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    The infamous mantra that parents everywhere have heard time after time from children is, “He made me do it.” Parents hear this every second of every hour of every day. We learned at a young age that if you do not want to be responsible for the situation, you blame it on someone else. As we get older, we begin to realize how important taking responsibility really is. In fact, 93% of the 3,000 parents surveyed by the Pew Research Center said that responsibility was the number one character trait they

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    The internet has been a big deal in everyone's lives lately, but is it really helping us or hurting us? Even though the internet is said to change your way of thinking and maybe even rewire your brain, the internet also allows you to become more social in your daily life, it can affect how your daily life functions compared to past generations, and it changes the way of the business industry. To start off, the internet is known to do things such as rewire your brain. This may sound like a terrible

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    In her essay, “Digital Dating: Desperation or Necessity?,” Christine Hassler defends online dating from the negative stigma associated with the trend. Despite negative opinion of those who meet their significant other online, Hassler discourages her readers from allowing potential shame result in missed opportunities. Due to the internet’s increased importance in forming connections, digital dating should be utilized as a tool for finding relationships and becoming acquainted with like-minded strangers

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    Media Hurt Relationships

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    technology use” while just “one in ten online adults 65 and older say the same” (Lenhart & Duggan). A girl will not have a good first impression if a guy is on his phone the whole time while on their first date or vice versa. Family relationships and trust will have a hard time growing if a parent communicates with their child or a child lets their parent know something through social media. Words are exchanged that normally would not be exchanged in person. Since social media is at our fingertips, it

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    How much time do people spend on a cell phone or computer daily? What percentage of that time is consumed doing things other than scrolling through Instagram, twitter, and Facebook feeds or snap chatting peers? Seventy three percent of wired teens use social media websites (PEW research center). We live in a society where social media dominates a vast majority of our life. Individuals of the 21st century are deemed as good or bad friends based on liking a peers’ photo. Social media provides individuals

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    Disadvantages Of Books

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    It is time to be honest, these days who has the time to sit down with a book and read for hours and hours. Sure, there is this nostalgic ideal of cozying up with a good book, drinking some tea, and getting lost in a brand-new world. However, this appealing scene isn’t practical for most people. Most people are too busy, and even if they found an hour or two; the time most likely won’t be enjoyable. To really enjoy and comprehend reading a book a person must be stress free and relaxed, but due to

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    People Refuse Less When Dealing with Abnormal and Charitable-related Request Persuasion usually occurs when people are mindless. According to the pique technique, target tend to comply if the mindless state is interrupted by, for example, a abnormal request. In this experiment, we are examining whether making an abnormal or charitable requests can influence people's willingness to donate money. There are two independent variables in this experiment. One of them is the type of request, either normal

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    An industry is defined by Johnson et al. (2014) as, “a group of firms producing products and services that are essentially the same.” The voluntary or not-for-profit industry applies to registered charities and non-registered charitable organisations which commits themselves to some form of activity which benefits society without the intention of making a profit for their endeavours. (Smith, Rochester, and Hedley, 1995) The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief (Oxfam) is a registered charity in England

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    Introduction This study constitutes an attempt to induce higher income households to donate a greater percentage of their disposable income to charitable causes. The way in which it seeks to achieve this goal is through the administration of an online survey whose primary intent is the elicitation of dissonant processes, which may serve to enhance the subjective valuation about the charity, Hunger Free Colorado. According to their website: Hunger Free Colorado leads efforts to connect families and

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    Hunger throughout America is something that 12 million Americans are battling with everyday. That’s one in every six people (dosomething.org) In Texas alone, 4,320,050 people are tackling hunger and of those 4,320,050 people, 1,713,430 are children- or one in four children throughout Texas (Feeding America). Throughout North Texas, “the number of people living in poverty is 631,261” (Glean Texas). Since hunger is tied to poverty, it is assumed that those living in poverty in North Texas are also

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