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• Eugenics
  ...r eugenicists with meetings in 1912 in London, and in 1921 and 1932 in New York. Eugenics' scientific reputation started to tumble in the 1930s, a time whe ...reproductive technologies at the end of the 20th century have raised many new questions and concerns about what exactly constitutes the meaning of ''euge
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• Bisexuality
  ...study]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times The New York Times] coverage of it flawed and biphobic. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairnes
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• Holy
  ...d to the [[volition|will]] of God, entirely devoted to [[God]]: in earlier times often connoting the [[practice]] of [[asceticism]] and religious observance ...nerated by his followers), objects ("sacred artifact" that is worshipped), times ("holy days" of spiritual introspection, such as during winter holidays), o
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• Dynamic
  ...ed by strict Freudians, demanding sessions only once weekly instead of 3-5 times weekly which was typical for [[tradition]]al psychoanalysts. # Horowitz, Mardi, J. (1988). Introduction to Psychodynamics - a New Synthesis. Basic Books. p. 3. ISBN 0-465-03561-2.
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• Suicide
  ...tries.[12] For example, in the USA, non-Hispanic Caucasians are nearly 2.5 times more likely to kill themselves than are African Americans or Hispanics.[13] *Jamison, Kay Redfield (2000). Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide. New York: Vintage. pp. 448pgs.
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• Wave
  ...nt points in space because the vibration reaches these points at different times. ...in wave direction because of a change in the wave's speed from entering a new medium
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• Totalitarianism
  ...totalitario” to refer to the [[structure]] and goals of the new state. The new state was to provide the “total representation of the nation and total [[ ...ah_Arendt Hannah Arendt] argued that Nazi and State communist regimes were new forms of [[government]], and not merely updated versions of the old [[Tyran
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• Gilgamesh
  ...ryman, that the city's walls were built by the Seven Sages. In historical times, [[Sargon of Akkad]] claimed to have destroyed these walls to prove his mil * Foster, Benjamin R., trans. & edit. (2001). The Epic of Gilgamesh. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-97516-9.
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• Nashville, Tennessee
  ...century brought a newfound prosperity to Nashville. These healthy economic times left the city with a legacy of grand classical-style buildings, which can s ...ill, and will also become the tallest building in the USA outside of [[New York]] and [[Chicago]], surpassing the Bank of America Plaza in Atlanta.[https:/
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• Jacques Derrida
  Critical obituaries of Derrida were published in The New York Times, The Economist, and The Independent. The magazine The Nation responded to t
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• Influence
  ...Gladwell discusses the way new ideas are transmitted by social influence. New products or [[fashion]]s are introduced by innovators, who tend to be [[cre ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter Twitter]. Influencers such as CNN and the NY Times garner millions of followers. It is these followers that provide the suppor
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• Shame
  .... (1971), Shame and guilt in neurosis, International University Press, New York, p. 63, ISBN 0-8236-8307-9 # Broucek, Francis (1991), Shame and the Self, Guilford Press, New York, p. 5, ISBN 0-89862-444-4
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• Social movement
  ...nce highlights the relation between popular movements and the formation of new political parties as well as discussing the function of social movements in ...t with the rapid pace of globalization, the potential for the emergence of new ''type'' of social movement is latent -- they make the [[analogy]] to natio
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• Quality of Life
  ...an in Las Vegas, Richard Riordan in Los Angeles, Rudolph Giuliani in [[New York City]] and Gavin Newsom in San Francisco. Their cities have instituted so-c ...6/dec_jan_06/popsicle.html "Money in a Popsicle-Friendly World"]. Sentient Times. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
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• Exhaustion
  ...amount of sleep, the hours that are set aside for sleep, and the number of times that a [[person]] awakes during the night are important. Other tests that m ...(1989). The remembered present: a biological theory of consciousness. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-06910-X.
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• J. Gordon Melton
  ...can Religion] and is currently a research specialist in [[religion]] and [[New Religious Movement]]s with the Department of Religious Studies at the [http ...ng several encyclopedias, handbooks, and almanacs on American religion and new religious movements. He lives in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_barba
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• Exponential
  ...al [[immunization]] is available. Each infected person can infect multiple new people. :Exponential increases are promised to appear in each new level of a starting member's downline as each subsequent member recruits mo
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• Indigo Children
  '''Indigo children''' is a [[New Age]] [[concept]] developed by Nancy Anne Tappe describing children who are ...children was later popularized by the 1998 book ''The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived'', written by husband and wife self-help lecturers [https
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• Objectivity
  ...jective fact is one that is only true under certain conditions, at certain times, in certain places, or for certain people. ...," according to Popperians, but more generally, that it can be verified by new or as yet unperformed experiments or observations.
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• Upanishads
  ...versal spirit '''(Brahman)''' and an individual soul, '''(Atman)''' and at times assert the [[identity]] of both. Brahman is the ultimate, both transcendent * Edmonds, I.G. Hinduism. New York: Franklin Watts, 1979.
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