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- Dictionaryscholar/ˈskɒlə/
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- 1. a specialist in a particular branch of study, especially the humanities: "a Hebrew scholar" Similar
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17 hours ago · Zionism. Theodor Herzl was the founder of the modern Zionist movement. In his 1896 pamphlet Der Judenstaat, he envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state during the 20th century. Zionism [a] is an ethnic or ethno-cultural nationalist [1] [fn 1] movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the ...
17 hours ago · Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique to train attention and awareness and detach from reflexive, "discursive thinking," achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state, while not judging the meditation-proces itself.
17 hours ago · Mindfulness. Mindfulness is the cognitive skill, usually developed through meditation, of sustaining meta-attention of the contents of one's own mind in the present moment. [1] [2] [note 1] [3] [web 1] [2] [4] [5] Mindfulness derives from sati, a significant element of Hindu and Buddhist traditions, [6] [7] and is based on Zen, Vipassanā, and ...
17 hours ago · While scholars from both the West and the Muslim world agree on the text's authenticity, disagreements persist on whether it was a treaty or a unilateral proclamation by Muhammad, the number of documents it comprised, the primary parties, the specific timing of its creation (or that of its constituent parts), whether it was drafted before or after Muhammad's removal of the three leading Jewish ...
2 hours ago · “CRT scholars note that the social construction of race and racism is a regular component of American society; it is embedded in structures such as law, culture, and economics, which supports…
17 hours ago · In this pathbreaking reader, three of the nation’s leading advocates—Premal Dharia, James Forman Jr., and Maria Hawilo—provide us with tools to move from despair and critique to hope and action. Dismantling Mass Incarceration surveys various approaches to confronting the carceral state, exploring bold but practical interventions involving ...
17 hours ago · Scholars have pointed out flaws in the design of the SDGs for the following aspects: "the number of goals, the structure of the goal framework (for example, the non-hierarchical structure), the coherence between the goals, the specificity or measurability of the targets, the language used in the text, and their reliance on neoliberal economic development-oriented sustainable development as ...
