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- 821: Boxing - Should This Unjustifi
- ... laboratory subjects exposed to violent material on film tend to behave more aggressively than those who are not exposed to such material. As children are very impressionable, they tend to emulate whatever they see on television and watching boxing on television might encourage aggressive behavior among them. Some of these children may also regard boxers as their role models and grow up wanting to be boxers too. This is contradictory because as an article from 'Boxing ...
- 822: Alcohol Abuse
- ... in peer interaction around drinking as a primary activity for entertainment. This can lead to the preference of drinking for social interaction. Ideas such as this are influenced greatly, and shaped by media through commercials, television portrayal of alcohol use as a coping skill, and the belief that the use of alcohol to reduce life's stress is socially acceptable. Another area in which alcohol is looked at as all right ...
- 823: Attention Deficit Disorder
- ... a fast-paced, frenetic society of instant gratification. A society in which we must be on the fast-track, take the short-cut, use the remote control to flip quickly through 99 channels on the television--the do whatever works, "go for the gusto" way of life. All of these attitudes and actions are consistent with those of people with A.D.D. This is a major reason why A.D ...
- 824: Anorexia Nervosa
- Anorexia Nervosa Models are pretty and thin and are often taken as role models of success. However they must be underweight to look "perfect" on television and magazines. In order to be thin, they develop a disease called anorexia nervosa. Although anorexia and bulimia are related to eating disorders, anorexia nervosa has more background than bulimia. This essay states what anorexia ...
- 825: Color Blindless
- ... total color blindness, has no cones at all. As a result, they have no ability to see colors, and no hue discrimi-nation whatsoever. Monochromatic vision is very similar to watching a black and white television program. Somebody with a-typical monochromatic vision has just one type of cone, and can see just one color, and various shades of that color. This form is even rarer than the "typical" monochro-matism ...
- 826: U of T professors devise better way to test sight in babies
- ... In a darkened room at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, a baby, its head dotted with electrodes, sits in its mother's lap and watches flashing black and white checkerboards and stripes on a television screen. Soon after the test, doctors will know if the child can see and how well it can see. The testing procedure, which involves measuring brain wave activity prompted by visual stimuli (also called visual ...
- 827: Smoking: I Can Stop Whenever I Want
- ... smokers each year. Recent studies also indicate that about 53,000 non smokers die each year from second hand smoking. You surprised heh? You shouldn't be, because all of those anti tobacco commercials on Television and on every single pack of cigarettes isn't there for nothing. It's there to prevent all of you teens to get hooked on cigarettes or even think about starting to smoke. Smoking is ...
- 828: Schitzophrenia and Other Mental Disorders
- ... is afraid of these type of people. This is because they do not want to turn out the way these people are. A common example of a mental disorder is down syndrome. There was a television program in the early 90's that featured a boy that had to live with this terrifying disorder. This show was very inspirational for all people with disorders. The boy's name was Corky who ...
- 829: Free Condoms Distribution Programs
- ... thorny parental issue. Parents generally do not feel their children are ready for sexual activity when in fact it is generally parents that are not ready for their children to be sexually active. Just as television public service announcements urge parents to talk to their children about drugs and alcohol, parents should be urged to keep an open dialogue with their children regarding issues of sexuality as their children mature at ...
- 830: Abortion Should Be Kept Out of The Criminal Code
- ... it but people have to face reality. PERSONAL THOUGHT People who protest against abortion have nothing better to do. They protest only when their favorite talk show is not on the mind controller they call television. If this statement is going to cost me any marks, please disregard. THANK YOU!
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