Why do people feel it necessary to "one up" each other?

People feel they need to be better than others. And some people may not notice but almost everything in life is a competition to who is best. When your in elementary school you see who has the best grades. When you get to high school its all about sports, who has the best basketball team, baseball team, football team, etc. High schools  don't let kids participate in these sporting events because the school has a small chance of winning. Those kids who didn't make it lost in the sporting competition.  There's also the academic side of high school. Kids will work for hours on end to have a better grade then another student, just so they can get into a better college than that kid. College staff on the admission board only chose kids that would make there school the best so it can be ranked higher. Most colleges reject at least 50% of  people that apply. Those 50% of people who don't get in lost in the academic competition. The kids who did make it into a top school they have a lot of choices on what they could do when they graduate so they pick a major and study that so they can be the best, which will allow for them to get a good job and gain a lot of money and power. People go to college so they can get even better at what they want to do for a living and get a job. For those who don't get a job they lost in the job competition. For those who are left they strive to gain higher position in that job, in order to do that they have to beat people. We have all been in competitions in our life and it is inevitable and impossible to avoid it. But some people seek it out such as probational athletes and Olympic competitors.

Is the U.S. overpopulated?

Now when you walk through New York city you feel that yes there are WAY to many people. There as so many people that we have to stack each other ex. skyscrapers, hotels, etc. But then you travel west and you pass through Wyoming or Montana and you wonder where everyone is because you can drive for an hour down a road and only not even pass a single car. Now guess how many people live in the U.S.? 309,051,000 people, that's alot of people. However in the world there are roughly 6,841,000,000 people. That means that 4.5% of all people in the world live in America. However we come in third for the biggest population, guess who's 1st. I'l give you a hint, they make most of out goods. Yes, its China they have about 1,338,000,000 people that's 19% now and India (2nd place) to China, you get a third of the worlds population. So when it comes down to it the U.S. is not that overpopulated compared to other countries.

Chicken or Egg?

What came first? The chicken or the egg? It is one of the oldest questions ever asked. Usually scientists believe that the chicken came first based on the protein theory. Also religious believers feel that the chicken came first. however there is another side to this argument. Most evolutionists believe that the egg had to have come first. They feel that because of evolution the animal Gallus DeCosterus (it's the animal that eventually evolved into the chicken) the egg had to have come first. Their theory goes is that every animal evolves over time, it is inevitable. Knowing that Gallus DeCosterus will turn into a chicken there has to be a point where one becomes the other. The Gallus DeCosterus will lay an egg that is considered a chicken so therefore the egg came before the chicken. But on the other side of the table there is the scientist who, in the UK, conducted research that found that protein in the ovaries of the chicken is the only way for an egg to be created. So the chicken must have come first. The last side of the pro-chicken argument is that when god created all the animals he created the chicken with them so the chicken came before the egg. So there are both major sides to the argument, Who came first, the chicken, or the egg? 

Website for pro chicken: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38238685/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/which-came-first-chicken-or-egg/#.TrdB3UMg9j0