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Television’s Impact on America’s Families Violent Television Shows Have Encouraged People to Be More Violent Walk into any home that has children across the country, and one will see thousands of children watching television shows for mature audiences. During the early evening of July 2, 2000, a young boy named Scott began watching television without his parents monitoring him. He would come home every day after school and begin watching television, even if he had more important things to do,…

Have you ever kept a secret? If so, did you feel pressured at some point to reveal these secrets? Could keeping just one secret affect your health? This was the focus of a recent study on how keeping a secret affects your health. According to the study, it is not just the number or of secrets that affect your well-being but how much time you spend thinking about them too. The study was published in May, 2017 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The researchers looked at 13,000 secrets…

Birth control is a popular way of contraception. It affects a woman’s body, but also affects local waterways and wildlife with leftover hormones. These leftover hormones are estrogen hormones and damage the way wildlife reproduce and how the ecosystem functions. How does the birth control pill affect wildlife and waterways? How does the effects of alpha-ethinylestradiol harmful to wildlife? According to Wynne Parry from LiveScience, the main idea about this subject is “What the dilemma about is…

If you're pregnant or planning to get pregnant and want a healthy baby, then it's very important to avoid drug use during pregnancy. Illegal drugs such as marijuana, cocaine etc aren't the only drugs that are harmful to fetal development, substances such as caffeine and alcohol, can have lasting effects on an unborn child. Many pregnant women take prescribed or no prescribed drugs or use social drugs (tobacco and alcohol) during pregnancy, and use of drugs during pregnancy. Generally, drugs…

ground-level ozone. “These emissions contribute to the enhanced greenhouse effect and climate change” (Fracking Is Harmful). Climate change is believed to affect the water cycle and cause more extreme weather events, including heat waves, floods and droughts. Climate change is among one of the biggest environmental problems the earth faces as it affects so many different parts of the ecosystem. The art of fracking has too many risks and unknowns for it to be a safe and effective form of gaining…

The most common form that cyberbullies unleash their unhappiness is by “flaming” towards their victims. Cowie defines flaming in her article as, “Electronic transmission of angry or rude messages” (Cowie para 4). Cyberbullying can affect the victim’s happiness because they may feel seriously unsafe even behind closed doors. The victim has worry even at home if someone is playing mental games with them, trying to stock them, or worse even kill them. When the victim feels these threats…

Technology Negatively Affects Society We have become a society that cannot survive without technology. Technology has a negative effect on society because it separates us from reality. Technology affects us because we cannot let things such as our laptop, phone, game systems, and iPod out of reach. Three major types of technology that negatively affect us are cell phones, laptops, and game systems because it distracts us and makes us less productive. We are constantly glued to our phones…

There are some good things and some bad things about how volcanoes affect our environment. Here are some things that a volcano can affect: soil, air, and the climate. How do volcanoes affect people and their environments? In some cases living by a volcano would be bad because of what it could cause. Living close to the vent of a volcano can be a dangerous hazard because the vent releases gases that could cause health problems. It is undetermined when a volcano will erupt. About 60 volcanoes are…

provides us about who we are as a nation and also have the power to present, prevent, and affect information that is critical towards society. The media affect racism on the way they depicted individuals of the society. This can be presented in many different factors such as criminal activity, religion and several other topics. Also, the specific words used while presenting information about a particular race can affect the way society view each other. For example, saying "They" were the…

To start off Economics is basically the shortage of resources. The needs and wants we have are unlimited. Which means the things we want and need are endless and go on forever, but we don’t have endless money so we have to in a way find a balance. We have to find ways to satisfy our wants and needs with what the limited amount of resources we have, which in my case is money. We have to arrange are wants and needs to fit the amount of resources we have so we can make sure we are using them in the…