Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks Her name was Henrietta Lacks‚ but scientists know her as HeLa. Henrietta was a poor southern tobacco farmer who was emitted to the hospital and had her cells taken without her knowledge. Her cells became the most important tools in medicine. HeLa were the first “immortal” human cells grown in culture‚ and are still alive today. Due to research they say that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale‚ they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as
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Is Gaming Harmful for Teenagers? Adults‚ think that children‚ who are in teenage period‚ should focus on their studies rather than gaming on computers or electronic devices. However‚ they still favor their kids to enjoy such healthy leisure-time activities like playing football‚ tennis‚ badminton‚ etc. There are different kinds of activities for young people‚ and video games seem to be one of the most favorite ones of almost teenagers. Playing video games can be good and can be bad to a certain
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Violence Among Teenagers Today teenagers are violent more than in the last generation. In the last few years the violence spread all over the country. In these days there are some external features that we can recognize violent people. Teachers‚ parents and teenagers report that violence increases every day. * Alcohol and violence: the alcohol strengthens the self confidence‚ and disrupts the absorptive capacity. There are violence events that happen from drinking a lot of alcohol. For example:
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promotes hostile tendencies in many teenagers; especially in teen boys. Hollywood icons such as Little Wayne claim bragging rights to the number of times they have been shot yet they are glorified and plastered on teen channel hot spots such as MTV and VH1. Although many don’t understand how doing something as simple as watching a movie could mold a teens mind it is proven that it does. There have been reported reenactments of actions in movies where teenagers resemble victims in slasher movies by
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Lack of Communication in a Relationship Lack of communication is the root cause for most relationships problems. Communication is the key foundation in a relationship. Without its presence or absence‚ it affects the physical health. When communication is deprived‚ we would have no sense of ourselves. Communication enables us to survive and it has a major impact on all relationships. Without communication‚ a relationship has no chance of surviving its prime. To make communication work‚ each
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Cosmetic surgery on teenagers Both texts‚ Valerie Ulene‚ “Plastic surgery for teens”‚ an article from Los Angeles Times website‚ January 12‚ 2009 and Camille Sweeney‚ “Seeking Self-Esteem Through Surgery”‚ an article from New York Times website‚ January 15‚ 2009‚ agree on the view on cosmetic surgery and query the idea of increased self-esteem to a certain point. Text 1‚ “Plastic surgery for teens”‚ focuses more on the surgery itself whereas text 2‚ Seeking Self-Esteem Through Surgery”‚ focuses
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nonviolence as a way of fighting injustice.Gandhi is a great example because he used his leadership skills to promote the common good. Few generations have experienced leaders of his caliber. Today‚ our world is becoming more and more familiar with the lack of leadership. The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 could have easily been prevented as well as the lives lost during that disaster. According to Gregory P. Smith the captain of the Titanic‚ E.J. Smith‚ ignored seven iceberg warnings from his crew
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Lack of Discipline in Children ENG 101 Evelyn Hill January 28‚ 2013 Walk into any public and look around; what do you see? Most people would say; products‚ people‚ families‚ and children. Next‚ watch some of the children for just a minute and listen to them. There are probably some children playing hide and seek from their parents in the racks of cloths‚ others are opening the packages of toys‚ and of course‚ there’s the one child who is screaming all through the store because his mom told
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The Effect of Technology on Teenagers Technology that surrounds everyone in the current civilization‚ affects your mind‚ work and even lifestyle. Technology has many positive aspects‚ but using it the wrong way could be dangerous. It could be used as another form of communication and exchange of information‚ which was not available before‚ that is both good and bad. Technology is a valuable tool‚ but is somewhat misused by today’s society. The main group that has been affected the most by technology
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In what way does 90210 challenge and confirm British perceptions of American youth and why is it so successful in the UK? 90210? American teenagers Attitudes and values Representations of American youth in the British media Audience profiling http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=S4tl1L_NG_cC&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=how+are+characters+represented+in+90210&source=bl&ots=8svyK9iHAz&sig=8UCb4ahGSQUIRZ0G3eOzDCmcpSc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LNlMT72gCdTV8QOp56jxAg&ved=0C
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