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    Whether in a dramatic "rags to riches" story or in our day-to-day struggles with our work‚ weight or habits‚ motivation is the factor that makes one work until the desired results are obtained. Motivation keeps you in high spirits and prevents you from getting discouraged when you face minor setbacks on your path to success. During childhood‚ your parents constantly kept motivating you to aim and achieve your goals. However‚ once you reach adulthood‚ parents take a backseat and you are left to fend

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    As I read through the colonization of America‚ I feel sad for America that how different European countries experimented with colonization of America. Some tried to force religion‚ some tried to force slavery‚ and some brought diseases. How unstable the life was for Native Americans and it was a struggle to adapt the rigors of colonization. How Britain imposed controls on its American possessions. And Slavery increased as the demand for manpower increased with booming economy. In this era of colonization

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    terms of motivated behaviour such that they appear to be purposeful and directed toward a goal. The hypothalamus is a brain structure located deep within the brain that‚ although small in size less than 1% of the brains total mass‚ is largely responsible for and controls a wide variety of human behaviour including motivation‚ eating‚ sexual activity and emotion. However in trying to understand this role it is important to first investigate the fundamental reasons and causes behind motivated behaviour

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    planning to create a colony on the moon and they need a group of people with the skills to handle many different tasks. NASA feels confident about the technology and they need 1000 people to send it. How many of each type of citizen should be sent to colonize the moon? The new lunar colony will need 200 personally responsible citizens‚ 300 participatory citizens‚ and 500 justice-oriented citizens. The lunar colony should have 200 personally responsible citizens if it is going to be successful. Personally

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    The European invasions taught us that there was merely no remorse for the deracination’s that unfolded during the 15th to 18th centuries. There were numeral deep causes that led historians to believe how this process of Native American displacement took place. I intend to rank what I believe to be the three top crucial causes that led to the sweeping of European colonizations of North America from merely important to most important. In doing so I will explain why each cause is greater than the next

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    Assignment By Randall Craig Aubrey Thompson History 102.101 Monday‚ June 30‚ 2014 Identify and discuss the factors responsible for European expansionism from the 15th century. What were the social‚ political and economic effects of this expansionism on Europe‚ Africa and the Americas? There were three chief factors in the 15th century European expansionism. European nations such as Spain‚ France‚ Portugal‚ Italy‚ and England sought out to expand to new lands in an effort to spread Christianity

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    Persuasive Speaking: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence President Barak Obama in a "National Address to America’s Schoolchildren" at Wakefield High School opens with a warm welcome and acknowledgments of his broad audience. To gain the attention of his audience he plays on the pathos of his attentive audience by telling a story of his own childhood education. President Obama points out he got up at 4:30 in the morning‚ so his mother could teach him extra to stay up with an American Education. Then following

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    Between the expansion in Northern Africa in 1415 and the sixteenth century‚ Portugal was the first empire to begin colonizing the West‚ and was vital to the settlement of the Americas. Portugal was advanced for it’s time‚ leading the globalization of the Americas. Portugal used their advanced technologies to trade‚ and to enslave many African colonies. To determine the extent of the impact Portugal had on the world‚ this paper will examine the nature of slavery‚ and how it was used for trade and

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    In this essay I will examine the differing motivations that European nations had to come to the Americas. First and foremost I will explain the factors they had in common. All the European nations were beginning to experience a massive growth in population‚ recovering from the terrible depredations of the Black Death of the fourteenth century. Population growth brought in its wake the growth of national economies‚ the growth of consumer demand (including demand for exotic products)‚ and the development

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    Motivated reasoning is defined by an impervious connection to held beliefs supplemented by a fervent rejection of contradictory opinion‚ this connection being dependent on emotional instinct over nuanced and dispassionate argumentation. Logically speaking motivated reasoning can be described as following; one believes something because x‚ but -x is possible‚ therefore one’s belief in x increases because of -x. Despite valid counterarguments towards one’s opinion and the counterintuitive nature of

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