AS A SOCIAL PROBLEM AMONG YOUTH Drug abuse is now surprisingly a major social problem that has sprouted out and is greatly harming our economy. Drug abuse in my own opinion is when drugs are not taken at the right time or in correct proportions. However‚ one can only limit drug abuse to taking hard drugs such as cocaine‚ nicotine‚ marijuana‚ etc. This is the kind of drug abuse that has a huge influence on the youth of today. Nowadays
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1 - A STUDY ON INFLUENCE OF ADVERTISEMENT IN CONSUMER BRAND PREFERENCE (SPECIAL REFERENCE TO SOFT DRINK MARKET IN MANMUNNAI NORTH D.S DIVISION BATTICALOA) Miss. Vithya Vivekananthan‚ Faculty of Commerce and Management‚ Eastern University‚ Vantharumoolai‚ Sri Lanka vcvithya@gmail.com ABSTRACT Measuring the influence of Advertisement in Consumer Brand Preference is very essential for every marketer. If advertisement does not create any positive change in consumers’ brand preference‚ all
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Name: Fritz Beker Jules Fritz 1 Class: ENC1102 Time: 8h-10h15 am / MWF Subject: Essay #2 Rebellion and Social Norms among Youth Young people have a tendency not to comply with any laws when it’s come to their wellbeing. Young people always try to express their opinions and restrain from obeying their leaders which sometimes lead to a disaster result of their poor decisions in life. According
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Do you think Technology is effecting our youth today? Do you think it is a bad influence? Do you think it’s becoming a problem with their learning? Because of technology today more students are more advance and proficient in school with their school work. With technology being used today in the schools‚ households‚ etc. students are more advanced in their classes and school work. They can do assignments on their laptops and email them in that same day. They can even use their cellular device
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one of the leading newspapers often goes like‚ “A professor beaten to death by his own students”. Going through such headlines has become a routine affair for us. The country is plagued by many catastrophic‚ socio-economic issues like poverty‚ terrorism‚ illiteracy and corruption. The involvement of the youth in overcoming these problems is of great importance. The youth‚ in a rising nation like ours‚ plays a strong role in bringing reforms to restructure the nation. They protest and demand what
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Hassibullah Roshan November 2013 In the three following essays: Douglas Hofstadter’s “I Am a Strange Loop”‚ Sigmund Freud’s “The Uncanny”‚ and Allan McCollum’s “Matt Mullican’s World”‚ the conscious and the unconscious have been explicated through the scientific and artistic exploration of concepts‚ such as pattern‚ repression‚ repetition compulsion‚ the double‚ and uncanniness. In “I Am a Strange Loop”‚ Douglas Hofstadter explores the basis for understanding factors that constitute “I”‚ the
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‘Are you wearing the latest from Gucci?’ ‘No‚ I prefer the latest designer wear from Rohit Ball’ These are lines often heard in the fashion conscious creme de la creme of Indian society. The story is the same in almost any commercially ‘happening’ city in the world except that the names of the designers keep changing. This does not mean that the national designers have not made a dent in the world market! The Indian fashion world got global attention after Miss Sushmita Sen and Miss Aishwarya Rai
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HIGHER EDUCATION AND POVERTY REDUCTION AMONG THE YOUTH BY OKUNOLA‚ PHILIP OLAYIDE (Ph.D)‚ ONYENE.V.E(Ph.D.)(frontisresource@yahoo.com) SUBAR‚ S.TAYO. ASHIRU‚ AL-MAHROOF OLASEEWO (sirmooree@yahoo.ca) PAPER PRESENTED AT THE 8TH REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH POLICY NETWORK VENUE: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE (IITA)‚ IBADAN AUGUST‚ 2008 ABSTRACT Education in Nigeria and higher education in particular‚ are fundamental to the
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"What is on the minds of America’s youth today?" was the prompt for an essay contest. The top of the page hosted two images; one of the youth of 1968 protesting racism‚ and one of teenagers on Spring Break in 2004. The magazine claimed that 30 years ago‚ young people were so focused on sit-ins‚ protests‚ and what was happening in the world around them and today‚ teens are content solely with "watching their MTV‚ and following the love lives of Brad‚ Jen‚ Jessica‚ and Paris." I was intrigued by the
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Mass Media Influence on Youth We are all active consumers of different kinds of information‚ the flow of which is continuously growing. Abundance of TV channels‚ websites on the Internet‚ a huge amount of video and audio production‚ newspapers and magazines – all these information has become an integral part of our lives. Every morning we watch TV‚ read newspapers‚ on the workplace during lunch we are sharing the latest news in sport‚ fashion; talking about movies we saw with our colleagues
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