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  2. 2010 Duke University faux sex thesis controversy - Wikipedia

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    The article quoted the adage that "the Internet is forever" and observed that Owen's example shows that "not all information on the Internet can be controlled". [1] It suggested that Owen "should use the seldom-used tort of publication of private, embarrassing facts". [1] The thesis continued to attract newspaper and academic interest in later ...

  3. Thesis - Wikipedia

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    In North America, the thesis defense or oral defense is the final examination for doctoral candidates, and sometimes for master's candidates. The examining committee normally consists of the thesis committee, usually a given number of professors mainly from the student's university plus their primary supervisor, an external examiner (someone ...

  4. Wikipedia:List of controversial issues - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Wikipedia articles deemed controversial because they are constantly re-edited in a circular manner, or are otherwise the focus of edit warring or article sanctions.

  5. Microsoft PowerPoint - Wikipedia

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    Robert Gaskins, one of the creators of PowerPoint, says he publicly demonstrated that use for the first time at a large Microsoft meeting held in Paris on February 25, 1992, by using an unreleased development build of PowerPoint 3.0 running on an early pre-production sample of a powerful new color laptop and feeding a professional auditorium ...

  6. Thesis statement - Wikipedia

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    A thesis statement is a statement of one's core argument, the main idea(s), and/or a concise summary of an essay, research paper, etc. [1] It is usually expressed in one or two sentences near the beginning of a paper, and may be reiterated elsewhere, such as in the conclusion.

  7. Affirmative defense - Wikipedia

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    An affirmative defense is different from a "negating defense". A negating defense is one which tends to disprove an element of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case. An example might be a mistake of fact claim in a prosecution for intentional drug possession, where the defendant asserts that he or she mistakenly believed that the object ...

  8. List of military tactics - Wikipedia

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    Penetration of the center: This involves exploiting a gap in the enemy line to drive directly to the enemy's command or base.Two ways of accomplishing this are separating enemy forces then using a reserve to exploit the gap (e.g., Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)) or having fast, elite forces smash at a weak spot (or an area where your elites are at their best in striking power) and using reserves ...

  9. Phallocentrism - Wikipedia

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    Freud, however, remained unmoved in his opposition to the Horney/Jones thesis, [5] and his was the predominant psychoanalytic position after that, though some like Janet Malcolm would modify his position to the effect that "Freud's concept, of course, is... a description of phallocentrism, not a recommendation of it". [6]