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    1. Do you believe the United States is becoming more secularized or more fundamentalist?  Comparing your generation to that of your parents or grandparents‚ what differences do you see in the relationship between religion and society?  What would popular media have you believe is the state of religion in the United States today? In the United States today I see more megachurches than smaller‚ intimate churches that were common when I was growing up. I do not see this as a bad thing‚ due to people

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    Why Do People Take Drugs?

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    Why do you think people take drugs? Do you know anyone with an addiction-prone personality? What does the medical literature indicate about addictive personalities? I think people take drugs because there trying to escape or forget about something in their lives. And when they take drugs they don’t have to worry about anything that is bothering them. They also don’t have to face anything that is bothering them because there not ready or don’t wont to so they get high. Medical literature indicates

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    You probably believe that most people attend college. There is a good chance that you think that it is natural to be educated. It seems to be true that a college degree has replaced a high school education for most job/career purposes today. Therefore‚ you may be surprised to know the answers to the following questions. First‚ what percent of the U.S. population has a college degree today? Second‚ we live in an increasingly global world‚ so what percent of the world population has a college degree

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    People take drugs because they want to change something about their lives. There are many reasons why people do drugs. They want to fit in with other people‚ to escape or relax‚ to relieve boredom‚ to seem grown up‚ to rebel or simply to experiment. They think drugs are a solution. But eventually‚ the drugs become the problem. Difficult as it may be to face one’s problems‚ the consequences of drug use are always worse than the problem one is trying to solve with them. Many people wonder about

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    Why Do People Join Gangs

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    in today society the term "gang" is a hard word to define‚ because "No two gangs are alike" (Mays & Winfree‚ 2006‚ 313) The National Institute of Justice report adopted the the definition of street gangs as "groups of youths and young adults who have engaged in a sufficient amount of antisocial activity to warrant attention by the criminal justice system." however to add on to that definition‚ the law enforcement uses the definition " an ongoing‚ organized association of three or more persons‚ whether

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    Why do you think people attend college and university? There are many different reasons for people who attend college and university throughout worldwide. I prefer to write about most common and minor reasons of it. Firstly‚ I want to mention about dreaming. Everyone has dream ; big‚ enormously or dreams they can dream. More commonly‚ people want to live in a suitable and comfortable house‚ drive an expensive car or work as a director etc. In order to get all those things‚ they need to get a high

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    man is good enough to govern another man without that other ’s consent.”
 Abraham Lincoln Why are some leaders more powerful than others? Is there one “best style” of leadership or does it depend on who is following? Do women followers prefer a different leadership style than men followers? When I think of great leaders‚ a few names come to my mind: Abraham Lincoln‚ Mahatma Gandhi. A strong leader has the power and the ability to influence and motivate followers with excitement and vision

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    curative treatment. But first all physicians should know and understand the type of drug the addict used. They also have thought in having to separate classes and talk about drugs and the addiction and what causes the addiction. The ambulatory treatment can be defined as any present purpose as a treatment in which narcotic drugs are being used by the patient so that the person has control and possession of the drug he is physically using (Stanley‚ L. 1919). To continue the institutional treatment can

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    You Decide My divorce‚ after 5 years of marriage‚ had been finalized a year before I started dating Marietta. Although I am now financially stable‚ after hard work‚ sweat and tears‚ the divorce process and custody battle has been extremely stressful and has put me in a traumatic state financially‚ that I no longer wish to experience again. This is the reason why I want to put a pre-nuptial agreement together when I remarry to Marietta. My decision has nothing to do with her personally. I just

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    Why Do People Fall in Love?

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    e Why do people fall in love? There are many reasons as to why people fall in love‚ and why romantic relationships may form between two people. However‚ there is no definite factor that makes an individual fall in love. Today‚ reasons as to why we fall in love still remain a mystery‚ but psychologists have tried explaining this through different theories. They used two main theories to try to explain this question. The first being Relationship Formation Theories and the second is Economic

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