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  2. Pulse - Wikipedia

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    Pulse (or the count of arterial pulse per minute) is equivalent to measuring the heart rate. The heart rate can also be measured by listening to the heart beat by auscultation, traditionally using a stethoscope and counting it for a minute. The radial pulse is commonly measured using three fingers.

  3. On the Pulse of Morning - Wikipedia

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    On the Pulse of Morning. " On the Pulse of Morning " is a poem by writer and poet Maya Angelou that she read at the first inauguration of President Bill Clinton on January 20, 1993. With her public recitation, Angelou became the second poet in history to read a poem at a presidential inauguration, and the first African American and woman.

  4. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness - Wikipedia

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    Jefferson may have been enshrining a version of the "natural and necessary" category of desires into the social contract of his new country. In his Letter to Menoeceus, Epicurus of Samos stated "that among the necessary desires some are necessary for happiness, some for physical health, and some for life itself".

  5. Zeitgeist - Wikipedia

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    According to Hegel biographer D. R. Forsyth, Leo Tolstoy disagreed with Carlyle's perspective, instead believing that leadership, like other things, was a product of the "zeitgeist", [year needed] [page needed] the social circumstances at the time. Great Man theory and zeitgeist theory may be included in two main areas of thought in psychology.

  6. Social influence - Wikipedia

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    Social influence comprises the ways in which individuals adjust their behavior to meet the demands of a social environment. It takes many forms and can be seen in conformity, socialization, peer pressure, obedience, leadership, persuasion, sales, and marketing. Typically social influence results from a specific action, command, or request, but ...

  7. Liberalism - Wikipedia

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    Social liberty meant limits on the ruler's power through obtaining recognition of political liberties or rights and establishing a system of "constitutional checks". His definition of liberty, influenced by Joseph Priestley and Josiah Warren, was that the individual ought to be free to do as he wishes unless he harms others.

  8. Social consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Social consciousness or social awareness, is collective consciousness shared by individuals within a society. [1] Social consciousness is linked to the collective self-awareness and experience of collectively shared social identity. [2] From this viewpoint, social consciousness denotes conscious awareness of being part of an interrelated ...

  9. Social Gospel - Wikipedia

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    Social Gospel. The Social Gospel is a social movement within Protestantism that aims to apply Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, lack of unionization, poor schools, and the dangers of war.