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  2. Vandalism - Wikipedia

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    Vandalism is the action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property. [1]The term includes property damage, such as graffiti and defacement directed towards any property without permission of the owner.

  3. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    Kuber Nath Rai is one of the writers who dedicated themselves entirely to the form of essay-writing. [24] His collections of essays Gandha Madan, Priya neel-kanti, Ras Aakhetak, Vishad Yog, Nishad Bansuri, Parna mukut have enormously enriched the form of essay. [24] A scholar of Indian culture and western literature, he was proud of Indian ...

  4. Book burning - Wikipedia

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    It is assumed that a draft of Sibelius' Eighth Symphony - which he worked on in the early 1930s but with which he was not satisfied - was among the papers destroyed. [ 40 ] Joe Shuster , who together with Jerry Siegel created the fictional superhero Superman , in 1938 burned the first Superman story when under the impression that it would not ...

  5. Deconstruction - Wikipedia

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    One of the two terms governs the other (axiologically, logically, etc.), or has the upper hand": signified over signifier; intelligible over sensible; speech over writing; activity over passivity, etc. [further explanation needed] The first task of deconstruction is, according to Derrida, to find and overturn these oppositions inside a text or ...

  6. Essay - Wikipedia

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    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 his thoughts into writing. Subsequently, essay has been defined in a variety of ways.

  7. Hindu cosmology - Wikipedia

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    The later puranic view also asserts that the universe is created, destroyed, and re-created in an eternally repetitive series of cycles. In Hindu cosmology, the age of the Earth is about 4.32 billion years (the duration of a kalpa or one day of Brahma) [77] and is then destroyed by fire or water elements. At this point, Brahma rests for one ...

  8. Wikipedia:Essay directory - Wikipedia

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    Avoid writing redundant essays – why it is a good idea to check if similar essays already exist before creating new ones. Difference between policies, guidelines and essays – what the community chooses to call a "policy" or a "guideline" or an "essay" .

  9. Hindustani profanity - Wikipedia

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    It is a derogatory term for a woman who is considered to be a prostitute in the literal sense, but is usually applied as a term for women who are considered too promiscuous, flirtatious or who dress casually. In Hindi cinema and Urdu cinema, it usually refers to a woman with multiple sexual partners. Sometimes, it is used just as an insult ...