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    "Why do people resort to violence?" "Who shot me? You punks didn’t finish; now you’re about to feel the wrath of a menace‚ I hit em’ up." A quote from late Tupac Shakur and most young men’s anthem and golden rule they live by. Each factor of a person’s life or make up can affect and be affected by another factor. Peer pressure‚ drugs and alcohol‚ lack of intelligence‚ negligence in the home‚ revenge‚ and abuse can cause psychological problems. When the accumulation of negative factors

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    feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress‚ rob and degrade them‚ neither persons nor property will be safe.” (Frederick Douglass) This quote explains that if there is any separation between people that makes them feel like they are a lower class or society then the others around them‚ then they will not be safe in their surroundings‚ and their community will not last. Ancient societies fell for multiple reasons‚ but some of them are more common amongst other greater societies than others

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    1.5 Rational Radicalism..............Why Do People Become Terrorists? Most studies of the causes of Islamism offer a grievance based explanation implicitly rooted in functionalist social psychology accounts of mass behaviour‚ which view collective action as derived from exogenous structural strains that create individual frustration and motivation for deviant social behaviour. Structural strains such as modernization‚ industrialization‚ economic crisis cause psychological discomfort which in turn

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    are those oppressed to begin with because they do not have a home but also due to their skin colour due to society. Social workers works with a diverse amount of people and those who are usually part of a minority group due to the colour of their skin are pushed right under the bush again to the tyranny of homelessness. Homelessness has a large demographic which involves different ethnicities. “... this study’s analyses suggest the need for a more equitable spatial distribution of homeless services

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    Navigation Acts Why do you agree with the Navigation Act? Under the Navigation Acts passed by the British Parliament‚ there was a series of 29 laws under which all goods being sent to America had to be first shipped to England where the ships had to pay heavy tax. To be precise‚ the Navigation Acts were a series of laws framed in a way to favor the English shipbuilding and restrict trade and commerce competition from England’s commercial competitors‚ especially the Dutch. The Navigation Act played

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    Cholpon Kurmanalieva Why I believe in God I often used to ask myself in the past‚ “who created all conveniences for human existence? Why is the distance between the Sun and the Earth comfortable for living? Why is there a good proportion of water and land; why do we have mountains‚ beautiful nature‚ animals and plants? Why do we have brain‚ 2 eyes‚ 2 feet‚ and 2 hands? Sure‚ there’s somebody who regulates all these processes on the Earth to make people live. And His name is God. Blaise

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    Why Do People Drink Milk?

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    A shocked fact about milk for most people‚ as it turns out that consuming much milk is not good for people’s health as they think. Milk has many beneficial components that make people drink it every day in order to be healthy. Vitamin D and calcium are the most known components on milk. Even if asking a kid why he is drinking milk every day‚ his response directly would be because it has calcium which helps strengthen bones. Moreover‚ milk provides really useful nutritious other than vitamin D and

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    College is a place that people have wanted to go since we were young. It has always been that goal that people always consider to be one of the milestones in life where you actually have a big fork in the road. Thinking about it‚ many have found these associations of higher learning necessary for those who pursue more desirable futures. Many try their best to get into better colleges to get better education‚ but with the constant incline of tuition fees‚ it is hard for some families to send their

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    I have never understood why people smoke cigarettes even when they know the horrible effects it has on one’s health. It has been known for many years that the use of tobacco products is the main cause of life threatening diseases‚ such as cancer and emphysema. In the 20th century alone‚ smoking tobacco has accounted for over 100 million deaths‚ yet people continue to infest their body with this poisonous smoke. I realize now that the reason I have negative feelings towards smoking is because my parents

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    Why Do People Sag Their Pants? My question has been the same for many ages. I don ’t like the fact that so many people sag their pants. To me it looks nasty and showing off your underwear is not cool and I don ’t know why people think it would be. I have done this research on more than one occasion and not for a class assignment‚ but because I wanted to try and understand what they could possibly get out of such unruly attire. There have been quite a few stories going around about the exact beginnings

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