Name: Dariga Kassenova Are children of alcoholics more likely to be alcoholics themselves? In answering the question‚ researchers sampled 451 people in Alcoholics Anonymous to see how many would say that one‚ or both‚ of their parents were alcoholics. People in AA used in the study currently attend AA somewhere in Ohio‚ Michigan‚ or Indiana and were asked by people in charge of the local AA programs to volunteer to fill out a survey. The research found that 77 percent of the respondents had at
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Are Americans Getting Smarter The ability to learn is something each person is born with‚ as a nation Americans have proven to be adapting and succeeding in the world around them. Looking back just a hundred years ago‚ there was a huge change in the way we live and how Americans have adapted to their modern world. However‚ the debate whether Americans are getting smarter or dumber is easily prove[O5] n by looking at the facts. American[ today are using their brains to think critically‚ increasing
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if it is making us smarter. There is a lot of technology coming out these days‚ and most of it is helpful to almost everyone. Essentially‚ technology is making us smarter. But‚ some technology is making short cuts for us. Students used to go to the library and checked out books to help with their homework. Nowadays‚ students go home and Google the answers‚ rather than searching for information to help them. In my opinion‚ the technology is making us better readers. The more a person reads‚ the
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project which studied the effects of malnutrition on the intelligence of children post World War II. "As part of this research‚ an intelligence test called the Raven test‚ similar to the IQ test‚ was given to over 350‚000 Dutch males when they became 19 years of age." The results of this test showed that the larger the family and further down the birth line‚ the worse they scored on the test. Zajonc and Markus theorized that "children will attain higher intellectual capacities if they grow up in environments
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When is the last time you used the Internet? Maybe 1 minute‚ 30 minutes‚ 45 minutes ago. The things we can do on Internet are so technologically advanced that we use it for different reasons such as Facebook and Twitter which all require the internet. The Internet is a technology used by almost everyone around the world. This technology makes it possible for people to access valuable information through millions of sites that have been created by people willing to share there personal knowledge.
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Daniel Keyes‚ It is about a mentally handicapped man named Charlie Gordon that gets an operation that is supposed to make him smarter and get rid of his disability. The operation is tested on a mouse and it gets smarter‚ so they perform it on Charlie and it makes him smarter for a short period of time. Eventually the mouse loses the intelligence and dies. Obviously‚ there are more costs as a consequence of Algernon-Gordon experiment. To start off‚ with when one want’s to gain intelligence it is expected
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Watching TV Makes You Smarter Steven Johnson’s argument in “Watching TV Makes you Smarter” that television increases intellectual and enhances our cognitive faculties‚ therefore making us smarter Johnson’s states that‚ “For decades‚ we’ve worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a path declining steadily toward lowest-common- denominator standards‚ presumably because the “masses” want dumb‚ simple pleasures and big media companies try to give the masses what they want. But as that
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TV/Internet/Video Games Effects on Children As the technologies improve‚ Internet‚ electronic devices and TV become part of our lives. In my parents’ generation‚ they did not have much technology products to entertain themselves. When they went back home from school‚ they usually hang out with classmates playing hide and seek‚ sport games‚ or read books in the library. A mere 20 years ago‚ children used to play outside all day‚ riding bikes‚ playing sports and building forts (Rowan 2013). In the
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Are Bilinguals Smarter Than Monolinguals? A Review of the Literature Luke James Walkington La Trobe University Are Bilinguals Smarter Than Monolinguals? A Review of the Literature ‘Bilingual’ people are differentiated from ‘Monolingual’ people by their frequent communication with two or more languages (Barac & Bialystok‚ 2012). Bilinguals are thought to be smarter than Monolinguals (Rubio-Fernández & Glucksberg‚ 2012). Smartness is a measure of successfulness in their education
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Discuss the implications of increased internet usage by children for creators of language learning materials. How should such resource creators adapt their approach for the next generation of learners? With the proliferation of advanced technology on internet usage‚ the popularity and accessibility of online learning has increased rapidly for children’s using with various learning materials. Employing computers has become a mainstream in many fields‚ language learning in particular. Social networking
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