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A Stressful, Yet Loving Relationship Technology has improved life for many Americans, and nearly half of this country’s adults say they can’t imagine life without their smartphones.1 At the same time, numerous studies have described consequences of technology use, including negative impacts on physical and mental health. For the past decade, the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America™ survey has examined how stress affects American adults’ health and well-being. This year’s survey took a deeper look at technology and social media to better understand their link to stress, relationships and overall health and well-being. The survey showed, nearly all adults (99 percent) own at least one electronic device (including a television). Almost nine in 10 (86 percent) own a computer, 74 percent own an internet-connected smartphone and 55 percent own a tablet. Research also shows that the percentage of American adults using social media increased from 7 percent to 65 perc

http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/14/politics/david-perdue-kirstjen-nielsen-daca/index.html Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue said Sunday that President Donald Trump did not use the phrase "shithole countries" during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration reform last week. "I'm telling you he did not use that word, George, and I'm telling you it's a gross misrepresentation," Perdue told moderator George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week." During an Oval Office meeting on immigration Thursday, Trump expressed frustration with people coming to the United States from "shithole countries," sources told CNN. Trump has denied making the vulgar remarks, tweeting Friday: "The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made - a big setback for DACA!" Perdue on Sunday accused Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of spre

12. What is meant by the remark that when an advertiser finally finds a cool ad, the ad will self-destruct?  Answer: The remark means that when advertisers have finally found what's cool, teenagers will realize that the thing that they found cool was discovered by mainstream media and will become overused or overplayed making what was once theirs only everyone's.  13. After view the film, are you a smart consumer? Is it true that you do not respond to traditional advertising, but that you can be fooled by these kinds of ads with carefully researched techniques?  Answer: After viewing the film, I do believe that I am a smart consumer as I don't waste money on things that are to expensive and that I don't really need. I don't feel like buying things will fulfill the need to be happy in life and other needs because I have friends and family that already do that. It is indeed true that I don't respond to traditional advertising as when I see ads for compani

        A reality show is  a television program in which ordinary people are continuously filmed, designed to be entertaining rather than informative. For example Keeping Up with the Kardashians.       Everything on the show is scripted and set up to be the most dramatic that it can be and millions of people tune in to keep up with the Kardashians. Even though they have a lot of bad things that they have done like gone to jail, been accused of plagiarism, and cultural appropriation they continue to be a huge influence of the media.            Despite episodes dealing with Kim's robbery, her healing from it, and, of course, Kanye's breakdown, the show is slipping in viewers each week, going from 1.58 million to 1.41 million to 1.35 million viewers in its first three episodes,   according to The Daily Mail . Compare this with a more regular occurrence of over 2 million viewers per episode and an all-time high of 10.5 million (!!!) for Kim's wedding to Kris Humphries, and

      Even after all the media coverage that the hurricanes that struck in the fall Puerto Rico has not received the same amount of help as Texas did. It's disgraceful that even after all the media coverage and how many celebrities have shown support for Puerto Rico, it has huge parts of land that don't have any electricity, o ne of the most immediate problems is power. Puerto Rico at one point lost 100 percent of its power soon after the storm hit on September 20. Noting that about 50 percent of the territory still lacks electricity, Cruz said the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) has been unable to bring back power to some of the most crucial centers for help and health care.       http://www.newsweek.com/puerto-rico-recovery-100-days-hurricane-maria-760965      It has been 100 days since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, and the U.S. territory is struggling with scarce resources and strained health care services, with about half of the island still lackin

             Researchers had about 100 people play shooter games like  Call of Duty ,  Killzone, and  Borderlands 2,  along with 3D Super Mario games for 90 hours. They found that participants who favor their brain’s caudate nucleus — an area associated with the brain’s reward system and habit formation — had less grey brain(Grey matter contains most of the brain's neuronal cell bodies. The grey matter includes regions of the brain involved in muscle control, and sensory perception such as seeing and hearing, memory, emotions, speech, decision making, and self-control)  matter in their hippocampus after playing action games. The hippocampus is a major part of the brain that helps maintain spatial( spatial memory  is the part of  memory  responsible for recording information about one's environment)  and episodic memories, according to the study. Episodic memories are  the   memory   of autobiographical events (times, places, associated emotions, and other contextual who, what