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  2. Gunga Din - Wikipedia

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    The poem was published as part of a set of martial poems called the Barrack-Room Ballads. In contrast to Kipling's later poem "The White Man's Burden", "Gunga Din" is named after the Indian and portrays him as a heroic character who is not afraid to face danger on the battlefield as he tends to wounded men. The white soldiers who order Din ...

  3. List of South African slang words - Wikipedia

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    • ID photo - the washing of your face and teeth only, instead of your whole body (e.g: “I’m late so I am going to do an ID photo.”) • Is not make sure - To say that something is not good, not convincing, an overreach or delusional at the worst. (e.g: “This new chips flavour is not make sure”) • Like things - Used to call someone ...

  4. I Am – Somebody - Wikipedia

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    "I Am – Somebody" is a poem often recited by Reverend Jesse Jackson, and was used as part of PUSH-Excel, a program designed to motivate black students. [ 1 ] A similar poem was written in the early 1940s by Reverend William Holmes Borders , Sr., senior pastor at the Greater Wheat Street Baptist Church and civil rights activist in Atlanta ...

  5. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity - Wikipedia

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    The exact meaning and origin of the name Bisaya is unknown. The first documented use of the name is possibly by Song-era Chinese maritime official Zhao Rugua who wrote about the "Pi-sho-ye", who raided the coasts of Fujian and Penghu during the late 12th century using iron javelins attached to ropes as their weapons.

  6. Romanian profanity - Wikipedia

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    If the speaker doesn't wish to direct the profanity at their interlocutor, the phrase "pizda mă-sii" is used instead, meaning "his/her/their/its mother's cunt". Pizdă can also be used as a derogatory term for calling someone a coward. It is commonly used in "Nu fi pizdă" which translates to "don't be a pussy".

  7. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

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    The poem does not have a deep, hidden, symbolic meaning. Rather, it is simply pleasurable to read, say, and hear. Critical terminology becomes useful when one attempts to account for why the language is pleasurable, and how Byron achieved this effect. The lines are not simply rhythmic: the rhythm is regular within a line, and is the same for ...

  8. Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric - Wikipedia

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    Misgendering can be deliberate or accidental. It can involve using pronouns to describe someone that are not the ones they use, [184] calling a person "ma'am" or "sir" in contradiction to the person's gender identity, [185] and using a pre-transition name for someone instead of a post-transition one [186] . [187] [188]

  9. I Am (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The poem is known as Clare's "last lines" [4] and is his most famous. [5] The poem's title is used for a 2003 collection of Clare's poetry, I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare, edited by his biographer Jonathan Bate, [6] and it had previously been included in the 1992 Columbia University Press anthology, The Top 500 Poems. [7]