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    E1. Summarise the factors which may influence the health and development of babies in the first year of their lives. Some of the main factors that influence the health and development of babies are: physical‚ emotional‚ social‚ economic‚ environment factors‚ parenting styles‚ surveillance programmes‚ health promotion and legislation. A factor before birth can be smoking‚ this can either be second-hand or direct but both can still effect the baby pre and postnatally‚ it can also account to 20-30%

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    smoke Marijuana and when he was fourteen he began drinking alcohol. When he was seventeen‚ he heavily use of marijuana and abused alcohol heavily. At the age of fourteen he began to use some amphetamines or otherwise known as speed and also used LSD at sixteen. By the time he left the refugees and began living with Ezold and P he was addicted to the use of alcohol and well addicted to using LSD. These social‚ childhood and genetic factors show the reasons why Mr Farrell would have committed this crime

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    alcohol and some of the permanent dangers of drinking‚ many of Australia’s teens do not. 40% of 14-19 year-olds consume alcohol at levels that risk harm in the short-term‚ such as; accident and injury. In Australia alone‚ alcohol accounts for 13% of all deaths among 14–17 year-olds and it has been estimated that one Australian teenager dies and more than 60 are hospitalized each week from alcohol-related causes. But wait‚ isn’t the legal drinking age 18? So how do teenagers get a hold of alcohol

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    The average American begins drinking at 15 years old‚ despite the fact that the legal drinking age in the United States is 21 years old. Underage alcohol use is more likely to kill young people than all illicit drugs combined. I believe that raising the drinking age to 25 years old can save many young lives. Affects of Adolescent Drinking Adolescent drinking affects a child ’s mind‚ body and future. Adolescence is the between childhood and adulthood. During this time alcohol use may interrupt

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    In the Middle Ages‚ the poor peasants went hungry many times while the royalty ate well. Fifty percent of the people were poor as the rest was royalty. The poor cooked all there food themselves. The poor people would eat mainly barley. Sometimes they turned their barley into bread and sometimes into pancakes orpizzas. They also make barley porridge or they would make soup out of barley. The poor people didn’t have enough food because they didn’t have all lot money. The poor hunted for some of their

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    Imagine being in a bar with a few of your good friends. Everyone is drinking and having a good time. Your are going to leave and go home‚ but you friends won’t let you because they know the dangers of driving after having a few drinks. Instead they ca ll a cab to give you a ride home. You would be extremely lucky to have such smart friends. Drunk driving is a very serious problem in our society today‚ but it is becomming socially unacceptable causing the numbers of alcohol related traffic fatalites

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    Turning 18 – Becoming Aware I have always been confidant in who I am‚ but when I turned eighteen I started to question‚ “Am I an adult or am I still a kid?” I really am not sure‚ and feel that this question is a necessary one to answer in order to truly know myself. I want to find out if I have changed going to the Oxbow boarding school‚ and if being eighteen really means that I have to grow up. I am legally an adult to the government‚ but I also know that I am not an emotionally and mentally

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    Although underage drinking is steadily declining‚ the use of alcohol is quite prevalent in today’s society. From middle school to high school and indeed college‚ underage drinking occurs all around the world. Though the legal drinking age is twenty-one‚ people as young as twelve years old consume alcohol. Due to genetics‚ peers‚ and social media underage drinking occurs. Without the help of families‚ schools‚ and extracurricular activities underage drinking would increase and negatively affect underage

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    CHAPTER 18 (484‐509) AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THE  INDUSTRIAL AGE INDUSTRIAL AGE MIDDLE CLASS LIFE MIDDLE‐CLASS LIFE Families were generally smaller than before Families were generally smaller than before Young people increasingly were able to marry for  “true love” rather than purely social reason true love rather than purely social reason Men worked away from home – in shops‚ offices‚  and factories df i ¼ of all urban families employed at least 1 servant Consumerism – fashionable clothes

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    Drinking and Driving Drinking and driving is an illegal act that is wrong on multiple levels. It violates a moral and ethical code. In a society that has the morals of a brothel where it is better to joke with your buddies about getting wasted on the weekends or how much more drinking you did compared to your buddy. We forget that simply talking in this manner sends out a message that we condone the act of drinking without moderation. When you condone the act of drinking without moderation then

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