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    Social Media Is Harmful For College Students In recent years‚ social media sites such as Facebook‚ Twitter‚ Tumblr‚ Instagram‚ and MySpace have become highly popular. Many proclaim about their benefits due to their effortless way to expand communication‚ marketing‚ and networking. However‚ many fail to discuss their risks and disadvantages particularly in the youthful population specifically among college students. The overuse of these social media sites among college students has many negative

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    GOING GREEN: A PAPER ON ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS Members: David‚ Ann Carmel Dolor‚ Catherine Ann Landayan‚ Maria Angelica Neri‚ Rhea Maureen PREFACE The plight of the environment has never been as critical as it is today. Recent events such as the flooding in Australia‚ China‚ India‚ and the Philippines‚ extreme heat waves in the USA and in Europe‚ wild fires in California‚ extreme winters and blizzards‚ massive oil spills‚ has made us experience real‚ tangible consequences of mankind’s

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    population and economic growth. Though it did change the world for better in many ways‚ the Industrial Revolution embarked a major turning point in the relationship between humans and their environment. In my paper I will discuss how the rapid changes of mining‚ factories‚ and urbanization negatively impacted the environment. “Carbon-based fuel use began in the late eighteenth century. The Industrial Revolution was ushered in by the use of coal.” (Shepard‚ 2008) Coal was used as a fuel source for heating

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    disposal‚ degradation of environment‚ issues like economic productivity and national security‚ Global warming‚ the depletion of ozone layer and loss of biodiversity have made everyone aware of environmental issues. The United Nations Coference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janerio in 1992 and world Summit on Sustainable Development at Johannesburg in 2002 have drawn the attention of people around the globe to the deteriorating condition of our environment. It is clear that no citizen

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    Plastic and Environment A plastic material is any of a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic solids that are moldable. Plastics are typically organic polymers of high molecular mass‚ but they often contain other substances. They are usually synthetic‚ most commonly derived from petrochemicals‚ but many are partially natural. Composition Most plastics contain organic polymers. The vast majority of these polymers are based on chains of carbon atoms alone or with oxygen‚ sulfur‚ or nitrogen

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    With the development of Computers and information technology came talk of a new environmentally friendly era. The need to create and store documents on paper would be gone‚ along with the need to travel from city to city to conduct business meetings. The developers of computers sold Government Originations and Corporate America on these cost saving concepts. The promises made by computer developers proved to be somewhat true‚ especially given the wide spread deployment and use of Internet and email

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    their nervousness. In other situations‚ however‚ the stress can be good for a person. The fight-or-flight response is a type of stress that can be either beneficial or harmful depending on the situation. The fight-or-flight response is important due to how it can benefit a person and how understanding it helps one negate its harmful effects. Fight-or-flight responses happen automatically in face of threats. True to its name‚ it helps prepare the body to either fight or flee the threat. As

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    The marketing environment surrounds and impacts upon the organization. There are three key elements to the marketing environment which are the internal environment‚ the microenvironment and the macroenvironment. Why are they important? Well marketers build both internal and external relationships. Marketers aim to deliver value to satisfied customers‚ so we need to assess and evaluate our internal business/corporate environment and our external environment which is subdivided into micro and macro

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    Text-Speak‚ Harmful or Helpful? Text-speak is‚ “A form of written language as used in text messages and other digital communications‚ characterized by many abbreviations and typically not following standard grammar‚ spelling‚ punctuation‚ and style‚” according to Dictionary.com. Text-speak is diminishing our young student’s ability to write properly and make convincing arguments‚ as stated by the writer of Text Speak is Harming Teens’ Writing Skills at Triumph Learning. The author states‚ in the

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    Our planet is like a ticking bomb of contamination. We do not see the harm we are doing to ourselves and most importantly to our planet by polluting our air‚ burning fossil fuels‚ and clearing out forest. Climate change is responsible for 300‚000 deaths and garbage pollution accumulates to more than 4 billion tons worldwide‚ and why are we not doing anything against it? Is our planet not worth conserving it? It is shameful to see trash flowing around in rivers and streams‚ wrappers thrown out of

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