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    century the South provided three-fifths of America’s exports‚ most of it in cotton. The cotton gin gave birth to the American mass-production concept and brought the South prosperity‚ but still contributed to the growth of slavery. While the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds‚ it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton. Cotton growing became so profitable for the planters that it greatly increased their demand for both land and slave labor. Because

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    following week in the class essay on “Pi’s moral development throughout the book” was failed since the lack of never thinking crucially about the book. You may save a couple hours here and there but short cuts are never the easy way out because the end result never pays off. By taking short cuts in life‚ lack of experiences occurs. Short Cuts are always because you are too lazy to do something the long way making the brain lazy‚ requiring less thinking. How will you ever get smarter without thinking

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    ALTERNATIVE MEASURES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PROGRESS What are some limitations of the Gross Domestic Product measure and some ideas for improving it? GDP has four major limitations: It includes the replacement of depreciated capital. It measures income produced in a country but not how much income people in that country re-ceive. Since GDP only counts monetary transactions (including esti-mates for those in the shadow economy)‚ it misses many other ac-tivities that people value like caring

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    political unrest grew‚ the support from a war in North Vietnam grew and in 1963 John.F.Kennedy was assassinated. President Johnson felt that‚ to keep in with the US foreign policy of containment‚ he would have to send a vast amount of young troops into Vietnam to help fight the rising influence of the Viet Cong. For over 10 years‚ the Us pledged thousands of soldiers and billions in financial aid until public opinion and guerrilla tactics forced the US to withdraw from Vietnam. Many reasons had an impact

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    Economic growth Paul. A (2001‚ pp.568) states that economic growth is a positive change in the level of production of goods and services by a country over a period of time.” This means that economic growth occurs when there is an increase in the levels of output for production and services. It is brought by technological innovation and positive external forces and can also be seen as a term to indicate the GDP growth. The economic growth is measured by percentage change in GDP (Gross domestic

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    Executive Summary Planning of economic policies & their implementations are the most vital facts of a country. Overall development of a country largely depends on economic policy design & its proper implementation. Every country has its own economic policies & specific way of their implementation. But some policies are same for all countries such as Fiscal Policy‚ Monetary Policy‚ etc. Philippines‚ as a developing country has set various economic policies & strategies over time

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    According to the results from the local state-of-the-nation survey‚ over 40 percent of respondents in the Taiwanese survey expressed a certain degree of dissatisfaction concerning Taiwan’s future development‚ with only 25 percent answering positively. This was the first time that negative responses outnumber the positive responses by 15 percent‚ and the results represented the biggest lack of confidence in the economy for the past five years. It also showed that the public becomes increasingly pragmatic

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    Economic growth brings greater happiness- how far do you agree with this statement? What is happiness? It is just one word‚ but every person has his own view on this question. Happiness is a basic of nature. Somebody think that it is God’s gift or result of luck‚ but some people claim that happiness is in your hands‚ you do it by yourself‚ you have to achieve your aims to be happy. Some people confuse happiness to pleasure‚ pleasure is a drink of water in the hot day‚ a comfortable bed after difficult

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    problems for him that he was able to resolve later on in life. In addition‚ the reason for his theory mainly has to do with his father not being around. In refining Freud’s theory‚ Erikson assumed that personality developed in eight stages which started from infancy and ending with old age. He believed that each stage could have a positive or negative outcome‚ and positive outcomes at one stage make the crisis in the other stage easier to understand and solve. One of the unique things about Eric Erikson

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    1. What was the Renaissance and why did it begin in Italy? The Renaissance is the era of rebirth. It took play around 1300 to 1600 and in Europe‚ this era is known as a rebirth of art and learning. The Renaissance first began in Italy because in Europe‚ both England and France were at war with each other (The Hundred Years’ War) which prevented them into the age of the Renaissance. Italy‚ on the other hand‚ wasn’t at war and allowed the Renaissance to start. Three advantages that started the Renaissance

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