM AKOKA‚ YABA LAGOS‚ NIGERIA. FROM 24TH-27TH – JUNE‚ - 2013 ABSTRACT In our contemporary society‚ the promise of every democratic government
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Crime and Strategies Used to Combat Youth Delinquency. Introduction; Youth crime is generally thought as being a very recent and modern day phenomenon‚ however‚ this is widely untrue. Juvenile crime has been recorded ever since the early 17th Century and yet it has only been within the last 100 years that it has become such a significant issue with the general public (Goldson and Muncie‚ 2006). It is widely known that the present population are much more aware of youth crime and the implications it causes
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what’s the importance of society? What is our role as a youth? The importance of society can be equated to the importance of a group. Society is a second organization after a family. It is made of individuals to tackle their problems and even to maintain their existence. This shows us that there was or is a cause for each and every organization that is an individual faces a problem that looks too big s/he will look for a group but problems may not be the only reasons to have a group. In today’s
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Are today’s youth overindulged? Mr. Stephens Ivyt 28F 05 Dec. 2012 As I mindlessly browse trough the televisions channels‚ I release my index finger from the up button due to the picture that caught my attention. I come to a stop in the nickelodeon channel and for a little while‚ I watch the popular kids show iCarly. I am mesmerized by all the shiny and expensive gadgets this middle schoolers carry around with them in order to promote their online blog called like the show iCarly. Also
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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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curriculums‚ in math problems for example ‘A plane on take off carries 12 bombs‚ each weighing ten kilos. The aircraft makes for Warsaw ‚ the centre of international Jewry. It bombs the town. On take off with all bombs on board and a fuel tank containing 1500 kilos of fuel the aircraft weighed 8 tonnes. When it returned from the crusade‚ there were still 230 kilos of fuel left. What is the weight of the aircraft when empty?’ this is a typical math problem used to indoctrinate the youth‚ the reason
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I am going to discuss contemporary youth culture‚ and how fashion and appearance are being used to communicate a certain identity. My main focus will be on trying to explain how they are characteristic for the post modern are and how they are distinct from “authentic” subcultures. Furthermore I will look into the central role consumption have in post modern youth cultures. When discussing these different ideas‚ I have chose to look into two contemporary youth cultures; the hipster and the clubbers
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Spectacular Youth Cultures Youth Culture is the collective cultural practices of groups of young people (typically between the ages of 15 and 25) these are groups that apart from the dominant or “mainstream” society. Youth subculture groups are often distinguished through distinctive forms of dress style and shared musical tastes‚ and are typically found in westernized‚ consumer-based cultures although more recent research has identified examples of youth cultures in developing countries. Many
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Youth Drug Abuse Profile Drug addiction is a complex but treatable disease. It is characterized by compulsive drug craving‚ seeking‚ and use that persist even in the face of severe adverse consequences. For many people‚ drug abuse becomes chronic‚ with relapses possible even after long periods of abstinence. In fact‚ relapse to drug abuse occurs at rates similar to those for other well-characterized‚ chronic medical illnesses such as diabetes‚ hypertension‚ and asthma. As a chronic‚ recurring
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Youth justice system In the last hundred years‚ juvenile justice is concentrating on punishment and welfare both. England earlier had the unfortunate system of juvenile justice of imprisonment‚ transportation and even death penalty‚ regardless of the age of the offender. Now children and adults are treated differently and juveniles have their own courts to try their offences. A large number of them are considered to be suffering from behavioural disorders and in such cases‚ they are sent for psychiatric
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