...Homework: Helpful or Harmful? Is homework harmful or helpful? In today’s education system, schools are preparing students for college by pressuring them to increase their test scores. Test scores seem to provide educators with a good standpoint of the student’s intelligence level. Therefore, educators have been ordering homework to be done since elementary school. A Countless number of students are being assigned a great amount of homework every day because educators think that it is essential and helpful. However, too much homework has seemed to negatively affect students in many ways. In recent studies, there has been a widespread call to realize the disadvantages of homework due to the strain it puts on students. Although homework may seem favorable because it seems to keep students busy and working, homework should not be considered the primary tool to improve students since homework medically affects students, is time consuming, and interferes with family life. Homework has medical affect on students since they are becoming sleep deprived as they struggle to complete a homework assignment that is due the next day. Studies show that students are now taking more risks due to excessive amounts of homework that cannot be completed efficiently in a given time. According to CNN Health’s Medical Assignment Manager Ann J. Curley, studies conducted show that more than two-thirds of American students report they are getting less than eight hours of sleep on school nights, which is...
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...High school sports are more helpful to students than harming them when they are performing activities. High school sports will create more students with more goals for them to achieve when they are in high school. High school sports help students build a better character of themselves. School sports help students be more well-rounded compared to kids that do not do sports. First of all, having high school sports can help students achieve the goals that they have set for themselves. According to Article 2, “Are High School Sports Good for Kids?”, “Leading youth development experts contend that one of the potential benefits of sports participation is the development of initiative or the ability to set and go after goals which is part of the competitive...
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..."Addiction and Substance Abuse." Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 19 Nov. 2012. Web. 31 Mar. 2014. <http://www.2facts.com/article/i1700390> In this article, the author(s) discuss many viewpoints on drug abuse. They explain supporters and opponents’ viewpoints on drug being kept illegal. An argument that I found that would support my own argument was the supporters’ idea that legalizing drugs will only make things worse by letting more and more people get into them and become dependent on them. My point in using this as a source is not to discuss legalizing drugs, but merely showing how people do know that they are wrong and can have negative, long-lasting effects on users. Marijuana is a gateway drug, and can be harmful if used over long periods of time. Long-time users have experienced permanent short-term memory problems, lung damage, and slowed reaction time. "Drug Abuse Effects." Drug Abuse Effects. Coalition Against Drug Abuse, 2014. Web. 30 Mar. 2014. <http://drugabuse.com/library/drug-abuse-effects/> This article was very descriptive of what drugs do to the user when consumed and what their permanent effects are. It describes many of the negative effects that almost any drug imaginable can do to the consumer’s body and how...
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...something very harmful, it has many benefits that it can be used for. In the magazine article, “The Need for Weed” Chris Lee highlights on how important weed can be for everyone including athletes. Not only that but in The Washington Post article, “NFL players fight pain with medical marijuana ‘Managing it with pills was slowly killing me’”, Maese uses credible sources to explain the benefits of marijuana. Mark Thompson talks with veterans about how marijuana has helped them in the magazine article, “Post-Traumatic Marijuana.” Marijuana is still illegal to this day, but it can be changed with all these benefits reaping the consequences. In sum, Marijuana should be legalized because of all the benefits it has; it helps with pain, PTSD, and workouts without enhancing performance. Marijuana’s main beneficial use is dealing with pain. Marijuana is a great replacement for dangerous pain pills such as opioids. In the article “The Need for Weed” Kyle Turley, two-time NFL first-team all-pro, explains how he became hooked on dangerous opioid pain medication, and that switching to medical marijuana saved his life. For...
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...“Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat forever.” A free clinic embodies this proverb; it will not only help the sick but also educate our youth about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. Being unskilled, children and teenagers make health changing decisions; some beneficial, some lifethreatening. Regarding this, the most helpful facility that targets the youth is a medical center, because it too healthy generations, educates the adolescents about the mind and body, and combat the harmful effects of drugs. Particularly, a children’s infirmary would best aid in the War on Drugs. Ecstasy and other “club drugs” are at their peak rates of use in a decade. The drug trade has flourished into a million dollar industry under this demand by our youth. Entire communities and towns have been ravaged by this organized crime and the effort to destroy it. But like all business, drugs are only as strong as their demand. A medical center for our youth would play a pivotal role in the movement to destroy drugs, by educating and discouraging our the teenagers of our society about narcotics we will directly save our adolescents from lifethreatening side effects and indirectly make our community safer by ridding it of drugs and the crime associated with the trade. Equally, a youth medical institution is also a great place to encouraging safe and healthy lifestyles among minors. HIV, AIDS, and other sexually transmitted ...
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...injury, infectious disease (such as HIV or hepatitis C), or addiction. 1. The shock/ scare approach- the use of anti-drug videos, government tv and even on billboards focus on the horrors of drugs use. ➢ In this approach, the use of media is helpful to people to convey the harmful effects of taking drugs excessively. The made commercials on tv, radios, billboards and even educational movies to scare the people showing the side effects of drugs to us and to the people around us. The information approach- young people are given the facts about drugs on the assumption that if they knew the facts they would not use drugs. ➢ When we are informed about the facts of drugs we may come into realization that this thing may really harm us. They say that the truth hurts. So by knowing the truth about drugs we may know the effects of drugs and the possibility that it may hurt us physically and emotionally. The attitudes/value approach- to promote a “drug free lifestyle”, “personal responsibility”and “strong moral beliefs” to avoid drugs. ➢ It is clear to us that this approaches helps us avoid drugs. So in this approach are attitudes and values are being lifted and enhanced so remind us that drug addiction may lead us into a stressed and harmful life. The refusal skills approach- “Say No To Drugs” ➢ “Say No To Drugs, But Yes to God”. We are all familiar with this saying. It is true that instead of bringing oneself into drugs, why not bring oneself closer to God? People, especially...
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...The primary goals of this phase are to restore mobility, strength, and function in basic tasks. For example, ambulating with a normal gait pattern. Mobility can be facilitated through assistive devices, such as, towels or cords, or through activities, such as, cycling. Joint mobilization will be extremely helpful and effective in this stage. Strengthening can begin with basic resistance exercises using bands, cords or ankle weights. Once the athlete has gained strength they can perform closed-chain functional tasks, such as heel raises, or calf presses with weight machines. Strengthening should first be introduced with lower intensity, high repetition sets progressing into high intensity, low repetitions to promote muscle overload and thereby causing hypertrophy. Strength, endurance, and muscle control can be performed by having the athlete balance on unstable surfaces, such as, a bosu-ball, wobble board...
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...something we are not aware of, and sometime cannot control. Some would define stress as our reaction to the ups and downs of everyday life. Others might define stress as worry, pressure, tension, etc. Stress is defined as the non-specific response of the body to any demand placed on it, by Dr. Hans Seyle. In other words, anything that causes a "change or a reaction" in your body is called stress. In today world lot of us are unaware this is a problem until it’s too late. One of the biggest questions is how do you deal or release it? There are many ways people deal with stress. Although people often react to stress in harmful ways, they can react to it in positive ways. People may deal with stress in harmful ways. Some individuals could harm themselves trying to relieve stress. For example, some may overeat or smoke a lot; they sometimes get addicted to very harmful things that could eventually cause them to get ill. I have a friend who smokes drugs to relax from stress (weed). He shares this helps him get rid of stress (I feel this is only hurting him more).Many people sometimes blow up their tension, which ends up hurting close friends and family and even their relationships. This is something that everyone around the world shares .we have all, at one time or another been victims of conflict and/or uncontrollable situations also, known as stressors. Although we all react different to situations or conflicts these situations can have a lot of power over our emotions and cause...
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...Women and Beauty Magazines by Christine Hetcher Beauty magazines, such as Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Marie Claire, are widely read by women throughout America . What do women actually think of these magazines? Do they feel the magazines are helpful, degrading, or simply something to read? This paper is a survey interview to determine what women in their late teens and early twenties think about beauty magazines in Americatoday. The purpose of this study is to determine whether women like or dislike beauty magazines, why they like or dislike them, and how frequently women read beauty magazines. Background This section reviews the previous studies conducted on the effects of women’s magazines. Magazines specifically written for women have been in circulation for over sixty years, discussing whatever issues were relevant to women at the time (Moskowitz, 1996). Some of the earlier magazines focused on a war-time rebellion of feminism. Moskowitz (1996) conducted a study about the effects of war-time magazines and said, “Women’s magazines of the Cold War era remain symbols of antifeminism” (p. 66). Moskowitz (1996) found that many women liked the articles because many magazines discussed important issues to them, such as stress, emotionalism, and feminism (p.66). Moskowitz (1996) said, “recognition of emotional tension was common for women’s magazines” (p.67). This recognition “presented a whole new genre of articles that gave housewives the freedom...
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...Year Round-Schooling is a Mistake Mostly all schools in the United States function on the 10-month calendar but as time pass through people propose to modify from the outdated system to the year-round education. In my perception schools should continue to use the traditional calendar and not a year-round schedule. There are various downsides to year-round schooling. It does not have a positive effect on education, it has a negative effect on the budget, and it interrupts the long summer vacation. To begin, year-round schooling doesn’t impact education in a helpful way. Most year-round schedules have 45 days of school followed by 15 days off. Because of this there are a great quantity of first and last days and that affect the learning...
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...The harm of Television How many hours do you think a child should watch T.V.? if you say 2 hours or more you're completely wrong. The problem is that parents use the T.V. as their own personal babysitter for the child. And although television can be fun to watch especially in this day and time but it can also be harmful to children. In other words when children are watching television they can start to learn and see provocative things, they can can start to become lazy,and develop bad behavior. Children watching to much television can cause them to become lazy which can cause many health issues. When I mention health issues children can develop high blood pressure and obesity. As stated in this article “just two hours of T.V. a day doubles risk of child obesity”,...
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...Negative Effects of Steroids The intent of this essay is to show that steroids have many negative effects and that steroids, and other natural supplements, should be closely studied by the FDA. This essay will also support the claim that the professional sports industry needs to eliminate steroid use and set a good example for younger athletes. Over one million American seek short cuts to larger muscles and greater endurance with anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. Steroids are drugs that act like chemical in the body. Most steroids are transformed into testosterone when they enter the body. Testosterone is a male growth hormone. While user may gain short-term results, they are seriously shortchanging their health (Kalawalski 13-15). Some of the ill effects of the drugs are damage to the kidneys and liver. A person can also alter the balance of the natural hormones. This can cause detrimental affects to the body. The effects of you natural hormones being out of balance can last several years after being off the drugs. Some male user form breasts due to the use of steroids. Because of the increase in testosterone, steroids can cause serious acne problems. When used by teens is can cause stunted growth. Other side effects include genital changes, water retention, yellow eyes, coronary artery disease, ligament injuries, high blood pressure, changes in cholesterol levels, sterility and liver disease. The list goes on and on...
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...Name | : | Marwa binti Abd Malek. | | | | Title of article | : | The Lumbar Spine and Low Back Pain in Golf: A Literature Review of Swing Biomechanics and Injury Prevention. | | | | Author and Brief Background | : | 1) George S. Gluck, MD. * Works as an Orthopaedic Surgeon at Hand Center of Nevada, Comprehensive Upper Extremity Care from Hand to Shoulder * Member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. 2) John A. Bendo, MD. * Works as a Clinical Associate Professor and Vice Chair Clinical Affairs at Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery (Ortho-Spine Surgery Div) and Hospital for Joint Diseases. 3) Jeffrey M. Spivak, MD. * Works as an Assistant Professor at Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery (Ortho-Spine Surgery Div) and Hospital for Joint Diseases NYU Orthopaedic Surgery Associates. | | | | Journal Title and Vol. Number | : | The Spine Journal 8 (2008) 778–788. | | | | Date of submission | : | 3rd January 2013 | MY REVIEW Introduction The article informs readers that golf swing causes great impact to lumbar spine and it lead to low back pain (LBP) among golfers. It also educate readers the details of the study on less injury swing technique, causes of LBP among golfers, the treatment and prevention techniques. It stated that the prolapsed intervertebral disc (PID), muscle strain and facet joint capsule trauma will occur when the spine is given loads of 5,448N in flexion extension movement together with rotational movement...
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...Types of food people like in Pakistan: The Pakistani cosines are rich in oil and chillies. Unlike the Indian food, Pakistani dishes must include meat, chicken and beef, though pork is totally forbidden as per Islamic teachings. Although eating habits differ from regions to region, the mainstay of the Pakistani diet is "chapati or roti" made from flour. "Lassi" a usual drink made like a milkshake in a home made utencil from curd/yogurt and water is usually taken at lunch time, specially during the summers as it beats the effects of hard weather. It is usually customary to eat a dessert after the dinner, which mainly comprises "Kheer" (made from rice and milk) and sweetened rice "Zarda". Rice though scarcely eaten in many parts, pulla´o (lightly fried rice with vegetables) and biryani (rice with meat or vegetables and spices) are the tw very favourite dishes of rice, specially on marriages. "Mithai" a kind of sweet made of corn flour, sugar and milk is the favourite sweet for all ages Pakistanis generally eat three meals a day: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. During the evening, many families have green tea without sugar which goes along with baked/fried snacks from local bakery (or prepared at home). During the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, the eating patterns change to: sehri and iftar. It is considered proper to eat only with the right hand as per Islamic tradition (also a tradition in many other Asian cultures). Many Pakistani families, particularly when guests are too many...
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...Speaking on the front of all IT students, we use lot of technology, coding everyday, but have we paused a while to think, who were the pioneers, who walked that extra step to make this happen! After a small minute research I have collaborated some data, that might be helpful for you to figure out who's who! :) Beginning with my favorite coding language, JavaScript, the person behind this was Brendan Eich. Moving to Java, it was James Gosling's dream come true. The most popular one, C was the work of Dennis Ritchie. Adding two plus signs to it, C++ was created by Bjarne Stroustrup. Then its PERL, the work of Larry Wall. SQL was designed by Donald D. Chamberlin & Raymond F. Boyce. Moving forward, Python was designed by Guido van Rossum. And the last and famous coding language used by masses, PHP, was designed by Rasmus Lerdorf The World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers programme recognizes companies, normally in a start-up phase, from around the world that are involved in the design, development and deployment of new technologies, and hold promise of significantly impacting the way business and society operate. Technology Pioneers must demonstrate visionary leadership and show signs of being long-standing market leaders – their technology must be proven. Each year, hundreds of innovative companies from around the world are reviewed, with approximately 30 selected as Technology Pioneers in the following three categories: AFP - Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and...
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