More than 45 million people<span>, or 14.5 percent of all Americans, lived below the poverty line last year.</span>
Water shortages may be caused by climate change, such as altered weather patterns including droughts or floods, increased pollution, and increased human demand and overuse of water. ... Water scarcity is being driven by two converging phenomena: growing freshwater use and depletion of usable freshwater resources.
"After the British occupation of Egypt in 1882, Egyptian nationalism became focused upon ending British colonial rule. <span>Egyptian nationalism reached its peak in popularity in 1919 when the revolution against British rule took place in response to wartime deprivations imposed by the British upon Egypt during </span>World War I.<span> Three years of protest and political turmoil followed until Britain unilaterally declared the independence of Egypt in 1922 that was a monarchy, though Britain reserved several areas for British supervision.</span><span> During the period of the </span>Kingdom of Egypt, Egyptian nationalists remained determined to terminate the remaining British presence in Egypt.<span> Though </span>Arab nationalism<span> rose as a political force in the 1930s, there remained a strong regional attachment to Egypt by those who advocated cooperation with other Arab or Muslim neighbors."</span>
Answer:
cognitive dissonance
Explanation:
Cognitive dissonance asserts that to reduce discomfort when external inducements are insufficient to justify our behavior, we justify our our behavior or actions to ourselves. It refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors which produces a feeling of mental discomfort leading to an alteration in one of the attitudes, beliefs or behaviors to reduce the discomfort and restore balance.
