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#1 You are the first, and you have often been the only. You are the first Black woman in more educational settings or professional settings than you can count. You have accomplished more than most people in your family and community have.
#2 First and Only is a love letter, a manifesto for progress, and a leadership resource. It is the opening argument to a...
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#1 We all experience shame, and it is a silent, yet extremely destructive, force that affects everyone. It is the sense of worthlessness that comes from being embarrassed, and it can be triggered by someone else's criticism of you.
#2 The journey that opened my eyes to the insidious dominance of shame in our lives began when I was a pudgy girl living with her two overweight...
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#1 The definition of testosterone is a hormone made in the testes that stimulates the development of male sex organs, secondary sexual traits, and sperm. However, this definition is misleading, because it makes it seem like T is only made by male bodies for male traits.
#2 The importance of context is crucial when discussing the singularity of T. T is a multiplicity...
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#1 The world of the super-rich is different from the world of the rich. To be considered super-rich, you must have a net worth of more than $30 million. The majority of people who have this amount of wealth do not spend their days shopping at the Mall of Life without ever looking at a price tag.
#2 The line between being poor and being super-rich is somewhat relative....
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#1 In August 1971, Henry Kissinger greeted Tokyo's ambassador to the United States, Nobuhiko Ushiba, in his office in the western White House in San Clemente. The meeting was to mend fences with the Japanese, but all of Kissinger's frustrations about dealing with Tokyo tumbled out anyway.
#2 The opening to China was a moment of rupture for the United States as well,...
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#1 The English Civil War was a conflict between the Parliamentarians and the Cavaliers. The Parliamentarians were loyal to King and Parliament, while the Cavaliers were loyal to Charles I. The conflict ended when Cromwell died in 1658, and a Parliament was created that restored Charles II to the throne.
#2 The English Civil War was the result of a system of government...
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#1 George Floyd died with SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in his system, which meant he had recently contracted the virus that was a leading cause of death in the United States that summer. He had endured a difficult life marked by racism at various turns.
#2 George Floyd, a Black man, died from SARS-CoV-2 in Minneapolis. His death demonstrated the link between racism...
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#1 I was a credulous child. I believed the televangelists were right because somebody allowed them to speak on television, and my grandma nodded along while they spoke, grunting in agreement. I woke every morning with the fear that this could be the day people disappear.
#2 The ongoing movement for Black lives is a reflection of the world's reckoning with death-dealing...
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#1 I have always believed that the choice you make after a traumatic event changes your life forever. I was arrested for robbing and murdering two people, but I was found guilty of the crime by a jury. They wanted to murder me because I had murdered. But they had the wrong guy.
#2 I was working the night shift in a locked warehouse when the manager at a Quincy's restaurant was abducted,...
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#1 Frazier's 1957 sociological study of the Black middle class, Black Bourgeoisie, was immediately controversial. It accused the Black middle class of being an insecure and powerless group constantly constructing a world of make-believe to deal with an inferiority complex caused by the brutal history of racial domination in the United States.
#2 The Black middle...
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#1 The German tombstone shortage is because the government controls death and funerals, and they require embalming before burial. This leads to a darkly humorous saying: If you feel unwell, take a vacation-you can't afford to die in Germany.
#2 Slavery is a great way to keep your costs down, but there is another reason why the granite is so cheap: the quarries...
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#1 When I was six years old, my mother died. I was sent to spend a week with my grandmother. I was now old enough to begin to think about the future, and I asked myself what they would do with me. I felt sure I would never find another mistress as kind as the one who was gone.
#2 My mistress, who was a kindly woman, had taught me the precepts of God's Word. But when...
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#1 I was three years old when my parents moved me and my brother from Baghdad to Columbus, Ohio. I was taken out of daycare centers because of some incident, and I had to pee in my pants while sitting at the lunch table.
#2 I had a very strong aversion to milk, which led to me not drinking it. I also avoided group restroom times at day care because of the way the kids...
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#1 The Broward County, Florida, school system began testing all second graders in 2005. As a result, the number of gifted African American children in the district skyrocketed 80 percent, and that of gifted Hispanic children skyrocketed 130 percent.
#2 The widespread belief that IQ limits are innate and permanent affects the lives of people like Edgar, who are...
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#1 I was 16 years old when I met Jake. I was black, and he was white. We started dating, and his family rejected me because of my race. They were willing to throw their own son out of their home and onto the streets like garbage to teach him and others a lesson about what must never come of having been the first generation in his family to go to a racially integrated...
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#1 In 1902, Queen Alexandra invited 10,000 maids-of-all-work to tea parties across London to celebrate the coronation. The girls were allowed to wear their own clothes rather than their usual uniform of cap and apron.
#2 The English middle-class ideal was reflected in the home, which was full of servants who represented the nation's sense of natural and social order.
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#1 I didn't know what was happening because I was too focused on work, but later learned that the towers had been attacked.
#2 I was in New York City on September 11, 2001, when the towers got attacked. I witnessed the collapse of both towers, and the death of my friend Joe. I was never the same after that.
#3 9/11 was the event that catalyzed my own personal transformation....
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#1 I like to travel, and I'm good at finding potential puns. I don't keep track of disappointments, and I like parties but I don't really like them.
#2 Sasha's language interest was in language itself, its shape and structure. She was interested in the fact that adding an s at the end of the word cat made it plural. English, on the other hand, poses a challenge for people...
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#1 The inexpressible is contained in the expressed. This idea gets less attention than his more reverential Whereof one cannot speak thereof, one must be silent, but it is the deeper idea.
#2 I had spent a lifetime dedicated to the belief that words are not enough. I argued that words do more than simply name things. I read aloud to you the opening of Philosophical Investigations.
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#1 Ageism is the discrimination against older people, and it is pervasive in American society. It is a combination of prejudicial attitudes towards older people, old age, and aging itself.
#2 As modernity took root in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, older members of society were reduced to a status of social inferiority. The young United States was a gerontocracy, where older...
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