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  • 11W.E.B. Du Bois: What African Americans Want (1903) — ▪ Primary Source       Although they came to represent divergent perspectives on civil rights, Booker T. Washington (Washington, Booker T) and W.E.B. Du Bois were the two leading African American spokesmen at the turn of the twentieth century.… …

    Universalium

  • 12critical — adjective Date: 1547 1. a. of, relating to, or being a turning point or specially important juncture < a critical phase >: as (1) relating to or being the stage of a disease at which an abrupt change for better or worse may be expected; also&#8230; …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 13ABRAHAM BEN DAVID OF POSQUIÈRES — (known as Rabad, i.e., Rabbi Abraham Ben David; c. 1125–1198); talmudic authority in Provence. Abraham was born in Narbonne, and died in Posquières, a small city near Nîmes famous for the yeshivah he established there. He lived during a&#8230; …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 14The Dunciad — Alexander Pope The Dunciad /ˈd …

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  • 15Essays in London and Elsewhere — Infobox Book | name = Essays in London and Elsewhere author = Henry James country = United Kingdom, United States language = English genre = Literary criticism publisher = James R. Osgood, McIlvane Co., LondonHarper Brothers, New York City&#8230; …

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  • 16Twain–Ament indemnities controversy — The Twain–Ament indemnities controversy was a major cause célèbre in the United States of America in 1901 as a consequence of the published reactions of American humorist Mark Twain to reports of Rev. William Scott Ament and other missionaries&#8230; …

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  • 17faultfinding — Synonyms and related words: Jeremianic, adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, beef, beefing, bellyache, bellyaching, bitch, bitching, captious, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, complaining,&#8230; …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 18disapprobation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Condemnation Nouns 1. disapprobation, disapproval; dislike. 2. (lack of approval) discommendation, demerit; blame, detraction, condemnation. 3. (criticism) animadversion, reflection, stricture, objection …

    English dictionary for students

  • 19critical — [krit′i kəl] adj. 1. tending to find fault; censorious 2. characterized by careful analysis and judgment [a sound critical estimate of the problem] 3. of critics or criticism 4. of or forming a crisis or turning point; decisive 5. dangerous or&#8230; …

    English World dictionary

  • 20Stoicism — Stoicism1 Brad Inwood 1 FROM SOCRATES TO ZENO More than eighty years passed between the death of Socrates in 399 BC and the arrival in Athens of Zeno in 312. Athenian society had undergone enormous upheavals, both political and social. The Greek&#8230; …

    History of philosophy