...2 How Bingeing Became the New College Sport Based on the abstract of the article, my judgment would be that the article is going to talk about the fact that changing the legal age limit for drinking, binge drinking will be effected one way or another. I can’t tell from the preview if the change in the legal drinking age would be positive or negative toward college binge drinking. Based on the title of the article I would assume that the writer is using a fallacy to draw readers in. Binge drinking absolutely never could or would be considered a sport. The title of the article would appear, in my opinion, to be a false analogy. The title almost seems as if the writer is saying this in a joking way, trying to promote humor. Ironic humor, but still, humor, this subject is not a laughing matter and should not ever be taken lightly, but the name of his article does make me interested in reading it. I do not know who Barrett Seaman is, but I can see that the article was published in Time Magazine, so that would lead me to believe he is a credible writer. After reading the article, it is obvious that the writer believes that lowering the legal age for drinking would have a positive effect on bingeing. He talks about a college in Montreal, saying that the students there have a better control on their alcohol consumption by the time midterms come; do no students ever die due to alcohol on this campus? He carefully leaves that bit of information out. If death occurs in college 300...
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...A review of How Bingeing Became the New College Sport by Barrett Seaman, a former TIME editor and correspondent. I feel it’s going to be about blasting drinking and it’s going to disagree from my own point of view. The topic at hand in Barrett’s article is about the injustice & stolen freedoms of millions of young Americans. That lack of freedom has led to a very real problem of over drinking. My experience is that I drank in high school. I drank before I was 21 and the only trouble I ever got into is because of the nonsensical laws. I got an underage drinking ticket; one or maybe two. It’s totally wrong that a society, a Nation that claims to be free, tells young men and women that they are old enough to die, be issued weapons and ordered into combat to terminate other human lives but they cannot consume alcohol? Whether it be hard liquor, moonshine, beer, or just a glass of wine it’s totally wrong! The mistakes and foolishness of the few should not justify the raping of freedoms from the whole population of 18 to 20 year olds! Furthermore I know many Veterans. One Veteran in particular, when he was 20 years old, the Port Washington, WI PD gave him a fine. Right after he got back from Iraq because he was at a party drinking. Talk about a lack of respect, respect for what he's done! Those cops have the nerve to wear the same flag on their uniform and claim they are there to protect & serve. This whole topic makes me more than angry. It still infuriates me to this day and I'm...
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...Jon Doe Comp 2 (Due April 3. Bingeing article review) 1.) Title: How Bingeing Became the New College Sport Author: Barrett Seaman Date & Place of pub..: 8/29/2005, Time magazine - From the title I get the impression the author is giving a sarcastic viewpoint of how college kids drink way too much. - The articles topic and claim is that pre-gaming has become a college tradition. And the author seems to be speaking from a disturbed point of view. I agree that pre-gaming has become a form of tradition amongst college students. However one thing that I do not agree with is that the “tradition” of pre-gaming has been limited to just college students. I remember college was really when I started to drink, and pre-gaming was something that everyone did before going out. It wasn’t enough to drink once you get out but people wanted to, in a way, start the party before they were even at the party. I remember pre-gaming with my roommates my second year of school. We were all getting ready to go to a club, and had decided to purchase some liquor to drink at the dorm. A couple of us were still pretty new to the drinking seen so naturally it is easy to see why one of us may not know our limits. My roommate was a perfect example of this. He got so drunk that he passed out it his bed before we even left. Then when we tried to wake him up, he began throwing up in his bed only to lay back down in his own vomit and pass out again. Lucky for us, his girlfriend was there...
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...Bingeing Article Title: How Bingeing Became the New College Sport. Written by Barret Seaman 8/29/2005 in Canada. I think I can expect to read information on college students binge drinking. I also think I will read a writers opinion on how he feels about this subject in relation to binge drinking on college campuses. The topic of this article is related around college students and how they basically prepare during the start of their freshman year for the activities that will begin to take place that revolve around drinking. The author claims that not only is this a problem but this is a problem that began after they raised the legal drinking age across the U.S. in the 1980's. The authors point of view around the subject reflects that of a sense of urgency to move back to a previous dated time in where the drinking age of 18 proved to show more responsibility and less issue with bingers. As far as my experience goes with binge drinking on college campus I have very little. Most of my experience with this comes from getting invited to college parties with friends who attended as I have never attended a college university that required me to be on campus or near dorms. I have seen first-hand what binge drinking can do to someone though. People that consume as much alcohol as humanly possible in a short amount of time do usually make it long enough to enjoy the party. I have had a friend pass away because of this. It is almost as if it becomes a game to see who can get...
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...Seaman’s “How Binging Became the New College Sport”, Mr. Seaman discusses the new college trend of “pregaming” and the dangers of over consuming alcohol. To “pregame”, is to drink hard alcohol before going out to a party or big social event and has lead to death of 300 college students in the US. Some students may even consume up to 22 shots of hard liquor when pregaming, which can land them in hospital for alcohol poisoning. Mr. Seaman proposes that the drinking age should be lowered to 18. Lowering the drinking age would decrease alcohol abuse in college students. As the famous quote says, what’s the fun in doing what you’re told? “There is no doubt that the law, which achieved full fifty-state compliance in 1988, saved lives, but it had the unintended consequence of creating a covert culture around alcohol as the young adult’s forbidden fruit” (180). People that cannot drink legally sometimes drink just for the thrill or as rebellion of authority. Lowering the drinking age would erase drinking alcohol as a “forbidden fruit”. Without drinking alcohol being seen as a forbidden fruit, the hype of pregaming and consuming large amounts of alcohol at one time would decrease. The thrill of breaking the law would be gone. ` Another famous saying goes around the means of “with time comes great responsibility”. “Meanwhile, we should let pregamers come out of their dorm rooms so that they can learn to handle alcohol like the adults we hope and expect them to be” (181). Most college students...
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...Justin K Larson GE217 Homework 2 July 5th * Preview the Seaman reading assignment How Bingeing became the new College Sport Barrett Seaman, Sunday August 21, 2005, Time Magazine * Skim the reading I believe I can expect the article to try and make me feel that the higher drinking age is to blame for “pre-gaming” and the reason so many students either die or end up in the hospital while in college. The topic of the article is about college students “pre-gaming” for social events by consuming large amounts of alcohol beforehand. The author’s point of view is that with a younger drinking age a lot of “pre-gaming” behavior could be avoided. * Consider your own experience Growing up in a college town being River Falls, WI. I grew up two blocks from the UWRF campus. Around the time I turned eighteen I started getting invited to a lot of college party’s and frat parties and so on. I can relate to the binge drinking aspect. We all had to try and get ourselves good and buzzed up, before we went out for the night. Having the drinking age being 21 in my eyes sets the stage for a lot of young adults to have to “pregame” before going out. When young adults are away at college, sometimes it’s there first time away from home, there are going to want to drink and experience the “college” life. When you tell young adults that they can now vote, and that they can make all their own decisions and even go away to war and potentially die for their country, but they can have...
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...GE217: Composition - II - DE - V5.0 > Week 2 > Lesson 1: Reading Arguments: Thinking Like a Critic > Assignment > Major Writing Assignment > Jason McWilliams Article Title: How Bingeing Became the New College Sport. Written by Barret Seaman 8/29/2005 in Canada. I think I can expect to read information on college students binge drinking. I also think I will read a writers opinion on how he feels about this subject in relation to binge drinking on college campuses. The topic of this article is related around college students and how they basically prepare during the start of their freshman year for the activities that will begin to take place that revolve around drinking. The author claims that not only is this a problem but this is a problem that began after they raised the legal drinking age across the U.S. in the 1980's. The authors point of view around the subject reflects that of a sense of urgency to move back to a previous dated time in where the drinking age of 18 proved to show more responsibility and less issue with bingers. As far as my experience goes with binge drinking on college campus I have very little. Most of my experience with this comes from getting invited to college parties with friends who attended as I have never attended a college university that required me to be on campus or near dorms. I have seen first-hand what binge drinking can do to someone though. People that consume as much alcohol as humanly possible in a short amount...
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...Drinking binges are generally occurring among college aged people. Binge drinking also known as episodic drinking is defined as “drinking alcoholic beverages with the primary intention of becoming intoxicated by heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time. “Some binge drinkers may also consume a consistent amount of alcohol over a long period of time, also leading to intoxication. Binge drinking can also be described as four or more drinks for women and five or more drinks for men per sitting. “Binge drinking is a kind of purposeful drinking style, and somewhat overlaps with social drinking since it is often done in groups.” Due to long-term effects of alcohol misuse binge drinking is considered to be a major public health issue. “As college students arrive on campus, it’s a time of new experiences, new friendships, and making memories that will last forever.” Binge drinking is more common in males, during young adulthood. Most binge drinkers do not know any of the risks associated with binge drinking. “Heavy regular binge drinking is associated with negative effects on neurologic, cardiac, gastrointestinal, hematologic, psychiatric, immune and musculoskeletal organ systems.” Up to one third of college aged people binge drink, six percent result in having an alcohol related substance use disorder. Binge drinking in college aged people is commonly associated to unprotected sex, car accidents, unplanned pregnancy, contraction of diseases, suicide and other types of...
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...Abstract The main purpose of this extended project dissertation is as following: to explore the causes of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, in particular the biological, psychological and societal causes. Eating disorders are becoming increasingly common in today’s society and the causes of theses disorders are not completely known. This essay explores the symptoms of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, the risks and consequences of suffering from such disorders. The essay also concentrates upon how eating disorders are gradually affecting more and more men and children – something that was not often seen before. The main focus of this project is to discover whether the causes of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa stem from pre-dispositions which are linked with the body and mind or rather stemmed from society. The main biological reasons which the essay focuses on are; damaged hypothalamuses and genetic hereditariness. The main environmental causes of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa that I have studied are media influences and undesirable conditions for raising children. In writing this project I believe that I have developed valuable skills that I will need in my subjects which include; being able to extract key information from large pieces of text, researching, speedy note taking and the ability to weigh up two sides of an argument fairly and without bias. I am also aware that the skills I am developing while writing this dissertation...
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...To me, compulsive overeating is a disease where a person has no control over their food intake. It's a constant eating, a wanting for a more and more. You can't get enough, sort of like a junkie looking for the next high. That is my relationship with food. And I have no control. People that suffer from Compulsive Overeating have what can be labeled not only as an eating disorder, but also as an addiction and even more so as an illness. There are many reasons why people become addicted to food, many using eating as a way to cope with problems or stress in their lives. Eating can also help them conceal their emotions, to fill the emptiness that they feel inside. Food is used as a narcotic to not deal with their feelings or emotions. The tendency for people with this eating disorder is overweight because of the abnormal eating habits. People that do not suffer from the epidemic can and won’t empathize with the victims because of the common stereotypes, stereotype such as greed, gluttony or lack of disciple. Simple suggestions to a sufferer such as “Just slow down or go on a diet” are equally insulting as telling a person suffering from Anorexia to “eat something”. Not only are the words hurtful, but this disorder will negatively bleed into the body and causes health risks. A sufferer with this Compulsive Overeating disorder is prone to high blood-pressure and cholesterol, can develop kidney disease or kidney failure, arthritis, deterioration of the bones, strokes, heart attacks,...
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...Growing Up Asian in Australia file:///D|/ /Calibre Library/Wei Zhi/Growing Up Asian in Australia (799)/text/part0000.html[2014-6-18 23:54:32] Growing Up Asian in Australia file:///D|/ /Calibre Library/Wei Zhi/Growing Up Asian in Australia (799)/text/part0000.html[2014-6-18 23:54:32] Growing Up Asian in Australia Growing up Asian in Australia file:///D|/ /Calibre Library/Wei Zhi/Growing Up Asian in Australia (799)/text/part0001.html[2014-6-18 23:54:33] Growing Up Asian in Australia Growing up Asian in Australia ...................................... Alice Pung Edited by file:///D|/ /Calibre Library/Wei Zhi/Growing Up Asian in Australia (799)/text/part0002.html[2014-6-18 23:54:33] Growing Up Asian in Australia Published by Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Media Pty Ltd Level 5, 289 Flinders Lane Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia email: enquiries@blackincbooks.com http://www.blackincbooks.com Introduction and this collection © Alice Pung & Black Inc. Individual works © retained by the authors. Reprinted 2008 . ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 2008. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior consent of the publishers. Photo of Hoa Pham by Alister Air. Photo of Joy Hopwood by Yanna Black. The National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: Pung, Alice (ed.) Growing up...
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...Discover The Universal Secret Of Health, Wealth, Freedom, Joy, And Life-Changing, Non-Stop Abundance! 1 All Rights Reserved Copyright 2012 www.ManifestationMiracle.com No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted or distributed in any form or by any means, electrical or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from ManifestationMiracle.com. The information contained in this book is provided ‘as is’ without warranty of any kind. The entire risk as to the results and the performance of the information is assumed by the user, and in no event shall ManifestationMiracle.com be liable for any consequential, incidental or direct damages suffered in the course of using the information in this book. Manifestation Miracle Secret System Table of Contents Foreword ............................................................................................................ 7 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 9 Part 1: You Are Destined for Success Chapter 1: The Secret Ingredient That Will Send You on the Path to Your Dreams ....................................................................................... 14 Exercise: Heartstorming ................................................................................. 20 Chapter 2: You Aren’t What You Eat....You Are What You Think, Feel, See and Vibrate ....
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...New Age Hypnosis 1 Self Hypnosis REVISED EDITION Easy Ways to Hypnotize Your Problems Away DR. BRUCE GOLDBERG New Page Books A division of The Career Press, Inc. Franklin Lakes, NJ 2 Self-Hypnosis Copyright ∞ 2006 by Dr. Bruce Goldberg All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without written permission from the publisher, The Career Press. SELF HYPNOSIS, REVISED EDITION EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER CAROLEI Cover design by Lu Rossman/Digi Dog Design NYC Printed in the U.S.A. by Book-mart Press To order this title, please call toll-free 1-800-CAREER-1 (NJ and Canada: 201848-0310) to order using VISA or MasterCard, or for further information on books from Career Press. The Career Press, Inc., 3 Tice Road, PO Box 687, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 www.careerpress.com www.newpagebooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Goldberg, Bruce, 1948Self hypnosis : easy ways to hypnotize your problems away / by Bruce Goldberg.— Rev. ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: *978-1-56414-885-8 (pbk.) ISBN-10: 1-56414-885-8 (pbk.) 1. Mental suggestion. I. Title. BF1156.S8G65 2006 154.7—dc22 2005056737 New Age Hypnosis 3 DEDICATION This book is dedicated...
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...WORKING WITH ABUSED CHILDREN 1 / CHAPTER ONE The Abuse of Filipino Childr en Filipino families consider children as gifts from God (Bulatao 1975). They are persons who inspire love and affection and bring happiness and security in the twilight years of parents. Interestingly, children are seen as links to immortality because children pass on from one generation to another the family’s name, history, and heritage. Often, children are portrayed as being nurtured and properly attended to in their homes; however, Filipino children are not as secure and protected as they are ideally portrayed. The increasing number of street children who work on the streets or beg for alms from pedestrians and motorists belie such an idealized portrayal. Street children, among other things, are the most palpable reminder that all is not well with Filipino children. Reality reveals the many children who are denied even the most minimum of needs like food, love, nurturance, stability, security, and stimulating learning environment that will allow for their healthy development. Many Filipino children are rushed into maturity because early on in their lives, they are forced to contend with difficult problems and to take on adult roles and responsibilities. Media and popular and academic literature, more than any other time, has brought to our attention the plight of children, be they street children or not, who perform adult roles and who are in need of the basic components ...
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