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  • A gang is a group of individuals who share a common identity and, ... identity or defiance. The increasing problem of gang violence in many cities ...
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  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther ... racial discrimination in federal and state law. The campaign for a federal ...
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  • The Sermon on the Mount is believed to be a sermon given by Jesus ... that the sermon was meant as a summary of Jesus' teaching for Matthew ...
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  • Category:Law The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ...
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  • Group marriage is a form of polygamous marriage in which more than ... such experiments have ended with breakdown of the group. Two of the greatest ...
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  • An abstract is a brief summary, generally from 100 to 200 words, of ... There are mainly two types of abstracts—indicative (descriptive ...
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  • activist from the Yankton Sioux tribe of South Dakota. He became one ... not civil rights, should be the basis of the United States government ...
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  • as a modification of Newtonian physics. It was created to deal with ... Einstein postulated that the speed of light is the same for all observers ...
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  • Category:Law Pugin for Ackermann's Microcosm of London (1808-1811).]] ...
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  • Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection ... Michael Stern Hart's vision and efforts led to the establishment ...
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  • Legal ethics is a branch of applied ethics, having to do with the ... in unethical professional behavior. American law schools are required to offer ...
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  • Leviticus is the third book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name ... those that can no longer be observed because of the destruction of the Temple ...
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  • Category:Law Category:Military that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military ...
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  • Intermarriage is the marriage between two people of different backgrounds ... Intermarriage is a form of exogamy, or marrying outside of one's ...
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  • Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft ... Taft was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso ...
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  • and writer, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the nineteenth ... his diploma in 1837, graduating as a doctor of Roman law. As he could not ...
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  • Category:Law A philanthropic foundation is a legal categorization of nonprofit ...
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  • The Epistle to the Romans is one of the books of the New Testament ... The main message of the Epistle is that salvation is available to ...
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  • , derived from bolshinstvo, "majority") were a faction of ... and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ...
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  • ) was the dynastic name generally given to the caliphs of Baghdad ... represented the unity and preservation of Islam as a religious faith ...
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  • The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg was established ... The scope of the European Court of Human Rights and the legally binding ...
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  • the most important British moral philosopher of his time.[https://www.thetimes ... for his attempt to return the study of moral philosophy to its foundations: ...
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  • A fact is an actual state of the world. For example, it is a fact ... A great deal of twentieth century moral theory sustained a sharp divide ...
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  • If a sample of material decays at a certain rate over time, its half ... In the case of radioactive decay, each different radioactive isotope ...
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  • The term baryon usually refers to a subatomic particle composed of ... is a subatomic particle with a baryon number of 1. Baryons are a subset of ...
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  • The Cynics were an influential school of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers ... is the only good, and emphasized the value of physical activity and hard ...
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  • Category:Law to as molestation) is defined by the forcing of undesired sexual acts by one ...
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  • Electrostatics is a branch of science that involves the investigation ... It has been known since ancient times that the rubbing of some materials ...
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  • most famous for his roles as the founder of Conservative Judaism and president ... Schechter came to England as a tutor of the future leader of Progressive ...
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  • Leadership is the ability to lead or someone who is the head of a ... Understanding leadership has been the source of much research and ...
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  • He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations, serving ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...
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  • The Cypriot Orthodox Church was granted autocephaly by the Council ... One step short of autocephaly is autonomy. A church that is autonomous ...
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  • 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century ... Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." ...
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  • Carl Robert Byoir (June 24, 1888 – February 3, 1957) was one of ... he was 18 years old, Byoir became the editor of the Waterloo Times-Tribune ...
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  • known as analytic ethics—is the branch of ethics that seeks to understand ... Metaethics is one of the three branches of ethics generally recognized ...
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  • unpleasant effects. It is understood to be of three kinds: Moral evil, natural ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam usually ...
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  • In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful ... The purpose of fraud may be monetary gain or other benefits. Fraud ...
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  • [[Image:Fuggerkontor.jpg|thumb|200px| A painting of an early business ... to carry out activities for the purpose of generating revenue. It involves ...
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  • Josiah (יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ, Yošiyyáhuv, "supported of ... reform that centralized the worship of the Hebrew God Yahweh in Jerusalem ...
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  • Autonomy (Greek: Auto-Nomos—nomos meaning "law:" One who ... One of the best known philosophical theories of autonomy was developed ...
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  • "against" + νομος, "law"), or lawlessness (Greek: ... The topic of antinomianism is quite complex because it involves the ...
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  • and regulate one's conduct in view of norms, is an essential attribute ... In classical religious and philosophical treatments of responsibility ...
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  • An Analogy is a relation of similarity between two or more things ... An analogy is either the cognitive process of transferring information ...
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  • Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...
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  • Roman Emperor and for promoting the vision of the Christian world as a single ... Leo was the son of Atyuppius and Elizabeth. Unlike many of the Cardinals ...
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  • strives to remain "A national network of like-minded state and territorial ... Despite the urgency of environmental issues, nations are not taking ...
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  • an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely ... A friend of Charles Dickens who published in Dicken's journal ...
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  • to as the 80-20 principle—that 80 percent of the wealth belongs to 20 percent ... from what is now the Polytechnic University of Turin. His thesis was entitled ...
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  • The Epistle of Jude is a book in the New Testament of the Christian ... was permissible under the doctrine of Christian freedom from the ...
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  • Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, ... The use of the Commerce Clause by Congress to justify its legislative ...
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  • The Parable of the Good Samaritan is a famous New Testament parable ... ). It is one of the most frequently quoted of Jesus' parables. ...
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  • or closed captioner can write speeds of approximately 225 words per ... The use of stenotypes allows stenographers to provide real-time transcription ...
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  • actions against and amongst the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia in the period ... Critics of religion point to the Hussite Wars and to others conflicts ...
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  • a famous nineteenth century American example of "miscegenation." ... + genus "kind") is the mixing of different races, especially ...
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  • Category:Law Self defense refers to acts of violence committed for the purpose ...
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  • Jewish works refer to him by the acronym of his title and name, RaMBaM ... Maimonides is typically regarded as the greatest of the medieval Jewish ...
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  • In biblical times the shofar was used as a signaling device in time ... The method of playing the shofar is similar to that of bugle, with ...
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  • American sociologist, who spent most of his career teaching at Columbia ... High School, he became a frequent visitor of the nearby Andrew Carnegie ...
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  • Yerushalmi, was born August 1, 1932 (29th of Tamuz) – and assassinated ... views, exemplified in his promotion of a theocratic "Greater ...
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  • Category:Law [[Image:Schilling abuse.jpg|thumb|200 px|Kidnapping (depicted ... Kidnapping is the crime of taking away of a person by force, deceit ...
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  • Category:Law Category:Sociology with police in the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934.]] ...
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  • strategic program led by the U.S. Library of Congress to preserve digital ... The preservation of digital content has become a major challenge for ...
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  • that people require the positive influence of teachers and ritual praxis ... Little is known of the historical Xunzi, save that he was born in ...
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  • The dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took effect on January 1 ... Where strife exists, rightly of wrongly, on ethnic lines and national ...
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  • Philosophical discussion of coercion has focused on three distinct ... contrary to his preferences or will because of a threat administered by another ...
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  • rarely as χ) is a quotient or description of thermodynamic potential of ... The term enthalpy was composed of the prefix en-, meaning to "put ...
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  • Classical mechanics is used for describing the motion of macroscopic ... with high velocity, approaching the speed of light; general relativity is ...
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  • Reverse engineering (RE) is the process of discovering the technological ... often is done because the documentation of a particular device has been ...
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  • Environmental ethics is a branch of applied ethics and a part of environmental ... ethics often contains criticisms of man's abusive or exploitative ...
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  • In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ... In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ...
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  • commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high schools or universities ... school and weekend programs for students of all ages, including even college ...
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  • The Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old ... In describing the initial stages of the rebuilding of the Temple of ...
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  • Honor has been defined in more modern times as the evaluation of a ... The ancient Greek concepts of honor (timē) included not only the ...
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  • and laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law. He ... Grotius removed natural law from the jurisdiction of moral theologians ...
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  • Species are the basic taxonomic units of biological classification ... Jay Gould, the macroevolutionary patterns of species are typically ones ...
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  • 60-year history, SNU has grown to the level of most competitive, belonging ... Seoul National University's history presents a cross-section ...
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  • Opus Dei (Latin for "Work of God"), formally known as The ... and so far the only Catholic organization of this type.[https://www.bbc ...
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  • be expressed with either, both, or neither of these words. The definition ... same-sex encounters were non-existent and of no interest to women. With ...
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  • and Israel. Ethnically, they are descendents of the inhabitants of ancient ... Judean Jews; however, Jesus used the parable of the "Good Samaritan" ...
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  • to complete); Aramaic (to study) is the part of the Talmud that contains rabbinical ... There are two recensions of the Gemara, one compiled by the scholars ...
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  • In the broader sense of the term, bioethics encompasses both biomedical ... ==Scope of bioethics== Bioethics concerns the ethical questions that ...
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  • The Peace of Westphalia refers to the pair of treaties (the Treaty ... The peace as a whole is often used by historians to mark the beginning ...
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  • The Shuar live in tropical rainforests between the upper mountains ... The Shuar have achieved notoriety through their customary practice ...
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  • in digital form, the intellectual output of an institution, particularly ... articles, peer reviews, and digital versions of theses and dissertations, but ...
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  • In population genetics, genetic drift is the phenomenon of change ... (Towle 1989). For example, if a population of organisms was reduced to but ...
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  • Florenszoon Boeyens, served as Bishop of Rome from January 9, 1522, ... Born in Utrecht, he studied at the University of Louvain in France ...
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  • history is very ancient, the formal role of cantor did not emerge until ... in some congregations. Traditional Jewish law restricts the cantor's ...
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  • who lived in Jerusalem during the time of King Herod around the beginning ... hearted approach to interpreting the spirit of the law, Hillel and his followers ...
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  • were best known for publishing collections of folk tales and fairy tales, ... in words shift over time (Grimm's Law). The Brothers Grimm collected ...
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  • was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed ... with strong convictions, but was tolerant of those with other views. His ...
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  • producer, and (usually uncredited) director of musicals for almost forty years ... mother, née Alice Nimmo, was the daughter of Scottish immigrants and their ...
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  • by Alexander Hamilton, the seventy-eighth of The Federalist Papers. Like ... and first appeared in a newspaper on June 14 of the same year. It was written ...
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  • Category:Law Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family 270px|Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of King Louis XV of France. circa ...
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  • Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from ... laws and commandments to them in the form of the Torah. Jewish practice ...
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  • The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, largely a continuation ... Roughly two million people died as a result of war, famine, and disease ...
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  • Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government ... to the public based on classification of information as sensitive, classified ...
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  • Category:Law [[Image:TVP.JPG|thumb|250px|right|Police officers from ... Police or law enforcement agents or agencies are those empowered to ...
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  • broadest sense, can mean the entire spectrum of Judaism's rabbinic writings ... begins with the classic rabbinic literature of the Talmudic era (Sifrut Hazal ...
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  • radiation that falls on it, without any of the radiation passing through ... When heated, the black body becomes an ideal source of thermal radiation ...
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  • Category:Law Category:Sociology education—but also to redress the effects of past discrimination. The underlying ...
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