CHAPTER ONE IMPACT OF MEDIA ON READING AMONG BLACK COLLEGE STUDENTS Ronder Patrice Scott Texas Southern University Thesis Introduction The uses of digital devices that are installed with e-readers have been of greater significance in learning and academic field in general. The devices have become pervasive among black college students. Students use electronic devices such as iPhones‚ IPad‚ tablets‚ Kindle‚ Barnes and Noble Nook e.t.c. to download and read e-books‚ access
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SMOKING HABITS AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS College students are heavily targeted by the tobacco industry‚ which makes cigarettes readily available to them and easy to obtain. To help your college-bound teen resist the urge to take up tobacco use while at school‚ it ’s important to recognize the smoking influences that college student’s face daily. These are the pressures that College student tends to smoke. Friends Many college students yearn for acceptance. After graduating high school‚ a new
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Even with my glasses‚ or is it because of my glasses‚ I still could not see. In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens‚ Sean Covey explains that having incomplete or flawed paradigms about yourself and others is like wearing glasses with the wrong prescription. Taking a first step and walking through a new door can create the beginning to a paradigm shift. I walked in wearing a wacked pair of glasses. Those jacked-up glasses kept telling me that I could not‚ would not‚ and did not fit in. The glasses
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Drinking Habits Among College Students EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Prepared by: Paul Ziehm Brett Moravec Dennis Benthin Tom Sturino EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Introduction Drinking among college students is an important and controversial issue relating to campuses across the entire U.S. Some students even place the social life available on campus above the quality of the academics when choosing which school to attend. The purpose of this study was to further explore the intricacies of college
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information and support; not a substitute for professional advice.How to Quit SmokingA Guide to Quitting and Kicking the Habit for Good | Share | RSS | We all know the health risks of smoking‚ and most of us know that kicking the habit is the single biggest improvement to health a smoker can make. But that doesn’t make it any easier to kick the habit. Whether you’re a teen smoker or a lifetime pack-a-day smoker‚ quitting can be tough. To increase your chances of success‚ you need to be motivated
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Perceptions of health risk and smoking habit in young people. 1. Intruduction Most people begin smoking when they are teenagers and go on to become regular smokers as adults. It has been suggested that young people are attracted to the ’image’ they associate with smoking. The tobacco industry has created an image of smoking as being tough‚ cool‚ sexy or a form of rebellion. Although nicotine addiction keeps people smoking‚ young people usually start smoking because of the social image they
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the high rate of new teen smokers each year remains a significant challenge for tobacco control (CDC‚ 2012). Magnitude of the Problem Every day‚ more than 3‚000 children in the United States under the age of 18 become addicted to cigarettes (ALA‚ 2012). This means that for every three high school seniors graduating this year‚ one will die prematurely from smoking-related disease‚ with 14 years of their life taken away from them (NCES‚ 2012). Experts consider cigarette smoking as the chief preventable
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Suicides a Major Problem among Indian Teens: Experts New Delhi Teen suicides in India are among the highest in the world‚ say the authors of a report on suicides among certain population categories‚ with special reference to the country. "Suicides are a major problem worldwide with the highest rate being among the elderly in the West and among teens in India‚ bringing greater socio-economic loss due to the death of the young population in India‚" said J.K. Trivedi‚ a doctor at the department
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Drug and Alcohol Use among Young Teens I have chosen the use of drug and Alcohol among young teens. The reason I have chosen this because it is very common for young teens to experiment with drugs and alcohol due to peer pressure. Young teens are faced with some kind of peer pressure in their lives. Peer pressure is more than a phase that that a teen goes through. Peer pressure could lead to extreme hair and clothing‚ tattoos‚ or body piercing. It can be a negative force in the lives of children
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This is what depression feels like and some seem to think that teens who do feel like are just going through a phase that they will grow out of it. “In the U.S. the 3rd leading cause of death among ages 10-24 is suicide.” (NAMI) We have an epidemic on our hands and no one knows it or wants to admit. What happens when everyone stays quiet and no one wants to admit something is really wrong and it is a little too late for the group of teens that become another number to add to the body count. My depression
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