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    The Ben Franklin Effect proves to be a paradox of altruism‚ and says‚ a person that an individual has done a favor for‚ that same individual is more likely to do another favor‚ than a person that has helped that other individual. I speculate that is said to be a paradox

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    history there have been moments that shape our lives and the set of beliefs we have today as a nation‚ one of those moments is the civil war. The civil war is a pivotal moment in the U.S history which has impacted our constitutional‚ political‚ and social way of being. The civil war led to the thirteenth‚ fourteenth‚ and fifteenth amendments and established vital key people in the confederate victory such as Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant in history. Although the civil war did not end racism

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    Childhood is a social construct; it is something that society has created over many years to show the psychological differences between adults and children‚ as well as their respective maturity levels. Some sociologists believe childhood is only a recent occurrence and there was no defined period of childhood compared to what childhood is perceived to be in today’s society. Aries believes that before 1760 there was no clear idea of childhood. Children were treated as adults in miniature; they

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    The Compromise of 1850 played a major role in contributing to the start of the Civil War. With the Northern Republicans fighting to end slavery and unite the country and the Southern Democrats‚ the tension between the two was at an all time high. Although that the settlement that was agreed upon was supposed to help by pleasing both sides‚ it rather acted as a temporary buffer to keep the North and South happy for the time being. With tensions at an all time high‚ it seems as though the thought

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    number of abortions per 100 live births in a year). The secondary outcome of interest was the prevalence of unintended pregnancies (the number of mistimed‚ unplanned‚ or unwanted pregnancies per total pregnancies). Data were analyzed using random effect models. Results: analysis. The induced abortion rate and ratio were estimated as 8.9 per 1000 women aged 15–44 years (95% CI: 5.46‚ 12.33) and 5.34 per 100 live births (95% CI: 3.61‚ 7.07)‚ respectively. The prevalence of unintended pregnancy was

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    Spanish-American War The Spanish-American War was different from many other wars because it did not deal with America’s rights; nevertheless it dealt with our issues over expansionism. The war was caused by yellow journalism‚ sinking of the main‚ and the de Lome letter in which he discussed his bad faith with America. The Spanish-American War was a "splendid little war" because it demonstrated the enormous influence of yellow journalism‚ changed the balance in the Federal Government‚ and most

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    Constitution‚ known as "a bundle of compromises." Whatever these leaders ’ personal desires‚ they had to compromise and adopt what was acceptable to the entirety of America‚ and what presumably would be suitable to the nation as a whole. There were many compromises made at the Constitutional Convention‚ such as representation‚ slavery‚ and laws concerning foreign/ interstate imports and exports. The compromise of most importance was named the "Great Compromise." Delegates were quite interested in

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    An example of the effect of social or cultural factors on one cognitive process is the effect of schema on memory. Schemas are mental representations of categories from our knowledge‚ expectations‚ and beliefs. Any information that people are exposed to is affected by the society and culture that they are in‚ and schemas are influenced by external factors‚ which then affects what’s stored in our memory process. Our memory content opens a window through which we can observe the cultural influences

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    The Protestant Reformation caused many changes in the political and social aspects of European life‚ most notably the tension between the Catholics and Protestants at the time period‚ greater rights for women‚ and the further expansion of education. The tension between the Catholics and Protestants led to many different political changes throughout Europe. Women‚ where before had near no rights‚ now had much more than they had ever been seen before in European culture. Whereas in the Renaissance

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     Curtis     IB English/ Block 6    December 1‚ 2014    The Atlanta Compromise    A mere thirty­five years after the abolition of slavery‚ the majority of African Americans  had been educated such that hundreds were heading to colleges and universities to continue  their studies. At the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta‚ Georgia in 1895‚  Booker T. Washington gave a famous speech which used logos‚ repetition for effect‚ and  simplification.  He used these to show people that not enough was being done to let African 

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