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Following Fight Club, the terms "special snowflake" and "special snowflake syndrome" were applied to individuals with a negative connotation. [9] [10] Such terminology refers to people who believe their status as a unique individuals means they are destined for great success, or deserve a special career, with abundant praise and admiration.
Snowflake (heraldry), a heraldic charge; Snowflake (slang), a term for an overly sensitive person with an unwarranted sense of entitlement; Snowflakes (ballet), a 1911 adaptation of the Nutcracker; Snowflake (prison), a common name of the Russian supermax prison in the Far East; Snowflake Inc., a cloud-based data-warehousing software company
Pax Americana [1] [2] [3] (Latin for ' American Peace ', modeled after Pax Romana and Pax Britannica), also called the "Long Peace", is a term applied to the concept of relative peace in the Western Hemisphere and later in the world after the end of World War II in 1945, when the United States [4] became the world's dominant economic, cultural, and military power.
Deal-making Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman says business is no laughing matter. If you want to get ahead, you must crush rivals. Snowflake CEO: Why you must 'declare war on your competitors' [Video]
The word pícaro first starts to appear in Spain with the current meaning in 1545, though at the time it had no association with literature. [7] The word pícaro does not appear in Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), the novella credited by modern scholars with founding the genre. The expression picaresque novel was coined in 1810.
Deal-making Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman says business is no laughing matter. If you want to get ahead, you must crush rivals. Snowflake CEO: why you must declare war on your rivals [Video]
However, without a clarifying context, singular America in English commonly refers to the United States of America. [2] Historically, in the English-speaking world, the term America could refer to a single continent until the 1950s (as in Van Loon's Geography of 1937): According to historians Kären Wigen and Martin W. Lewis, [3]
Ancient Greece under the hegemony of Thebes, 371–362 BC. Hegemony (/ h ɛ ˈ dʒ ɛ m ən i / ⓘ, UK also / h ɪ ˈ ɡ ɛ m ən i /, US also / ˈ h ɛ dʒ ə m oʊ n i /) is the political, economic, and military predominance of one state over other states, either regional or global.