one specific thing or situation, it can manifest at any time. Some stress is good for us; a certain level of pressure can help you prepare for such things as work and day to day challenges. Although over an extended period of time, stress can cause physical and psychological harm. Selye describes these types of stress as eustress and distress. Stress is both a biological and psychological reaction to a given situation or threat. The stressor triggers the ‘fight or flight’ response. Once we judge
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cultures. Although that is a good aspiration, it is a notion that is far from reality. Poverty plays a vital part in the resources available to each school. Resources account for majority of school’s operation. In order to ensure how much poverty affects schools, two schools will be evaluated; one school is located in a community under the poverty line and the other school is above the poverty line. The academic standards, standardized test scores, and resources available to each school will be the
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CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION To study and learn is basically our main reason why we enter school, but to make this schooling fun and memorable we tend to join in different activities which we think that can enhance our skills as a person. Most teenagers nowadays engage themselves on extracurricular activities on school such as sports. Many teens in high school want to try out for sports for some reasons. A lot of them try because they think it will make them popular
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register poor performance in National Exams. It was therefore important that a study be conducted to establish the extent to which the environment affects students' academic performance. The research sought to determine whether school infrastructure, instructional materials and teacher quality influence students’ academic performance(environmental factors) in any way affected academic performance of students. A cross sectional design was employed with a sample size of 302 senior four students who
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clothes is somehow depends upon area and locality of individual. Girls studying in private schools are supposed more trendy in terms of wearing western clothes as we can say jeans are very common and popular among girls these days and issue of being in frustration arrived due to wearing or not wearing jeans. Frustration scale is used over 60 girls of private and govt schools, 15 each specifically wearing/not wearing jeans. While studying the facts described in the scale and with the help of t-test it was
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because of external factors that affect their academic success. Many factors have been identified to influence academic performance whether positively or negatively. One of these factors that the researcher’s identified is the living situation of college students. The living situations that a college student experience are varied due to the diversity of housing options and environments available. Some of the aspects of college student living environments may act as stress factors in students’ lives
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After studying global history and geography, it is evident that geographic factors promoted or hindered cultural diffusion. Cultural diffusion is the spread of ideas and beliefs from one cultural group to another. A geographic feature is a circumstance of a physical area that affects the way people live. The mountains in Ancient Greece served as a geographic feature that hindered cultural diffusion for Athens and Sparta. In Rome, the Italian peninsula promoted cultural diffusion. A mountain is
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Background and Theoretical Framework of the Study Education prepares children for the world of work and helps them to develop their personal talents, discover who they are, and where they would best fit into society’s workforce as viewed by the Functionalist. They see three main function of education; role allocation, providing skills, and socialization. Education can be seen to provide pupils/ students with the curriculum and hidden curriculum; teaching skills that will prepare them physically
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threatening human health. To answer the question what is the real reason for it. Today I will write the article about the reasons that US citizens rapidly becoming more obese: first is inactivity and lazy in exercises, stressful from working and studying, high sugar consuming and how obesity affected by income.
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Results and Conclusion: Childhood Obesity Kimberly March HCS 465 April 24, 2013 Dr. Chris Motley Results and Conclusion: Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity is a public health crisis in the United States and internationally. The occurrence of childhood obesity has increased rapidly over the years. This paper will show how the results of the data collection method, the data analysis procedure, and conclusion of applying the background and methodology of the research process to problems in
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