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  • 71Stranger in the Forest (book) — Stranger in the forest (subtitle: on foot across Borneo) is a 1988 book by Eric Hansen about a seven months and 4000 km long journey (of which 2300 km on foot) through the heartland of Borneo in 1982. Hansen was the first westerner to walk across …

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  • 72set — /set/, v., set, setting, n., adj., interj. v.t. 1. to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table. 2. to place in a particular position or posture: Set the baby on his feet. 3. to place in some relation to something …

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  • 73Shelby Steele and John E. Jacob: The State of Black America (1988) — ▪ Primary Source       The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s represented the apogee of African American political unity. The effort to defeat Jim Crow (Jim Crow law) segregation and to promote federal legislation on behalf of civil… …

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  • 74Dynamic awareness theory — (DAT) offers an alternative to explaining the creation of awareness in distributed work groups. DAT highlights the important role of users and social practices in awareness creation. The theory further points to the dynamic nature of awareness… …

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  • 75Online community — An online community is a virtual community that exists online and whose members enable its existence through taking part in membership ritual. An online community can take the form of an information system where anyone can post content, such as a …

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  • 76Existence (Philosophy of) 1 — Philosophy of existence 1 Heidegger Jacques Taminiaux At the very outset and up to the end, the long philosophical journey of Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) remained oriented by a single question, the question of Being, the Seinsfrage. This does… …

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  • 77make a splash — informal he always believed he would make a splash in Washington Syn: cause a sensation, cause a stir, attract attention, draw attention to oneself/itself, get noticed, make an impression, make an impact …

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  • 78kick — [[t]kɪk[/t]] v. t. 1) to strike with the foot or feet: to kick a ball[/ex] 2) to drive, force, thrust, etc., by or as if by kicks 3) spo Football. to score (a field goal or a conversion) by place kicking the ball 4) inf Informal. to make (a car)… …

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