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    The Media affects body image perceptions Anorexia and the effects the media has on body image. The Media affects body image perceptions for girls and boys. The media has affected many people and how they deal with it which could be very dangerous. “The average female fashion model weighs about 120 pounds mean while the national center for health statis tells us that the average American woman weighs about 169”. Models are the biggest causes of eating disorders. “The unrealistic body image in the

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    ever. We don’t think like we used to because we have no reason to anymore, with the internet we have many ways to get by things without having to try hard or to memorize anything. The internet highly affects our brains and the power of education. The internet not only affects our brains, it also affects our education through other ways, such as social media, and a source for us to rely on instead of working as hard as we need to. Not everyone may realize this, but the internet is slowly changing our

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    three studies in which their findings are incompatible with Milton and Daller’s (2007) findings, which disputed the impact of cognateness on L2 word learning. The first study was carried out by Willis & Ohashi (2012) to investigate the factors that affect the learning process of L2 words. The participants were 69 Japanese ESL learners studying in different departments of Tokyo University for females: Linguistics, Communication, Science, Mathematics and Psychology. They studied English for a long period

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    Abstract This literature review examined how facial perception affects emotions. In particular, how processing facial cues, emotional understanding, and perception of others can change cross culturally. Martin, Slessor, Allen, Phillips, and Darling (2012) suggested that processing facial cues can actually provide the person who is perceiving them with a lot of information related to emotional state and even identity of a person. When people process a face they tend to use local (feature based) rather

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    Social media corrupts the mental health of teens in high school by causing an addiction, cyber bullies, and teens in a state of depression. Social media harms the mental health in teens in high school because of their obsession for positive reinforcement and boredom relief. Social networking gives teens positive reinforcement, soon leading them to an obsession for it. On social media accounts such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, teens can “like” or comment on posts. Adolescents rely

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    Divorce: Why It Affects Children More Than Adults In today’s world many things affect children way more than it will adults. Children, while younger, are more vulnerable than adults are, and they have more potential to become “corrupted”. Divorce is one of the many occurrences that definitely affects children way more than adults. Divorce affects the adults with money issues, loss of a partner, and the lifestyle of the adult and with over “fifty percent of marriages” (Corcoran 1997) ending in divorce

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    not tell the person every part of myself. They could not know what my personality is like or how I was raised. However, they have a better more exact understanding of me than a stranger at a bus stop would have. The factors that formed my identity affect my daily life, my future, and how I act in different environments. Two factors have helped shape most of my identity. The first one is the program of Narcotics Anonymous and the second is the LGBTQ+ community. Entering recovery has helped me come

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    economically developed countries do not have opportunities to live longer because there are many factors that affect their health. They make their lives more challenging such as poverty, race, gender, weather and so on. This essay will describe the lifestyle and the environment factors which affect people 's health. Lifestyle factors have considerable effects among people, it affects the health of people and it causes many social and biological consequences, such as an alcohol consumption and

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    I will be focussing on how parental divorce affects a young person aged fifteen to sixteen, I will also be looking at the things that can be done in order to make it as easy as it can be; as divorce is not an easy thing for anyone to go through. My two key issues will be the effects of the transition and the emotional support needed to make it easier. Divorce has many different effects, among the effects is the possibility of having to move away/ leave friends, having to make new starts, choice of

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    and measurement of, what the psychological community refers to as, affect. Affect refers to how we, as humans, “experience emotion” and can be broken down into two dominant affective state dimensions, positive and negative affect (Hogg, Abrams, & Martin, 2010)(Watson, Clark, & Tellegen, 1988). According to Watson, Clark, & Tellegen (1988), positive affect (PA) refers to how enthusiastic and active a person is and negative affect (NA) refers to a general dimension of distress and displeasure. Tellegen

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