The Harmful Effects of ADHD Medication in Children English 102: Writing II Abstract The medications and treatments for children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) were researched to expose the risks of pharmaceuticals and their side effects on young children. The medical risks of medications commonly used to treat children with ADHD were examined using published research and findings from pediatricians‚ physicians‚ scientists‚ and other health
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Top Management’s Compensation and Its Harmful Effects Introduction Now-a-days it is becoming very common practice among companies to pay very high compensation to their CEOs (Chief Executive Officers) as well as top management executives. When general people come to know that CEOs and top executives draw a huge amount of compensation from their companies‚ they think what a teacher‚ a government employee make and wonder what those executives could possibly be doing to earn so much. But when shareholders
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The Harmful Effects of NCLB The No Child Left Behind act is the Bush administration’s sweeping educational reform‚ aimed at improving the performance of the nation’s public schools by introducing accountability. Supporters of the act claim that it will increase the performance of all school children by raising the standards and allowing parents greater freedom in choosing the school they want their child to attend. The act also puts in place a system of punishment for schools if their student
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In 2013‚ the Institute of Mechanical Engineers from the United Kingdom reported that over half of the world’s food ends up in the garbage bin‚ with around 1.2 billion tonnes never making it onto a plate. The main causes of this problem is very strict use-by or expiration dates‚ and our obsession with wanting aesthetically perfect food. For example‚ fruits and vegetables that are still edible‚ nutritious and tasty are often discarded because they are slightly bruised or deformed. Pictured above:
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Watching Every child loves to spend countless hours in front of the TV watching cartoons‚ and various TV programs. What a lot of parents don’t realize is that although watching TV keeps a child occupied and quiet‚ long periods of TV watching can be harmful to the child in three major ways I would like to discuss. Children that spend hours in front of a TV are more likely to be overweight. Watching TV does not require a lot of movement. It requires sitting and the more a child sits the less active
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Harmful effects and implications of accent discrimination Harmful effects on ESL learners As concluded by Munro (2003)‚ accent discrimination has played a negative effect on many situations. Some of the most common cases include discrimination in hiring process‚ in employment‚ and even resulting in harassments. As a harmful result‚ second language users are facing negative forces that may cause them to question beyond the issue. One example is these learners start questioning their own characteristics
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because of it? Well I have. More than 100‚000 US deaths are caused by excessive alcohol drinking each year. Alcohol is a huge fetter to people and I believe that everyone should be abstinent from it. Alcohol is harmful to the body‚ teens abuse it and drink underage‚ and it has harmful effects on children. Every year‚ more money is spent promoting alcohol than any other product. Perhaps through its elaborate and creative marketing‚ the most basic‚ yet important fact about alcohol is often overlooked:
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The Great Garbage Patches The Ocean seems to be used as a dump for everyone to throw their trash away in. Seems to be like all the pollution in the ocean comes from human waste than anything else. The ocean pollution is now a big problem facing us in everyday life. For years we have been trying to stop the dumping of trash‚ chemicals‚ and toxic waste into our oceans but the people who do it‚ still find ways to get around the rules. They just don’t seem to care about the problems we are going to
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Harmful Effects of Participation Trophies Studies reported to Evan Grossman of Men’s Journal have shown that the generation of people reaching adulthood now are considered a bunch of “self-obsessed‚ irresponsible‚ and unmotivated generation of false achievers.” What could have caused this? A huge cause of this is what is known as the “self-esteem movement” according to Evan Grossman of Men’s Journal. Kids are given rewards and trophies for participation and maybe even just showing up to simply build
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Steort’s main idea was of the overwhelming power of the American sugar industry lobbyists‚ and how harmful the effects are on our society. In 1998‚ the "sugar tax" cost American consumers about $1.9 billion per year‚ and between 7‚500 and 10‚000 jobs were lost from 1997 and 2003 as a result of high sugar prices. Sugar accounts for 1% of U.S. farms‚ but contributes 17% of all campaign contributions from the agricultural sector. This demonstrates the sugar industry’s power in lobbying. The U.S. sugar
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