Humans are no doubt territorial. This territoriality manifests itself in our athletic endeavors also‚ as a well-known phenomenon called the home advantage. Simply put‚ home advantage means the persistence of home teams winning a majority of games. This phenomenon has been around as long as team competition has been in existence but did not receive scientific study until 1977. Schwartz and Barsky (1977) did the first psychological study of home advantage. Given that this phenomenon indeed
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Nowadays‚many people resort to plastic surgery and there are several reasons why they decide to do so.Some of the‚‚are valid and legitimate while others originate from their vanity. A few people opt for cosmetic surgery out of a desire to look like a certain person they admire‚especially young people who are more likely to be obsessed with celebrities and other famous people.Some others feel dissatisfied with the way they look either because they cannot come to terms with the fact that they are
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Muhammad Arshan khan Roll no: 16-10332 Forman Christian college (A chartered university) Eng-101 Ms. Alvina Waseem Introduction: When the man came in this world and became conscious about the things he led his way towards the luxuries of life. He tried to find shortcuts in his life. He served all his energy in finding easy and swift means of doing different work. He gained some knowledge with his experiences and with the passage
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Oil as Both a Blessing and a Curse in the Middle East As global society enters an era where oil is no longer the dominant source of energy‚ many oil producing countries face a challenge dealing with the loss of what is often their most profitable export. Many nations developed modern infrastructure mainly through oil profits. Years of interference by western countries seeking oil profits greatly influenced the development of governments‚ occasionally for better‚ but usually for worse. While most
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“A MULTI-CULTURAL SOCIETY IS A BLESSING” – REALLY? “A multi-cultural society is a blessing”. This is an assertion alleged by many. But is it true? Does the old regulation “The more‚ the better” really count here? And what on earth is a multi-cultural society? A multi-cultural society is a society containing several representations of different cultures. To understand it better‚ we also will need to be aware of what both a society and a culture really is. According to Wikipedia‚ a society is: a
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Cohabitation – Blessing or Destroy the relationship? One of the most dramatic trends of recent years has been the tremendous increase in male-female couples who choose to live together without marrying‚ a practice called cohabitation. According to the 2000 Census‚ there are eleven million unmarried people living with an unmarried partner in the United States today‚ and this number has grown 72% in the last decade alone. While many people like David Popenoe‚ a Professor of Sociology‚ on his essay
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Mobile phones have become ubiquitous in our society. In fact‚ telephones have been around for several decades in some form or another tracing back to the invention of telephone way back in 1870s by Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander Graham Bell’s success with the design of telephone came as a direct result of his attempts to improve the telegraph which was the most widely used electronic communication device. The technology began to take shape in the late 1940s‚ when the idea of a mobile phone was
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The Fridge: A Blessing‚ or an Illusion of comfort? Before the age of the fridge‚ leftovers during the summer usually meant a waste of money and food‚ no matter how much was left over. After the fridge was invented‚ people who could afford such a device knew they were given a blessing that would not only save their money‚ but also cause them less stress- or at least they thought so. Does the fridge really give us all that we believe it provides? Or is the fridge just an illusion reflecting what
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Name: Abdulrasheed Yusuf ID: 47022 Sec: 35 Date: 13/10/2012 Assignment: Essay 1st draft Cyber space a burden or a blessing. The articles “Welcome to Cyberia” (Kadi‚ 1994) and “Cyberspace: if you don’t Love it leave it” (Dyson‚ 1995)‚ both discuss cyberspace flaws and its benefits and if it should be controlled or not. Kadi(1994) in her article discusses about giving cyberspace a reality check in different aspects she explains that cyberspace
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[Type text] [Type text] [Type text] Securing the Blessings of Liberty The quest for freedom was why America was established. However‚ as the founding fathers began their journey towards freedom from English rule‚ they realized true freedom was impossible in order to maintain a civilized society. This resulted in the founding fathers creating a government that evenly distributed the power to make and enforce liberty; a realistic form of freedom. This government included three branches; legislative
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