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  • Adolescent Substance Abuse

    Adolescent Substance Abuse

    Playing with Children’s Minds: The Psychological Effects of Tobacco Advertisements on Children Table of Contents • How do Tobacco Advertisers Apply Behavioral Learning Principles in Ads? • What Psychological Tactics do Advertisers Use to Get Children to Buy Their Products? • How Effective are the Psychological Tactics Used in Tobacco Ads in Getting Children to Purchase Their Products? How do Tobacco Advertisers Apply Behavioral Learning Principles in Ads? Having a better understanding and a

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    Essay Length: 2,646 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: Stenly
  • The Virgin Suicide Written by Jeffrey Eugenides

    The Virgin Suicide Written by Jeffrey Eugenides

    The virgin suicide’s was written by Jeffrey Eugenides it was an interesting and fun Filled novel. There were stressful things that take place that lead to the twist and turns within it, The story is told by men looking back who grew up in the same neighborhood as the Lisbon girls, their lives had forever been changed by their fierce, awkward obsession with the five young sisters: Therese, Mary, Bonnie, Lux, and Cecilia. The men

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    Essay Length: 1,820 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: regina
  • In What Ways Are the Ideas of Socio-Biology Linked with Eugenics: What's Wrong with Trying to Engineer a Better Society Anyway?

    In What Ways Are the Ideas of Socio-Biology Linked with Eugenics: What's Wrong with Trying to Engineer a Better Society Anyway?

    Eugenics is concerned with the current direction of human evolution. Troy Duster (1990) in his book “Backdoor to Eugenics” defines eugenics as "the organic betterment of the race through wise application of the laws of heredity." The word Eugenics was first put to use in 1883 by Francis Galton in his “Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development”. The word originates from the Greek word eugenes meaning "...good in stock, hereditarily endowed with noble qualities".

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    Essay Length: 423 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Monika
  • Teenagers

    Teenagers

    Teenager is the stage where the physical and mental condition of a person develops which occurs between childhood and adulthood. Teenager is connected with adolescence. It is a stage of maturation. It starts at age 13 for boys and 12 in girls. It is a time when an individual begins to function independently of their parents. Teenager is a word commonly used which is also related to teen, youth, young adult and emerging adult. Puberty

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    Essay Length: 257 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Suicide and Children

    Suicide and Children

    Suicide and Children Suicide has become much more common in children than it used to be. For children under age 15, about 1-2 out of every 100,000 children will commit suicide. For those 15-19, about 11 out of 100,000 will commit suicide. These are statistics for children in the USA. Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death for children ages 10-14 and the third leading cause of death for teenagers 15-19. Recent evidence suggests

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    Essay Length: 2,104 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: regina
  • Critical Analysis of the Virgin Suicides

    Critical Analysis of the Virgin Suicides

    The Horror of the Mundane Honore de Balzac once said, “We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.” Americans are so obsessed with happiness they would do anything to get to that point of bliss. In the book “The Virgin Suicides” by Jeffrey Eugenides, we are introduced to the men whose lives have been changed forever by their awkward obsession with five fated

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    Essay Length: 364 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Artur
  • Assisted Suicide

    Assisted Suicide

    Today we struggle with the medical ethics on issues of life and death in a culture that denies the terminally and the infirm the right to maintain control over when to end their lives. They come to realize that at some level we are all dependent on others. From infancy to death, the cradle to the grave we rely on a number of people. One such person is our physician. In today’s society a physician

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    Essay Length: 922 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Drug Abuse in Teenagers

    Drug Abuse in Teenagers

    Drug Abuse in Teenagers Teenage drug abuse exists in the United States and worldwide. Drug abuse is costly to our society as a whole but is especially to our youth. One of the best ways to combat the drug use among teenagers is to begin prevention efforts before young teen start using drugs. In addition, effective programs are required to a combined effort from the schools, the community, and most important from our own family.

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    Essay Length: 2,320 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Top
  • The Effects of Steroid Use by Adolescents

    The Effects of Steroid Use by Adolescents

    shall begin with the psychological dangers. The fact of the matter is that puberty effects more than just physical maturing, but also many personality characteristics that last your entire lives. Puberty is the period in which many influences, as well as practices will contain the most "sticking power". The problem is that steroids can lead to serious health problems, and that the sooner you start taking them the earlier the problems may occur. This is

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    Essay Length: 546 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Jon
  • Ethical Perspective on Assisted Suicide

    Ethical Perspective on Assisted Suicide

    Ethical Perspective on Assisted Suicide In every state in the United States of America, except Oregon, it is illegal to assist any person in ending their own life. It does not matter what the condition of the person is, how sick, or how much pain they are in. Have you ever considered what position you would take if you or one of your loved ones were in the situation where they would rather end their

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    Essay Length: 774 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Jon
  • Suicide

    Suicide

    Wrong and Even Scary Certain people believe that life is not valuable. Although they may not admit this as being true it is evident through their behavior. They admit it through behavior such as believing that it is acceptable to decide one others fate. To believe that it is satisfactory for one human being to decide if another human being should live or die is wrong and even scary. Doctors should not be legally able

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    Essay Length: 458 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Edward
  • Hiv, Adolescents, and Risky Behaviors

    Hiv, Adolescents, and Risky Behaviors

    Running head: HIV/AIDS, ADOLESCENTS, AND RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIOR HIV/AIDS, adolescents, and risky sexual behavior HIV/AIDS, adolescents, and risky sexual behavior Introduction You can’t smell it, taste it, hear it, or even see it. BUT, it lives inside the bodies of 36 million people worldwide and it’s responsible for the death of many others. It’s the biggest epidemic in human history (Sittitrai, 1998). It’s HIV/AIDS, and it doesn’t care who you are or where you’re from.

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Teen Suicide

    Teen Suicide

    Most everyone at some time in his or her life will experience periods of anxiety, sadness, and despair. These are normal reactions to the pain of loss, rejection, or disappointment. Those with serious mental illnesses, however, often experience much more extreme reactions, reactions that can leave them mired in hopelessness. And when all hope is lost, some feel that suicide is the only solution. It isn’t. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, scientific

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Steve
  • Teenager Problem in Hk

    Teenager Problem in Hk

    teenagers' worries: 1) Examination -teenagers are mainly secondary students and their ages are mainly 13-17. -their burdens are not only their homework and extra-curricular activities, but also their curriculum. -according to a survey conducted by Hong Kong University , about 80% students think that they need to face a lot of challenges about their examinations . -the survey also reveals that Chinese, English and mathematics are their main problems. They think that these are very

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Stenly
  • How Are Bipolar Disorder and Depression Linked?

    How Are Bipolar Disorder and Depression Linked?

    Ashley Kirkman Younger Eng 1113; Section 0356 27 September 2005 How are Bipolar Disorder and Depression Linked? For many, life is stressful and hectic and for a portion of Americans, who lead frenzied lives, this chaos and confusion further fuels the burning fire of psychological disorders such as bipolar, depression, post- traumatic stress disorder, and many others. Two of the most closely related psychological disorders are Bipolar Disorder and Depression. Although these disorders do have

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    Essay Length: 289 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Monika
  • Teen Suicide

    Teen Suicide

    Teen Suicide Code blue, code blue in room five…the gagging feeling is this first that is remembered when her eyes open. She reached up and touches her face and feels this tube coming out of her mouth. The nurse turns around and sees that she is starting to wake up. Then she walks over and sticks a needle in the IV bag hand beside the bed….. This could be any teen in America on any

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    Essay Length: 906 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: David
  • Teenage Smoking

    Teenage Smoking

    Teenage Smoking Cigarette smoking is a habit that kills approximately million of people per year. It is surprisingly being picked up by countless amounts of children every day. Smoking becomes a growing trend in the youth community. The number of young smokers has been increasing in most American middle schools and high schools. Both girls and boys are smoking because they think it is cool. Many of them will take this their trend and carry

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • What It Is like to Be a Teenager

    What It Is like to Be a Teenager

    What it is like to be a teenager. A teenager’s life is not as simple as many think. The changes each adolescent goes through are enormous. Many people believe the change is only physical, which is completely untrue. The greatest change teenager faces are those within his/her brain; another word, psychological. In the charts and graphs, it is evident that teenagers are constantly pressured by their surroundings, which explains the reason for them being stressed.

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    Essay Length: 778 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Anna
  • Adolescent Drinking and How It Affects ones Life

    Adolescent Drinking and How It Affects ones Life

    Literature Review Introduction Adolescent drinking has been a problem in the United States for decades. It has become one of the largest social issues among young people in America today. Statistically more than half of the high schoolers drinks on a regular basis, the problem are that they are not aware of how dangerous alcohol can actually be (Sanders, 1987). The reality is that underage drinking is a serious, even deadly, problem. Furthermore, alcohol use

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Monika
  • Why Do Teenagers Smoke?

    Why Do Teenagers Smoke?

    WHY DO TEENAGERS SMOKE? There is an urgent need to make non-smoking appear cool and desirable. The number of people lighting up is on the rise.In 1986, when the first National Health and Mobility Survey was carried out by the Ministry of Health to find out the number of smokers, the figure stood at 21.5 per cent. However, in the last study published in 1996, the number of smokers rose to 24.8 per cent.Of these

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Jack
  • Teenage Pregnancy and Female Educational Underachievement

    Teenage Pregnancy and Female Educational Underachievement

    TEENAGE PREGNANCY AND FEMALE EDUCATIONAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT This article discusses how teenage pregnancy and its effects on woman and their offspring has become a growing concern over the last few years. Studies have shown that teenage pregnancies are more common amongst school dropouts, because upon becoming pregnant, young women are likely to withdraw from education or at least reduce their commitment to continued education. As compared with girls who have become pregnant during their teenage

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Jack
  • 18: Adult or Adolescent?

    18: Adult or Adolescent?

    18: Adult or Adolescent Imagine you’re a 17-year-old teenager, on the brink of finally turning 18 and gaining the glorious title of adult. Along with turning 18 and becoming an adult comes new privileges and responsibilities. One is the ability to fight for this country and also exercise ones right to vote. If turning 18 allows one to take part in such adult activities, should the legal drinking age be reduced to 18 also?

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Teenagers

    Teenagers

    “There are few natural leaders among teenagers, most of them being content to follow others. In this unconscious mimicry of others is a moral danger, for character is dependent on the ability to say “No”. Unless education can give to teenagers a training of will, many of them will slip into adulthood and become slaves of propaganda and public opinion the rest of their lives. Instead of creating, they imitate. To create is to recognize

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Victor
  • Suicide in Hamlet

    Suicide in Hamlet

    In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, suicide is an important and continuous theme throughout the play. Hamlet is the main character who contemplates the thought of suicide many different times throughout the play, since the murder of his father. Hamlet weighs the advantages of leaving his miserable life with the living, for possibly a better but unknown life with the dead. Hamlet seriously contemplates suicide, but decides against it, mainly because it is a mortal sin

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Max
  • Medias Influence on Adolescent Girls Body Image, Identity and Sexuality

    Medias Influence on Adolescent Girls Body Image, Identity and Sexuality

    Medias Influence on Adolescent Girls Body Image, Identity and Sexuality Gender Identity begins in early childhood when roles are given to children as to which toys they should play or not play with. A child’s body image is influenced by how people around her react to her body and how she looks. A pre-adolescent becomes more aware of what society’s standards are for the ideal body. The media has always had images of what the

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Mike

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