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  2. The Negro Family: The Case For National Action - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1969. The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, commonly known as the Moynihan Report, was a 1965 report on black poverty in the United States written by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an American scholar serving as Assistant Secretary of Labor under President Lyndon B. Johnson and later to become a US Senator.

  3. Reciprocity (social and political philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The social norm of reciprocity is the expectation that people will respond to each other in similar ways—responding to gifts and kindnesses from others with similar benevolence of their own, and responding to harmful, hurtful acts from others with either indifference or some form of retaliation.

  4. Essay - Wikipedia

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    The writing of an expository essay often consists of the following steps: organizing thoughts (brainstorming), researching a topic, developing a thesis statement, writing the introduction, writing the body of essay, and writing the conclusion. [14]

  5. Social commentary - Wikipedia

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    Social commentary is the act of using rhetorical means to provide commentary on social, cultural, political, or economic issues in a society. This is often done with the idea of implementing or promoting change by informing the general populace about a given problem and appealing to people's sense of justice.

  6. Free response question - Wikipedia

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    Free response tests are a relatively effective test of higher-level reasoning, as the format requires test-takers to provide more of their reasoning in the answer than multiple choice questions. [4] Students, however, report higher levels of anxiety when taking essay questions as compared to short-response or multiple choice exams.

  7. Letter from Birmingham Jail - Wikipedia

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    The letter provoked King, and he began to write a response to the newspaper itself. King writes in Why We Can't Wait : "Begun on the margins of the newspaper in which the statement appeared while I was in jail, the letter was continued on scraps of writing paper supplied by a friendly Negro trusty , and concluded on a pad my attorneys were ...

  8. Indifferent act - Wikipedia

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    Can the character of indifference be predicated of the act, considered not as an abstraction of the mind, but in the concrete, as it is exercised by the individual in particular circumstances, and for a certain end? To this question St. Bonaventure, [1] answers in the affirmative, and with him Duns Scotus, [2] and all the Scotist school.

  9. Wikipedia:Wikipedia essays - Wikipedia

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    Avoid writing redundant essays, or (in most cases) content-forking them. Start the essay as a draft in the userspace. Be concise and to the point. Tag the essay with {}. Use {} to summarize the gist of the essay. Create a shortcut that redirects to the essay. Categorize the essay, and use any relevant navigational templates.