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Hatred
HATE. As a concept, hate has several interrelated dimensions. It attempts to provide historical, psychological, and sociocultural depth to the forms of hostility and animosity that the term hate ostensibly defines, and to make the idea clear in terms of its linguistic usages. As such, it faces... Read more |
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Hate Crime
HATE CRIMES A hate crime is a crime committed as an act of prejudice against the person or property of a victim as a result of that victim's real or perceived membership in a particular group. Many of the most notorious hate crimes have been murders, such as the racially motivated murder of James... Read more |
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Babes in Toyland
Babes in Toyland Rock band For the Record… Minneapolis Beginnings Near Breakup and a Love-Hate Relations... Read more |
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John Eliot
John Eliot 1604-90, English missionary in colonial Massachusetts, called the Apostle to the Indians. Educated at Cambridge, he was influenced by Thomas Hooker, became a staunch Puritan, and emigrated from England. Arriving in Boston in 1631, he became pastor at the church in Roxbury in 1632 and... Read more |
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Billy Budd
Billy Budd, novelette by Melville, was written during the five years before his death and published in 1924. The much revised manuscript, left without definitive form, was reissued in a very careful edition in 1962. A dramatization was made by Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman as Uniform of... Read more |
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Loki
Loki , Norse giant (or deity) who personified evil. He hated the gods of Asgard and continually sought to overthrow them. His worst exploit was the murder of Balder , for which he was punished by Thor. It was prophesied that when Ragnarok (the doom of the gods) occurs, Loki, with the aid of his... Read more |
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Aga Muhammad Khan
Aga Muhammad Khan or Agha Muhammad Khan , 1742-97, shah of Persia, founder of the Qajar dynasty. He was emasculated by family enemies at the age of five. He was vigorous and able, but his cruelty is proverbial. In 1794, he captured and killed the last ruler of the Zand dynasty (see Iran ) and... Read more |
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Hillel
Hillel fl. c.30 BC-AD 10, Jewish scholar, regarded as the forebear of the later patriarchs who led the Jews of Palestine until c.AD 400. The Jerusalem Talmud calls him the president of the Sanhedrin. He and Shammai formed the most important of the rabbinic zuggot (oppositional pairs), with... Read more |
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anthropomorphism
anthropomorphism [Gr.,=having human form], in religion, conception of divinity as being in human form or having human characteristics. Anthropomorphism also applies to the ascription of human forms or characteristics to the divine spirits of things such as the winds and the rivers, events such as... Read more |
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Rivalry
RIVALRY Etymologically, the word rival refers to people who live by the river and draw their water from the same stream. From a psychoanalytic point of view, rivalry is not simply a struggle for possession of the object, but can also be understood as having sexual, identificatory, and narcissistic... Read more |
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Melville, Herman
...Polynesian tribes, at that time subject to the attempts of missionaries to convert them to Christianity. Melville's characters reveal...habits and anatomy, and tells the story of the undying love/hate relationship between Captain Ahab, of the whaler Pequod... |
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Missionaries of hate.(Editorials)(Ex-OCA official helps inspire anti-gay bill...
Byline: The Register-Guard Many Oregonians would just as soon forget about Scott Lively, the former gung-ho communications director of the Oregon Citizens Alliance who played a pivotal role in promoting divisive anti-gay initiatives in Oregon in the 1990s. Nearly a decade later, Lively and his |
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Police now say gunman didn't send hate mail to missionary center
Gunman Matthew Murray did not send hate mail to a Christian missionary training center before he went on a deadly shooting...the training center said they had no knowledge of any hate messages before the shooting. Arvada Cmdr. Kathy Foos... |
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Police say gunman sent ?hate mail? to group Shooter had failed to pass muster...
...a long-standing grudge against a missionary group that had kicked him out years earlier, and had recently sent "hate mail" to them, according to a search...Arvada, said that Murray was part of a missionary training program five years ago... |
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Police say gunman sent 'hate mail' to group Shooter had failed to pass muster...
...a long-standing grudge against a missionary group that had kicked him out years earlier, and had recently sent "hate mail" to them, according to a search...Arvada, said that Murray was part of a missionary training program five years ago... |
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Hate the Old and Follow the New: Khoekhoe and Missionaries in Early...
Hate the Old and Follow the New: Khoekhoe and Missionaries in Early Nineteenth...groups and European missionaries, in the areas known...nineteenth century are missionary papers, notably those...Missionary Society. Missionary ... |
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Muslims and Missionaries in Pre-Mutiny India.
...in the full glare of public attention. The missionary side, indeed, seems to have broken off the...major dimensions, and not at all merely the-missionary-we-all-love-to-hate. The Disputation occurred because leading Muslims... |
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Hate-based attack has peaceful aftermath: `Menorah miracle' bonds community.(A)
...four-year crusade against hate. Her campaign has taken her...needed to make a stand before hate poisoned their city. Looking...pain of being the victim of a hate crime, saying that the memory...her calling as an anti-hate missionary. "When ... |
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COLUMN: How to survive missionaries
...I have a problem with missionaries.I also know that I'm not the only one who hates it. There are others...on them. Clearly the missionaries are looking for people...A popular tactic of missionaries is to go around to the... |
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Gunman Sent No Hate Mail to Center
...in two shootings did not send hate mail to a Christian missionary training center where some of...to criticize New Life. The missionary training center maintains an...they had no knowledge of any hate messages before the shooting... |
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Gunman Sent No Hate Mail to Colo. Center
...in two shootings did not send hate mail to a Christian missionary training center where some of...to criticize New Life. The missionary training center maintains an...they had no knowledge of any hate messages before the shooting... |
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