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    What is happiness? The essay, “Three Simple Things,” the author gave us the definition of happiness from Dictionary.com as "an active or passive state of pleasure or satisfaction." In his own special way, the author writes about how friends, families, and his belief in God are the things that make him happy the most. Sure people may feel their happiness is being healthy and alive. There are many things that could make me happy, but the three that make me happy the most is spending time with my three

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    Assessment Tool Analysis

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    tool in the assessment of symptoms and other features of eating disorders is the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI) that was originally developed by Garner, Olmsted, and Polivy in 1983. Another widely used eating disorder assessment tool is the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT) that was developed by Garner and Garfinkel (1979). While both are self-report measures of symptoms of eating disorders and are available in revised forms (EDI-3 and EAT-26), they differ in their reliability and validity as well

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    In today’s society, people do everything seem to make themselves feel happy as a goal, but they always make farther and farther away from happiness. Kids will feel happiness only need a candy. Perhaps for a high school student, the thing make their feel happiness is just no more homework and no constraint from parents. But for adults, there are more thing to consider, money, fame, and fortune. People’s happiness is composed of two parts, the spiritual happiness, and physical happiness. “The

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    In the past two centuries the primary groups which had to fight for such rights were women and people of color. Now in the twenty-first century, a new group which knows no color and/or gender are verbally attacked for such ideas. This community is the homosexual community. Although there is more of a tolerance of homosexual citizens, in general they are still discriminated because often times one is not willing to accept a different lifestyle but rather practice ignorance to the situation. The idea

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    of losing the aspects they cherish in their particular identities like their cultures, traditions and religions. This fear is noticed and observed by people across the world in different shapes and forms, both physically and verbally. Pew Global Attitudes Project (2007) writes that ''But there are widely shared concerns about the free flow of people, ideas and resources that globalization entails.'' In other words, people are worried about the consequences of ease of entry for foreign people, foreign

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    C. Christine Fair and Bryan Shepherd’s research note explores the different aspects upon demand for terrorism (also known as support) to address empirical lacunae in exploring detailed demographic and psychographic variables among fourteen countries with predominantly Muslim populations or with large Muslim minorities in 2002. Whereas many of previous research focused upon the supply of terrorist work force and the shared characteristics of terrorists, the present research note represents a quantitative

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    Gender Equality in Today’s Workforce In today’s business environment, women get paid on average 12-30% less than men. This affects their ways of living and retirement options. To this day, women still have less rights when it comes to workforce in many Asian and European countries. Men are the preferred gender because they are perceived to be smarter. In many countries, women are limited on the amount of education they can receive. Women are not treated fairly in the workforce because it harder

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    Attitude 2 is a cartoon done by Ted Rall that is poorly done. It is considered to be a bad comic by the standards by the article The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History by Robert C. Harvey. There were many things that made this very poorly done. The first thing is the progression was not done very well at all. Also the graphic variety of the cartoon was bad, showing small variety. Another thing that was poorly done was the style of it, all seemed very similar. Lastly the main problem was the

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    I Am Not My Sexuality

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    cities to escape the traditional life constraints and went to other cities to begin transforming the city into much construction of the gay and lesbian culture. Bonilla, L & Porter, J (1990). A comparison of latino, black, and non-hispanic white attitudes toward homosexuality. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral

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    Corruption or Truth: Westboro Baptist Church Not affiliated with any southern baptist or general baptist churches, the thirty-nine member (The Journal) Westboro Baptist Church is primarily known for its continued protest against the LGBT community, the Catholic Church, and the military (Wikipedia). The westboro Baptist Church’s first public service was held on November 27, 1955(Wikipedia). This was the first time the church publicly condemned the world. Most recently the Westboro Baptist Church

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