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  2. Microaggression - Wikipedia

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    In reviewing the microaggression literature, Scott Lilienfeld suggested that microassaults should probably be struck from the taxonomy because the examples provided in the literature tend not to be "micro", but are outright assaults, intimidation, harassment and bigotry; in some cases, examples have included criminal acts. [22]

  3. Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia

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    For example, according to Gilles E. Gignac and Marcin Zajenkowski, it can have long-term consequences by leading poor performers into careers for which they are unfit. High performers underestimating their skills, though, may forgo viable career opportunities matching their skills in favor of less promising ones that are below their skill level.

  4. List of most commonly challenged books in the United States

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    Unsuited to age group, witchcraft, religious viewpoint, anti-family, darkness/scariness/violence, and for "setting bad examples" 1997–2007 — 1 48 The Hate U Give: Angie Thomas: Profanity, violence, "thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agenda 2017 30 — — Heather Has Two Mommies: Lesléa Newman ...

  5. List of fictional antiheroes - Wikipedia

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    1 Literature. 2 Film. 3 Comic books. 4 Television. ... Print/export Download as PDF; ... This article may contain excessive or irrelevant examples.

  6. Contra Celsum - Wikipedia

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    Greek text of Origen's apologetic treatise Contra Celsum, which is considered to be the most important work of early Christian apologetics [1] [2]. Against Celsus (Greek: Κατὰ Κέλσου, Kata Kelsou; Latin: Contra Celsum), preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD, countering the writings of Celsus, a ...

  7. Theme (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative. [1] Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject". [2]

  8. Denigrate - Wikipedia

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    Search for Denigrate in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. Start the Denigrate article , using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it ; but please remember that Wikipedia is not a dictionary .

  9. Comedy of manners - Wikipedia

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    Horace's Satire 1.9 is a prominent example, in which the persona is unable to express his wish for his companion to leave, but instead subtly implies so through wit. William Shakespeare 's Much Ado about Nothing might be considered the first comedy of manners In England , but the genre really flourished during the Restoration period.