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    The Damaging Effects of Slavery In many obvious ways, slavery was extremely toxic for those held in its chains. However, it is less evident how this evil institution affected slaveholders themselves. In Frederick Douglass’s book, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, he describes both the horrors that he and other slaves experienced and the way slavery changed masters. Frederick Douglass, having lived through the hardships of slavery for a large portion of his life, gives many

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    The Damaging Effect of Sports on Women When it comes to the topic of sports, many people would assert that sports are a tool that can be used to bring people together. However, in her essay, “We Don’t Like Football, Do We?” Mariah Burton Nelson argues that sports have created a platform where men can be brought together to diminish the ideas and worth of women. Nelson argues that with the idea that men are meant to play sports that require more strength and force, women are beginning to increasingly

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    The Damaging Effects of Fracking on the Environment Fracking is becoming increasingly prevalent in today's society as a means to extract an increasingly rare resource from our environment. Despite the many arguments made in its favor by oil companies and supporters of such company’s hydraulic fracturing or fracking is harmful to people, the environment, and should be prohibited. In this paper the reasons given for fracking being beneficial are untrue. Explanations why the harm done by fracking

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    to 6 hours daily, 90% use social networking sites, 93% send or receive an email, and 23% said they send over 100 text messages per day (Doyle). Social media has made it accessible for us to engage with others without meeting them in person. Damaging effects of online socialization have been well-documented; nevertheless, these endless studies play on people’s anxieties, insecurities, and ultimately their happiness. Experts have been arguing that social media is disconnecting us from the bigger

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    to. Some people may claim that smoking is not such a bad habit and smoking should not be banned. However, smoking need to be banned because of it dangerous effects on the smoker and also it effects on the people who are around the smoking area. One main reason for this argument is that smoking should be banned because of it harmful effects on the smokers health. Smoking leads to many series health issues. One of the most common diseases that smokers get because of smoking is lung cancer and sometime

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    have told you it is bad to stare at your phone all day, but why? “It’ll make you hunched and it is damaging to the brain.” Staring at your phone before you go to bed can make is harder to sleep at night. This is most likely something that you hear every day. Sometimes I wonder are these real problems? Those are the negative effects of technology but there are also scientifically proven positive effects. Hence why I’m here! Today, this lovely day, I’ll be stating pros and cons of modern day technology

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    sold out to farmers, they are doing more harm to the bees than they are being beneficial to the crops. As scientists and beekeepers keep on looking into the situation that they are all facing, one conclusion is definite, pesticides do have a lethal effect on the bees. Some symptoms that would lead to a bee’s death would be the weakened immune system, disrupted digestion, and the result of the brain failing. In Science Magazine, an article was written about oh the European countries have been effected

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    Climate change is one of the utmost damaging problem to humanity by the reason that it affects everyone who lives on Earth. Though there are social problems, such as war or racism, that may affect certain groups of people, even those with no human contact are affected by climate change in some way. A part of climate change is caused by natural forces, though humans unquestionably do contribute to the effects of climate change. As a whole, society, we all impact climate change. This cannot be blamed

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    depression, “Hormones and heredity factors are taken into account and provide some evidence of truth when comparing depression susceptibility between women and men.” This is taken into account for young girls because, “The interactive and additive effects of early depressive symptoms, the pubertal transition, and stressful life events will explain a significant portion of the association between gender and depressive symptoms.” When these young girls are exposed to stressful events such as self esteem

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    island countries. Climate change affects them in many ways and one of the major issues is the rise in sea levels. High tides lead to flooded roads affecting transportation and other infrastructure. Heat stress and saltwater incursions are some of the effects that is quite problematic for the industry. Furthermore, the rapid population growth and increasing food consumption per person is also a critical issue. Drought or the lack of availability of fresh water is also a concern. People are migrating due

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