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bonding with their parents, and increased stress levels. According to Parker, researcher and senior lecturer Denise Pope from Stanford University "...found that too much homework can negatively affect kids, especially their lives away from school, where family, friends and activities matter” (1). Homework affects a broad area in the lives of children to the extent that it should not be required. Outside of school many children participate in extracurricular activities. These activities can…

Does Urbanisation affect Global Pollution? By Mia Knudsen, 10.i What is urbanisation? Urbanisation is the process of increase of population in urban areas. As a country develops urbanisation increases due to people being attracted to the benefits of living in an urban area. These benefits include job opportunities, better standards of living, better healthcare, and better schools. 90% of the UKs population is currently living in urban areas like towns or cities. (BBC Bitesize, 2014) Along with…

Asthma affects the body through bronchospasms; these are unusual narrowing or constrictions of the airways. These are usually caused a spasm in the smooth muscles of bronchi and bronchioles, an inflammation of the airways or an excessive production of mucus due to an allergic reaction or possible irritation. This therefore makes it difficult to breath and as a result causes the individual to start wheezing due to the inhaled air struggling to pass through the narrowed airways…

things other than educational purposes. In the article “Can College Students Resist the Lure of Facebook, Twitter during class.” The author Barbara King uses several different sources to make her point that technology is a distraction to students and affects their learning. In the article she states that “…at the University of New Hampshire revealed that only 20 percent of them said they send no texts during a “typical” class (King).” It appears that the vast majority of students…

We have become a society fully dependant on the idea that there is such thing a as the perfect girl, and we idolize her until one day who we see on a magazine cover is who we see in our reflection. As stated in The Media Affects a Teen's Body Image by Stacy Zeiger, “According to the Center for a New American Dream, children and teens are exposed to over 25,000 ads in a year.” This being broken down even further in the article titled Media, Quit Marketing "Ideal Beauty” to Teens, “the average…

How did the Cold War tensions affect the world ? The Cold War tensions affected the United States and the world by fearing Communism and fearing it spread around the world. The fear of Communism spreading caused many problems in the US and around the world. Some of the problems that were caused by the fear of Communism spreading were, nuclear weapons, and the loss of many money and a lot of people. Some even bigger problems were the causing of other wars, and using other countries as…

The Tomato That Kills: GMOs Negatively Affect People's Lives Genetically modified organisms are present in 60 to 70 percent of foods on US supermarket shelves (Cadwell). In 1982 the FDA approves the first GMO. Then in 1994 GMOs are put on the grocery store shelves. The first food that was approved with GMOs in them were the Flavr Savr tomatoes (Shireen). Since GMOs were made, many controversies about the health risks associated with the foods have occurred. The death of Juan Pedro Ramos proves…

us cope with stress better (Waters). When we are stressed, our minds race with thoughts instead of shutting down at night, inhibiting important functions involved in memory, muscle repair, and mood (Huffington Post). Stress may not just negatively affect some of our sleep; it may rob our sleep entirely. Those who experience stress are more susceptible to insomnia. Many people may suffer insomnia and not even realize it. There are times when we feel fatigued and restless, due to the lack of…

The Ways Nature Affects the Workplace Human beings by design have an innate need to connect with nature. Currently, a growing number of companies are experimenting with “biophilic design”, which simply means incorporating a physical and ephemeral presence of nature within a space or a place. Biophilic design promotes the view of nature indoors, and can be as simple as incorporating a fish tank, having green or wooden walls, as well as featuring potted plants within a space. As a species, we have…

In this paper we will be exploring Learning Psychology and how it affects our societal gender roles. We will be looking at how our brain is trained to associate certain objects to certain gender stereotypes, and then we will be looking at why we follow societal stereotypes in the first place. First we will look at neutral stimulus. Neutral stimulus is something that causes no response until an individual is conditioned to respond to it. In todays society we are conditioned to associate flowers…