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    as well-known as other historical events‚ there is still debate on some of the causes. One idea that is widely disagreed on is that the Chinese were passing intelligence to the British and that Chinese guerrillas were consistently attempting to disrupt Japanese efforts‚ such as by flashing signals to British airplanes. Kempeitai officer Onishi Satoru wrote in his memoirs that there was no evidence

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    greater conflict than any yet seen on American soil. While many factors were important contributions to the cause of the war‚ there is ongoing dispute on what the most significant cause was. The North and South had many conflicting fundamental ideas such as Northern industrialism versus Southern agrarianism‚ and Federalism versus States Rights‚ however the disagreement on slavery was the ultimate cause of any conflict. Catalysts such as westward expansion and extremists wouldn’t result in conflict standing

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    What are the Causes and Effects of Childhood Obesity? How can they best be addressed? Veronica Clark Eng 122 English Composition 11 Jason Romero November 19‚ 2012 What are the Causes and Effects of Childhood Obesity? How can they best be addressed? Childhood obesity has become a big important issue over the years. This issue should be addressed immediately. The problems seem to be the food that the children and adolescents eat and a little

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    In order the answer the question of what happiness is and where to find it the Dalai Lama suggests an optimistic spiritual path to find it to introduce readers to the subject in his article‚ “New Ethic for a Small Planet”‚ while Andrew Guest’s “Pursuing the Science of Happiness” reviews different findings of researches in several fields as well as his own. Reading these two together‚ with the Dalai Lama’s article first and Guest second‚ readers can gain a holistic view of the topic and a tangible

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    role of happiness and emotions. There is no right or wrong definition for the role of happiness. The main requirement is that your true feelings and emotions are the workhorse for the pursuit of happiness. However‚ the role of happiness includes everything required for you to be as happy as possible. Once you define what happiness means for you personally‚ therefore‚ you will be in a much better position to identify the steps required to get there by creating your own happiness. What is creating

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    2010). There have a negative relationship between money and happiness‚ this definitely will bring much difficulties. Next‚ money would lead people to do something that makes them happier‚ so they should be happier when they use it. But instead of that‚ people who are wealth still feel unhappy. It does not mean that the person is happier when they are richer than the poor or the unfortunate. The goods that bring happiness are simply not for sale. According to the research of Eliza et al (2011)

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    is produced by human activities such as burning fossil fuels‚ the clearing of vegetation‚ and in the case of methane‚ cattle and rice production. Not for at least the last four-hundred and twenty years has there been so much carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere. (Pg. 15-16) What will happen if we continue to emit increasing amounts of gasses into the atmosphere‚ and global warming continues to increase? According to the Third Assessment Report‚ between 1990 and 2100‚ average global temperatures

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    societies. The greatest cause of these tensions was the Stono Rebellion‚ followed by the Bacon’s Rebellion and the witchcraft trials in Salem‚ and finally‚ the

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    Happiness is a gift that we can all enjoy if we choose to; it enters your life when you let your thinking patterns take a more positive angle. Rather than coming to negative conclusions hastily‚ the key is taking time to think about a situation in its entirety. A new angle will reveal itself which will make you understand why things happened the way they did. There is always the opportunity to be happy around every corner as the quotation by James Oppenheim states: "The foolish man seeks happiness

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    whether it is illegal or not. Instead of taking citizens’ rights away for a prohibition act that will not keep firearms out of the wrong hands anyways‚ the government should focus more on what issues cause gun violence. The Amendment right is an original amendment in the U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights‚ and it is what protects our gun ownership right as U.S. citizens. This amendment states‚ “the rights of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed‚” (“The Constitution of the United States”

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