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Euthanasia Pros and Cons - 0 views

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  • It provides a way to relieve extreme pain It provides a way of relief when a person's quality of life is low Frees up medical funds to help other people It is another case of freedom of choic
  • The intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit.
  • Euthanasia can become a means of health care cost containment Physicians and other medical care people should not be involved in directly causing death
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  • Euthanasia devalues human life
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History of video games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The origin of video games lies in early cathode ray tube-based missile defense systems in the late 1940s.
  • the 1960s, more computer games were developed
  • In September 1971, the Galaxy Game was installed at a student union at Stanford University. Based on Spacewar!, this was the first coin-operated video game. Only one was built, using a DEC PDP-11 and vector display terminals. In 1972 it was expanded to be able to handle four to eight consoles.
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Body Image in Advertising: How Women Get Hurtful Messages - 0 views

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  • We live in a world of stick thin models and emaciated celebrities
  • The idea that thin is in is everywhere, and is hardly escapable from the advertising industry. And although the messages are damaging and often untrue, women everywhere are suffering the consequences of constant exposure to overly thin models and movie stars.
  • The average woman has a 7 percent chance that she will be as slim as a catwalk model and a 1 percent chance of being as thin as a supermodel,
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  • progressively worse in fashion advertising over the past several years.
  • These ads do not encourage women to embrace their own shapes, but rather to work hard to attain a low weight and toned body.
  • ads women see everyday that basically tell them they are not good enough.
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The Effect of Video Games on the Brain | Serendip's Exchange - 0 views

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  • When the younger brother won, the older brother got up and started kicking him and yelling insults
  • Mario Cart," which is really not a very violent game; the object is to win a car race by coming in first while maneuvering through different courses.
  • "Beta wave activity in people in the [highest amount of video game playing] was constantly near zero,
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  • even when they weren't playing, showing that they hardly used the prefrontal regions of their brains. Many of the people in this group told researchers that they got angry easily, couldn't concentrate, and had trouble associating with friends"
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Australia Introduces Body-Image Standards for Fashion Industry: Glossed Over - 0 views

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  • Recommendations include disclosing and avoiding the digital enhancement of images; banning ultra-thin female models or overly muscular male ones, in addition to models under the age of 16 to advertise adult clothes; employing a greater diversity of ethnicities and model body sizes; eschewing editorial and advertising content that promotes negative body image through rapid weight loss and cosmetic surgery, and, for retailers, carrying a wider variety of clothing sizes that better reflects the demands of the community.
  • “ultra-thin female models or overly muscular male ones”
  • it should be that there is beauty in all sizes of bodies.
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  • “Fashion is for, generally speaking, women who are in good physical shape, who choose to take care of themselves.”
  • So larger sizes don’t sell as well as smaller sizes…but she doesn’t stock as much larger-sized merchandise.
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Alcohol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • he most commonly used alcohol is ethanol
  • The simplest alcohol is methan
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Underage Drinking Research Initiative - 0 views

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  • Each year, approximately 5,000 young people under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking; this includes about 1,900 deaths from motor vehicle crashes, 1,600 as a result of homicides, 300 from suicide, as well as hundreds from other injuries such as falls, burns, and drownings
  •   Drinkin
  • g continues to be widespread among adolescents, as shown by nationwide surveys as well as studies in smaller population
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  • When youth drink they tend to drink intensively, often consuming four to five drinks at one time. MTF data show that 11 percent of 8th graders, 22 percent of 10th graders, and 29 percent of 12th graders had engaged in heavy episodic, or binge, drinking within the past two weeks.
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Minimum Drinking Age - 0 views

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  • The U.S.
  • has one of the world's highest minimum drinking ages.
  • is illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to possess alcoholic beverages of any kind.
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  • n many
  • laces, it was legal for people as young as 18 to purchase and drink alcohol.
  • The in
  • roduction of a
  • constitutional amendment lowering the U.S.'s voting age to 18 in 1971 ushered in a further wave of lowered
  • drinking ages in many states.
  • However, that tide was swiftly reversed beginning in the late 1970s.
  • federal law was passed in
  • 984 that effectively established a national minimum drinking age of 21
  • Is the current minimum drinking age of 21 a good idea, promoting safety and responsibility among American teenagers? Or has it backfired, causing an increasingly dangerous drinking culture among U.S. youth?
  • Critics, however, argue that the 21-and-over drinking laws have actually made for a more dangerous environment for American teenagers by prompting them to do their drinking in private, unsupervised environments
  • Supporters of the current minimum drinking age say that the higher age limit has reduced drunk driving deaths substantially, and generally makes for a safer environment. Teenagers and alcohol make for a potentially hazardous mix, supporters maintain, and any steps taken to separate those two elements should be welcomed. Additionally, the human body does not fully develop until around the age of 21, proponents say; the intake of alcohol can cause grave mental and physical damage to a still-developing body.
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'The sickening conspiracy that is the fashion industry' | Mail Online - 0 views

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  • British Fashion Council
  • ban very skinny models from being hired for London Fashion Week next month.
  • "We believe that regulation is neither desirable nor enforceable,"
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  • "recommend that only models aged 16 or over are used".
  • equivalent of giving the models crystal meth, ashtrays, syringes and unlimited quantities of champagne.
  • putting big business before the health of all young women in this country.
  • The World Health Organisation considers anyone with a BMI of 18.5 or below to be underweight.
  • The Council of Fashion Designers of America is also backing an education programme to teach young models about healthy eating and nutrition.
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Euthanasia and Human Rights - 0 views

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  • Euthanasia literally means “good death”. It is basically to bring about the death of a terminally ill patient or a disabled. It is resorted to so that the last days of a patient who has been suffering from such an illness which is terminal in nature or which has disabled him can peacefully end up his life and which can also prove to be less painful for him.
  • Active euthanasia means putting an end to the life of an individual for merciful reason by a medical practitioner by giving a lethal dose of medication to the patient. Passive euthanasia takes place where methods such as removing artificial life support systems such as ventilators, hydration, etc are resorted to.
  • On the other hand voluntary euthanasia means where a patient who is suffering a lot asks a medical practitioner to end his life whereas involuntary euthanasia is just the opposite of voluntary euthanasia that is where there is no consent of the patient but for it there can be many reasons such as if he is not mentally competent to give his consent and other such reasons.
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  • A person has a right to live a life with at least minimum dignity and if that standard is falling below that minimum level then a person should be given a right to end his life.
  • Supporters of euthanasia also point out to the fact that as passive euthanasia has been allowed, similarly active euthanasia must also be allowed.
  • A patient will wish to end his life only in cases of excessive agony and would prefer to die a painless death rather than living a miserable life with that agony and suffering.
  • According to them its not granting ‘right to die’ rather it should be called ‘right to kill’.
  • Opponents also point out that when suicide is not allowed then euthanasia should also not be allowed.

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Source 6 - It is safe to keep the nuclear weapon! - 0 views

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  • g similar noises since the Eisenhower administration, and halting the spread of nukes (if not elimin
  • The argument that nuclear weapons can be agents of peace as well as destruction rests on two deceptively simple observations.
  • First, nuclear weapons have not been used since 1945. Second, there's never been a nuclear, or even a nonnuclear, war between two states that possess them.
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  • "We now have 64 years of experience since Hiroshima. It's striking and against all historical precedent that for that substantial period, there has not been any war among nuclear states.
  • Take war: a country will start a fight only when it's almost certain it can get what it wants at an acceptable price
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    First source to find that shows the different perspective!\nGod i'm happy! :)
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You Say Potato, I Say Cassava: Language, Culture and Perception: Scientific American Po... - 0 views

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  • "Do you think its just a coincidence that the same culture that uses this kind of indeterminate word is the culture that came up with the uncertainty principle
  • we are obsessed with time, we talk about time all the time and in fact time is the number one noun in terms of usage according to the Oxford [English] Dictionary.
  • So we are talking about time all the time, but if you actually ask someone to define what time is, [they] really can't do it.
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  • So how do we talk about time? We talk about it metaphorically, and for the most part and this not just in English, but across the world in many different languages.
  • So the metaphors we have like time being a landscape that we are moving across; so we talk about "coming up to Thanksgiving," as though Thanksgiving is a location that we are moving towards, but we also sometimes talk about time as something that's moving while we are static.
  • Kuuk Thaayorre, the language of Pormpuraaw, is that time moves for them from east to west, so they don't talk about it as moving from east to west, but in terms of nonlinguistic cognition—we've tested this in various ways—they seem to depict it as moving from east to west
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Singapore - Culture - 0 views

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  • Each racial group has its own distinctive religion and there are colorful festivals of special significance all year round. Although the festivals are special to certain races, it is nonetheless enjoyed by all.
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Euthanasia in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 2 views

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  • Euthanasia is illegal in all states of the United States. Physician aid-in-dying (PAD) is legal in the states of Washington, Oregon, and Montana. The key difference between euthanasia and PAD is who administers the lethal dose of medication.
  • Animal&nbsp;· Child&nbsp;· Voluntary Non-voluntary&nbsp;· Involuntary
  • the legal rights of patients, or their guardians, to practice at least voluntary passive euthanasia (physician assisted death). These include the Karen Ann Quinlan (1976), Brophy and Nancy Cruzan cases. More recent years have seen policies fine-tuned and re-stated, as with Washington v. Glucksberg (1997) and the Terri Schiavo case.
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  • District Court judge Dorothy McCarter ruled in favor of a terminally ill Billings resident who had filed a lawsuit with the assistance of Compassion &amp; Choices, a patient rights group. The ruling states that competent, terminally ill patients have the right to self-administer lethal doses of medication as prescribed by a physician. Physicians who prescribe such medications will not face legal punishment
  • Ballot Measure 16 in 1994 established the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, which legalizes physician-assisted dying with certain restrictions
  • Texas hospitals and physicians have the right to withdraw life support measures, such as mechanical respiration, from terminally ill patients when such treatment is considered to be both futile and inappropriate.
  • In 2008, assisted suicide in the state of Washington was made legal by Initiative 1000.
  • A 2002 Gallup survey showed that 72% of Americans supported euthanasia
  • Recent studies have shown European-Americans to be more accepting of euthanasia than African-Americans, though this difference may be explained by other factors. They are also more likely to have advance directives and to use other end-of-life measures.[8] African-Americans are almost 3 times more likely to oppose euthanasia than European-Americans. The main reason for this discrepancy is attributed to the lower levels of trust in the medical establishment
  • Attempts to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide resulted in ballot initiatives and legislation bills within the United States in the last 20 years.
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