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  2. Optimism - Wikipedia

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    In ordinary English, optimism may be synonymous with idealism—often, unrealistic or foolish optimism in particular. The term derives from the Latin optimum , meaning "best". To be optimistic, in the typical sense of the word, is to expect the best possible outcome from any given situation. [ 1 ]

  3. English literature - Wikipedia

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    English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world.The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. [1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English.

  4. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Wikipedia

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    Since the metaphor of a theatre is the leading theme of the book, the German and consequently also the Czech translation used a fitting summary as the name of the book We All Play-Act (German: Wir Alle Spielen Theater; Czech: Všichni hrajeme divadlo), apart from the names in other languages that usually translate the title literally.

  5. Self-esteem - Wikipedia

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    Simple English; Slovenčina; ... the authors of the paper that summarized the review of the literature still believed that self-esteem is an independent variable that ...

  6. New Criticism - Wikipedia

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    New Criticism developed as a reaction to the older philological and literary history schools of the US North, which focused on the history and meaning of individual words and their relation to foreign and ancient languages, comparative sources, and the biographical circumstances of the authors, taking this approach under the influence of nineteenth-century German scholarship.

  7. Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia

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    In her review of the personality disorder literature published in 2007, Lee Anna Clark asserted that "the five-factor model of personality is widely accepted as representing the higher-order structure of both normal and abnormal personality traits". [180]

  8. Stream of consciousness - Wikipedia

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    And for literature, "while an interior monologue always presents a character's thoughts 'directly', without the apparent intervention of a summarizing and selecting narrator, it does not necessarily mingle them with impressions and perceptions, nor does it necessarily violate the norms of grammar, or logic – but the stream‐of ...

  9. Social consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Literature, social consciousness, and polity Theology and the social consciousness: a study of the relations of the social consciousness to theology This sociology -related article is a stub .