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Alissa Quart (born 1972) is an American nonfiction writer, critic, journalist, editor, and poet. [1]

121 relations: Adolescence, Advertising, Affiliate marketing, AlterNet, Alva Noë, Amanda Palmer, Animal rights, Annalee Newitz, Atavist, Autobiography, Baby Einstein, Bachelor of Arts, Barbara Ehrenreich, Barnard College, Berlin, Bipolar disorder, Brown University, C-SPAN, CBC Television, Chapbook, Child prodigy, Chinese language, CNN, Columbia University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Commercialism, Consumerism, Crash (2004 film), Creative writing, Credit card, Critic, Delia's, Don Roos, E-book, Editing, English literature, Etsy, Extracurricular activity, Film Comment, Finnish language, Focus group, French language, Gender identity, Gentrification, German language, Graduate Center, CUNY, Happy Endings (TV series), Harvard University, Hipster sexism, Homeschooling, ..., Hyperlink cinema, Iceland, Independent film, Independent music, Intelligence quotient, IPad, Italian language, Japanese language, Jorie Graham, Journalist, Kickstarter, London Review of Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, Magnolia (film), Marie Claire, Master of Science, McDonald's, Meat analogue, Mother Jones (magazine), Naomi Klein, National Magazine Awards, New York City, New York Observer, News & Documentary Emmy Award, Newsweek, Nieman Fellowship, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Nightline, No Child Left Behind Act, Non-fiction, Novel, O, The Oprah Magazine, Occupy Wall Street, Paul Haggis, Peter Maass, Poet, Professional, Public Radio International, Publishers Weekly, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Rachel Maddow, Roger Ebert, Salon (website), Schizophrenia, Scripps National Spelling Bee, Secondary school, Sexual harassment, South Korea, Spanish language, State school, Stuyvesant High School, Syriana, The Atlantic, The Awl, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Opposite of Sex, The Walt Disney Company, Timecode (2000 film), Today (U.S. TV program), Toronto, Transfeminism, United Kingdom, Vegetarianism, Vimeo, Visual acuity, Wallace Stevens, 24 (TV series). Expand index (71 more) »

Adolescence

AdolescenceMacmillan Dictionary for Students Macmillan, Pan Ltd.

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Advertising

Advertising is an audio or visual form of marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored, non-personal message to promote or sell a product, service or idea.

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Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts.

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AlterNet

AlterNet is a progressive news magazine owned by AlterNet Media, Inc.

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Alva Noë

Alva Noë (born 1964) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Amanda Palmer

Amanda MacKinnon Gaiman Palmer (born April 30, 1976), sometimes known as Amanda Palmer (AFP), is an American singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist, pianist, and lyricist of the duo The Dresden Dolls.

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Animal rights

Animal rights is the idea in which some, or all, non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives and that their most basic interests—such as the need to avoid suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings.

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Annalee Newitz

Annalee Newitz (born 1969) is an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction.

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Atavist

Atavist is a multimedia publishing platform.

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Autobiography

An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of oneself.

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Baby Einstein

Baby Einstein is a line of multimedia products, including direct-to-video programs, CDs, books, flashcards, toys, and baby gear that specialize in interactive activities for infants and toddlers, created by Julie Aigner-Clark.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26, 1941) is an American author and political activist who describes herself as "a myth buster by trade" and has been called "a veteran muckraker" by The New Yorker.

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Barnard College

Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college in New York City, New York, United States.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder that causes periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

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C-SPAN

C-SPAN, an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable and satellite television network that was created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service.

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CBC Television

CBC Television (also known as simply "CBC") is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network that is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. Headquartered at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto, CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television. Almost all of the CBC's programming is produced in Canada. Although CBC Television is supported by public funding, commercial advertising revenue supplements the network, in contrast to CBC Radio and public broadcasters from several other countries, which are commercial-free.

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Chapbook

A chapbook is a type of popular literature printed in early modern Europe.

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Child prodigy

In psychology research literature, the term child prodigy is defined as a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert performer.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is the journalism school of Columbia University.

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Commercialism

Commercialism is the application of both manufacturing and consumption towards personal usage, or the practices, methods, aims, and spirit of free enterprise geared toward generating profit.

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Consumerism

Consumerism is a social and economic order and ideology that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.

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Crash (2004 film)

Crash is a 2004 American drama film produced, directed, and co-written by Paul Haggis.

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Creative writing

Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics.

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Credit card

A credit card is a payment card issued to users (cardholders) to enable the cardholder to pay a merchant for goods and services based on the cardholder's promise to the card issuer to pay them for the amounts so paid plus the other agreed charges.

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Critic

A critic is a professional who communicates an assessment and an opinion of various forms of creative works such as art, literature, music, cinema, theater, fashion, architecture, and food.

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Delia's

Delia's, Inc. (stylized as dELiA*s) is a direct marketing and retail company composed of two lifestyle brands primarily targeting preteen girls (#deliasgirls) 7-13 and teenage girls between the ages of 13 to 19.

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Don Roos

Donald Paul "Don" Roos (born April 14, 1955) is an American screenwriter and film director.

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E-book

An electronic book (or e-book or eBook) is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices.

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Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information.

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English literature

This article is focused on English-language literature rather than the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, Wales, and the whole of Ireland, as well as literature in English from countries of the former British Empire, including the United States.

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Etsy

Etsy is an e-commerce website focused on handmade or vintage items and supplies, as well as unique factory-manufactured items.

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Extracurricular activity

Extracurricular or extra academic activity (EAA) are those that fall outside the realm of the normal curriculum of school or university education, performed by students.

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Film Comment

Film Comment is an arts and culture magazine now published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, of which it is the official publication.

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Finnish language

Finnish (or suomen kieli) is a Finnic language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside Finland.

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Focus group

A focus group is a small, but demographically diverse group of people and whose reactions are studied especially in market research or political analysis in guided or open discussions about a new product or something else to determine the reactions that can be expected from a larger population.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Gender identity

Gender identity is one's personal experience of one's own gender.

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Gentrification

Gentrification is a process of renovation of deteriorated urban neighborhoods by means of the influx of more affluent residents.

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German language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.

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Graduate Center, CUNY

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York is a public American research institution and post-graduate university based in New York City.

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Happy Endings (TV series)

Happy Endings is an American sitcom television series that ran on ABC from April 13, 2011, to May 3, 2013.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hipster sexism

Hipster sexism, also known as everyday sexism, or ironic sexism, is defined by Alissa Quart in New York magazine's fashion blog The Cut as "the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox".

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Homeschooling

Homeschooling, also known as home education, is the education of children inside the home.

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Hyperlink cinema

Hyperlink cinema is a term coined by author Alissa Quart, who used the term in her review of the film Happy Endings (2005) for the film journal Film Comment in 2005.

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Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

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Independent film

An independent film, independent movie, indie film or indie movie is a feature film that is produced outside the major film studio system, in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies.

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Independent music

Independent music (often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

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Intelligence quotient

An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from several standardized tests designed to assess human intelligence.

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IPad

iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., which run the iOS mobile operating system.

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Italian language

Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.

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Japanese language

is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.

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Jorie Graham

Jorie Graham (born May 9, 1950) is an American poet.

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Journalist

A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public.

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Kickstarter

Kickstarter is an American public-benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity and merchandising.

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London Review of Books

The London Review of Books (LRB) is a British journal of literary essays.

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Los Angeles Review of Books

The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) is a literary review journal covering the national and international book scenes.

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Magnolia (film)

Magnolia is a 1999 American ensemble drama film written, co-produced and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

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Marie Claire

Marie Claire is an international monthly magazine first published in France in 1937, followed by the UK in 1941.

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Master of Science

A Master of Science (Magister Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM, or Sc.M.) is a master's degree in the field of science awarded by universities in many countries, or a person holding such a degree.

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McDonald's

McDonald's is an American fast food company, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.

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Meat analogue

A meat analogue, also called a meat alternative, meat substitute, mock meat, faux meat, imitation meat, (where applicable) vegetarian meat, or vegan meat, approximates certain aesthetic qualities (primarily texture, flavor and appearance) and/or chemical characteristics of specific types of meat.

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Mother Jones (magazine)

Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is a progressive American magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative reporting on topics including politics, the environment, human rights, and culture.

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Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of capitalism.

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National Magazine Awards

The National Magazine Awards, also known as the Ellie Awards, honor print and digital publications that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative techniques, noteworthy enterprise and imaginative design.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Observer

Observer is an online newspaper originating in New York City.

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News & Documentary Emmy Award

The News & Documentary Emmy Awards are presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) in recognition of excellence in American national news and documentary programming.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.

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Nieman Fellowship

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard awards multiple types of fellowships.

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Nieman Foundation for Journalism

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is the primary journalism institution at Harvard.

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Nightline

Nightline (or ABC News Nightline) is ABC News' late-night news program broadcast on ABC in the United States with a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world.

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No Child Left Behind Act

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001(NCLB) was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students.

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Non-fiction

Non-fiction or nonfiction is content (sometimes, in the form of a story) whose creator, in good faith, assumes responsibility for the truth or accuracy of the events, people, or information presented.

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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O, The Oprah Magazine

O, The Oprah Magazine, sometimes simply abbreviated to O, is a monthly magazine founded by Oprah Winfrey and Hearst Communications, primarily marketed at women.

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Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a protest movement that began on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Wall Street financial district, receiving global attention and spawning a surge in the movement against economic inequality worldwide.

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Paul Haggis

Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director of film and television.

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Peter Maass

Peter Maass (born 1960) is an American journalist and author.

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Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry.

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Professional

A professional is a member of a profession or any person who earns their living from a specified professional activity.

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Public Radio International

Public Radio International (PRI) is an American public radio organization.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.

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Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an American news media organization established in 2006 that sponsors independent reporting on global issues that other media outlets are less willing or able to undertake on their own.

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Rachel Maddow

Rachel Anne Maddow (born April 1, 1973) is an American television host and political commentator.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Salon (website)

Salon is an American news and opinion website, created by David Talbot in 1995 and currently owned by the Salon Media Group.

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Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to understand reality.

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Scripps National Spelling Bee

The Scripps National Spelling Bee (formerly the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee and commonly called the National Spelling Bee) is an annual spelling bee held in the United States.

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Secondary school

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.

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Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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State school

State schools (also known as public schools outside England and Wales)In England and Wales, some independent schools for 13- to 18-year-olds are known as 'public schools'.

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Stuyvesant High School

Stuyvesant High School (pronounced) commonly referred to as Stuy (pronounced) is a specialized high school in New York City, United States.

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Syriana

Syriana is a 2005 American geopolitical thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, and executive produced by George Clooney, who also stars in the film with an ensemble cast.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Awl

The Awl was a website about "news, ideas and obscure Internet minutiae of the day" based in New York City.

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The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast is an American news and opinion website focused on politics and pop culture.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Nation

The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, and the most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.

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The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Opposite of Sex

The Opposite of Sex is a 1998 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Don Roos and starring Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan and Lisa Kudrow.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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Timecode (2000 film)

Timecode is a 2000 American experimental film written and directed by Mike Figgis and featuring a large ensemble cast, including Salma Hayek, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Suzy Nakamura, Kyle MacLachlan, Saffron Burrows, Holly Hunter, Julian Sands, Xander Berkeley, Leslie Mann and Mía Maestro.

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Today (U.S. TV program)

Today, also called The Today Show, is an American news and talk morning television show that airs on NBC.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Transfeminism

Transfeminism, also written trans feminism, has been defined by scholar and activist Emi Koyama as "a movement by and for trans women who view their liberation to be intrinsically linked to the liberation of all women and beyond." Koyama notes that it "is also open to other queers, intersex people, trans men, non-trans women, non-trans men and others who are sympathetic toward needs of trans women and consider their alliance with trans women to be essential for their own liberation." Transfeminism has also been defined more generally as "an approach to feminism that is informed by trans politics." In 2006, the first book on transfeminism, Trans/Forming Feminisms: Transfeminist Voices Speak Out edited by Krista Scott-Dixon, was published by Sumach Press.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, and the flesh of any other animal), and may also include abstention from by-products of animal slaughter.

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Vimeo

Vimeo is a video-sharing website in which users can upload, share and view videos.

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Visual acuity

Visual acuity (VA) commonly refers to the clarity of vision.

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Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet.

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24 (TV series)

24 is an American television series produced for the Fox network, created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, and starring Kiefer Sutherland as counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alissa_Quart

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