...this wonderful new development through investment that will be a trickle down effect to community * underdvelepment countries have to provide incentive for corps to go to their country * 1940 unlimited scale and new chemicals at virtually no cost * petrochemical era grew - > pose hazard, but they were all trivial and anecotocal * a body of data starting accumulating -> synthetic chemicals -> air water, cancer, birth defects, and other toxic affects * most industries knew about it and attempted to trivialized these risks * it’s a crime to take a gun and shoot you, but its not if I expose u to chemicals that are going to kill you because it takes longer to kill you * we are in a major cancer epidemic - > industry is largely responsible for overwehleomg ep of cancer ½ men get cancer 1/3 women get caner in their life time * rbgh gien to cows since FDA decalred it safe - > heart lng idsney spleen...
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...Economics Discussion how a Epidemic can affect a country's economy The countries involved in an epidemic will immediately suffer in a population crisis where the average age of mortality decreases. More children will be born dead or carrying the TB at a very early stage. Countries that were mentioned in the context are most of them developing countries for instance India, Indonesia and South Africa. Poor average education and high unemployment are huge percent numbers in these countries and a epidemic could cause even more problems with the labor in a country if adults are dying. Result of these problems will eventually lead to a non-consumed agricultural resources since the eventual transmission of knowledge will fail in shortage of both labor and competent people. A starvation will break out due the shortage of food. The development of social and economical aspects will also decrease or stop completely. Progresses involving better healthcare and greater survival number of babies will suffer also suffer from epidemics. Possibilities of helping people will also become completely removed because of the shortage of competent staff and economical issues. The level of education will also decrease due the financial problems, schools will shut down and bad teacher salaries will not attract as many students becoming teachers because of the tough education. Regular working man and women will also have to quite their jobs to take care of their sick/infected relatives...
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...The 1967 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak was a major outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the United Kingdom. The only centre of the disease, in contrast to the three concentrated areas in the 2001 crisis, was on the Wales border with Shropshire.[1] France and other EU countries were also affected by the crisis.[ Background There were three official inquires into the foot-and-mouth epidemics and the Government’s response in the fifty years prior to the 1967 outbreak. These occurred in 1922, 1923-1924, and 1953.[2] In the 1950s, there was a substantial outbreak across the United Kingdom. Of the thirteen years leading up to the 1967 outbreak, there were only two years that there was no reported outbreak.[2] During this period, foot-and-mouth was prevalent across Europe. Outbreak In October 1967, a farmer from Bryn Farm in the county of Shropshire, concerned by the health of one of their sows, sought veterinary advice and the animal was found to have contracted foot-and-mouth disease. Bryn Farm was immediately put into quarantine and general animal movement was banned. The virus rapidly spread to the nearby Ellis Farm. Two cows from the latter had already been sent to market, leaving the farmers in a vulnerable position.[3] In the following months, over 2,364 outbreaks were detected in the United Kingdom.[4] Ninety-four percent of the cases occurred in North-West Midlands and North Wales.[2] Reports The Minister for Agriculture, Frederick Peart, appointed a committee...
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...children advertiser then began to pay attention on it too. After symbolic advertising strategy were widely used, the message of all advertising were involving distinctive or “cool”, and the children or adult were rather to choose produce base on its coolness than its characteristics. The food has already become a social tool for interrelationship development and self recognization. However, the word “cool” can be defined in a broad ways, it also can be misused in the wrong area and provide inappropriate implication to people. For example, using cool in junk food related advertisement, so younger people will misinterpret that consuming junk food is a cool way to express themselves. After eating too much high calorie food products, the global epidemic disease, obesity starts to bring extreme harm to junior people. To prevent this high risk disease spread, actions need to be performed by well studied the effectiveness of the symbolic...
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...Sentence: The essay Stephen Marche wrote “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely” is talking about with the technology what the society looks like now, and social media like Facebook and twitter have made us more densely network than ever. Paragraph: In Stephen Marche’s article, Facebook is a reason people are becoming move lonely and standard. The relationship between technology and loneliness is strong. According to the article people who spend their time on devices and social network sights are finding themselves lacking in the ability to communicate in person. One effect that is brought up throughout the article is loneliness, in which is made the more often one drowns themselves in social media. Facebook in particular, is the target of this article, with its enormous audience, Facebook is the go-to website to see latest gossip, get in touch with everyone, and be in touch with everyone. The research put into the Lonely topic consists of psychologist’s opinions and real events. Unfortunately, technology gives one access to the internet, allowing one to be deeply drowned within the internet’s vast ocean of information. What's more, in the article, the author shows us many other researches and examples from professional study about technology including Facebook made people lonely to support his idea like Moria Burke, John Cacioppo and Sherry Turtle. So in other word, social media can cause a person to distance themselves from others because they are too busy using it, posting...
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...and the rise of social media, would you consider it helpful or harmful in today’s society? Everywhere you go it’s inevitable to see someone either texting, tweeting, or on Facebook. No matter how you feel about it, social networking seems to be the source of communication today. Social networking is very helpful in many ways such as communicating, searching for employment, and employment verification. We are able to communicate and search for people whom we have lost contact with through Facebook, texting and instant messaging. Individuals can even search for employment, post and send resumes without ever stepping into a Human Resource department. The negative side of social media is that you actually don’t know if you’re in contact with the correct person when you are communicating online. Through tweeting, burglars and robbers can predict when they can most likely burglarize your home when you are not there. Social dating sites like Christian Mingle and Black People Meet are sites for meeting people of the same beliefs and character as you. Anyone can join these sites but how can you verify this information without ever meeting them? What about the old time way of courtship and meeting people? Another social networking website that seems to be harmful is Facebook. With Facebook you are able befriend people whom you have never met. It also seems to be the place where people air out their dirty laundry. It’s a site where you can vent about problems...
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...2015 (Type of paper: Optional) Final Summary Essays Sentence: The essay Stephen Marche wrote “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely” is talking about with the technology what the society looks like now, and social media like Facebook and twitter have made us more densely network than ever. Paragraph: In Stephen Marche’s article, Facebook is a reason people are becoming move lonely and standard. The relationship between technology and loneliness is strong. According to the article people who spend their time on devices and social network sights are finding themselves lacking in the ability to communicate in person. One effect that is brought up throughout the article is loneliness, in which is made the more often one drowns themselves in social media. Facebook in particular, is the target of this article, with its enormous audience, Facebook is the go-to website to see latest gossip, get in touch with everyone, and be in touch with everyone. The research put into the Lonely topic consists of psychologist’s opinions and real events. Unfortunately, technology gives one access to the internet, allowing one to be deeply drowned within the internet’s vast ocean of information. What's more, in the article, the author shows us many other researches and examples from professional study about technology including Facebook made people lonely to support his idea like Moria Burke, John Cacioppo and Sherry Turtle. So in other word, social media can cause...
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...FACEBOOK The social networking website Facebook has become enormously popular throughout the world. As of June 2012, there were 955 million people using Facebook on a monthly basis (a 29% increase on the previous year), and on average 552 million users on a daily basis (a 32% increase) on the previous year (United States Securities and Exchange Commission, 2012). As with previous major technological developments, such as radio and television, there is now discussion within the tertiary education sector about how websites like Facebook can be used in learning and teaching. Social networking websites can be defined as online spaces which “allow individuals to present themselves, articulate their social networks, and establish or maintain connections with others” . The use of social networking sites within universities is of interest because their growing ubiquity is already making both positive and negative impacts on tertiary level learning and teaching. As a result, learners and teachers need to critically evaluate their practices in an increasingly online world. This essay will argue that Facebook can have a potentially positive impact on learning and teaching at tertiary level if used appropriately. The essay begins with an overview of how the use of Facebook can contribute to learning and teaching. It then explains the benefits of Facebook for students in terms of socialising, engagement and creativity. The essay then addresses the digital literacy skills students need in...
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...has slowly been working its way into people’s everyday life over the past twenty years. Most individuals cannot go a day without checking their Facebook or letting their Twitter followers know what kind of coffee they had to drink that morning. Social media can be either a blessing or a curse to the human race depending on how people look at it. Not only can social media help us connect with new people and become more aware of worldwide issues; on the contrary, it encourages the spread hate and fake...
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...on the Internet. One thing that you can count on is that nothing you do on the Internet will ever be private again. In fact, if you are obsessed with privacy then the last place you want to be is on the Internet. Most Americans have absolutely no idea how far Internet surveillance has advanced in the past few years. At this point, it would be hard to imagine any place less private than the Internet. Do not ever put anything on the Internet that you would not want the authorities or your employer to hold you accountable for. Basically, the Internet is creating a permanent dossier on each one of us, and we contribute to this process by freely posting gigantic volumes of information about ourselves on social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter. The Internet is the greatest tool for mass communication that the world has perhaps ever seen, and it gives average citizens the ability to communicate with each other like never before, but there is also a downside to using the Internet. Everything that we do on the Internet is being watched, monitored and recorded and there is no longer any such thing as Internet privacy. If you think that you still have any privacy on the Internet, then you are either ignorant of what is going on or you are being delusional. In the past, the National Counterterrorism Center could only retain information about you for 180 days if you did not have any links to terrorism. Well, that has now completely changed. Attorney General Eric Holder...
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...that are highly active on Facebook would use Facebook as a means to fit herself in with the crowd and make herself feel more socially accepted by her peers. What makes matters worse is that social media has not only allowed us to succumb to it and use it, but it also triggers a certain addiction to the user which leaves them constantly coming back for more. In a survey done by Anxiety UK, it was shown that 55% of them felt uncomfortable or worried when they were unable to log onto their social media accounts.These are just some of the examples of how social media has reached to epidemic proportions. Negative effects of Social media Our emotions are co-related to our thoughts. What we think can directly influence how we feel. Social media has a negative impact that can cause people to suffer fromdisturbedemotions such as anxiety and depression. In the same Anxiety UK survey, it showed that 53% of the participants felt they had drastic changes in behaviour from using social media sites, with 51% of these participants claiming they were negative changes. The reason for this occurrence being that they felt less confident and under achieved when they compared their achievements to their friends. Competition arises within social media users, if not prominently shown it is the battle within oneself to strive to become as good as or better than other social media users. Let it be the lifestyle, the looks or the number of friends a person has on his Facebook account, some people feel...
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...But for the most part social media can best be described as any form of online communication whether it’s Facebook, twitter or Instagram (3 of the most noteworthy) etc., that is used for networking or posting about one’s personal life. These online communities allow the user to blog and share any information about themselves and in worse case scenarios some information that isn’t intended to be shared can be leaked and spread within a matter of minutes to any online audience or database. It seems as though the younger generation uses social media as a means of self-expression and picking up the phone for its intended use to make a simple call is outdated. Social media has brought about a lot of change and the rise of just bullying in general, has been growing. The use of social media has allowed today’s generation x to participate in the ugly side of the internet littered with provocative photographs of young teens and other negative aspects of social media such as cyber bullying have manifested, and also the lack of moral values and class participation in the youth today have created a disconnect in the school atmosphere. In this research paper I want to provide detailed account of the negative effects of social media in schools. The sources used will give in depth examples and research that explains the negative effects in schools and youth and why this online epidemic may be more hazardous to our youth then...
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...Neyva Hernandez Jeffery Runyon ENG122 December 11, 2013 How Technology and Social Media Control Children and Adolescents Incredibly many people look at their phones throughout the day to see if they have a text-message, email, notification from social media, missed calls, or simply just because it has become an addiction. Technology has been changing over the years, and new apps and newer upgrades for electronic devices are being developed. High tech is advancing at an incredible rate. Consider how technology has expanded and evolved in the last ten years. How to manage this new phenomenon was not taught to us as children because it did not exist. Many children and adolescents born in the 20th century cannot imagine their lives without TV, smart phones, computers, tablets, or iPods and many other devices; youth have technology surrounding them. As a result, many of the young people raised in the world of technology do not have the same level of emotional skills of those ten or more years ago. Adolescents and children depend on the Internet more than on themselves. They no longer have the same innovativeness. Obesity and cyber bulling has increased over the years. More suicides have occurred. Those who are exposed to violent video games, movies and TV programs have shown aggression. However, parents do not realize how those devices affect their child’s development. Social media already affects many adults; now think about how strongly modern technology affects toddlers...
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...Social Media Marketing Tracie Simmons Contemporary Business BUS 508 Dr. Laura Jones Strayer University August 23, 2012 Social Media Social media is best understood as of new kind of internet based media, where human beings discover, read and share news and information and content. Using online technologies and practices, people can share their insights, opinions, experience and perspectives taking different forms of social media including texts, images, pictures, audios and videos. There are different types of social media, but mainly it is divided into six different types including social network, wikis, blogs, podcasts, forums, content communities, and micro blogging. MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Wikipedia, Apple iTunes, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, etc. are the few examples of social media sites. Social media is much cheaper than traditional media, enables everyone to publish, share and access information. Looking to the higher investment in industrial types of media, private sector individuals now concentrated towards the social media to publish the information of the companies in a less formal ways that has been traditional in press releases, newsletters, and brochures which can helps the organization to give a human face and voices to the mass public. Social media becomes a very effective ways to build strong networks of individuals and relationship with them. In today’s business environment, social media is becoming more and more popular as marketing tools, where the...
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...The Curses of Social Networking For the past couple of years, we all know that technology has become a big part of our lives and has also changed the way people communicate with each other. With technology being more advanced now, we have been brought about many social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the list can go on. These social networking sites have allowed online users to post personal information on a profile and to bond with friends from anywhere around the world. Although this sounds like a great idea for all, it's actually becoming a huge issue for all online users who participate in the social networking sites and negatively affecting our society because of three big reasons: Cyber bullying, health related problems and privacy issues caused by the unnecessary use of social networks. So what cost may come with this advanced era of technology and the use of social networking sites? Let's find out! These famous online social networking sites are becoming extremely popular for the roles they play with cyber bullying and has no longer been limited to only the real world. Cyber bullying goes far beyond just the physical and verbal fights, but instead adds intimidation, being frightened, harassment, and embarrassment. Ciara Harris, a famous singing artist, pours out her feelings about cyber bullying on her online blog. Harris argues that cyber bullying does not make you or anyone else any cooler, so why do so many people still do it? She quarrels...
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