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  2. Southern Gothic - Wikipedia

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    Southern Gothic particularly focuses on the South's history of slavery, racism, fear of the outside world, violence, a "fixation with the grotesque, and a tension between realistic and supernatural elements". [4] Similar to the elements of the Gothic castle, Southern Gothic depicts the decay of the plantation in the post-Civil War South. [4]

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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    Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Capitalize names of regions if they have attained proper-name status, including informal conventional names (Southern California; the Western Desert), and derived terms for people (e.g., a Southerner as someone from the Southern United States). Do not capitalize descriptive names for regions that have not attained the status of proper names ...

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Titles of works - Wikipedia

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    In titles (including subtitles, if any) of English-language works (books, poems, songs, etc.), every word is capitalized except for the definite and indefinite articles, the short coordinating conjunctions, and any short prepositions. This is known as title case. Capitalization of non-English titles varies by language (see below). Wikipedia ...

  6. Newsroom quandary: Should ‘black’ be capitalized? - AOL

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    As journalists grapple with massive protests and sweeping changes in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, U.S. newsrooms are debating an important style change: whether to capitalize the “b ...

  7. Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Capital letters - Wikipedia

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    Some of these terms should be capitalized in particular contexts, e.g. Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians, and Indigenous in several contexts including Alaska and Canada, and Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. However, it simply is not normal English, no matter how many advocacy pushers fight for it change, to capitalize these terms ...

  8. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2007 May 22

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    First of all, MOS:CAPS has nothing to say about this; it only deals with directions as parts of place names (e.g., Southern California, which does get capitalized). Every usage guide I've found says that "downtown [anywhere]" does not get capitalized. Yes, it does indicate a specific place, but that has nothing to do with capitalization.

  9. This high school English teacher's gothic novel has roots in ...

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    What to know about 'Being Dead' and its Southern Tier author. A veteran educator and a former teacher in the Moravia school district, Leise returned to teaching following a three-year Perry Morgan ...