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• Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
  ...schools of American poetry, Spanish verse forms, life writing, and crime [[fiction]].
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• Genre
  ...stories about or based on [[faster-than-light]] travel, are still science fiction, because science is a main subject in the piece of art. * [[Crime fiction]]
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• Literature
  ...rts|art]], which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction, [[drama]] and [[poetry]]. In much of, if not all, the world texts can be ...[character]]s. [[Genre]] fiction (for example: romance, crime, or science fiction) may also become excluded from consideration as "literature".
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• Detective
  ...r private investigators] or "private eyes". Informally, and primarily in [[fiction]], a ''detective'' is any licensed or unlicensed person who solves crimes, ...s' Examination in order to progress on to subsequent stages of the Initial Crime Investigators Development Programme in order to qualify as a Detective.[1]
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• 70:10 Evolution of Justice
  ...[reality]]. In [[nature]], [[justice]] is purely [[theoretic]], wholly a [[fiction]]. [[Nature]] provides but one kind of [[justice]]—[[inevitable]] [[confo ...]] murder was not therefore [[recognized]], and in the [[punishment]] of [[crime]] the [[motive]] of the criminal was wholly disregarded; [[judgment]] was r
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• Innocence
  :c : freedom from [[legal]] guilt of a particular [[crime]] or offense A "loss of innocence" is a common theme in [[fiction]] and pop [[culture]], and is often seen as an [[integral]] part of coming
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• Seduction
  Seduction is a popular motif in [[history]] and [[fiction]], both as a warning of the social [[consequences]] of engaging in the [[be [[English]] common [[law]] defined the [[crime]] of seduction as a felony committed "when a [[male]] [[person]] induced an
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• Science fiction
  ...se]] of science fiction, making it a "literature of [[ideas]]".[1] Science fiction is largely based on writing entertainingly and [[rationa]]lly about alterna ...efinitions, Shakespeare's play The Tempest would have to be termed science fiction.[8]
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• Hubris
  ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens Athens]. It was also considered the greatest [[crime]] of the ancient Greek world. The category of [[acts]] constituting hubris Examples of hubris are often found in [[fiction]], most famously in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost Paradise L
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• Novel
  ...ntil the [[eighteenth century]], the word referred specifically to [[short fiction]]s of [[love]] and intrigue as opposed to ''[[romance (genre)|romance]]s'', ...el" can still signify what is new owing to its "novelty". When it comes to fiction, however, the meaning of the term has changed over time:
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• Languages and Literature
  ...which in Western culture are mainly [[prose]], both [[fiction]] and [[non-fiction]], [[drama]] and [[poetry]]. In much of, if not all, the world texts can b ...|characters]]. [[Genre fiction]] (for example: romance, crime, or science fiction) may also become excluded from consideration as "literature".
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• 2007-05-14-Meaning & Value, What Is Our Soul
  ...doubt or confusion about our statements that even warfare and conflict and crime give meaning to your lives. We feel some of you have a notion that meaning ...ing has meaning, even what we would call negative occurrences like war and crime. All that has meaning somewhere along the line for someone--actually for ev
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• 2010-02-15-Health Crisis, Personal Attitude
  ...vity]] it takes for optimum [[health]]. In your [[Science fiction|science-fiction]] fantasies about an [[ideal]] [[future]] [[society]], don’t forget this ...ollution} What does that cost? Has it something to do with [[fear]]?--of crime? After all, you do have your flashlights, and cars and bicycles have their
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• 2006-07-27-Be Independent, Know Yourself
  ...this must be some innate fear in human beings that if all this warfare and crime were to cease it would be a paradise within a few years. Its almost like th ...this whole book was written by extra-human beings. It sounds like science fiction or some kind of fantasy or crazy cult. And believe me, it has been called a
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• 2010-02-01-Reevaluating Physical Life
  ...n. I know it [[sounds]] like some kind of [[Future|futuristic]] [[science fiction]], but think of a [[society]] in which all the individuals of all ages [[lo ...day to day. Think of how many of your youngsters, caught up in a life of crime, would welcome with delight having good, rewarding work to do. There is ju
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• 97:9 Hebrew History
  ...uch people that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David David] built up the [[fiction]] of a [[divine]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Judah kingdom o ...is time there ruled in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaria Samaria] a [[Crime|gangster]]-[[nobility]] whose depredations rivaled those of the [https://en
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• Paper 97 - Evolution of the God Concept Among the Hebrews
  ...the [[Yahweh]] of the earlier [[Hebrews]]—to a [[God]] who would punish [[crime]] and immorality among even his own people, was taken by [https://en.wikipe ...]] ears heard that their own [[God]], [[Yahweh]], would no more tolerate [[crime]] and [[sin]] in their lives than he would among any other people. [https:/
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• 2007-07-16-Michael
  ...ogress, which continued, as I mentioned earlier, the incessant warfare and crime that is unique to those few planets, out of millions, that went into rebell
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• Paper 70 - The Evolution of Human Government
  ...[reality]]. In [[nature]], [[justice]] is purely [[theoretic]], wholly a [[fiction]]. [[Nature]] provides but one kind of [[justice]]—[[inevitable]] [[confo ...]] murder was not therefore [[recognized]], and in the [[punishment]] of [[crime]] the [[motive]] of the criminal was wholly disregarded; [[judgment]] was r
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• 2010-05-10-Freedom of Endless Association
  ...evelopment--say in the last hundred years or so--of your marvelous science fiction and fantasy for now we can speak of dimensions of reality and you can get s ...gh incessant territorial, political, and economic warfare, let alone petty crime; that calls for genuine reassurance of friendliness, one to another.
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