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    government‚ people suffered from unjust laws. The Stamp Act‚ passed by Parliament‚ required colonists to purchase special stamped paper for every legal product. People soon gathered to protest against this act. The Sons of Liberties is one of the rebellion groups. Following the Stamp

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    Athens Democracy The first person to define democracy was an Athenian leader called Cleisthenes. He called it Demokratia‚ which meant rule by people. In their democracy‚ only male citizens who were older than eighteen could participate. Demokratia gave a strong structure to the Athenian government‚ which served as a model for future governments in the world. The Demokratia had three main institutions. The first one is the Ekklesia‚ which is an assembly in which all qualified citizens could participate

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    osmotic pressure

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    Homeostasis literally means “same state” and it refers to the process of keeping the internal body environment in a steady state‚ when the external environment is changed. The importance of this cannot be over-stressed‚ as it allows enzymes etc to be ‘fine-tuned’ to a particular set of conditions‚ and so to operate more efficiently. Much of the hormone system and autonomic nervous systems is dedicated to homeostasis‚ and their action is coordinated by the hypothalamus. In Module 2 we saw how

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    prove‚ or disprove the concept that there is someone or something else that has created the universe we live in. But what is the definition of God? The definition of God is that He is omniscient (all knowing)‚ omnipotent (all powerful)‚ and omnibenevolent (morally perfect and all loving). This definition is most used in Philosophy of Religion and is most people known definition of who/what God is. But some of these characteristic seem to contradict the world we live in‚ and the evil and sinful beings

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    The demography of Rohingya in Rakhine State in the Future Theories of Democracy IPO 231 Date: 27 July‚ 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The study on theories of democracy is interested but complicated to practice in political situation in Myanmar. Because there have been changed the dictatorship government to the democratic government in the past years‚ it political and Human Rights rose such

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    events. It seems sufficient to begin by reflecting back to one of the first few classes. Somewhere in that hour and a half class‚ I remember learning about educational perennialism. This is the notion‚ derived from Robert Hutchins‚ that there are a group of ideas that keep coming back and remain relevant in our present and in our future; in other words‚ it is the concept that history is repeated. The idea behind this concept is to not only process the facts of history‚ but to think critically of ideas

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    peer pressure

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    Peer pressure is influence that a peer group‚ observers or individual exerts that encourages others to change their attitudes‚ values‚ or behaviors to conform the group norms. Social groups affected include membership groups‚ in which individuals are "formally" members (such as political parties and trade unions)‚ or socialcliques in which membership is not clearly defined. A person affected by peer pressure may or may not want to belong to these groups. They may also recognizedissociative groups with

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    Blood Pressure

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    Hormones can react to increase blood pressure when it becomes low‚ the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system uses several ways to temporarily increase blood pressure when it has dropped for example during the fight or flight response. During the response‚ the sympathetic division is needed to stimulate the adrenal glands to release the hormones epinephrine and norepineprine which stimulate the heart to beat faster and for blood to flow more forcefully‚ this effect makes most of the

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    Education and Democracy

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    Jiaxin Yin 31 May 2012 Education and Democracy This paper discusses how the United States and China achieve democracy through education by analyzing what kind of education benefits a democratic society. Problem-posing education‚ which emphasizes communication and consciousness‚ seems can benefit a democratic society but cannot profit the oppressors; Paulo Freire believes that banking education prevails for it can benefit the oppressors and a democratic society in terms of equity. No Children Left

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    Center of Pressure

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    Introduction: The point in a body at which the resultant pressure acts when the body is immersed in a fluid. The apparatus for center of pressure. Objective: The object of this experiment was to calculate the hydrostatic force a fluid exerts on a submerged plane surface and then compare the experimental hydrostatic force to the theoretical hydrostatic force. Theory: The apparatus defining the physical dimensions‚ this nomenclature will be used throughout this theory. Whilst the theory

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