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  2. Essay - Wikipedia

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    Essay. An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization ...

  3. Wikipedia:Essays - Wikipedia

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    Essays, as used by Wikipedia editors, typically contain advice or opinions of one or more editors. The purpose of an essay is to aid or comment on the encyclopedia but not on any unrelated causes. Essays have no official status and do not speak for the Wikipedia community because they may be created and edited without overall community oversight.

  4. Wikipedia:Wikipedia essays - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia essays. On Wikipedia, an essay is a page in the project namespace ( Wikipedia:) that is written by one or more editors and that typically addresses some aspect of working in Wikipedia, but has not been formally adopted as a guideline or policy by the community at large. Such pages are categorized into Category:Wikipedia essays or a ...

  5. Bernoulli distribution - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In probability theory and statistics, the Bernoulli distribution, named after Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli, [1] is the discrete probability distribution of a random variable which takes the value 1 with probability and the value 0 with probability . Less formally, it can be thought of as a model for the set of possible outcomes ...

  6. Bill Joy - Wikipedia

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    Bill Joy. William Nelson Joy (born November 8, 1954) is an American computer engineer and venture capitalist. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as Chief Scientist and CTO at the company until 2003. He played an integral role in the early development of BSD UNIX while ...

  7. Racial discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Anti-LGBT rhetoric; Blood libel; Bullying; Cancel culture; Capital punishment for homosexuality; Compulsory sterilization; Corrective rape; Counter-jihad; Cultural genocide

  8. Julio Cortázar - Wikipedia

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    Julio Florencio Cortázar [1] (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; Latin American Spanish: [ˈxuljo koɾˈtasaɾ] ⓘ) was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and ...

  9. Alternative civilian service - Wikipedia

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    Alternative civilian service, also called alternative services, civilian service, non-military service, and substitute service, is a form of national service performed in lieu of military conscription for various reasons, such as conscientious objection, inadequate health, or political reasons.