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Opportunism is the conscious policy and practice of taking advantage of circumstances. [1]Although in many societies opportunism often has a strong negative moral connotation, it may also be defined more neutrally as putting self-interest before other interests when there is an opportunity to do so, or flexibly adapting to changing circumstances to maximize self-interest (though usually in a ...
Quoting out of context. Quoting out of context (sometimes referred to as contextomy or quote mining) is an informal fallacy in which a passage is removed from its surrounding matter in such a way as to distort its intended meaning. [ 1] Context may be omitted intentionally or accidentally, thinking it to be non-essential.
The Matthew effect may largely be explained by preferential attachment, whereby wealth or credit is distributed among individuals according to how much they already have. This has the net effect of making it increasingly difficult for low ranked individuals to increase their totals because they have fewer resources to risk over time, and ...
Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:15 PM. job interview. When fictional television anchor Howard Beale leaned out of the window, chanting, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" in the ...
Molly Ringwald is opening up about a "harrowing" time in her life. During an appearance on the latest episode of the WTF With Marc Maron podcast, the Pretty in Pink alum told host Marc Maron that ...
"Propaganda in the broadest sense is the technique of influencing human action by the manipulation of representations. These representations may take spoken, written, pictorial or musical form." [2] Manipulation can be organized or unorganized, conscious or unconscious, politically or socially motivated.
Black History Month Quotes. "The time is always right to do what is right." — Martin Luther King Jr., minister and civil rights activist. "Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you ...
12:00 p.m. –. 12:04 p.m. The Hirohito surrender broadcast, also known as the Jewel Voice Broadcast ( Japanese: 玉音放送, romanized : Gyokuon-hōsō, lit. 'Broadcast of the Emperor's Voice'), was a radio broadcast of surrender given by Hirohito, the emperor of Japan, on August 15, 1945. It announced to the Japanese people that the Japanese ...