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There has been an ongoing debate in regards to lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 year old in The United States. Some suggest If we were to consider lowering the drinking age to 18 this could mean young people at younger ages would be able to have access to alcohol. If is not uncommon for 21 year olds to provide minors or those under 21 with alcoholic beverages. Reducing the drinking age to 18 could possibly result in younger teenagers, even as young as 13 having access to alcohol. Minors…

Grant Iverson, Harvard University, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation has been the most critical regarding Dr. Omalu’s CTE research and findings. In 2016, Dr. Iverson suggested in a paper title “Suicide and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy” that Dr. Omalu’s et al research appears to be premature; therefore, the empirical studies being conducted by organizations, like UPMC have no true validity due to the limited number of case studies (Iverson 12-13)…

age. According to the Prevention Research Center, “Among Americans there is a commonly held perception young people in European countries are introduced to alcohol in a cultural context that reduces heavy and harmful drinking. The idea is often expressed that because the drinking age in the United States is 21, much higher than in European countries, young people miss out on the opportunity to learn to drink within family settings where moderate drinking is the norm (Prevention Research Center).…

Medical marijuana has more positive effects than negative, it helps people with epilepsy, insomnia patients, and veterans suffering form post traumatic stress disorder and depression. One in 26 americans will develop epilepsy during their lifetime according to The Epilepsy Foundation. People with epilepsy don 't choose to have it, but currently pharmaceutical companies medications to treat epilepsy have very bad side effects like losing appetite, stomach upset or discomfort,…

Having the ability to gauge an athletes attitude regarding the use of drugs and steroid is a powerful tool towards developing prevention programming. In theory, sport psychology could use this tool to establish real measures regarding the attitudes of the athlete which become the basis for incorporate programming that minimizes the likelihood of steroid and drug use. The fact that…

“I think that every women in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it but if you were to take any woman back forty years and say ‘Is this a world you want to live in?’ They would say ‘No,’” Helen Mirren, the acclaimed English actress once said. The question this statement raises is why are women refusing to identify as feminists? Through common misconceptions and miscommunications, feminism has been give a negative connotation by groups of extremists who hate men and hid…

Media Final 1) The likelihood of a white male to be imprisoned in their lifetime in America is one in seventeen. The likelihood of a black male to be imprisoned is one in three. Approximately 40% of all who are incarcerated in the US are African American. While, they only make up 12.3% of the population. These are some key statistics that were mentioned in the documentary “13th” directed by Ava DuVernay. This documentary is named after the 13th amendment which says, “Neither slavery nor…

enterprising men quote ‘em. Don’t act surprised, you guys, cuz I wrote ‘em.” That as some of you musical fans may know, was part of the opening of the song Cabinet Battle #1 from the up and coming popular Broadway musical Hamilton. Even back in the day the American people thought that the pursuit of happiness, as quoted in the…

Education has proven effective by the advantages in medicine for being able to prolong someone 's life and by making life easier with things like the telephone or things in the nature of the internet that connects people from around the world, however even with all of the education in the world there are going to be some problems. School has proven to be more and more stressful with the pressures of students’ families and with the possibility of a promise for the purpose of a scholarship to go…

long life expectancy in this region is a plant-based diet consisting of vegetables, sweet potatoes, and tofu, which all are high in nourishing substance and low in calories (Buettner). Flavonoids found in tofu have been defined as heart disease prevention and guarding against breast cancer…