Is social networking really social? By Larry Rosen‚ Ph.D. February 1‚ 2011 4tweetsretweet Let’s face it. Everyone is on Facebook. Well‚ not everyone‚ but 550 million or one in 12 people worldwide have a Facebook account. As of late 2010‚ 61 percent of all online adults are Facebooking‚ a whopping increase from 35 percent just two years ago. This includes nearly all young adults (86 percent)‚ the majority of teens (71 percent) and even one in four 8- to 12-year-olds. According to the latest
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Does Age Matter in Relationships When it comes to relationship‚ age really should not matter it should be up to the two people only. What is basically being said is age doesn’t have no bearing here in a relationship unless you choose to make it one. It seems that is a perfectly great argument‚ there are plenty of people that think people who are years apart cannot have a relationship that will last. I believe it really does all depend on the two people who are having a relationship‚ as it is
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Is 3D Ultrasound Really Worth It? In the past few years‚ 3-Dimensional ultrasound has become very popular among pregnant women and their families. Expectant mothers are using this elective tool as a way to view their unborn baby and create a bond with their baby. Families are giving these 3D ultrasound sessions as gifts to the mother and father‚ but is it necessary? Are the risks to the fetus really worth the moment of gratification that these ultrasound sessions can bring to the expectant parents
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Carter Barber Loughman English B50 10/17/12 It Really Does Make Cents In Derek Sereno’s essay‚ “It Just Makes Cents”‚ he makes multiple points about why our beloved penny should be removed from the currency system. We have all spent countless times digging through our wallets searching for change and waiting for our grocer or barista to give us back the meaningless pennies that will most likely end up in a tip jar or a penny tray. Sereno not only states that the penny no longer has value to
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"in the course of a lifetime‚ what does it matter?" take a minute to ask yourself that question and ponder on its meaning. What comes to mind? Will sports matter? Will how you treat people matter? Many of the things that we do in our lives will never truly matter in the course of our lifetime. Prudence acts as if her cheerleading tryouts matter in the course of her lifetime‚ but they really aren’t very significant. Sports like this don’t seem to matter. In your entire lifetime‚ it doesn’t seem very
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We have all experienced some level of physical pain in our life‚ ranging from a simple pinch to bone-breaking‚ tissue-tearing‚ excruciating pain. When we feel that sensation of pain‚ what is actually happening at the chemical level within our body? As children‚ the majority of us believe that pain happens at the epidermis level because we can see an injury or believe we feel it on our skin‚ even though it may be at a deeper level. The older we get the‚ more educated we become and learn that pain
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Is Obesity Really a Disease? The controversial debate on whether obesity should be classified as a disease has been around for some time. Recently‚ the American Medical Association officially classified obesity as a disease. Disease is generally defined as an abnormal condition that results from developmental errors and/or unfavorable environmental factors that cannot be controlled. It can be caused by an external source‚ such as some sort of pathogen or an internal dysfunction of cells. Obesity
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Animal testing is a phrase that most people have heard but are perhaps still unsure of exactly what is involved. Whether it is referred to as animal testing‚ animal experimentation or animal research‚ it means the experimentation carried out on animals. Experimental animal testing has been one of the highest debated issues for many years. Animal testing is used for numerous products and applications. Everything from toiletries to medications has likely been tested on animals at some point prior to
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“Sex and relationships are matters of personal choice.” Discuss In modern society as the idea of sex and relationships becomes more liberal the purpose of sex and relationships comes under further analysis. In what is really a matter of just under a century sex before marriage has transformed from a concept that was once expected to one which is rarely practiced and as the attitude towards single mothers takes a similar U-turn we are forced to analyse the purpose of such concepts. Nowadays by many
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Form‚ Content‚ and Subject Matter GENZ 220Z-Art Critique Paper Shelby M. Dykes In this paper‚ I will discuss the form‚ content‚ and subject matter of three different paintings. Each of the paintings represents the following: representational painting‚ abstract painting‚ and a portrait. The paintings I have chosen are: Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks 1942‚ Wassily Kodinsky’s Colour Studies: Squares and Concentrentic Circles 1913‚ and Pablo Picasso’s Self-Portrait 1907. Representational paintings show
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