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Specific term required. Jim Cullen’s 2003 “short history” of this concept notes that publishers deemed it too strange a title for the 1931 bestseller in which James Truslow Adams coined it. This concept titles a film about a strike at Hormel Foods, the second Oscar-winning documentary by Barbara Kopple. Raoul Duke asks people where (10[1])he can find this subtitular concept (10[1])in the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. A resolution that this concept (10[1])exists “at the expense (-5[1])of” the (10[1])“Negro” framed (10[1])a Cambridge Union Society debate between James (10[1])Baldwin (10[1]-5[1])and William F. Buckley Jr. (10[2])This (10[1])concept names an (10[2])East Rutherford, New Jersey facility (10[1])that is (10[1])the U.S.’s second-largest shopping mall. (10[3])A (10[1])2017 paper by Raj Chetty (10[1])et al. calls this idea “fading,” (10[1])as shown by declining absolute (10[1])income mobility. For (10[1])10 points, give this term for belief in paths to success afforded by the U.S. ■END■ (10[2])

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