Exposure effect

The movie “The Spectacular Now,” directed by James Ponsoldt and starring Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley is a coming-of-age drama focusing on seniors in high school dealing with graduating, the future, and their own family issues. The leading character, Sutter Keely, played by Miles Teller, goes through personal and social issues, and tends to turn to alcohol in order to deal with these problems. Sutter shows risks as well as signs that can likely lead to alcoholism, and while not the main…

I am originally from a small rural community in Ohio which has poor regulation on the air and water quality which humans depend on to sustain life. Throughout the city, hydraulic fracking has become a common method to obtain energy. This method of obtaining energy is misconceptualized to be a cleaner alternative to oil and coal, however, with a first hand on experience with living in this area allows me to witness otherwise. This city is known as Youngstown, Ohio. Hydraulic fracking is a…

While Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner deal with highly controversial topics in Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, their structured approach reveals the pair’s awareness of the sensitivity of their material. After introducing a data set, the authors offer possible causes before disproving them and then verifying that the final, contentious explanation numerically supports the data. Levitt and Dubner’s carefully organized build-up to a conclusion allows…

1. Introduction Alcohol abuse is a serious social issue that consists of a constant pattern of drinking that can result in negative health, work, educational and social effects. Alcohol itself causes approximately 1.8 million deaths per year and around 90% of Australian adults have tried it at least once. Most people will be affected by alcohol abuse at least once in their lifetime – whether they are the abuser or friends and family. 2. History of alcohol In the 16th century alcohol, which…

Silveris provides us research-based studies that tell us adolescent drinking has increased almost ten percent in the last ten years. The question Silveri attempts to answer is what effects does this have directly on adolescents, and on society as a whole. Is this the effect of underlying factors such as alcohol being easier to obtain by adolescents or even an increase in depression by adolescents? Additionally Silveri discusses the types of harms adolescent drinking has directly the brain.…

Alcohol and drugs have been known to have consequences, but once the use turns into abuse it can lead to grave danger. People who are abusive with are likely to have medical struggles along the way due to the damaging effects of the substance. Often disorders seem to exist with alcohol and drug abuse. Use of alcohol and drugs can turn into more than just a one time thing and can lead to addiction and abuse. The risk of drug abuse grows substantially during a time of change. There are different…

has become a serious threat to our society and to the future of our generation because of its serious immediate consequences and life changing long term effects. “Annually, about 5,000 people under age 21 die from alcohol-related injuries involving underage drinking”(“Consequences of Underage Drinking”). This is just one example of the bad effects underage drinking has. Not only does underage drinking cause injuries, it causes teen pregnancy, alcohol addiction, and it is associated with tobacco…

If one is sick, without the money they have little to no chance of being cured. Wasting important funding on an experiment, at best, could harbor terrible outcomes. If people vote yes for artificial intelligence, they can cause negative long-term effects for the patient or patient's, waste the government’s medical money, or cause overall mayhem throughout the world. Starting off, anger can cause one to perform rash actions. To begin with, if someone can not afford the intellect boosting…

There are many factors in underage drinking. Underage drinking has long term effects and short term effects. Short term effects include hang overs, sickness, vulnerability, and alcohol poisoning. Long term affects can be liver damage, binge drinking, being susceptible to cancers, stroke, and heart attacks. Parents must educate their children to give them…

achieving rapid results or working extra hard to reach their goal, that they tend to neglect the long term effects associated with putting excessive strain on their bodies. Throughout Susan Bordo’s “Reading the Slender Body”, and Greg Garber’s “ESPN Sports Injury Series”, we will explore the numerous ways in which our vision of the good life can become tainted or damaged due to the effects associated with repetitive harmful behavior. This includes, pushing our bodies to their limit, in order to…