As you and your friends return home and meet up for the first time since high school, you find that you've all taken different paths in life. based on cognitive dissonance and the principle of justification of effort, who would be the least satisfied with what he or she is currently doing?

The person that feels that she/he hasn't put on the effort or made enough sacrifices in the path they've followed regardless of life outcomes.

Explanation: Effort justification is when people put greater importance in the effort they have put to achieve something that is what they have objectively achieved.

For example, Jim worked for 7 years a 7 to 5 job that required from him great effort and he was able to save $400.000 in that period. The year after he won $400.000 more in the lottery out of pure luck. According to the principle of justification of effort, Jim probably considers the first $400.000 as more valuable, just because he put more effort into getting them.

the first settlements began along the huang river because of the importance of the huang river in the beginning of china. it goes back to the story, “the tale of emperor yu”, which references the tale of the great flood, which was caused by the huang river and was believed to create and influence china’s making.

swahili is an extremely rich and complex civilization, a set of ethnic groups articulated by a language and a series of cultural elements that fuse the african traditions, islam and indian culture. this growth was largely a result of the indian ocean trading network that brought in not just man-made riches, but also religious ideas, specifically islam, which had a significant impact on the local culture. furthermore, the development of the swahili language gave a common cultural unity to the people.