20 Reasons for Decline in Reading Habit W. Somerset Maugham said‚ “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all miseries of life.” Reading habit has been a great help in developing knowledge. But today‚ in an age when browsing the net‚ playing with funky handsets and passing non-stop SMS seem to be the order of the day. The internet boom‚ interactive medium of images‚ TV and the silver screen filling the minds of the modern youth‚ taking majority of their
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who come to and end and the Netherlands would start to decline. The security‚ unity‚ and prosperity of the Dutch Republic was challenged by hostile foreign nations‚ economic decline‚ the lack of an national standing army‚ and a lack of unity between provinces. Neighboring nation’s aggressive actions in acquiring dominance in trade forced the Dutch to wage war against them. This caused the Netherlands’ prosperity and security decline. In a letter to the republic’s government‚ Konrad Van
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percent concentration there was an increase of mass by 1.75%‚ from there the 1%‚ 3%‚ 5% and 10% begun on a downward trend with the percentage change in mass declining. The graph was on a steady decline from 0% being the highest point with a change of mass of 1.75% finishing with the 10% solution on a decline of -12.28%. From observing the scatter plot the data points were not far from the line of best fit‚ indicating the results were hardly affected by random errors. Resulting in fairly precise and
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THE DECLINE THESIS OF WEST INDIAN CRICKET (1975 – present day) Vivian Richards smashes the ball to the boundary! Another impressive win to add to the belt of the West Indies team. With players such as Clive Lloyd‚ Michael Holding‚ Gordon Greenidge‚ Deryck Murray‚ and Rohan Kanhai to name a few‚ many have been pondering what has happened to that beloved “golden era”. I think that the 1970s and the 1980s were and in fact a different time period. It is difficult to compare 2 time periods
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pesticides that are causing harm to our environment and wildlife. Even humans can be affected by such contamination in the water supply‚ and it can turn out to be very harmful. Both of these factors are the leading suspected cause of frog mutation and decline in their population. There are many smaller factors that go hand in hand with one another are caused specifically because of our actions‚ even though they do not directly cause these results they help speed up the process. As a first thought most
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Although there were many contributing factors to the Roman Republic’s decline over the course of several decades‚ most historians concur that the most important ones were the disintegration of political institutions and the emergence of strong military leaders who threatened the Senate’s authority and the established power structure. Two interrelated factors primarily contributed to the Republican system’s downfall: the widening social and economic divide between the affluent elites and the general
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the Spanish Empire The Spanish Empire experienced a time of massive growth and exploration which came to an end in 1588. By 1598 Phillip III had inherited Spain with a bankrupt economy. This marked the decline of the great empire that had controlled an extensive amount of territories. Its decline can be attributed to the massive influx of gold and silver into the economy during the Age of Exploration which made Spain temporarily wealthy but had irreversible negative long term economic effects. Originally
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Gempei Wars (1180-1185) between the Taira and Minamoto families and the rising of the Tokugawa Shogunate in the 1600’s‚ the Japanese government generally declined. As provincial families dominated the diminishing imperial court‚ there was a severe decline of the central administration and the supreme authority dissipated. Rival families‚ Taira and Minamoto‚ fought for 5 years in the period of Japanese history known as the Gempei Wars. During these 5 years‚ great suffering was brought to the peasants
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Gatsby: The Decline of the American Dream Following the much adored novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ came the phenomenal screenplay of The Great Gatsby‚ released in May‚ 2013. 1920’s America boomed with unprecedented prosperity and material excess as stock markets skyrocketed and spirits rang high. The film‚ however‚ focuses on a much larger underlying theme that is a highly symbolic rumination of the entirety of America in the 1920’s: the disintegration of the American dream. This decline came about
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POSSIBLE RAESONS FOR DECLINE IN READING SKILLS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS A comparative study by the ministry of education shows a worrying downward trend in reading skills. This is evident from the dismal performance in reading skill test undertaken by the students. Furthermore‚ according to a comprehensive U.S.-wide study of reading skills by the National Endowment for the Arts. (2007).Americans reading a lot less: a study on reading skills. Retrieved from www.washingtonpost.com .in Washington
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