In this article the author was relating teenage obesity to some of the dangerous activities that teens may be experimenting with. The authors theory was that since sometimes teenagers who are obese may be socially isolated‚ they may do things to try to fit in with the crowd. Also being socially isolated may cause stress. Some of these things may include experimenting with drugs and alcohol. One of these drugs might be cigarettes which can become very dangerous to an obese person because of the health
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The articles I read cover the effects of race and economic areas on marriage rates and marriage decline. In the first article‚ Ecological Areas and Marriage Rates‚ author James Bossard discusses how the economic prosperity of areas in a city has an influence on marriage rates. In his 1928 study‚ Bossard conducted research on 20‚000 married men throughout different parts of Philadelphia‚ which was the US’s 3rd largest city at the time. Data was collected from the Philadelphia Marriage License Bureau
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society in very useful ways. In most cases‚ these people are viewed as being courageous. This kind of a reaction is typical but not always honest. There are a lot of people are uncomfortable around those that are considered “less than normal”. In her article The Abortion Debate No One Wants to Have‚ Patricia Bauer writes about Down’s syndrome and abortion. Bauer is a former reporter and bureau chief for the Washington Post. Bauer writes about some of those in our society who have an indifferent
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faculty by which the brain stores and recollects information from an individual’s past experience. According to the article‚ “Memory‚” by Hopkins‚ he implied throughout the article that there are variations of memory impairments that trigger mankind‚ which has to do with biological disorders or age-related impairments. One of the biological disorders that he indicates in the featured article is Alzheimer’s disease‚ which frequently is the most common procedure of insanity. Hopkins (2007) study found
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Brandon Mulkey Prof. Taherzadeh English 1302 23 September‚ 2014 In the article‚ “Literacy Practices‚” the authors‚ David Barton‚ and Mary Hamilton analyze literacy on not just a level of reading‚ and writing but how it is implemented‚ used‚ and affected by our daily lives. The authors see literacy as more of a social practice than just an ability that is gained. Barton and Hamilton use several propositions as a framework to build their argument. According to the authors literacy is best understood
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Michael L. Moon Human Diversity Dr. Mancz September 5‚ 2014 Article Summaries In Modesitt’s “Mindsets”‚ the author told stories of different situations‚ in which individuals will have an opinion or “mindset” made up on different matters‚ but would not look at the other side reasoning. The author states the mindset is “an established set of attitudes held by an individual” which often cause problems because the person starts to develop a “long – established or firmly held mindset make it impossible
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The role of mitosis relates directly to the development of Kaposi Sarcoma. In order for cancer cells to begin to form‚ they must have something go wrong inside of the cell or something that makes things work incorrectly. In the article “Do we know what causes Kaposi Sarcoma?” on cancer.org‚ it states “In KS‚ the cells that line blood and lymphatic vessels (called endothelial cells) are infected with KSHV. The virus brings genes into the cells that can cause the cells to divide too much and to live
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In this article‚ the basis of the argument is that surveillance is inevitable. This is due to the fact that there are so many various ways that people are found and tracked in the world today. There are cameras in stores and restaurants‚ there is tracking on phones via GPS‚ there is looking up people on the internet and much more. Kelly states‚ “The internet is a tracking machine”. This speaks levels as to what is actually available and is actually happening on the internet. Kelly also uses the psychological
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The summaries of your two articles revolving around student loans states the facts and the outrageous things students have to go through to conquer their dreams of attending college or a university which is to basically to debt themselves into attaining multiple students loans from companies that only trick them into then paying more and more of what the first started of with. You also expressed that private loans rely on liquidity from investors which is a controversy in itself because it can be
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In the article‚ The Collaborative Classroom: New Technology Brings New Paradigm‚ Clapp and Swenson describe the culture of a collaborative classroom. In this type of class‚ teachers and students work together and the role of being in control by the teacher is eliminated. Instead‚ teachers guide students to work together and build teamwork. “Open Leadership” promotes empowerment of the students. Students work in teams or small groups to collaborate on work. They share information through digital
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