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Within the sub-heading of Modern, the major movements and schools include:

Modern Movements and Schools

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Human Nature

For 50 years, Kitty Genovese's 1964 murder was the story of 38 neighbors who did nothing. Then the New York Times admitted the number was grossly exaggerated, and that one neighbor, Sophia Farrar, had run out and held her in her arms until help came.

In 2023 the heads of OpenAI and Google DeepMind signed a warning that ranked AI's extinction risk alongside pandemics and nuclear war, yet in a 2025 Pew survey half of Americans said AI will worsen people's ability to form meaningful relationships, and only 5% expected it to improve

In 2014, customers at a Florida Starbucks paid for the next person's coffee in at least 378 consecutive transactions, but when the chain started again the next day, a local blogger deliberately ended it, saying it was guilt, not generosity

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