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Grade 12 Term 2 Flashcards

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What is a responsible citizen and what do they do?

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  • Do your duty as a citizen. Fulfil your responsibilities and what is right and expected as a citizen
  • Pay taxes
  • Vote
  • Obey the law
  • Concerned about the welfare of others
  • Aware of, respect and promote human rights
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How do you evaluate your position on HR and Discr

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  • Critically analyse your own viewpoints; behaviours; opinions and attitudes towards these issues
  • Participate in discussions; projects; campaigns and events that address the 2
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How do you challenge HR and Discr violations

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  • Know basic human rights
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How do you fulfil your duties as a responsible citizen

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  • Discussons : dialogues; talks and convos which people share info; ideas experiences and opinions
  • Events : planned occasion or activity
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How do you fulfil your duties as a responsible citizen

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  • Discussons : dialogues; talks and convos which people share info; ideas experiences and opinions
  • Events : planned occasion or activity
  • Project : planned activity that has some specific purpose to improve something; it usually takes place over a long time
  • Campaign : a planned series of actions intended to achieve a particular aim
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Hoe do you evaluate the outcomes of events and campaigns

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  • Identify aims of campaign or event
  • Find out if these aims were achieved
    - observing, asking questions; doing research; comparing problem before and how it was solved or improved
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How to ensure a campaign is effective

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  • Alert the public through local newspapers / pamphlets etc about the campaign that will run in their community to ensure the message is spread and reaches the intended grps
  • Do proper research on the areas that are most in of such campaigns in order to develop the best suitable programme for this drive in specific communities
  • Provide all necessary details regarding the campaign in order to ensure everyone receives the right info
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What is electronic and print media

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  • any media that needs electricity or batteries ( TV; films; DVDs; websites and blogs)
  • includes books; newspapers; magazines; pamphlets
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What is cyber wellness; safety; bullying and savy

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  • a state of being in a good state within the info technology
  • a state of being safe on the social media platforms
  • communication to bully someone by sending messages that are threatening or intimidating in nature
  • ability to make good judgement on social platforms
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How can you manage your social media more effectively

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  • Limit public access to your personal info on social media
    -Limit no of social media platforms you use
  • Refrain from encouraging others who demonstrate unacceptable conduct on these platforms
  • Avoid posting / sharing hurtful / responding to inappropriate info
  • Ensure you refrain from engaging in controversial/ disrespectful convo
  • Celebrate others’ successes / achievements on your profile
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What is the effect of media

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-Influences peoples thoughts; feelings and ideas

  • Not only conveys info but also shapes our understanding and interpretation of info we receive

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What is medias role

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  • Entertain
  • Expose corruption
  • Educate
  • Communicate
  • Promote natio building

** media should create a platform to share idea and opinions as well as debates and discussions around key issues

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What must the media do since it can tarnish a person or company name

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  • Explain things as they are happening
  • Not use sensational of shock tactics
  • Must report accurate and fair info
  • Should promote accurate and fair elections
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What is democracy

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A political system where the people have power to elect leaders that will represent them and their beliefs in the making of political decisions

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Explain the secrecy bill fully

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  • Protects state info bill
  • Proposes long sentences for journalists / whistle blowers who makes states secrets publlic
    - EG. size of army or how many weapons it has
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What are campaigns

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  • Movements, drives or crusades that push, fight or advocate for an issue
    eg Mandela Day campaign
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Explain media and sports fully

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  • Covers mostly 5 big sports ( mens soccer rugby; cricket; golf and motor racing)
  • More sportsmen coverage than sportswomen
  • More famous a sports star the more media exposure he / she gets
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Explain the constitution; laws; regulations and rules fully

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1) A set of rules that guide how a country works

2) Statues and acts of set rules

3) The details necessary to implement laws

4) The procedure that has to be followed or the ways of doing things

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Explain law-making

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  • Parliament makes laws for whole country
  • Prov gov makes laws for their own provinces
  • Municipalities make by-laws for their municipal areas
  • Both parliament and provinces can make laws on agriculture; casinos; education; housing; health services and tourism

eg. National water act and meat safety act

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What is a personal brand

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  • Your reputation when you’re not in the room
  • Developed over time or the impression others have of you
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How can you create your own mission statement

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  • Be brief and clear ( must fit on one sheet of paper)
  • Show what you wanna focus on and the kind of person you want to be
  • Say what you want to do
  • Find a quote from someone you admire because of who they are
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Why do you need a personal mission statement

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  • Impt component of leadership and personal development
  • Force you to think deeply about life; clarify its purpose and identify what’s truly impt to you
  • Force you to express as briefly as possible your deepest values and aspirations
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What is a personal mission statement

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  • A statement defining the essence of who you are and how you will live
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What are intervention programmes

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  • Address a particular and urgent problem and try to improve them

eg. iThembalethu

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What is impact studies

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  • Measure and monitor something to see if a particular action would or is having an effect
  • AKA audits or assessments
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What is chronic and acute stress

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  • Experienced after prolonged periods of sustained stress
  • Characterised by sudden outburst of stressful feelings
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Explain stress signs and symptoms

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  • The physical effect of a health problem that can be seen or measured
  • Problems that are felt or noticed
28
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Explain positive stress fully

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  • AKA Eustress
  • Motivates us; encourages us to develop and grow
  • Help you meet deadlines; push you to complete tasks; drive you too exert more effort to achieve things
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Explain negative stress fully

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  • AKA Distress
  • When stress becomes more than that you can cope with
  • Unhealthy and unpleasant and dangerous
  • Reduces performance level and thinking ability
  • Makes you’ll; unhappy and unproductive
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What is adrenaline and cortisol

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  • Hormone that is released into the blood system in reaction to stress
  • Incr heart rate; blood pressure and blood sugar
31
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Explain the different types of external stressors fully

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Physical:
- May produce pain or work performance
- eg. poor nutrition; hunger; accidents; drug usage; lack of sleep

Emotional:
- Your feelings; thoughts; reactions to life crisis and change and your personality
- eg. jealousy; anger; constant worry; anxiety

Environmental:
- External stimuli that cause disharmony; irritation; annoyance or disturbance
- eg. weather; noise level; pollution; crowdedness

Social:
- Refers to aspects of your relationships with others, from your family and friends to society in general
-eg. incr world at school; pressure to achieve specific marks; continuous negative changes in friendships/ romantic relationships

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How can you manage your stress

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1) Identify stressors and assess stress levels
- know what causes stress and assess stress levels then look for ways to deal with it

2) Follow a balanced diet
- Make time for school work; friends; family; do physical activities; hobbies

3) Make time for physical exercise; recreation and relaxation

4) Deal with your emotions
- Find an outlet for your feelings / talk to a professional or someone you trust as they may give you a new perspective

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How can you manage your time effectively

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  • Have a to do list
  • Plan ahead
  • Delegate and outsource
  • Focus on one task at a time
  • Start with most impt tasks
  • Set a time limit
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What are sources of interpersonal conflict

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Difference I values
- due to difference in upbringing; culture; education and background

Misunderstandings
- people getting offended by a misunderstood comment and take offence

Difference in methods
- 2 or more people working on a project and cannot agree on how to lead the project

Differences in priorities
- One person may not consider the others point of view as impt

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How can you resolve interpersonal conflict

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  • Listen to the other persons side of the story
  • State the problem
  • Look at possible solutions
  • Decide on a solution and implement it
36
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What is interpersonal conflict

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  • Occurs between you and other people
37
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What is intrapersonal conflict

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  • Occurs within yourself where thoughts and feelings conflict with one another
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Signs of intrapersonal conflict

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  • Low self esteem
  • Fails to perform introspection to correct behaviour and actions that don’t favour them
  • Can’t calm down in stressful situations
  • Not aware of own limitations
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How to resolve intrapersonal conflict

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  • Reduce the stress by using stress management strategies
  • Control emotions
  • Look at what is causing the conflict
  • Gather info on conflict
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What is communication

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  • Complicated behaviour which involves the process of sending and receiving messages
  • Involves 2 or more people
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What does having good communication skills mean

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  • Talk, write or behave in a way that is appropriate for the context and audience
  • Say honestly what you mean in a way that is not offensive
  • Distinguish between fact and opinion
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Explain non-verbal communication fully

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  • Our gestures; postures; facial expressions and the way we speak
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Why is it important to communicate

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  • To know how to inmate or start; build and sustain or keep relationships positive
  • About understanding others and communicating feelings; beliefs and attitudes
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How can you innate positive relationships

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  • Be open and honest
  • Express yourself in a positive manner
  • Discuss your thoughts and feelings
  • Listen to what others have to say
45
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How can you build positive relationships

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  • Treat everyone with respect
  • Support one another
  • Control emotioins
  • Develop empahty
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How can you sustain positive relationships

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  • Have compassion for one another
  • Be tolerant with each other by accepting their views and behaviour
  • Trust and be honest with each other
47
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What are factors influencing effective communication

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  • Personality
  • Attitudes and values
  • Acceptance of responsibilities
  • Appropriate expression of views and feelings
  • Respect feelings of others
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Explain each factor influencing effective communication fully

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Personality:
- Your attitude and the way you behave
- Self-aware people = understand others
- Assertive people = explain what they want clearly and respect others

Attitudes and Values:
- Thinking your ideas are always right and show no respect for others = neg impact in communication
- Positive people = open and honest
- Negative people = aggressive

Acceptance:
- You are accountable to do your duty
- Can be trusted to do a job
- Make a mistake you apologise and don’t shift the blame onto someone else

Appropriate expression..:
- Can say what you think and feel in a way that doesn’t hurt or offend others
- Express views in feelings in acceptable way incl tone; volume; body language; honesty and words spoken

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Why is non-verbal communication important for teamwork

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  • May eliminate communication gaps / conflict
  • Reinforce team conversations
  • Enhance effective discussion
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How can you adapt to growth and change in circumstances

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  • Plan what you want to do
  • Think of how you dealt with prev change in your life
  • Talk to someone you can trust
  • List the good aspects of change
  • Develop a positive attitude
  • Give yourself time to adjust
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What are positive and negative aspects of change

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Positive:

  • Exciting and challenging
  • Motivating and can lead to new things
  • Opportunities and can lead to personal growth
  • Keeps your life interesting and your brain alert

Negative:

  • Can cause stress and loss
  • Threatening and painful
  • Sorrow and not always for the better
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What are key principles for learning readiness

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  • Regular attendance and punctuality
  • Making the classroom enviro work for you
  • Before lessons you understand the previous lesson and note areas you need clearance and completed homework
  • Participative learning
  • Studying :
    • active participation; visual aid and teacher visibility; good listening
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What are study skills

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  • An array of skills which tackle the process of organising and taking in new info; retaining info or dealing with assessments
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What the types of study skills

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  • Flashcards
  • Mindmaps
  • Mnemonics: word or sentence that helps you remember something
  • Summaries: use keywords
  • Tables: help organise info on logical connected way
  • Talk and listen: read notes outlaid and discuss with a gap
  • Move about : walk about while reading or repeating your material
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How to create a study plan

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  • Analyse how you spend your time
  • Get rid of time wasters
  • Don’t procrastinate
  • Be realistic about what you can achieve
  • Get enough sleep
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What are study styles

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  • Ways in which your brain stores info the easiest

eg. VARK

57
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What are study strategies

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  • Game based learning platforms
  • Mind maps with pictures
  • Peer teaching
    Notes highlighted with different colours
    SQ3R
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What’s the difference between skimming and scanning

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  • Reading rapidly to get a general overview of material
    • Find gist of text
    • read headings; summaries provided; table contents
  • Reading rapidly to find specific facts
    - to find ans to a question; use finger to scan; look for keywords
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What is an assessment and its categories

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  • A continuous planned process of gathering info on achievement
  • Formal = covers material you need to know for final exams and marks are recorded
  • Informal = teacher observes you in lessons and provides feedback about your gaps of knowledge
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Why do we assess?

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To:

  • Identify how a learner copes with new knowledge; content and skills
  • Specify whether learner needs extra work or not
  • Identify the development of a learners potential
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What are the types of assesments

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  • Baseline : @ beginning of year or when starting something new
  • Formative : to check progress with certain topic
  • Summative ; end of project; year or term
  • Self and peer assessment : Assess himself or classmate
62
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What are reasons for unemployment

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  • Restructuring of world economy
  • When companies merge
  • When businesses close down and workers get retrenched
  • When companies monopolise prices
  • Too many people with the same qualification
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Specific reasons for youth unemployment

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  • Lack of experience and skills
  • Lack businesses willing to do on the job training
  • Lack of knowledge on how to apply for bursaries and learnerships
  • Too few uni’s to accommodate all students
  • Lack of entrepreneurial skills
  • Graduates with qualifications that don’t match market needs
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Effects of unemployment

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  • Poverty and hunger
  • Stress and depression
  • Boredom and lack of self esteem
  • Lack of well being and health
  • Substance abuse and exploitation

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