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has risen over the years and hopes to decrease crime rate with useful strategies that would combat any future high rises in crime rates. There have been many studies on why crime rate has been a problem in Argentina. One study found that inequality affected crime in Argentina directly. At the highest points in inequality‚ the crime rate increased dramatically. In 1985‚ inequality (GINI coefficient) was at its lowest – 0.414 – and crime was down by 64‚000 a year. Within three years‚ inequality quickly
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Western Foreigners and Chinese Christians. Quickly‚ a secret organization named the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists (also called Boxers or Yihetuan) rebelled against the potential domination. Members of the Righteous Harmony movement were anti-foreign‚ anti-Christian and often critical of the Qing regime for its inability to resist foreign
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An Unintentional Consequence – How the Polar Bear is affected by Global Warming Imagine for a moment that you just woke up from a long nap to find everything around you was not the same as it was when you went to sleep: the temperature that you are use to experiencing is considerably warmer‚ you get a notice that you have to travel further to find your favorite cuisine‚ and the city has changed so much that you have a hard time maneuvering from place to place. In addition to being frustrated
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this gives impressionable children the wrong idea about what has to be done to succeed in sport. Ben Johnson went from hero to zero through the usage of steroids. "At the Seoul Olympics in 1988 Ben Johnson ran the 100 meters in 9.79 seconds making him the fastest man ever. It was a proud moment in Canadian athletic history that quickly turned into a nightmare." After his suspension was over‚ Ben Johnson attempted to come back. " In the early 1990’s Ben attempted to climb to the top once again. Unfortunately
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brought many Americans together in order to display the fact that we as a civilization could come together in an environment of complete love and serenity. Through this research‚ I hope to learn how the famous Woodstock concert has impacted both how we live and how we view music. Historical Context The 60’s had been considered one of the most violent decades in post- World War II history. The fight for African-American civil rights had postponed‚ following the assassination of its most eloquent leader
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the exchequer. The sight of flood affected area is horrible. Last July I got an opportunity to visit my ancestral village in Darbhanga district of Bihar. My uncle lives there. I was caught in flood. At the same time‚ I got a chance to have a horrible experience there. One night I was fast asleep‚ suddenly I woke up to hear a loud noise. Water had entered the house. The barrage on the Gandak River had broken and the river was overflowing its bank. People were fleeing for their lives. My uncle’s
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At the onset of the American Revolution‚ the sociology and agenda of the patriotic elite seemed to mirror that of the people. Many influential figures in the colonies‚ as well as most of the common people‚ had had enough of what they viewed as British tyrannical rule encroaching on their lifestyles. Visionaries such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a self-governed country founded on a basis of equality and liberty. Of course‚ these fundamental rights weren’t intended for everyone
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Various dangerous and unique were weapons were used in WW1 which made the battlefield very brutal and many soldiers didn’t know how to react when coming across tanks or even heavy artillery and aircrafts that soared the sky’s raining havoc across miles of terrains and trenches. The effects were severe with many soldiers coming home with lost limbs and even emotional shock like ‘shell shock’ which affected the men’s brains making them hear horrors like screams of agony and the sound of gunshots and
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more affected by their nature or their nurture is complex and mindboggling debate. There are strong augments for both sides of this debate; on one hand a person might be more affected by nature because they have a genetic disorder that affects how they react to certain sections. However a child might also be more influenced by nurture because nurture has to do with the way a person can be affected by their environment and the way that they are raised. I believe that a child is equally affected by both
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