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    PLAGIARISM: A SOCIAL PROBLEM It’s four in the morning‚ and you’re just one page into a 15-page term paper that’s due at ten‚ and the professor isn’t giving extensions. A few years ago‚ that would have been it: You would have passed in the paper late‚ if at all‚ and dealt with the consequences. But this is 2007‚ and so‚ in your most desperate hour‚ you try a desperate ploy. You log on to the internet… enter "term papers" into the search engine‚ and find your way to www.al-termpaper.com. There‚ you scroll

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    There are many social problems that teenagers go through. The most recognised problems are teenage drinking and driving‚ and teen suicide. These two social behaviours teenagers go through are the leading causes of teenage death. Alcohol‚ the most widely used and abused drug among youth‚ causes serious and potentially life-threatening problems for this population. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers. Society faces several questions‚ like why do teens drink‚ what

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    Graffiti artists often produce artworks which deliver social‚ political or religious issues in the urban space within a society. Graffiti artists are built to embody cultural groups and within their graffiti works reflect on a range of issues‚ in order to cause an impression on the audience who pass by (Young 2012‚ 297). Artists often represent social and political issues in their works in order to state combinations of statements and argue how they get accused or seized by the law in producing such

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    THE PROBLEM FACED BY THE STUDENTS WHILE LIVING IN THE HOSTELS. This study aims at exploring the adjustment problems and stages through which a non-local student‚ from a different cultural background‚ has to pass in his/her attempt to get well-adjusted at a foreign place. During the process of adjustment in a foreign culture‚ newcomers may encounter the situations that work as stressors for them. These stressors can be physical‚ social‚ cultural‚ functional and biological. Physical stressors include

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    Suicide Today one of the biggest social problems is suicide. The definition of suicide is the act of killing one’s self. The main reason why people commit suicide is that they believe they don’t have any hope and cannot overcome their negative situation. In the play “Othello” by William Shakespeare‚ the protagonist Othello chooses to commit suicide because he cannot stand his situation and feels guilty over killing his wife Desdemona for misunderstanding her because of lago’s lie. Although Othello’s

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    Homeless: a social issue One of the major problems that a community suffers from is homelessness‚ which It’s a condition of people who lack regular access to housing. According to the institute for the study of Homelessness and Poverty at Weingart Center‚ an estimated 254‚000 men‚ women and children experience homelessness in Los Angeles County during some part of the year and approximately 82‚000 people are homeless on any given night‚ and is caused by several factors such as mental illness‚ drug

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    Social Issues in Local Community According to St. Lucie County school district‚ top priority in our community is to provide high-quality education to our students. Teachers are expected to abide by a set curriculum to achieve the yearly goals and to ensure our community is academically outfitted. The importance of education in our community‚ takes much attention off many key elements that edifies an academically successful population. Because teachers are expected to follow these set standards

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    Everyone thinks that none of the stories they hear will happen to them. They think they are invincible. “So You Think You Are Going to Live Forever?” is a presentation by Officer Pete Collins to a group of high school students. It was taken in 1990 to lower the level of those who drink and drive. Sadly‚ the rate of drinking has gone up. In this essay‚ it will explain what beer commercials don’t. Alcohol is advertized every day. They are the leading category in commercial advertisements today. However

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    Tourism is global phenomenon that has evolved tremendously in the past century. These transformations have depended on and benefited from the emergence of Western Capitalism and capitalist economies (Chambers 2010: 15). Initially restricted to the tourism of the “preserve of elites” (Urry 1991: 4) the “Grand Tour” has over time become an easily accessible universal experience‚ defining the characteristics of the modern man and consequently is the “largest industry in the world” (Urry 1991: 5). Although

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    comfort and convenience. Meanwhile‚ in the articles “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr and “Smarter Than You Think” by Clive Thompson that I chose from they say I say‚ the authors are both argue about the technology‚ and they believe technology is changing the way on the human mind today. Although both articles are closely related‚ they are also completely different. Thompson think technology bringing us a lot of benefits‚ but Carr suspicious that the advancing technology is a wicked invention

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