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This article provides a description of many reasons that render college students alcoholic people. It also discusses the effects of binge drinking on students, one of which is poor academic performance. Then, it presents several methods that could be followed to control alcohol abuse on campus. This article effectively portrays the importance of controlling the consumption of alcohol on campus. However, It does not thoroughly discuss the relationship between alcohol abuse and academic performance, although it includes this idea in the title.

This ariticle tells how the Tennessee attorney general realizes that the Bible should be allowed to be taught in a public school environment. This also gives us a couple good reasoning points why it should be allowed to be taught in all schools.

This document tells of the many reasons to study the Biblical Hebrew language to help understand the use of language in everyday life. This document also states that the origin of language is always important in the study of any documentation.

This essay will evaluate the factors that have contributed to the increase in the usage and status of the English language in Mongolia since the country's democratic revolution in 1990. The issue of language spread will first be addressed through a description of the economic, social and educational influences that other foreign languages, particularly Russian, have had in Mongolia in the twentieth century. The reasons for the spread of English will then be displayed by discussing the effects of globalism in the mid-1990s and by analyzing a study on the importance of learning English conducted among university students. The various functions that English now serves among the general population will then be categorized according to Kachru's framework of four linguistic functions (instrumental, regulative, interpersonal, imaginative). Lastly, the issue of nativization will be addressed through a brief examination of the lexical and syntactical modifications propagated by Mongolian English users.

Washington Commentary states that the lowest percentage of young adults (18-29 years of age) participated in the national elections for 2000. Several reasons influence the decisions of these young adults: parental focus and attitude, below proficient levels of understanding, and comprehension in history, social studies, and civics classes, and lack of practice or experience in political engagement. Although the article is informational, the content does not lead itself to the particular point of interest.

This piece works specifically with the sociological reasons behind literacy and television. It examines who reads, how they read, how reading relates to electronic media, especially television and the Internet, and the future of reading.

The authors states that studying music can help performances in other non-musical areas, specifically reading. Yet they also caution that the "music-helps-you-do-English-and-math-better" philosophy may be missing some vital reasons to actually study music. They point out the positives of music and literacy but also express concerns about focusing on reading during music education classes. Full HTML available

Nutbeam describes the importance of improving access to health information and the capacity to use it effectively as a public health goal. Because strategies include more personal forms of communication and community-based educational outreach, a reduction in low health literacy would be possible and the end goal would result in individuals being more involved in their health care decisions. This would empower them. Nutbeam makes a reasonable point for health literacy as a public health goal as a means for reducing low health literacy.

This report discusses the affects low health literacy has on a person's health status and why health literacy is important to overall health. Low health literacy affects a person's health status more than any other factor, including education, income, and employment or race. Because people with limited health literacy don't tend to seek preventative care and are less likely to follow prescribed treatments, health is compromised and the possibility of a hospital stay is more likely. The report aptly describes the reasons why health literacy is important.

This article discusses the addition of academic support programs on campuses and the increased student athlete advisory support at universities. Many state that their reason for such an addition is due to the new academic rules set by the NCAA. Although many universities are deciding to add new programs, increasing academic support is nothing new. Several colleges have faced scrutiny along the way for spending too much money on facilities and personnel necessary for improving academic programs. The authors do a great job of expressing the importance and need for such academic programs and support.

This is a case report about the Mozart Effect. In the study, it dealt with a 56-year-old man who throughout his life dealt with gelastic seizures, which is laughing off random. After having many testes done on him cure this problem, the doctor decided to do a intervention. In that intervention, Mozart's music was used which enhanced his spatiotemporal reasoning.

Over the last seven years, Jessie Little Doe Fermino, a member of the Mashpee tribe on Cape Cod, has been on a single-minded mission to revive the language of her ancestors, Wampanoag, the one that greeted the Pilgrims when they landed at Plymouth Rock and that gave the state of Massachusetts its name. But when she applied to the National Endowment of the Humanities for a grant to create a Wampanoag dictionary, she was turned down. The apparent reasons: the Wampanoag language has not been used in about 100 years, the known descendants of the original speakers number only 2,500 and Ms. Fermino is trying to make a spoken language out of a language that until recently existed only in documents, many of them from the 17th century.

Most kids under 2 are parked in front of the electronic babysitter every day. Author Lisa Guernsey explains how the tube impacts the smallest couch potatoes. A worthwhile article that explains some of the reasoning behind children's television. I can only assume that the book would be worth checking out too.