Authoritarians are rising in the modern day at alarming rates

Which in turn has caused so much harm to nature, from species endangerment to extinction

More than one billion people lack access to clean water and 2.4 billion don’t have adequate sanitation, putting them at risk of contracting deadly diseases.

not only effects wildlife, but it also harms humans.

“As sea ice melts away, eight of the world’s 19 polar bear populations are declining. If current emissions trends continue, scientists predict that two-thirds of the world’s polar bear population will be lost by 2050, while the rest will near extinction by the end of the century due to the disappearance of sea ice.”— Shaye Wolf, lead author for A Center For Biological Diversity and Care for the Wild International Report.

. It is estimated that 14,000 to 35,000 species are at risk of becoming extinct.

Yet, we forget as we continue to expand our own species in this way we are causing harm onto other species in the animal kingdom.

What are the modern day factors that contribute to extinction? What can humans do to decelerate the process of extinction?

Wolf, Shaye. Center for Biological Diversity Www.biologicaldiversity.org, 2010, p. 10, Extinction Its Not Just For Polar Bears. Datta, Sreela. “The Effects of Habitat Destruction of the Environment.” Sciencing, 2 Mar. 2019, sciencing.com/effects-habitat-destruction-environment-8403681.html. “Pollution.” WWF, World Wildlife Fund, www.worldwildlife.org/threats/pollution. RinkeshA “Causes, Effects and Solutions to Overhunting (Hunting of Species).” Conserve Energy Future, 2 Aug. 2020, www.conserve-energy-future.com/causes-effects-solutions-overhunting.php.

for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. These are just a few of the organizations that are for conserving animals and their habitats, that need your support

Specifically, a virtual reality game that is known as VIRTSIM. “The limitations of the game and the environment allow for the troops to train on responses to incoming fire or different kinds, they can’t jump for cover and they will never be as tired in the training simulator as they might be after days of dismounted patrols in the real world.”

Another topic to cover in regards to the variety of uses for video games is its use by the military.

computer solitaire game FreeCell may be useful to monitor cognitive status in adults with mild cognitive impairment (8), while new augmented reality games such as Pokemon GO could be useful to promote physical activity among those who are normally reluctant to engage (7).”

be used therapeutically setting.

can games be used therapeutically? And can they be used to train soldiers in the military? The answers to both of these question are yes.

Using a methodology similar to those employed in the action video game studies, Glass Maddox and Love (2013) showed that forty hours of training on an RTS game resulted in significant increases in cognitive flexibility (including task switching and working memory).”

“Action video gaming training enhances several aspects of vision. One aspect involves contrast sensitivity, or the ability to detect small incremental changes in shades of gray. This ability is considered one of the primary building blocks of all vision.”(Eichenbaum, Bavelier , Green)

That being video games can actually benefit the user in a multitude of different ways specifically action and RTS (real-time strategy) games.

This raises questions such as, are some adolescents predisposed to addiction more likely to develop this disorder, or is it the games addicting qualities that develop this disorder? What is known is that excessive playtime is a leading cause. “… Some people develop an internet gaming disorder (IGD) due to excessive and uncontrolled gaming behaviors.” This offers a possible solution to help avoid this disorder from developing. A solution being having an adult monitor and limit their child’s game time.

Psychiatry.org

Addiction Biology)

One question to tackle is, are video games good for a developing brain?

day to day

(Anderton)

“Internet and computer gaming now rank among the most popular leisure activities and represent a large and growing segment of the of the entertainment industry. More than 1 billion people worldwide are thought to participate in Internet games,…”

Video games, one of this generations favorite pass times

pass times

Carras, Michelle Colder, et al. “Commercial Video Games As Therapy: A New Research Agenda to Unlock the Potential of a Global Pastime.” Frontiers in Psychiatry, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 22 Jan. 2018, 8:30, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29403398/.

Edited by Ranna Parekh, Internet Gaming, June 2018, www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/internet-gaming.

Han, Doug Hyun, et al. “Brain Connectivity and Psychiatric Commorbidity in Adolescent with Internet Gaming Disorder.” EBSCOhost, May 2017, web.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxybrcc.helmlib.org/ehost/detail/detail?vid=13&sid=89f1add1-44e0-4e84-ad8c-c300a8599502%40sdc-v-sessmgr03&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=122404124&db=aph.

way to de-stress. In conclusion, video games have many positive and negative aspects and show no signs of going anywhere anytime soon.

” Among the 80% of participants who completed the trial, the average weight loss was 4 kg; 14 to 15% of the participants had a reduction of at least 10% of their initial body weight. Satiety, hunger, satisfaction with the diet, and attendance at group sessions were similar for all diets; attendance was strongly associated with weight loss (0.2 kg per session attended). The diets improved lipid-related risk factors and fasting insulin levels”

A study from the International Journal of Exercise Science (table 2) shows that a subject on a caloric surplus gained 3.2 kilograms in just nine days from a sixty percent caloric surplus, the same idea can be taken with a caloric deficit.

efine dieting as simply creating a caloric deficit which will allow you to loss weight and a caloric surplus which will allow you to gain weight.

“CICO is an acronym for the idea that weight loss or gain is determined by a caloric deficit or surplus”

d Healthline’s stats

Diet flexibility is an important factor when choosing what diet to follow especially if you have a busy lifestyle

Intermittent fasting works by restricting the amount of hours in a day that you can eat which in most cases can cut your calorie intake by roughly 500-600 calories leading to weight loss, some common versions of this are only being allowed to eat from noon to 8pm or 2pm to 10p

Most of the time when you hear someone is starting a diet you probably assume t

were they go

their trying

for you.

So why are so many people still searching for this answer and having such a hard time doing it when its already been answered and proven to work for such a long time.

g new, people

Each month there are roughly eighty-eight billion google searches pertaining to weight loss

best diet

Work Citied

Aragon, Alan A., et al. “International society of sports nutrition position stand: diets and body composition.” Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, vol. 14, no. 1, 2017. Gale OneFile: Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A511359706/PPSM?u=mlin_s_bristcc&sid=PPSM&xid=0727e282. Accessed 24 Oct. 2020.

cut out a paragraph that really had no value towards the goal of this paper.

e intended audience and genre I

The cuts were particularly stark after the 2008 recession, and they set off a cascading series of consequences, some of which were never intended.

College is expensive for many reasons, including a surge in demand, an increase in financial aid, a lack of state funding, a need for more faculty members and money to pay them, and ballooning student services.

Many state legislatures have been spending less and less per student on higher education for the past three decades.

he first source from The Atlantic: “Why is college in America expensive”.

I am interesting in researching about college and why it’s so important and how all community

Why is college so expensive?

to much

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to go too

https://www.cnn.com/2011/12/02/opinion/vedder-college-costs/index.html https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-is-college-so-expensive-in-america/569884/ https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/2019-11-04/why-is-college-so-expensive https://www.forbes.com/sites/prestoncooper2/2020/08/31/a-new-study-investigates-why-college-tuition-is-so-expensive/#3054fc1f17a0

I discarded information that wasn’t suited well for my topic and I was working on my transitioning sentences.

finicall

I drew upon my audience

we didn’t use MLA format

Limiting your use of social

MCNJ

, “It is probable, however, that the overall impact of SNS on self-esteem is much more complex. Constant self-evaluation on an everyday basis, competition and comparing one’s own achievements with those of other users, incorrectly perceiving physical/emotional/social characteristics of others, feeling of jealousy, and narcissistic behavior—these are all factors that may positively or negatively influence self-esteem.” It is important to think about how a negative comment or narcissistic post could affect someone else negatively.

cause you

We need connections with other people that aren’t just through the phone.

helpguide)

the Harm that the Social Media Networks

Ventola, C Lee. “Social Media and Health Care Professionals: Benefits, Risks, and Best Practices.” P & T : a Peer-Reviewed Journal for Formulary Management, MediMedia USA, Inc., July 2014, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4103576/. 

In person interview. April Boulos. 30 October 2020.

I knew that my audience was going to be young adults so I tried to use stats about young adults

“Poverty is one of the largest contributors to human trafficking. It can drive people to become traffickers; it can drive parents to sell children or other family members into slavery. People in poverty are targeted by traffickers, who offer them a way to earn money when, in fact, they will actually earn nothing and be treated as a slave. Poverty also plays a large piece in many of the other root causes of trafficking, driving people to migrate, making education and legitimate work difficult to obtain, making recovery and safety from war and disaster impossible, and more.”

These factors are poverty, Lack of education, Demand for cheap labor/demand for sex, Lack of human rights for vulnerable groups, Lack of legitimate economic opportunities, Social factors and cultural practices, Conflict and natural disaster, Trafficking generates a large profit, Lack of safe migration options, and Traffickers themselves.

Main

Lets dive

Such as Human trafficking which is not talked about to the extent that it should.

Dating all the way back to 1990s.

men has

is from www.dhs.gov and it says “Human trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. Every year, millions of men, women, and children are trafficked worldwide – including right here in the United States.”

Works Cited http://faculty.webster.edu/woolflm/trafficking.html#:~:text=Early%20History%20of%20Sex%20Trafficking,White%20Slave%20Traffic%20was%20drafted. https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign/what-human-trafficking#:~:text=Human%20trafficking%20involves%20the%20use,here%20in%20the%20United%20States. https://www.humanrightscareers.com/issues/10-causes-of-human-trafficking/

was cutting out and keeping what was and wasn’t beneficial to my research pape

understanding of audience and awareness

Tim Cook believes that the future is in AR. While he believes that VR could be cool for education and gaming, he believes that AR is more practical by allowing the user to interact with it alongside others.

While finding research for my question, I tried finding someone that I could interview for the subject.

which is why it’s not that popular.

Fortnite,

(VR) with the physical world. A recent application, offered by Schell Games, uses technology from Disney and Lenovo to bring Darth Vader into your living room—your actual living room. In the game Jedi Challenges, users with a smartphone-enabled headset, a lightsaber controller, and a tracking beacon can engage the life-sized movie villain in a lightsaber battle

This is shown in the text, which states, “In many Lowe’s stores there is a virtual kitchen display, which is actually a blank corner with only some basic wooden fixtures. But once the customer puts on the VR glasses, they can mix-and-match the countertops, cabinets and appliances in virtual reality by using their fingers to choose from a menu of options. In addition to Lowe’s, IKEA has also developed a Virtual Home Experience, which is a VR station, in many of its stores”…”Within the virtual store the user can access several product categories including electronics and women’s apparel. Users select a category and the experience is built around it.”

These are perfect examples of how businesses could use AR and VR in the future.

ate with headquarterswithout taking their hands, or eyes, off the job in front of them.”

nt”…”The

I wondered, How much will virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) be implemented in the future?

makes you

Anthes, Gary. “Augmented Reality Gets Real.” Communications of the ACM, vol. 62, no. 9, 2019, pp. 16–18. Crossref, doi:10.1145/3344293. Kugler, Logan. “Why Virtual Reality Will Transform a Workplace near You.” Communications of the ACM, vol. 60, no. 8, 2017, pp. 15–17. Crossref, doi:10.1145/3105444.

I also had to write a lot going from draft #1 to draft #2.

also knew the audience I was writing

n 2020 alone over 1,000,000 people have been diagnosed with cancer in the United States, and over 600,000 of those people will not live long enough to see the year 2025. If that number isn’t t

If you take a look at people who take diet and exercise very seriously those are some of the healthiest people in the world. They have diseases and such past down through generations but they are able to postpone and/or reverse those issues through diet and exercise. Which I find so amazing because you truly get out what you put in to your body and how you treat yourself.

Although we created a question to answer I still feel like theres so many answers and too much to write about and making it precise is difficult for me

rabid holes

It is nice to have the freedom to write about stuff you are interested in

Benefits Your Brain” explains this phenomenon really well. Collins explains, “But when scientists turned from observing the brains of music listeners to those of musicians, the little backyard fireworks became a jubilee. It turns out that while listening to music engages the brain in some pretty interesting activities, playing music is the brain’s equivalent of a full-body workout…

you’re

it is easy to understand that someone who doesn’t like certain music, or music in it’s entirety, has reduced neurological responses to the musical genre, or music as a whole.

it’s safe to say that this interview study added up when compared to the John Hopkins Medicine statement.

I immediately asked him if he enjoyed the song, and he responded with a pretty unsure “not really.” I asked him what he did not like about the song, and he stated, “Because it’s the same song as every other country artist that’s being put out today.

my dads disliking.

“When It Rains, It Pours” released in 2017 by Luke Combs

same test, however

This then got me thinking,

“‘Music is structural, mathematical and architectural. It’s based on relationships between one note and the next. You may not be aware of it, but your brain has to do a lot of computing to make sense of it,’ notes one otolaryngologist.”

A very interesting article from John Hopkins Medicine referred to music as a “gym for your brain.”

how does music affect us? More specifically, how does music affect the brain?

Works Cited

“Keep Your Brain Young with Music.”

Collins, Anita. “Transcript of ‘How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain.’” TED, www.ted.com/talks/anita_collins_how_playing_an_instrument_benefits_your_brain/transcript?language=en.

my audience was a very wide variety of readers

with a question as the thesis, it was much easier to find sources.

have better health outcomes,

“Is Social Media Bad for You?” also stated, “Social media addiction is a mental health problem that may require professional treatment”.

In the article “Is Social Media Bad for You?”, it states “In a survey of 1800 people, women reported being more stressed than men”. If we think about it girls post more pictures of themselves compared to men and girls talk about what other girls post. It’s almost like a competition.

if you

Three billion people, around 40% of the world’s population, use online social media

social media with several psychiatric disorders.

“In  a 2015 study, participants checked their phones an average of 85 times each day and spent 5.05 hours per day using their smart phone”, “Success”

Now social media does have its pros and cons.

Is it good to have social media or is it a good thing not to?

you look

In particular social media

Sources: Brown, Jessica. “Is Social Media Bad for You? The Evidence and the Unknowns.” BBC Future, BBC, 4 Jan. 2018, www.bbc.com/future/article/20180104-is-social-media-bad-for-you-the-evidence-and-the-unknowns.  Allen, Summer. “Social Media’s Growing Impact on Our Lives.” American Psychological Association, American Psychological Association, 20 Sept. 2019, www.apa.org/members/content/social-media-research.  Hatcher, Jon Patrick. “20 Pros and Cons of Social Media Use.” SUCCESS, 17 Dec. 2019, www.success.com/20-pros-and-cons-of-social-media-use/. 

Didi you ever lose interest?” and “Did you gain anything from my work after reading it?”.

My last source

you can help them

swatting is when someone makes a prank call

witch streamer

My fourth source

Video game companies have no real reason to have good representation for people of color, women, and the LGBT community because most gamers are white straight males however that is changing more and more minorities are joining The gaming community and soon video game companies will have to face this problem.

just for fun, not for survival. So why do people grief? Well, there are two different types of griefers. The first type is the ones who attack you for no reason and will attack their teammates for no reason, they do this for fun, they get pleasure from the suffering of other gamers. The second kind of griefers are those who attack specifically people who are minorities, they’re usually normal

ludic gain and often at the expense of their own in-game characters. Griefing can manifest as hate speech, team-killing, virtual rape, unprovoked violence, or theft of virtual currency or items. Griefers are often powerful players, trolls

My third source is

deindividuation effect

“homohysteria”, i.e. the fear of being homosexualized” (Desirée Elveljung, 2020) ot

Desirée Elveljung, 2020

My second source is

Geek masculinity is aligned with geeky or nerdy interests like comic books and video games while also being entrenched in heteronormative and patriarchal ideas of gender and sexuality, and is threatened by the presence of those deemed to be “others” the gamergate supporters felt women and minorities were taking over their space and their identities as gamers so they resorted to what they knew best which was to trash talk and “troll” them. The gamergate supporters were mostly white men they did not have anything to fight for except for video games, minorities have to fight for racial equality, gender equality, and sexual equality, the white men didn’t need to fight for equality so they latched onto video games and defended it with all their might, they felt as if minorities were taking away the one thing they had as an identity. This led to us-versus-them mentality “Opinions expressed by GamerGate supporters, as shown in previous literature, often mirror those of right-wing extremists; namely, the “us versus them” mentality of feeling disenfranchised, as well as the opinion that their community largely made up of white men had been “invaded” by women and people of colour” (Ashley Peckford, 2020)

The gamers who participated in gamergate with congregate and many different websites three of the most popular websites they would use are 4chan, 8chan, and Reddit they would also use Twitter but mostly to attack minority gamers and journalists. T

he stereotypical group of gamers

since games

Gamergate is an important yet shameful period for The gaming community

My first source for this research paper

But most women do not play games online and even less of them play with a mic on and when they do play with mic on the male gamers feel as if they’re taking over the space.

play video games, however that

Call of duty lobby

So then why hasn’t this problem been fixed yet,

is “why

Bibliography

Peckford, Ashley. “Right Wing Extremism in a Video Game Community? A Qualitative Content Analysis Exploring the Discourse of the Reddit GamerGate Community r/KotakuInAction.” A Closer Look in Unusual Times: Criminological Perspectives from Crim 862, Crim 862, 2020, p. 180. Google Scholar, https://www.sfu.ca/~palys/ACloserLookInUnusualTimes-2020-HR.pdf#page=71.

and my introduction paragraph

Yes it did it reminded me of short assignment four, five and six

Given the logic of the previous statement, that being “menial/unimportant work is most often postponed”, any student should begin to dismantle the pile immediately.

Why do we, and especially students, procrastinate?

Breig, Zachary and Gibson, Matthew and Shrader, Jeffrey, Why Do We Procrastinate? Present Bias and Optimism (August 27, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3445511 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3445511

I’ve done properly cited research documents before, but not for English classes, and not on this particular subject. When writing this, I’ve built it mostly upon first and second hand knowledge. What I’ve described so far, I’ve deduced from what I myself have experienced, and what my classmates and friends have told me about their school life. I did this to make a more solid introduction before diving into the research. So far, I am focusing on building upon my essay rather than revising it

Believe in yourself, you’re stronger than you think. 

 Reaching out to your primary doctor or a mental health professional is critical to getting the help needed. 

to your

Gale Ebook

Depression is an umbrella for a few different categories. Major depressive disorder is “defined by the American Psychiatric Association as characterized by dysphoric mood and/or loss of interest or pleasure in all or nearly all activities, plus at least four other symptoms (i.e., sleep problems, appetite disturbance, fatigue, psychomotor agitation or retardation, feelings of worthlessness or guilt, difficulty concentrating or making decisions, recurrent thoughts of death or suicide), that occur during most of the day, nearly every day, for at least two weeks and with significant impairment in social or occupational functioning”

Menopause, pregnancy, postpartum are all linked to depression but alone do not cause the disorder. According to the Mayo Clinic, this can include eating disorders, anxiety, and drug or alcohol abuse. Men often turn to drugs or alcohol to try to forget or deal with their conditions. A major difference between the two genders experiencing depression is that for men the emotions that are felt often include rage, anger, irritation, aggressiveness. For women, it is more common for them to experience those feelings of intense sadness. For men, the symptoms they feel are more physical as opposed to emotional. These physical symptoms can include tightness of chest, headaches, rapid heart rate.

Men and women experience each aspect of depression distinctively.

 “Interpersonal vulnerability to depression is characterized by impaired social skills, interpersonal dependency, and social inhibition” (Gale Ebooks).

When analyzing depression, it is believed that “individuals who have negative beliefs about themselves, the world, and their future, and who have a tendency to make global, stable, and internal attributions for negative events, are more likely to become depressed when confronted with stressors than are individuals without such negative beliefs”

t is a condition that we still have much more to learn about.  

Globally, over 264 million people suffer from depression.

Gale Ebooks

disappear right after, these

Works Cited 

Hidaka, Brandon H. “Depression as a Disease of Modernity: Explanations for Increasing Prevalence.” Journal of Affective Disorders, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Nov. 2012, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3330161/. 

constructing my writing to deliver logic, emotion, credibility, and authority. That being logos, pathos, and ethos. 

apture the reader’s

t action games improved more than puzzle games.

In ScienceDaily’s Article, they tested specificully action games instead of puzzles.

The only issue with this is that There aren’t a whole lot of sources saying thi

If puzzle games make the brain less cognitive could make logical sense.

As show in the PsychCentral article

Sources:

Postwrite: I got rid of the outline because I stopped using it but I kept the Roman numerals to keep it organized. In the postwrite about the previous draft I added a sentence about physical testing and applied some transitions.

for setting fires that followed him into early adulthood. 

Johnny McFloppycakes

tating, “…western entertainment media provide a distorted portrait of the properties of fire…” and that the flawed representation of fire in the media, coupled with the stunted ability to master fire, is what causes obsession with fire in adult and late adolescent years. 

“A Burning Desire: Steps Toward an Evolutionary Psychology of Fire Learning,

participants who scored higher in prosocial behaviors like empathy and altruism.” This means that people who are more socially connected may be more affected by fire, and therefore more attracted to it.  The article also suggests that we developed an affinity for sitting by fires because it is where our ancestors were able to socialize because they felt safe there.

Lynn finds that “…hearth and campfires induce relaxation…” in those who both see and hear a crackling fire.

there is also a physical reason we are attracted to them

Perhaps it is cultural – many shows and movies glorify fire and its properties. Most likely, though, there are many reasons why humans have an innate fascination with fire.

Works Cited

Lynn, Christopher D. “Hearth and Campfire Influences on Arterial Blood Pressure: Defraying the Costs of the Social Brain through Fireside Relaxation.” PubMed, 11 Nov. 2014, doi:25387270.