...THE EFFECTS OF SMOKING ON THE BODY No matter how you smoke it, tobacco is dangerous to your health and affects your entire body. Mood Stimulation Poor Vision Anxiety and Irritability Another Cold, Another Flu Lung Cancer Constricted Blood Vessels High Cholesterol Heart Disease Stained Teeth Smelly Hair Diabetes Complications Erectile Dysfunction Early Menopause Problems with Pregnancy Appetite Suppressant Coughing COPD Bronchitis Too Much Clotting Blood Cancer Yellow Fingers Wrinkly Skin Bad Teeth Infertility Cancer Connection Cervical Cancer Problems for Newborns The Effects of Smoking on the Body Tobacco smoke is enormously harmful to your health. There’s no safe way to smoke. Replacing your cigarette with a cigar, pipe, or hookah won’t help you avoid the health risks associated with tobacco products. Cigarettes contain about 600 ingredients. When they burn, they generate more than 7,000 chemicals, according to the American Lung Association. Many of those chemicals are poisonous and at least 69 of them can cause cancer. Many of the same ingredients are found in cigars and in tobacco used in pipes and hookahs. According to the National Cancer Institute, cigars have a higher level of carcinogens, toxins, and tar than cigarettes. When using a hookah pipe, you’re likely to inhale more smoke than you would from a cigarette. Hookah smoke has many toxic compounds and exposes you to more carbon monoxide than cigarettes do. Hookahs also produce more...
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...software utilities (P3) and explain how software utilities can improve the performance of computer systems (D1) Security Virus Protection is in place to protect your PC from any sort of viruses that may infect and harm your computer. Viruses can come in many different forms and can be hidden in different ways to get into your computer. A virus protector will scan through any files/links/websites that are opened on your computer to detect viruses from a ‘dictionary’ of known viruses. If a virus was to infect a PC the effects on the PC can be irreversible and very harmful. It is important to have virus protection running on your PC as even though in rare cases this slows down the computer, the prevention of virus infection is vital to the security of your PC. Firewalls are in place to protect your computers server and keep its identity hidden when using unknown servers to connect to the internet. They also monitor ingoing and outgoing data and anything that could be harmful to your PC is scanned for viruses/malware. Firewalls improve the performance of the PC as they filter through any communications between servers and blocks and malicious communication attempts. They can also be programmed to block certain types of websites and servers to aid even more to the prevention of your PC being infected. Clean Up Tools Removal of cookies is important as they are bytes of data from your computer that hold personal information and can even hold your location. Websites use cookies to...
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...Causes Of Computer Addiction (Cause And Effect Essay) Cause and effect Serious causes of computer addiction Technology has developed so much that it is almost crucial to have electronic devices at home. Our life has gotten so used to having technology around us that we can’t imagine our lives without them. However, while having electronic devices at home could be comfortable and handy at times, it could also have negative effect on children, especially on teenagers. Parents usually buy computers for their children’s educational resource. But teenagers, who always seek fun activities around them, use computer to play games, chat with friends and to catch up with the latest gossip on celebrities. And before they know it, they are addicted to computer. Computer can cause teenagers to be physically, and mentally ill, and the more the child spends more time on computer, the more he/she loses time to focus on academics, and to talk to their family. Many teenagers who use the computers don’t seem realize that sitting in front of the computer is harmful at all. The electromagnetic waves from the computer-screen make our brain cells get stiffen every second. Human eyes can also lose its focus and get dehydrated easily because the ELF, VLF, RF and MICROWAVE (types of injurious electromagnetic waves). These harmful waves can cause headache, drop in eyesight, a brain tumor and leucosis in the worst case. Moreover, sitting in front of computer without exercising makes the teenager...
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...information. Our society could not be imagined without new technologies and their role both in this society and in human life in general. With advances in technology, student study habits have dramatically changed. It's affected the way classes are taught, students learn theories and the way information is presented. Gone are the days of slaving over books in the library and scribbling down notes on paper. Modern technology has rapidly changed our world. It improves the length and quality of life. Although modern technology brings an enormous number of benefits for mankind, it causes many harmful effects as well. Modern technologies are very powerful because they rely on one of the most powerful genetic biases we do have — the preference for visually presented information. The human brain has a tremendous bias for visually presented information. Television, movies, videos, and most computer programs are very visually oriented and therefore attract and maintain the attention of young children. The problem with this is that many of the modern technologies are very passive. Because of this they do not provide children with the quality and quantity of crucial emotional, social, cognitive, or physical experiences they require when they are young. The developing child requires the right combination of these experiences at the right times during development in order to develop optimally. This cannot happen if the child is sitting for hours passively watching television. Modern technology...
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...act forbidden by law. Definition: cybercrime can be defined as crimes committed on the internet using the computer as either a tool or a targeted victim According to Wikipidia.com cybercrime also known as computer crime that refers to any crime that involves a computer and a network Cybercrime includes any criminal act dealing with computers and networks (called hacking). Additionally, cybercrime also includes traditional crimes conducted through the Internet. For example; hate crimes, telemarketing and Internet fraud, identity theft, and credit card account thefts are considered to be cybercrimes when the illegal activities are committed through the use of a computer and the Internet. Definition: cybercrime can be defined as crimes committed on the internet using the computer as either a tool or a targeted victim Computer can be considers as a tool in cybercrime when the individual is the main target of cybercrime. But computer can be considers as target when the crime is directed to the computer. In addition, cybercrime also includes traditional crimes that been conducted with the access of Internet. For example hate crimes, telemarketing Internet fraud, identity theft, and credit card account thefts. In simple word, cybercrime can be defined as any violence action that been conducted by using computer or other devices with the access of internet. This action can give harmful effects to an individual or to any organization Today, cybercrime is a real threat to individuals...
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...The Impact of the Internet on Children Introduction & Background With the advanced development computer technology, currently, the internet is prevalently spreading nearly everywhere in our life, work and study. In fact, the internet is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the internet can help us to handle lots of complicated matters and make people broaden their horizons through the internet. However, according to the research, most of the people, especially lots of children, are influenced by the internet negatively in terms of time management, addiction to the online games, free pornographies and adult films, physical health and family relationships. Therefore, we must come up with some solutions which based on parental control and parental support to figure out these problems of the internet on children. Specific negative impacts of the internet on children One of the negative impacts of the internet on children is disrupting the time management in their normal life. As mentioned in the article “Internet parenting styles and the impact on Internet use of primary school children,” the authors Valcke, Bonte and Rots (2010) indicate that children cannot schedule time properly because of the internet disturbance. According to a sociological survey based on a group of questions given to some of Romanian parents (Muresan, Catalano & Bocos, 2010), 16.73% of the parents think their children spent lots of time on the internet, and less time on other outdoor activities...
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...The internet dating and games addiction Xu Fangzhou PRE SESSIONAL COURSE July 2011 The Language Centre EFL Unit University of Glasgow Introduction The purpose of using the internet is to facilitate the prosperous of business and organization; the purpose of using the internet as a way of social communication remains strong and increase continuously. Concurrently, young people are encountering others online and establishing interpersonal romantic relationships through this modern way. Internet dating indicated as the processes of introducing to potential dates through an internet dating service and knows other individuals through email, chat, and other available services and possibly developing the online relationship into the "real world" by dating in person (Baker, 2002, 367). The main purpose of this essay is to investigate how people use the internet to build relationships especially internet dating and discuss problems which arise from internet dating. It will also cover the addiction of computer games among young people which cause a great deal of social problems. Firstly, it will note the problems caused through the internet and then make suggestion which might be suitable. Then, it identifies which solutions are more suitable. Internet dating Many young people are tired of encountering potential dates in bar and find other means of meeting potential friends and partners. Some singles turn to matchmaker services, dating services, and personal advertisements...
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...Internet is one of the wonderful inventions of the last century. It becomes more and more popular throughout the world and a great number of people use it. Nowadays, surfing the internet is a preferred pastime for most people specially teenagers and young adults. A survey report, Generation Rx.com by the Kaiser Family Foundation(2001) found the number of teens and young people going online today. By analyzing the results of a nationally representative, including an oversample of nearly 200 African American and Latino youth ninety percent of young people between the ages of 15 to 24 years have been online. Four percent of the rest have never used a computer, and six percent have used a computer but never gone online. Among teens aged 15-17 years, ninety five percent have gone online, and only one percent have never used a computer. Most of them spend a majority of their time to surf the net. They may use the internet to entertain e.g. playing online games. Besides, their education or might jobs require surfing the net. Some people blame it as a dangerous and tremendous waste of time. The others see the internet as an efficient teaching and learning tool for youths .From my point of view, everything has it’s benefits and drawbacks. The paragraphs below provide the positive and negative effects of teenagers and young adults surfing the net based on the causes mentioned above. One of the positive effects is that surfing the net can cause teens and young people to improve...
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...INTRODUCTION Nowadays, computers are very common in a household. Computers are very advantageous which actually has unlimited capabilities; in seeking a certain information, for recreation, for entertainment purposes and many other uses. But despite those infinite uses of computers, some say that computers cause detrimental effects to those who are exposed to its radiation. Radiation, in Physics, it is defined as the process of transmitting energy through space. There are two types of radiation exposure—82% is from natural resources such as cosmic and solar rays and 18% of the exposure is from man-made radiation. Radiation injures the body by destroying cells and parts of cells. It hinders cells from dividing which gives rise to cells which does not have the ability to reproduce. The reason why the researchers have chosen this topic is to stress out the hazardous effects of computer radiation.Long-term exposure to radiation increases the risk of all forms of cancer, tumors, blood disorders, miscarriage, headaches, insomnia, anxiety, aging of the skin, skin burn, etc. Radiation exposure over time can cause skin burn, dry wrinkled skin and photo aging. This skin damage is identical to sun damage and causes the same health problems. Many electronic products that we use on a daily basis expose us to harmful radiation. A television, microwave oven, cellular phone and computer are examples of products that emit...
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...The effects of the vices mentioned earlier on health could also result to poor academic performance. Here are the proofs of declining academic performance – tardiness, absences, skipping classes, poor motivation, loss of interest – all could result to failing grades. * Loss of interest/ poor motivation * Poor health/ smoking First, it may affect the physical energy level of a child which determines the time (including classroom attendance and after school educational activities) that can be used for learning. Second, it affects the child’s mental status that may have a direct impact on academic performance. Third, a child’s health status may affect the way her teachers, parents and peers treat her; this in part shapes the learning environment that she encounters. The first two channels directly affect own health input (both physical and mental) in the education process while the third influences a child’s education outcome through other inputs such as peer quality and teacher attention that is the result of a certain health status. * Alcohol Difficulty meeting academic responsibilities is one of the most common consequences of alcohol use. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Task Force on College Drinking reports that about 25 percent of college students report academic problems caused by alcohol use, such as earning lower grades, doing poorly on exams or papers, missing class, and falling behind. According to a national study of more...
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...PARENT’S ROLE TOWARDS THE INTERNET Thesis statement: Since surfing the internet have greatly affected the lives of young people, parents should develop a new practical system to monitor their children when they’re surfing the internet. Introduction: Surfing the internet have become very famous throughout the world. A. This paper aims to show the effects of internet to the lives of young people. B. It also aims to show the new practical system to monitor children while using the internet. I. The internet, like other technologies, has also its history. A. The invention of the internet started to help people in making their research more progressive. B. Later on, the Internet started to develop and become the way it is today. II. There are many effects of using the internet. A. Internet has been very useful to everyone. B. Internet has become one of the problems of many parents. III. Parents have roles in developing their children. A. It is important that children must have a proper guidance for their parents in their early childhood. B. Even though children become teenagers and have the right to decide for themselves, they still need to be guided to prevent bad information from corrupting their minds. IV. Parents could use new practical systems to monitor their children. A. They could use manual monitoring. B. They could also use advanced technology to...
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...Using the internet is central to today’s technology driven society that powers the world's most innovative thinkers. Our society demands the need for technological thinkers to advance technology in order to provide more resources to people. There are numerous jobs including software developer, computer programmer, IT Manager, etc. These jobs have been working to make computers more helpful for everyone. However, the internet has taken over human’s ability to read and interpret long passages of information. It is important to understand how and why the internet is harmful. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr, the author provides evidence and theories on how the internet is making us “stupid”. The internet has a negative effect...
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...regarding Censorship of the Internet. According to the textbook, censorship is a way used by governments or religious institutions to supervise or regulate the public access to offensive or harmful materials (Quinn 2012, p.496). Internet censorship applies the same discipline which regulates the public access to harmful content on internet. Nowadays, internet is a place with huge potential for growth. Statistics suggest that the total growth of new internet users is 566.4% from December 31, 2000 to 2012 (Internet World Stats 2012) (Refer to Appendix one). In the mean time, the resources and contents on the internet are growing rapidly at an uncontrollable rate. To some extent, there are almost no restrictions of these materials on the internet. Basically people can almost find everything they want on internet no matter the information they found is right or wrong. Is it necessary to censor the internet and restrict the access to harmful contents? This is a controversial topic that leads to a hot debate these years. Some people think censorship can work effectively and is necessary on internet, while others think not. In the main part, the essay will explain and give evidence about how censorship can work in some cases but may become negatives in others. There is no doubt that internet censorship can work in some cases, especially when it comes to some vulnerable groups on internet such as children, youth and the old. One of the obvious instances for internet censorship would be the...
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...Computer game addiction has become a major problem in our society, since many children and teenagers play an excessive amount of hours of computer games a day and develop countless problems such as violent behavior and social isolation. In the past, not many people really cared about computer games being violent, it was not a hot topic as it is today. But within the past few years, with games becoming more realistic and violent, there have been certain acts of violence committed by individuals who have been known to play such games. As an example, in China a 13 years old boy killed himself after playing for 36 hours straight. The boy left a suicide note saying he wanted to join the heroes of the game he worshiped. Guilty pleasures like video games, television, and candy are tolerable when done in moderation. The problem with computer games is that unless they are controlled or limited, they can endanger not only one's social life ,but also one's health. Those who believe games containing violent gameplay and images are to blame for some murders would often assume that because of gun crime in some countries, like USA, has gone up during the time these games have been around. The way some see it is that if a child sees and plays games that contain, for example gang violence from a young age, then the child may be more likely to think of such things as acceptable. As an example, the game "Counter-Strike" became a huge hit when I was little. This computer game promoted violence...
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...because of the Internet? In the world today, technology is everywhere, and the Internet is a major part of our lives. Almost everything we do in our daily lives has to do with the computer or some sort of technology in one way or another. Children now a days are starting to use technology at younger age. There are a lot of children with tablets or iPods, which they use daily. So this brings to mind, are children smart or more socialized because of the internet? With children of all ages using the internet on daily basis, are they learning or just using it to socialize with other friends? According to 2005 Pew Research Center report, 87% of 12-17 year olds are online. That is a 24% increase over the past 4 years, this leads people to worry about the effect of access to endless information or misinformation, on children. Some researchers have found that having a home computer has led to higher standardized test scores, and others have found that a home computer encourages children to more self-directed learners. Children these days are encouraged to use the internet in order to do research and find reliable sources for their research. The internet offers a wide variety of study options for children from online tests to computer generated index cards. A plus to the internet is that it offers and endless supply of knowledge and information. But you must know how to determine what is true and what is false online. And for this reason, people believe that the internet is making...
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