...It's been said that, "boredom is God's way of telling you that you are wasting time." It's an excellent matter that we are in a fantastic generation that we are never genuinely bored. We consistently have our whole week planned with our very busy schedules. We always have something to do, so we are never really bored. It states in the passage that boredom can be agony. Boredom leads to anxiety along with atrocious decision making, it can be destructive. People who can't cope with it are likely to abuse drugs and alcohol. We need to avoid boredom. It not only stinks, but leads to unacceptable ideas. We could avoid boredom by getting on electronics, hanging with friends, doing our chores, etc. Our phones...
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...entertainment and distractions. Escaping boredom is quick and people rarely stay in that mindset for long. It has become easy to overcome boredom without even taking the time to reflect on why it happened in the first place. In his text “The Quiet Alarm”, Andrea Elpidorou tries to convince that boredom is a valuable emotional state that motivates people to seek out for more stimulating activities. To achieve that, Elpidorou uses comparison and examples In his text, Elpidorou uses comparison to prove that boredom promotes the change of habits and behaviours. He compares boredom to pain to explain that boredom makes people aware of unfulfilling situation and to show that it motivates people...
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...Bad habits interrupt your life and prevent you from accomplishing your goals. They jeopardize your health — both mentally and physically. And they waste your time and energy. So why do we still do them? And most importantly, is there anything you can do about it? I’ve previously written about the science of how habits start, so now let’s focus on the practice of making changes in the real world. How can you delete your bad behaviors and stick to good ones instead? I certainly don’t have all of the answers, but keep reading and I’ll share what I’ve learned about how to break a bad habit. What causes bad habits? Most of your bad habits are caused by two things… Stress and boredom. Most of the time, bad habits are simply a way of dealing with stress and boredom. Everything from biting your nails to overspending on a shopping spree to drinking every weekend to wasting time on the internet can be a simple response to stress and boredom. But it doesn’t have to be that way. You can teach yourself new and healthy ways to deal with stress and boredom, which you can then substitute in place of your bad habits. Of course, sometimes the stress or boredom that is on the surface is actually caused by deeper issues. These issues can be tough to think about, but if you’re serious about making changes then you have to be honest with yourself. Are there certain beliefs or reasons that are behind the bad habit? Is there something deeper — a fear, an event, or a limiting...
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...Boredom Have you heard of boredom? We need to be bored more than what we are. This generation 2016 has a huge problem with not being bored. It is going on almost everywhere in the world.We need to make smarter decisions being bored will help you make smarter decisions. “Why is it so important.” Do you want to ride a bike down stairs. No, you need to be bored so you do not make this horrible decision. Being bored will help you day dream and make smarter decisions.If you are on your phone all the time than you should get off and go color or do something that you know will make you bored so you do think straight. If you are never bored than why should you worry about life. You will make bad decisions and go to jail when you get older....
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...What is my positive behavior change? My main positive behavior change is learning to stop biting my nails. I’ve been biting my nails for a very long time and I haven’t really had any infections or anything of that sort. My grandmother has been telling to stop biting my nails ever since I was about seven years old and still haven’t stopped. Soon, as she sees me bite my nails she says, “I’ve been telling you stop and just won’t stop doing it”. Now that I’m older I felt it was time for change and why not stop the bad habit I been doing for ten plus years. I researched about nail biting and seen there’s more harm than good from doing it. To accomplish my goal of stopping I must stay positive and mentally focused on the task at hand. My secondary...
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...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. Some kids think a lack of intelligence is a reason why they should...
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...study 1.3 Significance of the study CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND 1.1 Introduction Social media affects every individual especially for teenagers, whether it might be good or bad. But what does social media mean? It is internet-based software and interfaces that allow individuals to interact with one another, exchanging details about their lives such as biographical data, professional information, personal photos and up-to-the-minute thoughts. Teenagers nowadays are very fond of using social media; they are engage in using different websites like twitter, facebook, youtube,google and many more. Social media has been part of our life for many young people today they use these things for them to communicate with their friends or to their families who are in abroad and to have entertainment. But sometimes they abuse use of social media that they forgot to balance their studies. In seeking this study I would be able to identify the good and bad effects of social media towards the study of the youth today; if this thing really helps to every individual to achieve their goals in life, help them to improve their academic grades and help them to motivate in their studies. Social media has been part of the life of the new generation today sometimes they use it just for fun ,and to escape boredom that they tend to forget the proper use of social media towards their studies. It is a big help to every youth but also it is the cause of destruction; they choose to focus on their online...
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...Everyone has their own version of a good and bad trip. It’s always either you had a good trip or a bad trip, but never both. If you ever experience both, you have a bittersweet taste, kind of like that sweet and sour candy some of us used to eat as a kid that would make your mouth pucker uncontrollably. On this adventure, I had the pleasure of experiencing the good and bad, the fun and boredom, the gain of comrades and the loss of a friend. Dating all the way back to March of 2008, my unit was preparing to hop on our one way ticket to the sand infested countries of the Middle East. Everyone began making their final calls before we got the command to move out. I was alone at the time. Single and all my family immediate family being in the States, and no way of reaching out to them, I was left to wonder, worry, and drive myself practically insane. “You’re gonna be fine,” I kept telling myself all the way to Kuwait. Fast forward to a couple months later, because Kuwait was uneventful and boring as ever, except for the fact that is was hotter than a ghost pepper there. The flight to Iraq was by far the worse that I have ever experienced in my (at the time) 19 years of being alive. For those who know nothing about combat landing, this is where the pilot circles and drops altitude simultaneously to avoid any type of attack, such as small arms fire, rocket propelled grenades (RPGs), or anything that can cause damage to the plane or the personnel on the flight. When they initiated this...
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...The pie by Gary Soto essay Do you remember as a child stealing another's kid snack just because it seemed tasty? And then when the teacher told you to justify your actions you started to cry and felt like a piece of crap because you knew what you did was sinful and against your core values. This what Gary Soto did when he stole the pie from the German market and feels bad because he is over the top religious? Gary recreates the moment of his guilty six-year self, stealing the pie and become a sinner by using deep imagery, sharp word choice and biblical allusions that make sense. The story would be bland and would not have a point if Gary did not include these Soto’s skill of recreating the moment, using biblical allusions, makes its appearance...
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...January 30, 2009 The End of Solitude By William Deresiewicz What does the contemporary self want? The camera has created a culture of celebrity; the computer is creating a culture of connectivity. As the two technologies converge — broadband tipping the Web from text to image, social-networking sites spreading the mesh of interconnection ever wider — the two cultures betray a common impulse. Celebrity and connectivity are both ways of becoming known. This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. If not to the millions, on Survivor or Oprah, then to the hundreds, on Twitter or Facebook. This is the quality that validates us, this is how we become real to ourselves — by being seen by others. The great contemporary terror is anonymity. If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility. So we live exclusively in relation to others, and what disappears from our lives is solitude. Technology is taking away our privacy and our concentration, but it is also taking away our ability to be alone. Though I shouldn't say taking away. We are doing this to ourselves; we are discarding these riches as fast as we can. I was told by one of her older relatives that a teenager I know had sent 3,000 text messages one recent month. That's 100 a day, or about one every 10 waking minutes, morning...
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...Should we change the drinking age? There has been many questions on the drinking age in the United States. Why should we be able to vote and not be able to drink?, Why should we fight for our country but we cant have a drink?. Some people believe that the age we drink 21 suddenly means that we are mature enough to handle the responsibility of drinking safely. In this short essay I will give my opinions on why the drinking age should be changed or why it should not. Underage drinking is a major problem in todays time. There are countless of accidents and deaths because of underage drinking. Some are due to car accidents, suicide and even simple accidents caused from the drunken state of mind of an inexperienced young adult. I believe that underage drinking is often a reality do to the fact that it is exciting. It is the idea that it is bad that makes tennagers want to drink. I personally can say that I drank underage because it was an answer to boredom caused by a small town and not very many options. I believe that if the drinking age was lowered from 21 to 18 that for one it would cut down on the criminal side. instead of people stealing alcohol or finding a buyer they could buy it themselves. It also would be more fitting for society. I think it is embarassing that we allow a 18 year old person to die fighting for thier country, to vote for a president, and to be a responsible, working, contributing citizen, but not allow...
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...Many people are told to them that drugs are harmful and can get in trouble for using it, some drugs can even cause death to themselves. The question here is why people do or take drugs even though they are told that it's harmful to them? The video from "The Drunken Debate", one of the people from the video brought up a good point by saying that depending on the group you are hanging out with, you are more inclined to do drugs. If you are surrounded by people who thinks drugs are bad, you will likely agree with them, but if you hangout with people who do drugs on a regular basis and they offer you drugs, you mostly likely join them because they are encouraging you to do it. In the video on why people do drugs, the drug prevention specialist...
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...Emmett Brandy, Mark. . Wednesday; September 3, 2014. 11th grade, African American History. Normandy High School Distracted. “ Why Good Habits Are Important.” Hook: “Do you believe good health habits actually help you in your every day life and in years to come?” Thesis: In this we will be proving that good habits actually do help you with improvement in physical, emotional, and / or financial health, like eating right, stress relief, Hobbies, and a positive attitude as well, be talking about in this section of how good habits actually helps more then the bad habits most people have. 1st Paragraph: First we'll be talking about good habits like eating right because it helps your physical improvement as well as your mental health being active in every day life like in football, basketball, or even just playing tag or a long walk around your neighborhood thirty-minutes or longer. Exorcises is a important thing to have it helps with your self asst em and positive body appreciation of one's self over the time you work out plus you may like the results of you working out thats why physical health is important. 2ond Paragraph: Secondly stress relief helps in your emotional health which my in clued when angered, upset, or feeling distracted most behavior scientist believe that listening to music my help with positive or songs the individual person likes can help them work with stress and anger because it takes their mind off of the situation and the person/ thing involved...
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...January 30, 2009 The End of Solitude By William Deresiewicz What does the contemporary(當代的) self-want? The camera has created a culture of celebrity; the computer is creating a culture of connectivity. As the two technologies converge — broadband(寬頻) tipping (使傾斜/輕拍) the Web from text to image, social-networking sites spreading the mesh(網絲)of interconnection(互相連)絡ever wider (前所未有的寬度發展)— the two cultures betray(露出…跡象)a common impulse(衝動). Celebrity and connectivity are both ways of becoming known. This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. If not to the millions(數百萬), on Survivor(倖存者) or Oprah, then to the hundreds, on Twitter or Facebook. This is the quality that validates(使有效) us, this is how we become real to ourselves — by being seen by others. The great contemporary terror is anonymity匿名者. If Lionel Trilling美國文學評論家was right, if the property(财产/所有权) that grounded (打基础) the self, in Romanticism(浪漫主义 , was sincerity(真实), and in modernism it was authenticity(真实性), then in postmodernism it is visibility. * So we live exclusively(排外地) in relation to(about) others, and what disappears from(从…处消失) our lives is solitude. Technology is taking away our privacy and our concentration, but it is also taking away our ability to be alone. Though I shouldn't say taking away. We are doing this to ourselves; we are discarding(丢弃) these riches as fast as we can. I was told by one of her older relatives that a teenager...
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...carry out his own kidnapping. He kidnapped the daughter of a senator who was a student at Washington Day School, the private school where he was a math teacher. After the kidnapping, Soneji, who wore prosthetics while teaching, watched the news coverage of the kidnapping. When questioned about why he kidnapped the girl, Soneji admitted that at the age of 15, he had burned down a house. He stated that he did not get the response that he thought that he would, which was to end up on the news. Ultimately, he wanted attention and he wanted to feel as if he was someone important. While Soneji was the one who kidnapped the senators daughter, Jezzie, who worked for the Secret Service at the private school that Soneji taught at, was in on the kidnapping also. Her reasons for assisting with the kidnapping were greed and power. She resorted to murdering one of her co-workers in order to not be caught. The situation in the movie was very interesting to me because both of them played integral roles. The characteristics of non-criminal and criminal psychopathy can be anywhere from lack of empathy, no remorse, failure to accept responsibility for their actions, pathological lying, and even boredom, just to name a few. The characteristics vary depending on...
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