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Children, mainly teens this day and age can be easily influenced by negative things and fall into traps. I understand the new difficulties children and teens like me have to face at such a young age like drugs, sexual assault, and even suicide. But I'm also aware of the opportunities my generation can use to reach out to and help people going through these things. Most people think of social media as a distraction or a brain washer that makes us lazy, but I think otherwise. Voices of Youth is a part of social media, is it not? I believe people of this day and age can use social media to make a...
Write it Down
Millions of people suffer in silence every day. This happens because not everyone has someone to talk to or a way to let everything out. But you don't always need a person to help. You can write everything down, on paper or online. If you don't feel comfortable sharing your smallest problems or even the good things that happen, write them down instead. You can rant, share the excitement, and write whatever you need to get the weight off your chest. It doesn’t even have to make sense or be complete as long as it makes you feel better. The moment something happens that I get upset with, or...
How Health Tech is Empowering The Next Generation
Advances in healthcare technology in recent years have lessened the health disparities that diverse populations face. Already, telehealth — which patients are utilizing 38 times more than before the pandemic — has helped people in rural areas and diverse populations access much-needed healthcare services at lower costs. As the industry evolves, health tech will offer more benefits than improving access to providers. It can also empower underserved communities and individuals to understand and advocate for their own healthcare. This way, they can receive the treatment they need and the care...
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Look to Computers for the Next Dr. Seuss: The World of Language Generators and GPT-3 Technology
When talking about A.I., Google’s Cassie Kozyrkov asks you to imagine an island of drunk workers, an island that does the mindless, repetitive work that humans don’t want to do. We’re used to thinking about computers this way—but when they become better writers than us, things grow complicated. Natural Language Generation (NLG), the subset of A.I. that powers computer-written language, essentially works by predicting a response to given data. If you feed it an incomplete sentence, it calculates the probability that a next set of words will follow. In our daily lives, this is built into...
Rural poverty American Midwest
Rural poverty in America is an issue that's very close to my heart. While I never had to live in such situations, my family has. I have seen how poverty has shaped them as people and how their struggles effect our lives to this day. I particularly care about the effect of rural poverty on women and people with mental illness, through lack of access to health care, mental health resources, education, and so on. I just came here to say it's a problem. I am going to work to fix it. From watching my family, I know rural women have to work so hard, it's incredible. I imagine it is like that all...
Four legged therapists
The simple wag of my dog's tail has the ability to give me a certain joy that can't be felt through anything else. The day I brought my first dog home has remained a life changing moment and is a memory that I will cherish forever. Pets possess an inherent quality that makes you feel loved and wanted all the time. Not only are they our loyal companions, but they are also our best friends. Whether we realize it or not, pets act as our own, personal therapists. They immediately light up our day when we get home from school or work. Despite the numerous emotions we might have, coming home to our...
Why cultural competence is crucial in healthcare
American healthcare is full of challenges for patients and medical professionals alike. With affordability concerns, interference from insurance companies, and healthcare staffing shortages, it can be hard to access treatment. An often neglected concern, however, is when doctors and patients have a communication breakdown, failing to realize that they’re on the same team. With health and lives at stake, communication and cultural competence is essential in healthcare. Cultural competence increases empathy and the necessary trust between medical professionals and the patients that rely on them...
A journey to sobriety and recovery after alcohol addiction
Struggling with alcohol addiction is a horrible experience because it can have health, social, and economic consequences in one’s life. Alcoholism is a very serious issue that needs to be treated with professional help before it leads to tremendous consequences that can’t be fixed anymore. It can make you put yourself in many dangerous situations and experience poor overall health, but it can also make you hurt your loved ones. When you are struggling with substance abuse, you are rarely able to realize how much alcohol hurts your body, mind, and soul. You keep letting your loved ones down...