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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Biography

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    MoS guidelines for opening paragraphs and lead sentences should generally be followed. The opening paragraph of a biographical article should neutrally describe the person, provide context, establish notability and explain why the person is notable, and reflect the balance of reliable sources.

  3. Stereotype - Wikipedia

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    During an ostensibly unrelated impression-formation task, subjects read a paragraph describing a race-unspecified target person's behaviors and rated the target person on several trait scales. Results showed that participants who received a high proportion of racial words rated the target person in the story as significantly more hostile than ...

  4. Person - Wikipedia

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    A person (pl.: people or persons, depending on context) is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section - Wikipedia

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    Under the main guideline on this, the opening paragraph of a biographical article should neutrally describe the person, provide context, establish notability and explain why the person is notable, and reflect the balance of reliable sources. The first sentence should usually state: Name(s) and title(s), if any (see also WP:NCNOB).

  6. Characterization - Wikipedia

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    The writer can make the characters' dialogue more realistic and interesting by considering several factors affecting how people speak: personality psychology, [9] age, culture, family background, region, gender, education, and circumstances. [16] Words characterize by their diction, cadence, complexity, attitude [17] and fluency. Mannerisms and ...

  7. Racism - Wikipedia

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    The term "racist" may be an adjective or a noun, the latter describing a person who holds those beliefs. [9] The origin of the root word "race" is not clear. Linguists generally agree that it came to the English language from Middle French , but there is no such agreement on how it generally came into Latin-based languages.

  8. Essay - Wikipedia

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    Descriptive writing is characterized by sensory details, which appeal to the physical senses, and details that appeal to a reader's emotional, physical, or intellectual sensibilities. Determining the purpose, considering the audience, creating a dominant impression, using descriptive language, and organizing the description are the rhetorical ...

  9. Ethnicity - Wikipedia

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    The proportion of people born in China and India has increased since 2011 (from 6.0 per cent to 8.3 per cent, and 5.6 per cent to 7.4 per cent, respectively). The proportion of people identifying as being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin increased from 2.5 per cent of the Australian population in 2011 to 2.8 per cent in 2016.