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  • Teen Suicide

    Teen Suicide

    Teen Suicide Attention Getter "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." For some life isn't pleasant, but death will be peaceful for them so they decide to end their lives themselves. Teen suicide is a topic often looked over, but is still on the rise. As a society we need to work together to make everyone feel they are truly loved. Thesis Teen suicide, a subject not often talked about, is

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    Essay Length: 308 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Should Tobacco Companies Be Responsible for Smoking Related Illnesses?

    Should Tobacco Companies Be Responsible for Smoking Related Illnesses?

    Should Tobacco Companies Be Responsible for Smoking Related Illnesses? Should Tobacco Companies Be Responsible for Smoking Related Illnesses? Tobacco companies should not be held liable for the consequences of smoking related illness or death because as people we have a choice whether or not to smoke. The tobacco companies aren’t responsible for why people smoke or the side effects of smoking, they are simply a corporation that sells a product, people choose to buy

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    Essay Length: 498 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Smoking

    Smoking

    Here's the College Life Committee's final recommendation on a proposed smoking ban at NCC. "Move it all to the parking lots." That's the word from committee chair Donna Acerra, a Communications professor. Now, NCC waits to learn whether it will be the first community college in Pennsylvania to ban smoking from its campus. Many students are upset by the recommended smoking ban. "I think that it's ridiculous," said nursing student Denise Geroulo, 34, "I should

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    Essay Length: 295 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Jon
  • Troubled Teens

    Troubled Teens

    It seems as though everyone either knows personally or has heard of a troubled teen; whether it is the kid down the street, one of your child’s friends or your own child. Is it preventable? Can they be helped? What causes teens to be so rebellious? Do state funded agencies or programs really work? These are just some of the questions that I find within myself. I would like to say first of all that

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    Essay Length: 2,526 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Edward
  • Causes of Smoking

    Causes of Smoking

    Smoking is accountable for 80% of all lung cancer deaths. Cancer from smoking claims over 100,000 lives each year, smoking can also handicap a person’s physical fitness as in their performance and endurance. Lung and esophagus cancer together claim 87,000 lives per year. On average someone who smokes a pack or more a day lives seven years less than a non-smoker. Tar lines the inside of your lungs, which in turn causes the cancer. Someone

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    Essay Length: 326 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2010 By: Bred
  • Smoking Ban in Chicago?

    Smoking Ban in Chicago?

    Smoking Ban in Chicago? Should there be a smoking ban in the city of Chicago? There are different opinions on the topic. Like many other cities in the United States and in the world, Chicago is trying to decide whether or not smoking should be legal in public places such as bars and restaurants. Personally, I think it should and most people agree with me. In a poll done by the Chicago Tribune, there was

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    Essay Length: 728 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Jack
  • Depression and Teen Violence

    Depression and Teen Violence

    While the causes and symptoms associated with depression and teen violence are well known, doctors and researchers have yet to develop and implement a clear, uniform, tried and proven method that would eliminate and/or prevent depression and teen violence. The paper relates that one of the primary reasons depression and teen violence is extremely difficult to eliminate and/or prevent is that while depression and teen violence are often intertwined, individuals who suffer from depression may

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    Essay Length: 266 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Teens and Antigone

    Teens and Antigone

    Teenagers tend to want everybody to accept them. The ongoing battle inside teens holds the fragile choice they must make. If they tilt too much one way, the precious gem will tip and shatter into a thousand pieces, and they cannot repair the jewel to the perfection it had before. Most people may say that teens would easily choose the acceptance of their peers over their parents, but that does not come easy. A huge

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    Essay Length: 663 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: Top
  • Smoking Hazards: Tobacco Cultivation in Colonial America

    Smoking Hazards: Tobacco Cultivation in Colonial America

    Tobacco was a main crop in colonial America that helped stabilize the economy (Cotton 1). Despite the fact that tobacco took the place of the other crops in Virginia, as well as replacing the hunt for gold with tobacco cultivation. It proved to be a major cash crop, especially in Virginia and Maryland (Weeks 3). Tobacco left many people financially troubled because other occupations were disregarded or not as profitable as tobacco farmers (Randel 128).

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    Essay Length: 1,826 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Mike
  • Tobacco Smoking; a World Health Issue

    Tobacco Smoking; a World Health Issue

    Tobacco smoking first started sometime in the 1400s. It was invented by natives in the Bahamas Islands. Instead of just pulling out a paper rolled cigarette, they had pipes. One end of the pipe was filled with burning tobacco leaves, while the other end of the pipe was where they inhaled the smoke. Many people all over the world today have been taken into this habit. Worldwide, there are approximately one billion smokers. This habit

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    Essay Length: 677 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Teen Unwed Pregnancy as a Problem in America

    Teen Unwed Pregnancy as a Problem in America

    TEEN UNWED PREGNANCY AS A PROBLEM IN AMERICA. Every twenty-six seconds, a United States teenager becomes pregnant, every fifty-six seconds, another adolescent gives birth, and every hour, fifty-six children are born to teenagers. These facts are based on estimated figures from the United States Department of Health. There are many teenagers in this world today who are having premarital sex and not taking any precautions. Everyone always thinks, “This could never happen to me.” That

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    Essay Length: 1,192 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Mike
  • Term Paper on Pre-Teens and Alcoholism

    Term Paper on Pre-Teens and Alcoholism

    Term paper on Pre-teens and alcoholism Alcoholism has been a very important malady of the modern society and has attracted much attention from sociologists, academicians and medical practitioners since many years. Much progress has been made in either containing or mitigating the adverse effects of alcoholism in adults as well as adolescents in the past few years. However, as much as there have been successes in containing the problem of alcoholism in the society, newer

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    Essay Length: 781 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Bred
  • Teen Drivers Are a Threat

    Teen Drivers Are a Threat

    It’s a normal Friday night and Alicia is getting ready to leave to go get ice cream with a normal sixteen year old boy. Her father, Dr. Arturo Betancourt and his wife Lulu, confirm it is all right for her to go out, but first they had to meet the boy and told her she had to be home by curfew. “I want to speak to him,” Dr. Betancourt told Alicia. He even reminded her

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    Essay Length: 1,343 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Max
  • Teen Sex and the Media

    Teen Sex and the Media

    Teen Sex and the Media “Rap It Up”, a familiar phrase heard all too often in today’s very influencing media sources. In today’s society teen sex is becoming an issue because of this misleading phrase. Many companies try to decrease the percentages of teen pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases through promotion of protected sex but also forget to include the possible “accidents” that may occur while having “safe sex”. When these percentages

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    Essay Length: 837 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Jack
  • What's Smoking

    What's Smoking

    What's smoking, and what are the problems that the smokers face it in the public places and restaurants and bars??? In general smoking is a dirty, extremely habit, it’s one of the risky problems that attacking our society in the incoming future, actually it's a very dangerous phenomenon that a high percentage of the population practices it, unfortunately it have been glamorized to appeal to people of all ages including teenagers, in other words,

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    Essay Length: 653 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Drug Abuse Among Teens

    Drug Abuse Among Teens

    A commercial once aired on television describing the effects of smoking on the brain. It began with a person holding an egg and saying, “This is your brain”. The person then cracked the egg into a frying pan and as the egg sizzled the voice was heard saying, “This is your brain on drugs”. The message was powerful while at the same time informative. Smoking not only affects a person physically, but mentally as well.

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    Essay Length: 1,361 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Bred
  • Debate - Second-Hand Smoke in Public Places

    Debate - Second-Hand Smoke in Public Places

    Debate: Second-Hand Smoke in Public Places Being the independent country that the United States has become, there has also been the controversial topics for debate: abortions, use of handguns, and smoking in public. Smoking does a lot of things such as cause air pollution, harming nonsmokers, and harming the smokers themselves. The biggest problems are the locations for controversial smoking which is restaurants and movie theaters. Second-hand smoke, also known as passive smoke, is the

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    Essay Length: 583 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Teen Violence: How Does It Affect Our Children?

    Teen Violence: How Does It Affect Our Children?

    Teen Violence: How Does It Affect Our Children? For generations children have mocked what they see others around them doing. It is no different when they see violence on television or even video games. Many children are watching television and playing video games without supervision of an adult so only to have their own minds to interpret what they see. I will identify the different reasons as to why I think teen violence should be

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    Essay Length: 2,015 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: March 23, 2010 By: David
  • Teen Gang Violence; What's the Cause?

    Teen Gang Violence; What's the Cause?

    Teen Gang Violence; what’s the Cause? “The youngster was murdered outside a basketball court at a public park beside a youth club in the Moss Side District of inner city Manchester. The victim has not yet been named. Police have not yet said how many times he was shot. Detectives suspect the boy was targeted in a planned gun attack. He is understood to have lived locally and attended Manchester Academy High School nearby. Residents

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    Essay Length: 1,273 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: regina
  • What Are the Causes of Teen Pregnancy?

    What Are the Causes of Teen Pregnancy?

    What are the causes of teen pregnancy? There are many different situations that teenagers get themselves involved in that can lead to teen pregnancy. Many teenagers do not understand the risks that are involved with having sex. Teenagers today are growing up in a culture in which peers, TV and motion pictures, music, and magazines often transmit either covert or overt messages that unmarried sexual relationships (specifically those involving teenagers) are common, accepted, and at

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    Essay Length: 1,731 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Club Drugs and Teens

    Club Drugs and Teens

    Introduction In today's society, teens are a common target of anti-drug campaigns and government advertisements. The goal of these campaigns is to make teens and young adults aware of the dangers associated with drug use. While these campaigns are generally effective, teens are still greatly tempted by the dangerous, exciting, and fast-paced world of club drugs. Despite the information they are constantly receiving from their teachers, parents, and government media, some teenagers will still adamantly

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    Essay Length: 2,207 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Smoking Truth

    The Smoking Truth

    The Smoking Truth There are three major stereotypes when it comes to people who smoke. The three stereotypes are; all smokers are unhealthy, all smokers can’t stop smoking because they are so addicted, and they all started smoking to fit in with the group. Growing up I can remember everybody telling not to smoke because it was bad for you, but I never understood why until I took notice to my dad. My dad smokes

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    Submitted: March 26, 2010 By: Artur
  • Teen Pregnancy: Community Intervention

    Teen Pregnancy: Community Intervention

    Teen Pregnancy: Community Intervention Problem: The Red Springs Community faces serious challenges, including poverty, crime, unemployment, and high dropout rates among their students. The main issue I would like to discuss is teen pregnancy. Despite the decline in babies being born to adolescent mothers nationally, teen pregnancy still remains a problem. Teen mothers are less likely to complete high school, less likely to get married, and more likely to depend on welfare than their peers.

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    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Smoking Should Be Banned in Public Places

    Smoking Should Be Banned in Public Places

    Do you mind people smoking around you in public places? According to the pro-smoking group Air Initiative 7 in 10 of you do. Do you think it is fair to discriminate against smokers, forcing them to stand outside and smoke? On the other hand is it fair that non-smokers should have to inhale second hand smoke which can dame their health? (Do you support this ban or do you oppose it?) Personally I oppose it

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    Essay Length: 756 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Jack
  • Smoking During Pregnancy

    Smoking During Pregnancy

    Smoking During Pregnancy Pregnancy is one of the most miraculous, exciting, and scariest times in a woman’s life. It is a time to grow and bond with a child growing inside her, but what some women do not know is that choices she makes while pregnant can affect her unborn baby in negative ways. Teratogens which are “any environmental agent that causes damage during the prenatal period” (Berk 65) are a frightening reality that every

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    Essay Length: 886 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 28, 2010 By: Venidikt

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