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American Jewish Committee
American Jewish Committee (AJC), founded November 11, 1906 in New York, is a nonpartisan Jewish advocacy organization defending Jewish civil and religious rights worldwide, distinct from the American Jewish Congress, known for its annual State of Antisemitism in America surveys.
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC, the Joint), US Jewish humanitarian organization founded 1914 after Morgenthau's $50,000 cablegram; rescued 1,000,000+ Jews, aided DP camps, Israel's Malben, Agro-Joint, and non-sectarian disaster relief in 73 countries.
American Jews
American Jews: the U.S. Jewish community, about 7.5 million people (2.4% of adults) in 2020; defined by religion, ethnicity, and ancestry; shaped by Sephardic, German, and Eastern European immigration waves; politically liberal overall except Orthodox; increasingly concerned about antisemitism.
American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association, founded in 1892, is the largest US organization of psychologists, with over 172,000 members. It publishes APA Style, maintains PsycInfo, and accredits training programs.
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross is a US humanitarian organization founded by Clara Barton in 1881, providing disaster relief and collecting about 46 percent of the nation's blood supply.
American upper class
The American upper class is the highest U.S. socioeconomic bracket, roughly 0.5–1% of the population, defined by great wealth, exclusive social institutions such as prep schools and country clubs, and corporate and political influence, distinct from the occupationally based upper middle class.
Americanization
Americanization: the process of "becoming American" and organized efforts to assimilate immigrants, especially the 1910s–1920s movement; also the global spread of American culture via brands, film, and media.
Americans
Americans are the people of the United States, defined legally by nationality and citizenship and including about 342 million people descended from Indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans, colonists, and immigrants.
Americans in the Philippines
Americans in the Philippines: U.S. citizens residing in or historically settled in the Philippines, from the 1898–1946 colonial period to today. Estimates range from about 220,000 to 700,000; the 2020 census counted only 6,306 U.S. citizens as foreign residents.
AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps, also known as the Corporation for National and Community Service, is the US federal agency for national service and volunteerism, created by an act President Bill Clinton signed in 1993.
Ames room
Ames room, invented by Adelbert Ames Jr. (dated 1934 or 1946), is a trapezoidal distorted room that looks rectangular through a monocular peephole, making equal-sized people appear giant and dwarf.
Amhara people
Amhara (Amharic-speaking people of the Ethiopian central highlands; Amhara; Amara), one of Ethiopia's two largest ethnic groups, roughly one-fourth to one-third of the population, mainly Ethiopian Orthodox; Amharic was Ethiopia's official language until the 1990s, and the Fano conflict began in 2023.
Amie Harwick
Amie Nicole Harwick (1981–2020) was a Los Angeles marriage and family therapist, sex therapist, and author of The New Sex Bible for Women (2014), formerly engaged to Drew Carey. She was murdered in February 2020 by ex-boyfriend Gareth Pursehouse, convicted of first-degree murder in 2023 and sentenced to life without parole.
Amis people
Amis people (阿美族; self-name Pangcah), Taiwan's largest officially recognized Indigenous group, about 235,000 people in 2025, living mainly in Hualien and Taitung; matrilineal society with male age classes and the ilisin Harvest Festival.
Amish way of life
Amish way of life: the daily living pattern of the Amish, Anabaptist Christians split from Mennonites in 1693, defined by the Ordnung rules, horse-and-buggy transport, Pennsylvania German, eighth-grade schooling, and 421,200 North Americans in 2026.
Ammons haunting case
Ammons haunting case (200 Demons House), alleged 2011 demonic possession of Latoya Ammons' family in Gary, Indiana, documented by police and child services, exorcised by Rev. Michael Maginot, later inspiring The Deliverance.
Amoris laetitia
Amoris laetitia (The Joy of Love), Pope Francis's 2016 post-synodal apostolic exhortation on love in the family, 325 paragraphs over nine chapters; its treatment of divorced and remarried Catholics' access to Communion sparked lasting controversy.
Amrita Devi
Amrita Devi (Imarta Devi), Bishnoi woman of Khejarli village near Jodhpur, killed in September 1730 defending khejri trees from Maharaja Abhay Singh's soldiers; her death began the Khejarli massacre of 363 Bishnois and inspired India's wildlife awards and Chipko.
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Neil Postman's media ecology critique of television, argues TV turned public discourse into entertainment; Huxley's dystopia, not Orwell's, describes us.
Amy Mek
Amy Mek is the online pseudonym of Amy Mekelburg, an American far-right commentator and anti-Islam activist from New York who founded RAIR Foundation USA and was identified by journalists in 2018.
Amy Sacco
Amy Sacco, American nightclub owner from Chatham, New Jersey, founder of Manhattan clubs Lot 61 (1998) and Bungalow 8 (2001) and the restaurant Bette; called queen of New York nightlife.
An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code
Bill C-16 (42-1), the 2016 Canadian statute adding gender identity or expression to the Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code hate propaganda and sentencing provisions; Royal Assent 19 June 2017, S.C. 2017 c. 13.
An Essay on the Principle of Population
An Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Robert Malthus's 1798 anonymously published treatise arguing population grows geometrically while food grows arithmetically, with preventive and positive checks, poor-law policy implications, and influence on Darwin, economics, and neo-Malthusian thought.
An-Nisa, 34
An-Nisa 34 (Quran 4:34), the contested verse on qawwamah, nushuz, and daraba: classical tafsir read it as permitting a husband to strike a rebellious wife, while modern exegetes and feminist scholars reinterpret its key terms.
Anal masturbation
Anal masturbation: self-stimulation of the anus and rectum with fingers or anal toys (butt plugs, beads, prostate massagers). Key points: needs lubricant, flared-based toys, cleaning; negligible HIV risk per CDC.
Anal sex
Anal sex is sexual activity involving the anus, also called anal intercourse, practiced across orientations. Covers anatomy, injury and STI risks, condoms, PrEP, doxyPEP, prevalence, stigma, and historical attitudes from antiquity onward.
Anal stage
Anal stage: second of Freud's five psychosexual stages, roughly 1–3 years, centered on anus, defecation, and toilet training; fixation yields anal-retentive or anal-expulsive character, a claim with weak empirical support.
Analysis paralysis
Analysis paralysis, or paralysis by analysis, is overthinking a decision to the point of inaction, closely tied to choice overload. Key evidence includes the Iyengar–Lepper jam study, 401(k) participation data, and meta-analyses showing overload occurs only under specific moderators.
Analytical psychology
Analytical psychology, also called Jungian psychology, is Carl Jung's school of depth psychology, split from Freudian psychoanalysis; known for complexes, archetypes, individuation, and synchronicity, with strong evidence for complexes but contested archetype theory.
Analytical skill
Analytical skill: the capacity to break information into parts, examine relationships, and draw reasoned conclusions; distinguished from critical thinking and problem solving; teachable via metacognitive training and the 4C/ID model.