2012 is a special one for Friday the 13ths: There are three of them: Jan. 13, April 13 and July 13. The freaky thing? The dates fall exactly 13 weeks apart. That hasn’t happened since 1984.
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The american revolution had an amazing impact on the rest of the world. First of all, America was the first colony to revolt against its mother country and monarchy government. The american revolution’s success started many enlightenment thoughts and ideas. So in 1848 dozens of countries started revolutions with there monarchy governments. People thought if America did it and it worked that good for them then why not we start a revolution. So they did….. the most famous of revolutions following after america is the French Revolution. There revolution had more turmoil and disaster. But was the enlightenment capital of the world which spread ideas of revolution throughout the world. If America didnt have a revolution i would think that the world would be still of kings and Queens. The shot heard around the world spread revolutionary ideas throughout the World.
The American Revolution began in 1775 as open conflict between the united thirteen coloniesand Great Britain. By the Treaty of Paris that ended the war in 1783, the colonies had won their independence. While no one event can be pointed to as the actual cause of the revolution, the war began as a disagreement over the way in which Great Britain treated the colonies versus the way the colonies felt they should be treated. Americans felt they deserved all the rights of Englishmen. The British, on the other hand, felt that the colonies were created to be used in the way that best suited the crown and parliament. This conflict is embodied in one of the rallying cries of the American Revolution: No Taxation Without Representation.
America’s Independent Way of Thinking
First, let’s take a look at the mindset of the founding fathers.
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The Pintados Festival made Leyte known for its unique culture. It is a cultural-religious celebration in Tacloban City based on the body-painting traditions of the ancient tattooed “pintados” warriors. In 1986, the Pintados Foundation, Inc. was formed by the people of Tacloban to organized this festival in honor of Sr. Santo Niño. Years later, it was merged with the Kasadyaan Festival which is always held on June 30 (http://wikipedia.org). However, when Sangyaw Festival of Tacloban City was revived Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival is celebrated every 28th of June.
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Right-handers have long accounted for 90 percent of the population, and scientists may have figured out why.
President Obama autographs a banner in Washington, D.C.: The president is part of a small minority of people, only 10 percent, who are left-handed. Photo: CC BY: The White House
Only one out of every 10 people are predisposed to favor their left hand instead of their right, “a ratio that has remained constant for more than 5,000 years,” says Rick Nauert at PsychCentral. Why isn’t there a 50-50 righty-lefty split? Why aren’t all of us right-handed? New research from Northwestern University may have the answer. Here’s what you should know:
What exactly is this new theory?
Researchers say the steadily low percentage of lefties “is a result of the balance between cooperation and competition in human evolution.” Humans have long had an evolutionary need to cooperate, such as when sharing tools or hunting in groups. And if most people use the same hand, it makes such cooperation easier. “The more social the animal — where cooperation is highly valued — the more the general population will trend toward one side,” says co-author Daniel M. Abrams.
Then why aren’t we all right-handed?
Because people aren’t purely cooperative. We compete with each other, too, and always have. “If a society was totally cooperative, then everyone would be same-handed,” says Nauert. But that’s not us. Our competitive streak ensures that there will always be lefties.
Why does competitiveness foster left-handedness?
Physical competition “favors the unusual,” Nauert says. For example, “in a fight, a left-hander in a right-handed world would have an advantage.”
What proof do researchers have?
To showcase the validity of their model, researchers turned to sports like boxing, fencing, and table tennis. In athletics, lefties are “overrepresented to the tune of about one in five,” says AFP, underscoring the competitive advantage of left-handedness. And the inverse is true for sports where handedness isn’t a factor. For example, “the number of successful left-handed PGA golfers is very low, only 4 percent,” says PhysOrg.
Why so few people are left-handed
7 Downsides to Being Left-Handed
The world has been out to get lefties for thousands of years. And while we no longer force 10% of the population to learn to write with their right hand or burn them at the stake as witches, the odds still aren’t stacked in their favor.
1. They Are Left Out of Studies
As Northwestern University psychology professor Robin Nusslock told the Wall Street Journal, many studies about how the brain works specifically prohibit lefties from participating. Researchers do this because they know that left-handed people’s brains are wired differently than righties. Since researchers want their results to accurately reflect the vast majority of the population, including left-handed people would throw off the results. That means when you read an article about some new breakthrough in understanding how our brains function, it most likely isn’t something that directly applies to 10% of people. The same exclusion used to apply to women, until President Clinton signed an act requiring that women be included in clinical trials. Since President Obama is left-handed, perhaps he should insist lefties get equal treatment themselves.
2. They May Get Paid Less
Full disclosure: this one is contentious. Some studies have found there is no difference between handedness and how much a person makes. However, a seminal study by Harvard University found that lefties make 10% less on average than their right-handed counterparts. This may be due partly to the fact that lefties are less likely to complete college. The same researcher found that despite the oft repeated claim that lefties have higher IQs on average than righties, left-handed people actually score slightly lower on math and reading comprehension tests.
Another study published in The Journal of Human Resources found that while left-handed men’s salaries were comparable to righties, left-handed women made significantly less.
3. They’re Easier to Scare
In one study at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, right- and left-handed people watched clips from Silence of the Lambs. Afterwards, the researchers asked the subjects to talk about some of the scarier scenes from the film. The lefties overwhelmingly gave more fragmented, inaccurate accounts with more repetition. Researchers already knew that lefties are almost twice as likely to suffer from PTSD as righties, and it doesn’t take a majorly disturbing event before differences in our fear levels start to show. Scientists think this may be because the right side of a lefty’s brain is dominant, and that is the side that controls our fear response.
4. They Get Angrier Faster
Various studies have found that lefties are quicker to anger than righties, but until recently no one knew why. In 2010, a paper in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease posited that it was because left-handed and ambidextrous people’s brain hemispheres interact more than right-handed people’s. While this might sound like a good thing, it means that logic (mostly left brain) and emotion (mostly right brain) get mixed together more often than is “normal.” As a result, things that 90% of the population could deal with calmly are more likely to anger lefties.
5. They’re Linked to Schizophrenia
Scientists know that being left-handed is at least partly down to genetics. A person has a much greater chance (26%) of being a lefty if both parents are southpaws. And research has even isolated the gene that may contribute to handedness. The bad news? The gene, LRRTM1, also appears to have something to do with people developing schizophrenia. Only 1 in 100 people have the disorder, but an inordinate 20% of suffers are left-handed.
6. They Drink More
Back in the 1970s, a paper called “Left-Handedness and Alcoholism” raised the possibility that left-handed people were more likely to be alcoholics than right-handed people. The study was purely observational, however. Until recently, no hard evidence existed that linked handedness to drinking habits. It turns out that lefties aren’t more likely to be genetically disposed to addiction, but on average they do drink more often, and in greater quantities than righties. Since excessive alcohol consumption alters your brain chemistry and can eventually lead to physical dependence, this may be one possible explanation for why the previous study noticed a prevalence of left-handed alcoholics.
7. The World Is Trying to Kill Them
The world isn’t just driving lefties to drink, though. It’s also killing them. Left-handed people seem to expire anywhere from a few months to a few years before righties, all other things being equal. One of the deadliest problems is simply that the world isn’t laid out best for lefties. This leads to left-handed people being five times more likely to die in accidents than right-handed people.
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Animated music video of the National Anthem
This fully animated video of the Philippine National Anthem is NHCP and ROCK ED RADIO’s gift to all Filipinos to mark the nation’s 114th Independence Day.
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