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  2. Psionics - Wikipedia

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    This Greek character was chosen as apropos since it is the initial letter of the Greek word ψυχή [psyche]—meaning "mind" or "soul". [ 8 ] [ 9 ] ) The intent was that "psi" would represent the "unknown factor" in extrasensory perception and psychokinesis , experiences believed to be unexplained by any known physical or biological mechanisms.

  3. Intersectionality - Wikipedia

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    Both Collins and Dorothy Smith have been instrumental in providing a sociological definition of standpoint theory. A standpoint is an individual's world perspective. A standpoint is an individual's world perspective.

  4. Indigenization - Wikipedia

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    Thanks to The Indigenization and Economic Empowerment Act, black people were offered a more distinguished position in the economy, with foreigners having to give up 51% of their business to black people. [6] China's Open Door Policy is seen as a big step of indigenization for their economy, as it is opening its doors to the western world.

  5. Gender Empowerment Measure - Wikipedia

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    The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is an index designed to measure gender equality.GEM is the United Nations Development Programme's attempt to measure the extent of gender inequality across the globe's countries, based on estimates of women's relative economic income, participation in high-paying positions with economic power, and access to professional and parliamentary positions.

  6. Apperception - Wikipedia

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    The term originates with René Descartes in the form of the word apercevoir in his book Traité des passions. Leibniz introduced the concept of apperception into the more technical philosophical tradition, in his work Principes de la nature fondés en raison et de la grâce; although he used the word practically in the sense of the modern attention, by which an object is apprehended as "not ...

  7. Gender inequality - Wikipedia

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    This theory suggests that jobs which are predominated by women offer lower wages than do jobs simply because of the presence of women within the occupation. Gender discrimination propels the notion that as a field or job becomes more predominated by women, it becomes less prestigious, turning away men and people who are discriminatory towards ...

  8. Male gaze - Wikipedia

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    The existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre introduced the concept of the gaze [a] in his 1943 book Being and Nothingness; the idea is that the act of gazing at another human being creates a subjective power difference, which is felt both by the "gazer" and by the "gazed", because the person being gazed at is objectified – perceived as an object, not as a human being.

  9. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    In older theory texts this form is sometimes referred to as a "trill-tremolo" (see trill). A rapid, repeated alteration of volume (as on an electronic instrument); vibrato : an inaccurate usage, since vibrato is actually a slight undulation in a sustained pitch , rather than a repetition of the pitch, or variation in volume (see vibrato ).