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  2. Satyagraha - Wikipedia

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    As it was incomplete, I had coined the word satyagraha for the Gujarati readers. When I saw the title of Thoreau’s great essay, I began the use of his phrase to explain our struggle to the English readers. But I found that even civil disobedience failed to convey the full meaning of the struggle. I therefore adopted the phrase civil resistance.

  3. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    The following is a list of terms, used to describe disabilities or people with disabilities, which may carry negative connotations or be offensive to people with or without disabilities. Some people consider it best to use person-first language , for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person."

  4. Lists of pejorative terms for people - Wikipedia

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    List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names; List of religious slurs; A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs; List of age-related terms with negative connotations; List of disability-related terms with negative connotations; Category:Sex- and gender ...

  5. Psychological resistance - Wikipedia

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    The discovery of resistance (German: Widerstand) was central to Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis: for Freud, the theory of repression is the cornerstone on which the whole structure of psychoanalysis rests, and all his accounts of its discovery "are alike in emphasizing the fact that the concept of repression was inevitably suggested by the clinical phenomenon of resistance". [5]

  6. Reading as resistance? The rise of the antiracist book list - AOL

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    If you're trying to purchase Ibram X. Kendi's "How to Be an Antiracist" or Ijeoma Oluo's "So You Want to Talk About Race" from Bookshop, the online bookseller for independent bookstores, you may ...

  7. Distress tolerance - Wikipedia

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    Distress tolerance is an emerging construct in psychology that has been conceptualized in several different ways. Broadly, however, it refers to an individual's "perceived capacity to withstand negative emotional and/or other aversive states (e.g. physical discomfort), and the behavioral act of withstanding distressing internal states elicited by some type of stressor."

  8. 'Amphibious mouse' among 27 new species discovered in Peru's ...

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    An "amphibious mouse" with partially webbed feet that eats aquatic insects was among 27 new species discovered during a 2022 expedition to Peru's Amazon, according to Conservation International.

  9. Is gnocchi healthier than pasta? It depends on 2 things ... - AOL

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    Delightfully chewy gnocchi, often made with potatoes, is considered both a type of pasta and a type of dumpling — depending on who you ask. Can it also be a healthier, more nutritious ...