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Gospel of Thomas
Gospel of Thomas a collection of sayings, composed originally in Greek, attributed to the "living" (i.e., resurrected) Jesus. Some of the sayings were previously known from papyri discovered at Oxyrhynchus and published in the late 19th cent. The sayings are similar to those of Jesus in the... Read more |
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Spam (Junk email)
Spam Spam is a slang term that describes unsolicited commercial advertisements sent by e-mail over the Internet. Spam, which can be used as a noun or as a verb, is also known as junk e-mail or unsolicited bulk e-mail. According to Heather Newman in the Detroit Free Press, the term comes from a skit... Read more |
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Coolio
Coolio Rap artist Lessons Learned at an Early Age From the Streets to the Charts Selected discography Sources Unlike other rappers out there just saying what they see, Coolio offers solutions. “Just because you’re from the west coast, and you talk about some real s—, you get... Read more |
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Dream Work
DREAM WORK Freud introduced the notion of "dream work" to clearly emphasize that the dream is not the result, as was generally thought to be the case, of a weakened state of mental activity producing incoherent fragments, but, on the contrary, the outcome of very complex psychic work. This was the... Read more |
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Golden Rule
Golden Rule in the New Testament, saying of Jesus. In the Gospel of Matthew he says, "In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets." The Gospel of St. Luke has "Do to others as you would have them do to you." It is stated negatively in... Read more |
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goes
goes he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing involving oneself in debt is likely to lead to unhappiness; proverbial saying, late 15th century.what goes around, comes around often used as a comment on someone becoming subject to what they have visited on others. This modern saying (of US origin)... Read more |
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Judicial review
Judicial Review is a distinctive power associated with the Supreme Court that is nowhere specifically mentioned in the Constitution. Chief Justice John Marshall in Marbury v. Madison (1803) asserted the major principle on which it rests by observing: “[i]t is emphatically the province and... Read more |
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Slope
Slope Slope is a quantity that measures the steepness of a line. To figure out how to define slope, think about what it means for one line to be steeper than another. Intuitively, one would say the steeper line "climbs faster." To make this mathematically precise, consider... Read more |
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DEMAND
DEMAND The concept of demand is not Freudian. It was developed by Jacques Lacan, who linked it with need and desire (Lacan, 1966, 1991). Demand is identifiable by the five clinical traits that constitute it, by the status that it gives the object, by its function in relation to the Other, and... Read more |
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'Manifesto' Offers Eric Rudolph Insight
...and whose lives he shattered...injured more than 120 in Alabama...forensic psychiatrist credited with first making the connection...Dietz and others say Rudolph...testified in the cases of ... |