D iwali is a 5 day festival‚ celebrated to mark the triumph of good over evil. It is observed each year at some point during mid-October to mid-November in many countries such as India‚ Singapore‚ Malaysia‚ and Nepal‚ or where there are large Indian communities living such as in Canada‚ Britain‚ and New Zealand. Diwali is also known as Deepavali‚ the "deep" meaning "light" or "lamp"‚ and "avali" meaning "row" This "row of lights" is represented by lighting lamps everywhere during Diwali. The thirteenth
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Media Stream: The Negative impact on today’s youth Consuming media‚ it seems‚ has far outstripped reading story books or playing dress up as the average American children favorite past time. Overall‚ children between the ages of 2 to 18 spend an average of almost 5 and a half hours a day at home watching television‚ playing video games surfing the web or using some other form of media (“Unraveling new media’s effect on children). Media affects youth not only by displacing time they spend doing
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countries influence the Malaysian especially the youths. There are good and bad cultures. The social problems emerged due to influences of the bad cultures from other countries. The youth cannot identify and analyze what are good and bad things. Social problems among youth are prevalent in Malaysia highly. Young Malaysians who make up 60 percent of the population‚ they are future inheritors of a fully developed and modern Malaysia. Social problems are threatening the current and future direction
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command a higher price compared to other fruits. This is due to the fact that youths today grew up in a generation that they are always provided with things which is not a necessity like an Ipad or a smart phone etc. without needing them to work for it. Hence‚ when they are going out to the society to work‚ they will always be the less resilient generation compared to the people from the past generations. As youths today‚ cannot adapt to the changes or to face the reality that they are no longer kids
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plaguing our society today could hardly be catalogued‚ they are uncountable in the true sense of the assertion . Among the prominent social problems are the escalating crime waves ‚ religious intolerance ‚ disrespect for elders ‚ laziness and lateness of duty ‚ widespread of diseases ‚ ostentatious spending‚abortion ‚ pre maritial pregnancy ‚ elope (run off secretly to be married and usually without the consent or knowledge of one’s parent) ‚ disciplinary problem ‚ psychological problem ‚ slow down development
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Representation of Youth in Media Today Kidulthood - A 2006 British (urban) Drama/ Tragedy/ Arthouse Film The traditional teenage gender roles are becoming slightly more blurred today as society changes and the dominant ideology moves on. The traditional stereotype of the teenage boy was one of the rebel‚ the teenage thug and gangster trouble maker and even though society has changed this stereotype is still the one predominately presented in the media today. This is the stereotype that is
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Today’s youth is tomorrow’s nation. And today’s youth are our students. Students do pay a vital role in the society and how a society is shaped generation after generations. The formative period of an individual is during the student phase and hence it is known to be the crucial time of life. What is being sown today is what shall be reaped later. Education is where a student gets formed from. Education is in-fact character building in students. It through education that he understands the facts
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Violence In Sports and Its Effect on Youth In America Today Justin Braman Southern Adventist University Sociology and Psychology of Sport Professor Rod Bussey December 10‚ 2013 The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of violence in sports. More specifically‚ the effect of violence in sports towards youth. As Jay Coakley (2009) points out in his book Sports in Society‚ when athletes engage in violence on or off the field‚ people see
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The Growing Social Problems Facing our U.S. Veterans Today There are numerous social problems that plague our world today. These issues can be very detrimental to our society as a whole and can also have very negative impacts on many lives. One major social problem we are facing today is the way we are dealing with and handling our United States Veterans. Despite the fact that we are one of the world’s most powerful nations we are failing to properly take care of our service members who put
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" MAJOR PROBLEMS FACING PAKISTAN TODAY" Introduction:- Pakistan was established in 1947 and since its inception‚ it has been surrounded by countless issues including but not limited to ill-formed/missing infrastructure‚ insufficient refined resources‚ barren or obsolete factories and technologies‚ imposed conflicts at Kashmir and other fronts and an ever-ready enemy to underscore all the efforts towards
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