Firestorm

Facebook’s default settings in its new features createsd a lot of issues as it related to behavioral profiling, privacy policy settings or targeted ads, timeline sharing, or video of your years with Facebook, etc. For a new featured added, Facebook should not enable automatic sign-up that changes user`s privacy settings without their permission. Apart from data retention policies, the private settings that enables or disables the sharing of users personal data without the knowledge of users…

Child labour is a major influence in the Andy Kissane’s short story, Good Rubbish. His piece challenges notions of working children in developing and industrialised countries, noting the harsh conditions in which children face in the twenty-first century. Jennifer Mills’s short story, Architecture, tells the story of a young, passionate architect that has an endless struggle of extended deadlines, and a sense of endless work. Both these short stories have thought-provoking differentiations, as…

Unbroken is a true story of Louie Zamperini, the novel starts off in his childhood where he was nuisance to the neighborhood and thief known only for making astounding getaways. The only way Louie’s family could keep him in line was by forcing him in to running where he excelled. From starting a child whose lungs were ruined by pneumonia as a baby he worked hard with his brother to become a man that competed at the olympics at the at of 19, Louie would become a legend in his hometown of Torrance…

The social construct of youth and high school sports leads to unrealistic expectations on the athlete, parents should never push a child to participate more than they are comfortable because it can lead to depression, physical injury, and sports burnout. Many children starting from a young age are pushed by their parents to participate in sports. According to Shugart (2011), obesity is not as large as an epidemic as the media portrays to the public, and is in fact the latest obesity analysis…

Physical Health and Development: While a child’s environment can influence their development, children’s physical and biological development can be linked to one’s cognitive and socioemotional development as well. The brain is a complex organ that is capable of remarkable feats. During late childhood, our physical development is just beginning. In the brain of a child, there are many neurological connections and pathways. As they age, these pathways get “pruned” to create fewer, more…

The modern world’s experiences widespread global economic interdependence. In the context of this work, globalization can be defined, in its simplest terms, as the increasing communication and interactions between people, societies and states existing in different regions of the Globe regarding "interdependence". Globalization describes a process that advances in both directions in its local-universal spectrum, pointing out to a highly dynamic and variable conception far from a static structure.…

Cell phones have significantly modified the route in which we speak with each other, access the web, conduct business issues, and now even manage medical conditions. Innovation has dependably been a main thrust behind upgrades in the medical field and the production of Smartphones and tablet PCs has empowered application and program designers to make some stunning creations to push us forward yet again. Notwithstanding the majority of the positive progressions at we've made due to the cell phone…

same question always reemerges; are guns the reason for so much violence and criminal activity or are the guns protection from the violent and sometimes deadly criminal activity? Gun control laws in the United States continue to create a political firestorm with statistical data supporting arguments both for and against gun ownership; however, neither group possesses compelling evidence to sway the other side. To begin with new gun control movements are evident at the federal as well as the…

Differences Between Natural and Manmade Hazards Hazards exist everywhere and all the time. Hazards come in many forms and sizes and affects people in different ways. The two categories of hazards are natural and manmade. Natural hazards occur everywhere but based on the geographic location, single or multiple hazards can occur at once. Natural hazards branches into three categories and they are atmospheric, hydrologic, and geologic. Manmade hazards or also known as technological hazards…

As I watched my daughter sleep in her crib not having a care in the world, my heart filled with despair. Not being able to provide for my daughter Ava hurt me so bad I cried myself to sleep that night. I stood in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children for almost three hours the day before the government shutdown. I watched my mother rely on the government to take care of us and I followed in her footsteps. I wish I would have been paying attention to the…