The Problem: The Negative Effects Of Boredom

The brain cells in the brain of a heavy drinker happens to not work as correctly as a kid that does not drink. Alcohol slows down the cerebral cortex and the way it works to get information from a person’s senses. Underage drinking also messes with the Frontal Lobes their important for planning, forming ideas, and making decisions. If alcohol was to damage part of the brain where the Hippocampus is located it could be very hard for the person to learn new

One of the main consequences of addiction is homelessness. Drug Abuse as a Cause for Homelessness Drug abuse and drug addiction can affect many aspects of a person’s life, including relationships, home life and their job. Buying opioids or heroin cost a lot of money per day. In addition to wasting money, drug abuse can cause a person to lose their job. Drug abuse causes job performance to decline and too many sick days.

However, the unemployment rate had not changed much within those years. With a significant amount of individual unemployed the nation suffers. As the number of unemployed continues to climb or the longer they are without work the more money the government has to pay them in benefits. The effects of being unemployed also affect other businesses; due to unemployed individuals are not being able to spend money as they would if they were working businesses suffer, over long periods of time that particular business may lay off staff; increasing the number of people unemployed or potentially lose the business. Furthermore, the lack of being employed affects a family, Britney’s mother was affected tremendously and caused her hospitalization because she couldn’t deal with the stress of her family lacking an income.

David Mogen in his biography on Ray Bradbury argues that when Damon Knight and James Blish established the formula of science fiction to prove Bradbury a terrible writer, Bradbury broke these rules, proving him unique. In Professor William Warner’s page on formula, or genre, fiction writing, he notes that the main character in such stories is typically a hero in one way or another while there is no “good” or “evil” in “All Summer in a Day,” just children who get jealous and do something mean. They are not necessarily “evil” for this, however, and obviously feel some sort of regret or remorse when they finally realize Margot’s feelings. There is no good in this story either; Margot is not a hero but rather just another child who was born on Earth. Another large component of formula fiction is “the basic exchange [of] entertainment for money,” rather than simply loving to write.

Measurements demonstrate that drug abuse is a developing issue among teenagers. Drugs should be forbidden all over the world because for teenagers it destroys their social life. On the other hand, many teenagers believe that it should remain because it helps them to cover from painful memories in their past. Despite the many causes and effects of drug abuse, two of the main causes are Lack of parent to child communication and low self-esteem and two of the main effects are Health problems and Behavioral problems.

The advertisement explained that poor body image can lead to bullying. It shows that more girls have issues with body image than boys. They either feel like they’re too thin or too fat. Gilrs are buying diet pills to loose weight and

Adolescents cannot control their impulses resulting in juveniles acting out in verbal and physical violence. “Adolescent depression can also create anger and hostility, which “increases the likelihood that [depressed youth] with provoke angry responses from other youth (and adults)” and “increase[s] the risk of altercations with other youth (Tandy, 2012).” Expressing their violent behavior outward often leads to lengthening their stay in solitary resulting in perceptual disturbances. According to Shalev (2008), isolation can affect hypersensitivity to noise and smells and cause hallucinations. Juveniles have reported seeing people appear in their cells as well as, hearing voices in their head (when no one is speaking).

This in turn would leave many students without an education. Instead of vouchers giving everyone a better opportunity, they only give the rich a “discount” and deprive anyone else that cannot afford to pay the remaining tuition, thus, being given the only option to stay in a limited resource, under-staffed public

Some students can't take all the work that the professors give out, and they either drop that class or drop out the whole semester. Student’s faces a lot of things in college that will make them drop out of southwest. Sometimes when the classes begin, and they get their first assignment it be too hard on them. I’ve learned, and talked to some people why they dropped out of southwest, some of they said the work was too hard. Others told me that they stopped playing for their education.

They also make fun of Ben’s inability to use new technology, relating this to the fact that he is older. The second topic which was also covered in our class would be the idea of life transitions, which all older people go through. As one ages, there is a risk of losing connections to daily life when one retires or loses a spouse or friends to death. At the beginning of the movie, Ben has the risk of losing this connectivity because he has retired from his long-term job at the phone book company. He has also had the funerals of both friends and his wife.

Some people believe that Puerto Ricans should stay because the economy will improve, but for the past few years the economy has been decreasing. Trying to pay the huge debt the government has taken decisions that have damaged the individual economy. An example of these bad decisions is the increase of sales taxes from 7.0% to 11.5%, which according to PBS News is higher than any other in the United States (PBS News). High taxes have led the closure of small businesses and consequently kill the dreams and hope of all the young people that are trying to build their future with their own business. These small business close because costumers cannot afford the elevate cost of products and need to reduce their expenses limiting their shops to only what they really need.

Other studies in adolescent rats have shown that it can alter the rats reward system later in their lives. This fault in the rats reward system, which can be taken that the reward systems in humans could be affected too. Problems with human reward systems can lead to use with other drugs or heavy alcohol use, in effort to attain a sense of achievement. Studies have shown that frequent marijuana users display impaired neural connectivity in specific regions of the brain. A New Zealand scientist conducted an experiment showed that people who smoke cannabis or use cannabis could be associated with a loss of eight IQ points

“A federal study, found that as rates of alcohol use by 12-17 year olds increase, grade point average decrease” (alcoholcostalculator.org). This means that underage students that drink are more likely to have “decreas[ing]” grades. Their performance declines as in effect of the use alcohol and/or the impairment the brain has suffered. The student will not do well in school because the brain is intoxicated and will not be able to hold on to knowledge compared to healthy hippocampus. A decrease in grade point average, will limit the opportunity of having a higher selection of colleges.

America decided to do things differently than other countries for a reason. Lowering the age for drinking would lead to a disaster. The law needs to remain at an age of 21 to keep the next generation safe as long as possible. Drinking is extremely harmful and potentially fatal, this is coupled with its addictability, add young adults and the consequences are terrible. Many people follow the law and other countries experience more issues with underage drinking than the US.

According to a study done in San Diego, “[a]ttempted suicide, history of sexual and physical abuse, “survival sex”, sexual orientation, lack of social network, long periods of homelessness have been found to be associated with substance use in homeless adolescents” (Bousman et.al., 2005). These are some determinants that have been defined that put homeless youth at a higher risk for substance abuse. Another factor that puts youth at a high-risk is self-identifying as LGBQ. One study claimed, “LGBQ center reported significantly higher rates of recent binge drinking (five or more drinks at single setting), cigarette use, and having sex while intoxicated” (Shillington, Bousman, & Clapp, 2009). This could be due to exclusion from peers or other related issues.