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  2. Opportunism - Wikipedia

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    In 19th-century Italian politics, it meant "exploiting the prevailing circumstances or opportunities to gain an immediate advantage for oneself or one's own group". [1] However, it is more likely that the English expression was directly borrowed from the French term, when it began to refer specifically to the opportunist Republicans , since the ...

  3. Exploit - Wikipedia

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    Exploit means to take advantage of something (a person, situation, etc.) for one's own end, especially unethically or unjustifiably. Exploit can mean: Exploitation of natural resources; Exploit (computer security) Video game exploit; Exploitation of labour, Marxist and other sociological aspects

  4. Exploitation - Wikipedia

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    Exploit (disambiguation) Overexploitation This page was last edited on 6 May 2023, at 11:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  5. Blaxploitation - Wikipedia

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    In US cinema, Blaxploitation is the film subgenre of action movie derived from the exploitation film genre in the early 1970s, consequent to the combined cultural momentum of the Black civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Black Panther Party, political and sociological circumstances that facilitated Black artists reclaiming their power of the Representation of the Black ...

  6. Exploitation of natural resources - Wikipedia

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    Another non-renewable resource humans exploit is subsoil minerals, such as precious metals, mainly used to produce industrial commodities. Intensive agriculture is an example of a mode of production that hinders many aspects of the natural environment , for example the degradation of forests in a terrestrial ecosystem and water pollution in an ...

  7. Exploit (computer security) - Wikipedia

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    A remote exploit works over a network and exploits the security vulnerability without any prior access to the vulnerable system. A local exploit requires prior access or physical access to the vulnerable system, and usually increases the privileges of the person running the exploit past those granted by the system administrator. Exploits ...

  8. Fearmongering - Wikipedia

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    Daisy is a famous television commercial that aired in 1964 and was run by Lyndon B. Johnson's presidential campaign.It begins with a little girl standing in a meadow, birds chirping in the background; she picks and clumsily counts the petals off of a daisy.

  9. Scam - Wikipedia

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    Political cartoon by J. M. Staniforth: Herbert Kitchener attempts to raise £100,000 for a college in Sudan by calling on the name of C. G. Gordon. A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust.