Smack, smack, POP! “Put that gum away!” the teacher screamed. That is not what should be happening in schools. In many schools you will get a detention or get in big trouble for chewing gum in class but isn’t it ironic that colleges allow gum when your elementary, middle, and high schools don’t allow it? Gum is supposed to be helpful and should be allowed in schools because it helps you with your memory, it’s good for helping you pay attention, and it improves your test performance/scores. Gum is good to chew during school because it helps your memory. March 8, 2013 British Psychological Society wrote that they conducted an experiment. The experiment involved 38 people being split into two groups. The two groups completed an assignment about 30 minutes long that involved listening to a list of numbers from 1-9 that were being read out randomly. The participants were graded on how accurate and fast they were when asked to detect a pattern of numbers (odd,even,odd), such as 9-4-5. Participants also completed a survey on their mood before and after the task. The results showed that the people that chewed gum had quicker reaction times and more accurate results than the participants who did not chew gum. This was especially the case towards the end of the …show more content…
In the same experiment that was explained the participants that chewed gum had quicker reaction times and more accurate results closer to the end of the experiment. This is the case because the excess movement of the jaw increased their blood flow making them more attentive and that made them remember more sequences towards the end of the test when the other participants that didn’t. The other participants didn’t have the increased blood flow and towards the end of the test they were getting tired and their brain was foggy from remembering the earlier sequences and were mixing up the different numbers. This contemplates that if you are chewing gum it helps you pay more
Many people don't understand the effects on peppermint candy to the brain's reaction time. The experiment is telling if peppermint candy has an effect on reaction time. Reaction time can be affected by many things such as their normal reaction time, eating peppermints, a volunteers nervous system, a person's defects, or their genetics.
Every year in Australia, according to Australia’s national Smoking Quit-line 15,000 people die from smoking. This number included, mothers, brothers, sisters, fathers, husbands and wives, which leaves a lot of irreplaceable vacancies in families across Australia. These losses could have all been avoided if smoking was banned in Australia. Which us to my point; I believe that smoking should be made illegal across the whole of Australia. Not only does smoking have a detrimental impact on our already fragile environment but the overall cost of cigarettes also has a negative impact on households. Smoking also tears apart our priceless families, as the impact of this nasty habit can be fatal.
Hoodies, the most comfortable thing Cornerstone has ever come up with for clothes. This year, the school administration decided to ban them, so they are no longer allowed at school. Last year, most people wore hoodies. This year, students are allowed to wear either V neck sweaters or crew neck sweatshirts instead. Why is this such a big deal? Well let me explain, every day most of the school would wear jackets and hoodies, but almost never sweaters. Cornerstone must bring back the hoodie.
Someone you might know, whether your grandparents, parents, siblings, friends, or even yourself, smokes or has smoked cigarettes. If you haven’t yourself, you’ve seen the effects and consequences one can encounter. Not always, but sometimes, you see the struggles and sickness your loved one can go through and you’d give anything to make that someone feel better. Technology has been on a rise and possibly figured out a safer way. Smoking an electronic cigarette or perhaps a traditional cigarette still provides the nicotine, but it’s possible one can change not just someone’s health for the better but others around them.
It will not only help with tests, but it will help with assignments and classwork too. If you can remember what you need to do, what it is about, or the facts that you need to complete it, it will help a lot. Some kids will forget that they need to carry the one in addition, or an important fact from history. If you remember those things it makes everything a lot easier. Memory is important when it comes to school so chewing gum, which improves memory should definitely be allowed.
You might guess it’s a custom dreamed up by a modern-day, real-life Willy Wonka, but people have been chewing gum, in various forms, since ancient times. There’s evidence that some northern Europeans were chewing birch bark tar 9,000 years ago, possibly for enjoyment as well as such medicinal purposes as relieving toothaches. The ancient Maya chewed a substance called chicle, derived from the sapodilla tree, as a way to quench thirst or fight hunger, according to “Chicle: The Chewing Gum of the Americas” by Jennifer P. Mathews. The Aztecs also used chicle and even had rules about its social acceptability. Only kids and single women were allowed to chew it in public, notes Mathews. Married women and widows could chew it privately to freshen their breath, while men could chew it in secret to clean their teeth.
People throughout the time have been worried about some acts that people make; these acts are sometimes performed unconsciously or without realizing these are affecting they negatively affect others. Some reasons why this happens, they do not realize they are making someone uncomfortable, or they simply do not care about it. Smoking is one of these activities. For a long time, smoking in public places has been extremely popular regardless of age or gender. Many smokers believe they are free to smoke wherever and whenever they. Even if they realize the damage they are causing to themselves, which is a personal decision, when they smoke in public places they ignore the collective damage they are causing others. It has been claimed that despite not engaging in the activity themselves, “passive smokers suffer the same horrifying bad consequences as active smokers” in the form of second-hand smoke (Ecobichon & Wu, 1990, p. 43). Smoking is thus a dangerous activity that is becoming more and more popular in campus every day and is becoming a social and educational problem. Schools should ban smoking from their campus, and those that have should implement stricter methods of enforcing such rules.
In Middle School, before taking a big test teachers would always hand out peppermint or a piece of gum. The purpose behind this seemed unclear. However, from further research their was interesting facts about peppermint candy and Big Red cinnamon flavored gum. Peppermint candy is made with the oil of peppermint, which is extracted from the peppermint plant. This is why the candy can have some of the same effects as the oil itself. People believe the brain effects associated with peppermint are related to the scent of the peppermint, rather than the ingestion of it.
In this day and age where school administrators consider backpacks, lockers, and baggy pants to be potential dangers to students and faculty, what will be next? Perhaps pencils, pens, scissors, and glue will be added to the list of items to ban from schools. These, along with other hazardous educational necessities pose real threats to maintaining an orderly school and should be prohibited.
It is believed that gum is an effective booster of mental performance (wired.com). It is also said that gum helps you concentrate better (gleegum.com). This project is about gum chewing and how well it helps you concentrate. Before experimenting, it is believed that gum does help people focus better.
In America itself only about two percent of kids eat a healthy diet. The topic I
Plus there are many consequences if you leave the classroom without one you are most likely going to get in trouble. A student in high school believes that passbooks are very unnecessary and tried to form a petition to eliminate passbooks off of her high school campus. A couple of teaches pitched in and helped find a better way to excuse a student from class. A teacher named Mr. Rogers decided that it'd be better if students carried a toy or any object. When students were given these objects, they returned to the classroom quickly, because they would not have wanted to hold that object the entire day, and would have been calmer if they returned the object and not have responsibility for
We should be able to eat and/or drink in class, what we want, when we want. The main reason I feel this particular way, is because there’s no reason a person should have to go eight in the morning or before until noon or after without eating or drinking something. (If you are in high school, that is). Another one of the main reasons I feel this way is because some kids have problems involving food, such as diabetes. Another possible problem might be hypoglycemia, which, in fact, I have. Hyperglycemia is another major problem in this world. I also believe that students can focus and learn more on a full stomach. Not just because I am, in fact, a student, but because I have been in the situation where I’m hungry and I can’t concentrate on anything, except my stomach and it’s cravings for food.
Every year tobacco is responsible for over 480,000 deaths. That includes people who have died from secondhand smoke. When statistics like this exist it is hard to understand why tobacco is still legal. This number increases every year that passes and most people believe it isn’t shrinking anytime soon. Tobacco should be banned because it’s deadly to not only the users, it’s highly addictive, and the tobacco industry is corrupting information promoting its harmful product. Society shouldn’t have to deal with anymore premature deaths due to a lethal legal product. We should work towards getting this useless product banned everywhere.
Cigarettes are one of the most common killers known to mankind. Cigarettes kill about 6 million people every year, and that number isn’t going to go down in less we do something about it. Smoking in the twentieth century killed only 100 million people, whereas a billion could die in our century. There are several more reasons why we should ban cigarettes, and I am going list them.