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  2. List of last words (20th century) - Wikipedia

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    — Richard B. Mellon, American banker, industrialist and philanthropist (1 December 1933), to his brother Andrew Mellon; the two had been engaged in a playful game of tag for some seventy years "Follow the path for another fifty yards. I am going back to the foot of the rocks to make another climb.

  3. Essay - Wikipedia

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    The word essay derives from the French infinitive essayer, "to try" or "to attempt". In English essay first meant "a trial" or "an attempt", and this is still an alternative meaning. The Frenchman Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) was the first author to describe his work as essays; he used the term to characterize these as "attempts" to put ...

  4. I Am Afraid - Wikipedia

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    I Am Afraid was released theatrically in Italy on 6 October 1977 where it was distributed by C.I.C. [1] It grossed a total of 1,708,460,918 Italian lira on its domestic release. [1] The film was shown at the 1977 Taormina Film Fest .

  5. Writing anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Writing anxiety is a term for the tension, worry, nervousness, and a wide variety of other negative feelings [1] that may occur when given a writing task. [2] The degree to which a writer experiences these negative feelings may vary depending on the context of the writing.

  6. Free writing - Wikipedia

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    Free writing is traditionally regarded as a prewriting technique practiced in academic environments, in which a person writes continuously for a set period of time with limited concern for rhetoric, conventions, and mechanics, sometimes working from a specific prompt provided by a teacher. [1] While free writing often produces raw, or even ...

  7. Foil (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Don Quixote and his sidekick Sancho Panza, as illustrated by Gustave Doré: the characters' contrasting qualities [1] are reflected here even in their physical appearances. In any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better highlight or differentiate certain qualities of the protagonist.

  8. Foreign language anxiety - Wikipedia

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    The feelings may stem from any second language context whether it is associated with the productive skills of speaking and writing or the receptive skills of reading and listening. [ 1 ] Research has shown that foreign language anxiety is a significant problem in language classrooms throughout the world especially in terms of its strong ...

  9. Social anxiety disorder - Wikipedia

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    Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by sentiments of fear and anxiety in social situations, causing considerable distress and impairing ability to function in at least some aspects of daily life.