...Laurence-Probert Composition 1 Essay #2 cause and effect March 19, 2013 Situations Leading Up To Alcohol Abuse There are many people who like to drink beverages with alcohol. Many people drink for social purposes, and many drink to relax after a hard day of work. Moreover, the notion of alcoholic-based drinks has become an influence for many people of all ages around the world, and many abuse it. There are some people who believe that there is no cause for drinking. On the other hand, there are people who believe that there are many causes and many effects for drinking beverages that contain alcohol. One possible cause of alcohol abuse could be depression for one reason or another; however, the effects of alcohol abuse are liver damage, decrease of brain function, and the loss of a job. One effect of alcohol abuse is liver damage. Alcohol abuse causes cirrhosis of the liver, which shortens the life of a human being. Moreover, liver damage due to alcohol can lead to pain, suffering, and bitterness. For example, my best friend mother was an alcoholic; she abused it every day and all day at the age of forty, she was diagnosed with cirrhosis of her liver. Not only did she experience much pain, but she also spent the rest of her life angry and mad at everything and everyone. If it was not for her alcohol abuse, then she would have lived longer and possibly been happier. Alcohol abuse also causes severe damage in the neurons, so it causes alterations in the body movements, loss...
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...Lape Mogaji Professor Susan Tripathy Sociology of Health and Healthcare DUE DATE: October 1st, 2015 “Social Relations and Health: A Flashpoint for Public Policy (Blackboard) From the moment of birth, babies yearn for love, affection and attention. Parents take care of their children up until college and even -in some generous cases- after graduation. Creating a strong and healthy relationship between caregivers and receivers, positively affects their health and their overall self esteem. Debra Emberson and Jennifer Karas Montez evaluated the pros and cons to social relationships and how it affects the standard of living for individuals. The authors included evidence shows that involvement in social relationships benefits health. Some studies they conducted comes from prospective studies of mortality across industrialized nations. House, Landis and Emberson conducted a social experiment and found that these studies consistently show that individuals with the lowest level of involvement in social relationships are more likely to die than those with greater involvement). For example, Berkman and Syme showed that the risk of death among men and women with the fewest social ties was more than twice as high as the risk for adults with the most social ties. Social ties has also been proven to reduce mortality rates among adults with medical conditions. For instance, several recent review articles provide consistent and compelling evidence linking a low quantity or quality...
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...Moving a Teenager to a New Town Moving a teenager to a new town can have many negative effects on him or her. First off the teen will have to cope with the change of losing Close relationships and struggle obtaining new ones. Also the teen has to endure the stress the rest of the family is having from moving. An finally, as a teen grows through puberty emotions run high. Causing stress and depression to collide with the pains of moving; which will have major effects on school and everyday life. Moving a teenager to a new city will force them to break a lot of close relationships. One relationship a teen might lose is with friends. Good friends are hard to come by, most friends are long time relationships built at a young age. So trust and loyalty are established over time. But then lost with the distance from moving. Other relationships a teen might lose is with teachers and neighbors. Teachers could be a trusted source to a teen. Teachers come to a relationship with advice and guidance for the teen. Neighbors are also a trusted source for a teen. With stepping in when parents aren’t around to do a job and a close relationship with proximity to the teens home. With teens losing these close relationships by moving; it will have a huge negative effect on guidance and feeling a lone. Moving troubles of the family can cause stress on the parents, which can trickle down to the teen. Some of the most common reasons for a family moving is: the parents getting a divorce and the...
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...we would like them too. One of the effects of a recession could be lower wages. Employed workers would notice a wage cut. In order for the government to save money somewhere money spent has to be taken away. But by doing so, workers as consumers won't have any spending money to spend and there will be no money generating in the economy. There would be no investments being made and no stocks being bought. The beginning of any recession is a decline in a countries GDP. GDP stands for our gross domestic product. "Gross domestic product (GDP) is the monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period" (Gross Domestic). When one thing isn't going as plan or how it's suppose to be, there is a domino effect. A recession is an example of that. Because a recession causes for businesses to fail, the businesses then proceed to lower wages. Lower wages are just the half of it, businesses will the start letting people go. The unemployment rate begins to increase. The way our economy works as if it was a chain. Everything is linked in some way shape or...
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...The Causes and Effects of Drug Abuse The fact that drugs have become a problem in our society is no secret. It seems that although everyone knows the consequences or drug abuse, some people still seem to think they are immune to these effects, or that they will be able to stop drug use after trying it just one time. Although it is true that some are lucky enough to quit after just one time, it is also true that even trying drugs one time causes dependence and a life full of torment and hell. To the observer, it might be questioned why one person will abuse drugs to the point of losing his or her job, home, and family, while another seems to have none of these problems. In this essay, I will discuss these affects, as well as their causes, that we see in a variety of drug users. Drug abuse and addiction each have no single cause. However, there are a number of risk factors that increase a person’s odds of developing a chemical abuse or dependency disorder. These can include different psychological issues, such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. Additionally, people can turn to drugs to get relief from physical/mental pain or to deal with stress and loneliness they may be facing. Drugs seem to provide an “escape” from any sort of discomfort a person may be having, whether it be that physical, social, or psychological. However, the escape that a person experiences is brief, and unfortunately causes many harmful effects as it gradually takes over the abuser’s life...
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...Cause of Nothing Turning Out Good What causes kids to start doing drugs? Why do something so horrible? A lot of things probably lead to kids doing drugs, such as a bad divorce of their parents, hanging out with a bad group of friends, or some other type of horrible cause that happens within their life. Most kids start off doing drugs because of the friends they’re hanging out with such as if you’re hanging out with a friend and they’re like, “Hey man just try this it won’t hurt you”, so you feel pressured into doing those drugs. You think it makes you look cool or makes you fit in with the crowd when really you look like an idiot and should be saying no to the drugs. Another reason why kids start drugs is because the parents go through a hard divorce and the kids are thrown from parent to parent and the parents don’t care what the kid does anymore because in reality they don’t know what their kids doing or where their kid is. When they should be watching every move they make, then later on down the road they want to blame the kid or themselves which takes a bigger toll on everyone around them and themselves. Other causes of kids doing drugs are things such as depression, insecurity, boredom, lack of intelligence, what they feel like and many more reasons. They feel depressed and they think doing drugs will make them feel better and take away the pain, when in reality when the high wears off all there problems come back. They just need to face them instead of hiding from them...
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...Prompt: Causes and Effects of the Great Depression A lack of a resources provides an extra motivation to the individual, when times get harder instead of displaying sorrow one should work harder. Ones economic class can provide an image of ones ability to survive but when everyone is struggling economically it can’t be depicted. When society is having trouble to survive as a group, one develops the mentality that only the fittest can survive. Millions of people were unemployed, the unemployment line was the only hope for some families but regardless of how in need one was not everyone obtained a job. For the people that had a difficult time to make money previous to the depression were devastated afterwards, they were practically crawling to survival. Coming off one of the most joyful eras it seems if people got careless and despite people obtaining stocks and putting their money in bank, their money wasn’t safe. People would once hunt for their resources but in present day, most necessities contain a monetary value but a lot of people don’t recognize how hard it is to obtain money. When regarding the Great Depression it seems as if a timeline is proceeds it, when people find themselves in a predicament they attempt to remember the days when being fired from every job and struggling to eat wasn’t second nature. Previous to the great famine, there was a time when people were able to obtain several appliances and things that weren’t needed but several people were taking advantage...
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...First, Anorexia is the worse way to lose weight. It’s harmful to the body and can cause psychological and gynecological problems. Anorexia affects mostly females between their teens or young adult women age period, it is harming our society greatly. For w person suffering from Anorexia , social problems form like isolation and depression, too. Also, anorexia is a socially transmitted disorder, environmental factors, such as acceptance in certain athletic and social groups, which can contribute to the effects of an eating disorder. Studies provide information about the environmental issues that influence Anorexia. Some studies say that three-thousand participants from across Europe provide evidence that peer pressure is a major source of an eating disorder. The idea that public opinion and peer pressure causes Anorexia Nervosa has been considered as a possible cause for a while. A lot of people say that low body weight is equated with beauty and success. While overweight or obese individuals, are equated with ugliness, a lack of success, and an implied lack of self control. The conflict between actual and desired body appearance is thought to trigger Anorexia in some people. Teens are vulnerable to social and peer pressure, which might explain why rates of Anorexia occur in the teen years. Social pressure and idealized body image plays a role in Anorexia Nervosa. Social pressure alone probably causes an eating disorder. The majority of people exposed to the social messages of the...
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...all the good effects. Although T.M.I. had a disaster in the past, I would still keep it open. This is a two way argument, whether or not to keep T.M.I. open or not. In the paragraphs below I will state my opinion of why it should be kept open. Nuclear energy is the only form of energy that significantly replaces fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are nonrenewable and can’t be replaced. Also Nuclear power is considered renewable, although it uses a product (Uranium-235) which is nonrenewable. This type of power also powers 20% of the US. This may not seem like a lot, but Nuclear power has only been used for 70 years, unlike fossil fuels for hundreds of years . Another reason to consider is...
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...Introduction If you ask employees what they think about change, you will normally find that most people have negative attitudes and perceptions towards change. They have fears of losing their job, their status or their social security, or they are afraid of a higher workload. In many cases, first effects of change on employees, leaders, and on performance levels are negative. These effects include fears, stress, frustration and denial of change. Most employees tend to react with resistance to change rather than seeing change as a chance to initiate improvements. They are afraid of losing something, because they have incomplete information on how the change processes will effect their personal situation in terms of tasks, workload, or responsibilities. If chance processes lead to redundancies, those who “survived job cuts” still have a negative attitude towards change. One reason may be that they now face additional tasks and responsibilities. Some people may feel guilty for still having their job while others became unemployed. Such emotional reactions may cause additional stress in the changing organization. Managers need to keep in mind those negative side-effects of change initiatives in order to achieve the expected positive results. The success of change projects depends on the organization’s ability to make all their employees participate in the change process in one way or the other. Definition Change management means to plan, initiate, realize, control...
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...rise. Natural disasters happen all too often. These natural disasters cause many people to be without homes, thus they end up on the streets. Because of many people not being able to pay their bills, because of loss of jobs, whole families are getting laid off. A final cause of homelessness is untreated mental illnesses particularly PTSD. In 2014 there were 49,993 veterans living on the streets in the US alone. When someone is homeless their health suffers. They are at a higher risk of catching diseases such as respiratory. The children and teenagers that are homeless do not receive any sort of education or job training. This makes it so much harder to find work, especially in today’s economy. Another effect homeless has is on crime. Many people will turn to stealing food and other things needed for survival. Homelessness is a problem that can be helped through providing financial aid to...
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...The Effects of Unemployment Roderick C. LaGrone COM 150 January 28, 2011 Holly McCusker The Effects of Unemployment Over the past ten years there has been a great shift in society’s employment system. Corporate America has taken major cutbacks in the working labor department that has left many citizens unemployed and destitute. Anger and concern over layoffs, wage unproductivity, declining benefits, and the movement of jobs overseas has left citizens with harsh and undesirable views of the actions and motivations of Corporate America. With the unemployment rate on a downward slope, American citizens have become distressed which has resulted in emotional, social, and, economic hardships. Even though the unemployment rate in the decline many families are still in distress because of the social and economic problems caused widespread company layoffs. Can Corporate America offer our families a better way of life ? The unemployment rate has been on a slow decline over the past few months which indicate a slow improvement in the job market. Even though the decline is a positive indication, many companies are not hiring at an alarming rate. Based on Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) the number of unemployed persons decreased by 556,000 to 14.5 million in December, and the unemployment rate dropped to 9.4 percent. Over the years, these measures were down from 15.2 million and 9.9 percent, respectively. As the economy continues to slowly recover many Americans are still trying...
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...A critique of “Into the unknown” published by the economist (November 13, 2004.) Fear of losing jobs to offshoring (rise in unemployment), but computers and technology may take these jobs anyway. “Has the machines in its last furious manifestation begun to eliminate workers faster than new task can be found for them?” Article says not to worry. The United States has experienced an increase in the offshore outsourcing (offshoring) of jobs in the service industry. Although offshoring is common in the manufacturing industry, it only recently began in the service industry. The recent increase in the service industry has occurred because of new technology and the ability to access information from anywhere. Those who oppose offshoring believe it takes away American jobs, lower wages, and causes declines in America’s standard of living and any benefits from offshoring are unevenly distributed. Offshoring in the industry has not negatively affected the United States. Currently, offshore outsourcing in the service industry has a net benefit to society and there is no reason for concern. Critics charge that the information revolution (especially the Internet) has accelerated the decimation of U.S. manufacturing and facilitated the outsourcing of service sector jobs once considered safe, from backroom call centers to high level software programming. (This concern feeds into the suspicion that U.S. corporations are exploiting globalization to fatten profits at the expense of workers.)...
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...economy 3 4. Effect of AI and robots on unemployment. 3 Examples of affected jobs 5 Conclusion 6 Appendix – answers of some industry experts to the Pew Research Center 7 References 8 Table of Figures Figure 1 - The Pew Research Center study results 4 Figure 2 - economists poll result concerning automation and unemployment 5 Introduction Robots: these fascinating inventions that have long captured the imagination of novel writers all around the world are now becoming a reality; and their possible effect on the economy is yet to be studied and understood. Technology has so far played an important and critical part in economic development; from the first human made tool to the recent assembly-line robots. From the invention of steam engines, to the industrial revolution, to the invention of the transistor, to the internet … advancement in technology is a fine determinant of economic growth which makes them truly related. Robert Solow estimated that technology accounted for about 2/3 of the U.S. economy growth, after allowing for growth in both labor force and capital stock. However, as inventions are moving from equipment that reduce physical effort to machines that could actually replace humans, robots and AI in particular, the positive effect of technology on the workforce and the economy is becoming less ubiquitous. In 2014, according to the Pew Research Center, 2000 industry experts remain deeply divided on how robotics will affect jobs...
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...Unemployment is a major issue in today’s society. Do you know what causes unemployment? Do you know who it affects? I do, let me tell you. Unemployment effects everyone, whether it be directly or indirectly. Even if you are employed, the unemployment of people in your community can hit home. As a public relations specialist I work with people on a daily basis to try to get them the assistance they need so that they can get better jobs. There are several causes of unemployment such as recessions, disability, attitude towards employers, willingness to work, employee values, and discriminating factors in the place of work such as age, class, ethnicity, and race. All of these factors and more play a role in the unemployment in today’s society. When you see the downward spiral of joblessness if you are a business owner hire someone to help, if you have connections to great companies let someone know so that we can help decrease the unemployment rate. I hope to supply you with the causes and effects unemployment has on individuals and their families. Discriminating factors in the work place causes unemployment are very much present; it may come in many different ways. They may terminate you from your job because of your age, a lot of employers think that because you have gotten older you may not be able to perform your job as good as you did back when you where younger so they hire a younger individual to keep the work environment young and hip. Another discriminating factor...
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