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    United States operates, and it focuses on sharing sovereignty between two levels of government, a national government and a subnational government. It was created to be a system that was very unlike Britain’s, and would hopefully be the answer the founders were looking for, after multiple other attempts at forming a government had failed. This type of government seemed to be ideal because it would allow for the representation of subcultures, work better in a large country, and it would provide…

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    them from the founders of the Constitution. The founders had set these standards, or roles, to ensure the freedom of the people by having them have control of their rights in the nation verse the government. Legislators voted for senators before the citizens did because it was believed that this would approve with the Constitution and relieve pressure off of the appointed officials from the people. Before this amendment was ratified, several concerns about the amendment coming into effect,…

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    This case is about a founder named Yvon Chouinard that has a passion for saving the environment and rock climbing. Throughout his rock climbing ventures, Chouinard has developed certain hiking gear, equipment, clothing, and other valuables that are also environment friendly. He then began to branch out and created Patagonia in 1973. As business started to take off, Chouinard also brought onto his employees the awareness and teachings of his environmental beliefs. He allowed them to surf during…

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    CLIMATE CHANGE HUMAN CAUSED or NOT Introduction The continuous climate change controversy debated among scientists and professionals could indicate no one really knows beyond theory. There is the side indicating humans continue to cause climate change through actions of pollution and more. There is another side suggesting that the nature and cycle of earth is reason for climate change to happen. The thought of anyone really having the true answer renders all subject to a continued climate…

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    The four forces of evolution include natural selection, mutation, gene flow, and genetic drift. Natural selection is the foremost force in evolution. It states that biological traits which increase survival will become more frequent in each subsequent generation. It is the most prominent force in evolution because members of a population that inherit these traits live longer, and produce more offspring. Another force of evolution is mutation, the only cause of new genetic material. A mutation is…

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    As a critique of the Abhidharma theory of dharmas, Nagarjuna argues that all things are empty of svabhava—that is, an essential nature. Emptiness, he considers as the founder of Mahayana’s first school the Madhyamaka, is an essential quality of all things. This is to say that all dharmas are empty, and there is no ontological rock bottom to our existence. While it may seem nihilistic, the purpose of his argument is to guide individuals to liberation from conceptual constructions. As…

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    try their hardest. He looks at the lives of professional hockey players, Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, and many more people explaining how they’re considered outliers. He explains how some people were deserving of their success, how some weren’t, how some people earned theirs, and how others were just in the right place at the right time. One of the things Gladwell talks about is The Matthew Effect, he talks about how professional Canadian hockey players become successful. According…

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    Processes such as attention, memory, and perception were studied as they have been shown to have an effect on our behavior. Researches by Loftus and Palmer (1974) have shown that memories on eye witness testimony are unreliable. Another strength of cognitive approach is theories have been applied to many cognitive therapies such as Rational Emotive Therapy…

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    The article also states that white reformers were the original founders of the juvenile correction system. The original founders had never intended it to benefit all children that would be entered into the institutions and that there was always was a sense that mostly upper-middle-class whites ran the corrections. This meant that many of the founders believed in the idea that Black children could be normalized and uphold their way of life and thought. The…

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    institutional care” (“Community Connections History,” 2008). The founder Maxine Harris and co-founder Helen Bergman soon found out, a great number of consumers they desired to help had substance addictions along with their mental disorder. When the District of Columbia experienced the crack cocaine epidemic in the early 1980’s…

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