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What is a colloquium/academic colloquium/importance
What is a colloquium? For starters, it is important to know that colloquium means a communicative interaction. That is: a…
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Procrastination definition/why it happens/impacts/how to overcome
What is procrastination? Procrastination happens when people put off performing important and necessary tasks. In other words, it is actually postponing…
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Growth mindset definition/mindset/importance in academic life
What is mindset? Well then. Despite being an English term, the concept of mindset is actually quite simple. In a free translation,…
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Major General John Fulton Reynolds/Early life/Mexican-American War/Facts
Major General John F. Reynolds was a notable commander in the Union Army during the Civil War . Born in Pennsylvania, he graduated…
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Burkean Parlor definition/Peter Elbow’s “Yogurt Model”
The Burkean Room is a metaphor introduced by philosopher and rhetorician Kenneth Burke (1897-1993) for “the ‘endless conversation ‘ that is happening at the point…
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Scanning tunneling microscope history/Russell Young and Topografiner
The Scanning Tunneling Microscope or STM is widely used in industrial and fundamental research to obtain atomic scale images of…
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Campaign finance laws definition/advantages/History/Federal Election Commission
Campaign finance laws are laws that regulate the use and influence of money in US federal elections. According to a 2018…
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Ranked choice voting definition/advantages/working/Types/Pros and cons
Ranked choice voting is an electoral system that allows voters to vote for multiple candidates, in the order of their…
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Originalism definition/advantages/History/originalism today/implications
Originalism is a judicial concept that states that all statements in the United States Constitution must be interpreted strictly in…
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What is sectionalism/Sectionalism in the Civil War/examples
Sectionalism is the expression of loyalty or support to a particular region of one’s country, rather than the country as…
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