Examples of eugenics in the following topics:
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- He coined the term Eugenics in 1883 and in 1909 wrote the foreword to
the first volume of the Eugenics Review,
the journal of the Eugenics Education Society, which named him as its honorary president.
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class and race factored into Eugenic definitions of "fit" and
"unfit."
- Davenport founded the Eugenics Record Office in 1911.
- Harry Laughlin served as director of the Eugenics Record Office in Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
- Eugenics was a popular pseudoscience in the early decades of the 20th century and was promoted through three International Eugenics Congresses between 1912 and 1932.
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- Eugenics played a significant role in the history and culture of the United States prior to its involvement in World War II.
- Eugenics was practiced in the United States for many years before eugenics programs in Nazi Germany were undertaken.
- In 1907, Indiana passed the first eugenics-based compulsory sterilization law in the world.
- "Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution:" Logo from the Second International Eugenics Conference, 1921, depicting Eugenics as a tree which unites a variety of different fields.
- Discuss the sources and political significance of the eugenics movement in early twentieth-century America
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- The Fama–French three-factor model is a linear model designed by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French to describe stock returns.
- The Fama–French three-factor model is a model designed by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French to describe stock returns .
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- The strike was led by the upstart American Railway Union led by Eugene V.
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- The election of 1912 was a contest between William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Democrat Woodrow Wilson, and Eugene V.
- Eugene V.
- Eugene V.
- Eugene Debs polled nearly 1,000,000 votes, more than doubling his vote of 1908.
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- Evidence: Eugene Debbs described the novel as leading him "out of darkness and into the light" of socialism.
- Logical analysis: Eugene Debbs, the famous union leader and former Socialist candidate for President of the United States, described the novel as leading him "out of the darkness and into the light" of socialism, demonstrating the extent to which the novel has a history of being popular with politically progressive groups and individuals.
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- Another item on the progressive agenda was Eugenics—a social philosophy advocating improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding.
- Some progressives, especially among economists, sponsored eugenics as a collectivist solution to excessively large or underperforming families.
- However, there were no major national, state or local programs that practiced nor endorsed eugenics.
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- Fascist and National Socialist ideology subscribed to a different form of social Darwinism than the laissez-faire version because they were not advocates for an individualist order of society; rather, they advocated racial and national struggle, where the state planned and controlled human breeding through science and eugenics—a program that no proponent of laissez-faire could consistently endorse.
- Some pre-twentieth-century doctrines subsequently described as social Darwinism appeared to anticipate state- imposed eugenics and the race doctrines of Nazism.
- Critics have frequently linked evolution, Charles Darwin, and social Darwinism with racialism, nationalism, imperialism, and eugenics, contending that social Darwinism became one of the pillars of fascism and Nazi ideology, and that the consequences of the application of policies of "survival of the fittest" by Nazi Germany eventually created a very strong backlash against the theory.
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- Eugenics, a racially based pseudo-science, also fueled
anti-immigrant sentiment.
- The
racial concerns of the anti-immigration movement were closely linked to Eugenics, a racial pseudo-science that had
taken hold in Europe and was quickly gaining popularity in the United States.
- Influenced by Madison Grant's 1916 pro-Eugenics book, The Passing of the Great Race, nativists
grew increasingly concerned with America’s ethnic purity and what Grant argued
was the dilution of the national racial stock by an influx of new immigrants
from the Mediterranean, the Balkans and the Polish ghettos.
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- Profoundly respectful of the past, Ingres assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis Eugène Delacroix.
- Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) had great success at the Salon with works like "The Barque of Dante (1822)," "The Massacre at Chios" (1824) and "Death of Sardanapalus" (1827).