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Then-United States Congresswoman Marcia Fudge holding a T-shirt reading "Stay Woke: Vote" in 2018 Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) originally meaning alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination. Beginning in the 2010s, it came to be used as slang for a broader awareness of social inequalities such as racial injustice, sexism, and denial of LGBT ...
Foreign accent syndrome is a rare medical condition in which patients develop speech patterns that are perceived as a foreign accent [1] that is different from their native accent, without having acquired it in the perceived accent's place of origin. Foreign accent syndrome usually results from a stroke, [1] but can also develop from head ...
Annie Shapiro. 1913–2003. 29 years. 1992. Canadian. Annie Shapiro (1913–2003) was a Canadian apron shop owner who was in a coma for 29 years because of a massive stroke and suddenly awakened in 1992. After the patients in the true story Awakenings, Shapiro spent the longest time in a coma-like state before waking up.
OPINION: The people who co-opted, redefined and weaponized the 80-year-old Black expression have finally settled on a concise, standardized definition for "woke." The post ‘Woke’ is the ...
Additionally, nearly half (48%) of survey respondents ages 50-64 defined “woke” as “being overly politically correct,” while only 33% of respondents ages 18-34 said the same. While there ...
'Stay woke', 'being woke' and 'wokeism' have become popular phrases on social media, but what do they actually mean?
Vegetative state. A vegetative state ( VS) or post-coma unresponsiveness ( PCU) [ 1] is a disorder of consciousness in which patients with severe brain damage are in a state of partial arousal rather than true awareness. After four weeks in a vegetative state, the patient is classified as being in a persistent vegetative state ( PVS ).
Snowflake is a derogatory slang term for a person, implying that they have an inflated sense of uniqueness, an unwarranted sense of entitlement, or are overly emotional, easily offended, and unable to deal with opposing opinions. The term gained prominence in the 2010s, and was declared by The Guardian in Britain to be the "defining insult of ...