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  2. The Alphabet Versus the Goddess - Wikipedia

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    Several reviewers have commented that the book is readable and engaging: "And yet, having put all my reservations on the table, I am still left with a good feeling about some parts of the book.” [5] George Steiner writes in The Guardian, "Whatever Schlain's competence, there is so much in The Alphabet versus The Goddess that is slapdash and ...

  3. The Evitable Conflict - Wikipedia

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    "The Evitable Conflict" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the June 1950 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and subsequently appeared in the collections I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Visions (1990). It features the character Stephen Byerley from the earlier "Evidence".

  4. Conflict (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, conflict is a major element of narrative or dramatic structure that creates challenges in a story by adding uncertainty as to whether the goal will be achieved. In works of narrative, conflict is the challenge main characters need to solve to achieve their goals. However, narrative is not limited to a single conflict.

  5. Database transaction schedule - Wikipedia

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    A schedule is said to be conflict-serializable when the schedule is conflict-equivalent to one or more serial schedules. Equivalently, a schedule is conflict-serializable if and only if its precedence graph is acyclic when only committed transactions are considered. Note that if the graph is defined to also include uncommitted transactions ...

  6. Internal conflict - Wikipedia

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    In narrative, an internal conflict is the struggle occurring within a character's mind. Things such as what the character yearns for, but can't quite reach. As opposed to external conflict, in which a character is grappling some force outside of themself, such as wars or a chain-breaking off a bike, or not being able to get past a roadblock.

  7. Living Books - Wikipedia

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    Users learn to read new words and also discover how words are constructed into sentences. [48] Arthur's Computer Adventure contains 401 words of interactive text estimated to be at grade 3 readability level. [49] The series included moral lessons, for instance Berenstain Bears Get into a Fight was released to help children with conflict ...

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  9. Paraphrase - Wikipedia

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    A paraphrase or rephrase (/ ˈ p ær ə ˌ f r eɪ z /) is the rendering of the same text in different words without losing the meaning of the text itself. [1] More often than not, a paraphrased text can convey its meaning better than the original words. In other words, it is a copy of the text in meaning, but which is different from the original.