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  • ...ry demoralized and its civilian electorate deeply divided, began a process of coming to terms with defeat in its longest and most controversial war[https ...ts were deployed beginning in 1965. Involvement peaked in 1968 at the time of the ''Tet Offensive''. Under a policy called Vietnamization, U.S. forces wi
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  • [[File:lighterstill.jpg]][[File:Allegory-on-the-abdication-of-emper-frans-ii-francken2.jpg|right|frame]] [[Latin]] abdicatus, past participle of abdicare, from ab- + dicare to proclaim
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  • ...intellectuals who are alleged to fail to [[adhere]] to rigorous standards of scholarship may be described as anti-intellectuals. ...g that the educated are a social class detached from the everyday concerns of the [[majority]], and that they [[dominate]] political [[discourse]] and hi
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  • ...u]], "the Lost City of the Incas," has become the most recognizable symbol of the [[Inca]] civilization.</center>]] ...up normally defined as a [[complex society]] characterized by the practice of [[agriculture]] and settlement in [[city|cities]].
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  • ...ozens upon dozens of panels of cells that are empty but connected by lines of decision. ...t has height, width, depth, and time. We have developed all of these ahead of time and it remains for you to make decisions so that those cells are fille
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  • ...[[thoughts]] and [[emotion]]s. The words used in prayer may take the form of [[intercession]], a hymn, incantation or a spontaneous utterance in the per ...yer is ritualized and must be followed through a sometimes strict sequence of actions (even going as far as restricting who may pray), other religions, m
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  • ...erm "communism" is sometimes used to refer to communist [[state]]s, a form of government in which the state operates under a one-party system and declare ...alists or social democrats, slowly drifted away from the [[radical]] views of Marx after his death in 1883; other communists, like [[Vladimir Lenin]], co
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  • ...w culture]], [[folk culture]], or [[popular culture]]) John Befrger ''Ways of Seeing'', anthropologists understand "culture" to refer not only to [[consu <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Culture''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=C
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  • ...w culture]], [[folk culture]], or [[popular culture]]) John Befrger ''Ways of Seeing'', anthropologists understand "culture" to refer not only to [[consu ...he social, and the normative, nor does it reflect three competing theories of culture.
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  • ...phies]] of [[India]], [[China]], [[Japan]], [[Korea]],and, to some extent, of [[Iran|Iran (Persia)]]. ...Eastern" philosophy is too vague and imprecise, committing the [[fallacy]] of overgeneralization.
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  • ...es them, defines a life in accordance with that view, and provides a means of access between the human world and [[divine]] realities. ...n it, it may be endowed with religious meaning. A shrine that is the focus of religious activity on certain occasions may be ignored at other times. In s
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