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Social Media And Mental Illness

 

 

                                                   Social Media and Mental Illness 

 

 

Let’s agree that in our today’s world, Social media has invaded our lives. Unconsciously we give social media so much priority that now it started to control us. We all have become addicted to social media that when we don’t use it, we feel like we can’t live without them. The past ten years, social media has become so powerful that it controls everything we do and  everywhere we go. It has manipulated us to view the world differently. Especially the younger generations, they are more exposed to the technology such as smartphones and computer not knowing or realizing the effect social media has brought into their lives. Young teenagers tend to feed their brain with unnecessary information from the media and that information forces to reduce their cognitive ability. This is why today’s social media is harmful to mental health. This map from the app called “snapchat” shows that individual can track where there friends are.  

 

Although social media is a platform where individuals get to share their talents and express their feelings by connecting to the world, social media has also brought hate, jealousy and loneliness in young teenagers’ lives. This has led teens to suffer from higher rates of depression and anxiety, and has increased the suicidle rate. Therefore, this issue indicates that we must find a way to reduce the usage of social media in order to have a positive mental health and positive lifestyle. Don’t get me wrong! Social media has shaped our lives in so many ways. First of all it has given us an opportunity to connect to the world by allowing us to share our thoughts, ideas and to tell our story. Secondly, social media has made it easier for everyone to interact and build networks.  For instance; online businesses such as makeup lines, clothing lines, makeup artists and instagram models who are the ambassador of each company were able to get that platform today because of social media. None of these jobs will be available if there was no social media. Moreover, with the help of social media, a lot of  people were able to find what they are really passionate about and what type of career they want to choose in the future. https://www.instagram.com/thebeautykorner/?hl=en.

 

Above image is one of the examples of online beauty line from instagram. This online business is runs by a young 23 year old Binu Lama. While she majoring in nursing, she found her true passion through instagram. She says “Instagram have introduced me to what I am passionate about.” (Lama) She is implying that she were able to figures what she enjoy doing and what makes her happy. We can see that with the support of social media we can find our passion and purposes like she did. . Social media has opened a huge door to many young artists. Some have become dancers while some are great rappers. Some enjoy sharing their poems while others enjoy reading. If you use social media in a positive way, It brings more happiness then sadness.  

 

However, in contrast to how Social media is beneficial, it has negative effects one young teens. So many teens lives are destroyed due to over use of media. Despite this, social media has a positive side where it gives us a huge platform to connect to the world but it made teenage feel hatred, jealousy and low self esteem of oneself. According to the article “When social media is really problematic for adolescents” by Perri Klass mentions that “The technology isn’t the problem, we are the problem.” (Klass) This tells us that Perri is suggesting that perhaps technology doesn’t have anything to do with how we feel but how we choose to feel is the problem. This means using too much of social media doesn’t have an affect on individual but how and what information we choose to take from social media affects our thinking. Therefore, it is important to know how to differentiate what kind of information we should perceive and feed to our brain because those information controls our thoughts and our thoughts causes action. Eventually, the false ideas and information from the media are the reason why today so many young teens and young adults feel depressed and took an action of suicide. The graph shows the an increase in the number of counselors and social workers in the high school of New York in coming years due to the insufficient  supporters towards mental health issues.

Over usage of social media causes teens to suffer from depression and that lead to an increase in the sucidle rate.  The article “Does social media cause depression” by Caroline Miller believes that depression comes from consuming too much time on social media. Caroline says… “One of the biggest differences in the lives of today’s teenagers and young adults, compared to earlier generations, is that they spend much less time connecting with their peers in person and more time connecting electronically, principally through social media.” (Miller) She is implying that comparing young to the old generation teenage, young teens spent more time using their social media such as facebook, instagram and twitter etc. rather than having social interact with others. This is the reason why we feel depressed because we are left alone to interact with artificial intelligence when we should be having one on one communication.  Therefore, too much use of social media is causing these teens not to be socially active and feel depressed. This will bring down to the low self esteem. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXdVPLj_pIk&t=330s

It is important that we find a way to reduce the usage of social media, especially the western part of the world because the teens are easily influenced by the media. One way to solve the depression is by using less of electronic devices and bringing more rules to the media usage. Also more of interacting socially with one another will help teenage develop their confidence and communication skills. This way one’s self esteem won’t easily distracted by what they see in the media. Social media  issue indicates that in order to have a positive mental health and positive lifestyle we need to have a very strong mind power as well as knowing how to use social media.  

 

Miller, Caroline, and Child Mind Institute. “Does Social Media Cause Depression?” Child Mind Institute, https://childmind.org/article/is-social-media-use-causing-depression/.

Klass, Perri. “When Social Media Is Really Problematic for Adolescents.” The New York Times, 3 June 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/well/family/teenagers-social-media.html.

Lama, Been. “The Beauty Korner (@Thebeautykorner) • See Instagram Photos and Videos.” Instagram, Been , https://www.instagram.com/thebeautykorner/?hl=en.

Dignity in Schools Campaign. “40 New York City Social Justice Organizations Oppose over $100 Million City Budget Increase to the NYPD School Safety Division and School Construction Authority.” Dignity in Schools, https://dignityinschools.org/nyc-budget-statement.

“A Social Life | Award Winning Short Film | Social Media …” A Social Life, Kerith Lemon, 12 Apr. 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXdVPLj_pIk.

Final Blog Post

Online shopping vs. Local Store Shopping

This research paper will be based on online shopping. Trendy right it’s what most people do nowadays to buy their clothes and even get their groceries any type of goods that you can think of can be found online but it has become an issue to local independent stores. Who cares? right if you put thought into it there are many citizens who no longer have the ability to online shop either it’s because they don’t have a debit or credit card or because they no longer have the knowledge to online shop so they depend on local stores around them which is why it is important to do face to face shopping in local interdependent stores so they don’t run out of business. Although online shopping is a threat to local independent stores, access to services like delivery for those who don’t have easy access to local store is provided which indicates that more local stores should invest on an entry to online services.

Online shopping can be a threat in many ways but most importantly it is a threat on local stores. After reading and article title “How Is Online Shopping Affecting Retail Employment?” by Jason Bram and Nicole Gorton it argues“ It’s been said that if you want to know how the economy is doing, look at how many people are carrying shopping bags. That adage may not hold so well today. The rise of the internet and e-commerce over the past two decades has chipped away at the market share of “brick and mortar” retailers. But it’s only been in the past few years that this shift in market share has had a noteworthy effect on retail employment(Bram, Gorton)”and reasons to stores are running out of business because people are actively shopping online for sales and better prices which local stores are not offering . Another reason why local stores are losing business is because as the text argues You can search for the desired item in seconds and once it’s been located, it’s a simple matter to see whether it’s in stock and what the delivery time is going to be this is proving that whenever someone is looking for items they can search for it and find what store is in stock and fits to a delivery date that satisfies them because you can’t trust that a local store has it because it might say they do on the website but once you get their they will tell you that their out of stock which is what triggers people into ordering their things online because it is more convenient and prevents them from going out for no reason because they are being guaranteed that it is there and they are also receiving a delivery date without having to go through many stores hoping to find what you are looking for. Liberty Street Economics

 

Online shopping:

 

In this image we see an elder shopping online looking at several items which is why some stores have gone out of business because some people tend to find better prices online and they are able to compare them to prices from different websites which is hard to do when your already purchasing an item face to face and you really don’t have much options.

Access to services like online shopping for those who don’t have easy access to local stores are very beneficial. Delivery is very convenient for customers because it makes it easier for you for the following reasons it is delivered to your foot step, no crowd, no sales pressure and it gives you the chance to order thing you might not be willing to buy in a local store because it might be private it is always easier to compare prices too. After reading this small article about the pros of online shopping titled “The pros and cons of online shopping” by Donna L. Montaldo where she expresses “Point-of-sale advantages include stores offering no shipping charges and free ship-to-store options. A lot of online stores do not pass on sales tax (unless required by the state) to customers, which can add up to substantial savings for those shoppers who buy primarily online. (Montaldo)” this part of the article interest me because I didn’t even realize that we do really save money when we online shop because in every store tax is charged sometimes even with items that are food which makes no sense. Another reason to why people find online shopping an advantage is because as the article says “The stores are almost never closed (Montaldo)” which is a reasonable reason to why more people would order online if they need something and the local store is closed we have sources like Amazon that allow us to have amazon prime that delivers to us within one or two days for sure and anything you are looking for you can find it there.

Delivery to your doorstep:

This is an image of someone signing for their delivery items at their door steps. This method satisfies so many customers because of the fact that they don’t have to come out of their house and they can prevent so much chaos.

Local stores should provide online access to their stores. Don’t you wonder why most local stores don’t well it might be more work for them and they will need a person to receive the deliveries by phone and by another person that gathers the items and deliver it. In this article “9 Groceries that will deliver to your doorstep” by Natalie Schulte I discovered that there are some local stores that deliver to you Rome the same day they are most food companies but it does save you a trip. “Costco is now providing delivery on-demand through Instacart, and the best part is, you don’t even have to have a Costco membership to use this service. Get all the bulk food you want with this new feature. Did I mention that your food will arrive within an hour? Yeah (Schulte)” this is a very common store that many families go to and they food shop for big quantity of thing and it is a good privilege that they are providing this opportunity because there are many people that might not be able to get their because they don’t have a source of transportation and it does also help you save time or gives you time to deal with any other errand to you have to run while your food is being gathered and delivered.

In conclusion online shopping isn’t that great for the most part a lot of things can go wrong and sometimes there are cases in which you can’t do anything about them. For instance what if the website you are shopping from is fraud for people to steal your card information and if they go through with methods like this you can lose a lot of money which is why you always have to be alert if you are shopping online making sure if the websites are official. In this article “The pros and cons of online shopping” by Donna L. Montaldo is shows us how online shopping is a disadvantage by saying “Sometimes a deal that looks great falls short of what has been advertised. Communicating dissatisfaction can be difficult online and often takes enormous patience and tenacity to achieve satisfaction. Problem-solving face-to-face with local store employees is often faster and more satisfying. Contacting the next level of management is much easier at local stores than online.(Montaldo)” meaning that sometimes online website do fake advertisement to make the product look better than it might be to trick you into buying it and that if there’s any type of issue that you need assistance with you’ll be attended better at the store because you can ask to speak to a manager face to face and most likely your issue will be solved unlike online customer service that sometimes websites don’t even have phone numbers to call and you have to email then the issue and just wing till is it revised and they reply back with further steps on what to do with your situation which is just way more work that talking to a supervisor face to face. To further explain how I will be making my map for this research paper I will be plotting strips of local stores in Washington heights and I will also be plotting area in which don’t have local stores. After writing this research paper I have realized how my own life experiences will change further on I am use to online shopping for clothes and face to face shopping for food but there has been a couple of bad experiences that I Have been threw with online shopping one was not getting my birthday dress on time and another was never receiving a bathing suit I ordered over the summer and the website had no customer service number and they never answered my emails so with that being said I have learned my lesson that it is not always safe to do online shopping for thing I can go to the store and get to come to a conclusion beware on what websites you shop from and it it’s possible to get it at a local store do so.

 

 

 

 

research topic

Komguem Charlotte                                                                                                   27/10/2019

English 110

 

There are plenty of trash around the Bronx corners, but some say they cannot find a place to recyclage. That is can be toxic and affect our health. That problem we face by the abundance of trash on our streets, our neighborhood, forest and oceans have recently become a topic in the class. And that takes me back to my research topic.

Since 1881 the department of sanitation collected garbage, recycles, glass and paper each day. From house and institutions between 4pm and midnight. But the city still has trash because we have more fast food restaurants as, dunkin donuts, Mac Donald, starbucks coffee, and the vendors on the streets. And the customers throw the cans, the plastic bag and the rest of the food on the way.

We deserve a clean environment to live in, because it can affect our health through the intolerable smell, animal corpses and poor air quality. As diseases, cardiovascular, infections and epigenetic processes. Over that, it can develop skin cancer. With regard to the rate of respiratory diseases and asthma with exposure to toxic air contaminants. And it can cause the risk of premature birth to pregnancy women.

After my research, I learned how the trash affects our hearth. We can help our community and the department of sanitation to keep our city clean.

Research Proposal

What I’m mapping about is how the amount of single mothers keep raising during time in the Bronx. Being a single mother is not as easy as it looks, especially when there’s no instructions or manual to follow. Single women are more common in 2019, and the sources for them to know how to continue are not good enough for every different type of women. In the other hand as a single mother there is not enough sources of help for us to keep going as we have a regular life, which include working the amount of hours necessary to maintain a stable economy, or being able to become a professional without forcing herself to much. In this research I want to show how powerful women can be without having the help we wish to have. However, I also want to map how the help of single mothers have not improved as much we need to increase so we could make the life of a single mother a little easier. I also want to find out what are the people or what we could call “supportive group” doing to help them out, including how the government is improving the help for single women. Me as a single mother wants to feel that even that I’m alone but also have the help of my mother to take care of my baby, that other single mothers have more sources to get the necessary help so they could give a better future for their kids.

Research Proposal

My research essay will focus on mental illness and its effects over the past 10 years. I find this topic interesting and highly important because I have seen people who have struggled with mental disorder such as autism or bipolar. Seeing people with these types of conditions is devastating because they have to live with those conditions and it will be hard for them to interact with other people. I have recognized that people with these conditions are treatable. I can imagine people going through these types of predicaments, which are not easy especially a loved one that suffers through mental illness. Now the question is which kind of therapy works best for mental illness? What will be the after affect of the therapy? Can the intensity of mental illness determine if it can be cured or not and how does it affect our daily lives?  While doing my research I’m trying to figure out whether or not mental illness been rising in recent years. I believe that there are treatments out there that can maintain these illnesses under control. I would like to know what the rate percentage of mental illnesses in the United States. To be more specifically in the Bronx. The reason why I’m fascinated about learning more about mental illness because some parts of my family suffered from depression and myself as well which was hard to deal with overtime during the previous years. In my map, I will like to include what certain parts of New York have the most people with mental illness and finding the best solution for people that have these situations.   

childhood obesity

My research proposal is on childhood obesity, according to the OCCD report one in six children suffers from obesity, it can also have an impact on child’s physical and emotional health, children who are overweight have the tendency to remain obese through out their adulthood. Whiles researching I found out that poor diet, lack of physical activity, boredom, stress, marketing and lunch options are all associated with obesity. In the united states and across many various countries children suffers  obesity, using mapping in the islands nations in the pacific, such as Nauru and the cook islands appears to have the highest obesity rates among children ages between 5 to 19 year’s of age, but African countries like Ethiopia and Burkina Faso appears to have the lowest rate of obesity in children. In the united states the percentage of obesity is 18.5 which has affected 13.7 million children and adolescent as well, looking at japan ,Mexico, new Zealand and Hungary they also have the lowest in rate of obesity, but in the united states it has tripled since 1970. What I found out most interesting is that there’s soo many fast food restaurant which is cheaper and the most healthy ones are so expensive that people cant afford. My suggestion is that we should encourage our children to eat plenty of fruits, vegetables whole-grains, drink allots of low-fat milk, eat lean meat, fish and beans to get protein we should also discourage our children in eating sweets. My question is why are healthy foods expensive if they want to reduce obesity. Secondly why do they still allow some ad on tv that are not healthy for children. Thirdly why are there so many fast

My Research Proposal

I want to know how does the new green deal help to reduce air pollution as to do with affecting our health problems.my idea is trying to find out if  this organization can helps the Manhattan population or Bronx pollution reduce health problems . for people that have asthma and for people who have lungs cancer. this is important to know because is that we want to lower health insurance rate make sure that citizens are healthy and also it is very expensive to be  buying medications many citizen cannot afford to keep on buying medications and many aren’t fortunate to buy medications it is a struggle and some people don’t have health insurance. I am going to find my research articles in the Hostos library encyclopedia, I am going to use google to find both of my media articles and I will create a virtue map online free from mapping on line.com.

Amy Rivera- Research Proposal

The topic I chose to research about for my essay is the Battle of Thermopylae. This topic interest me because one of the leaders, Xerxes, in this battle is mention in the Bible, book of Esther. Xerxes was the leader of the Persian and Leonidas was the leader of the Spatians. They were both at war with eachother in the year 480 B.C., which the victor being Xerxes. Going back to why this topic interest me was due to the 300 movie. In this movie they didn’t do well in pertaining the history of this war as well as it should had. The purpose of this research paper is to find out what was the Battle of Thermopylae. Some sub questions I have that relate to that is why did it happen and the outcome of it. In this essay I will have to focus on the battle happened in Greece and Persia in the year of 480 B.C. and it being a war. Also I would have to focus on the outcomes of the war on both sides. I’m writing about this topic because knowing our world history is very important. It can help us learn not to do the same mistakes over again if only we listen, learn, and understand what is going on in topic of history we are studying. The map I’m going to use for this research paper is a map of the battle of Thermopylae. The map shows what route the Persian army took to get to Thermopylae/ Greece.