Pride

Pride is an inwardly directed emotion that carries two meanings. With a negative connotation pride refers to an inflated sense of one's personal status or accomplishments, often used synonymously with hubris. With a positive connotation, pride refers to a satisfied sense of attachment toward one's own or another's choices and actions, or toward a whole group of people, and is a product of praise, independent self-reflection, and a fulfilled feeling of belonging. Philosophers and social psychologists have noted that pride is a complex secondary emotion which requires the development of a sense of self and the mastery of relevant conceptual distinctions (e.g., that pride is distinct from happiness and joy) through language-based interaction with others. Some social psychologists identify it as linked to a signal of high social status. In contrast pride could also be defined as a disagreement with the truth. One definition of pride in the first sense comes from St. Augustine: "the love of one's own excellence". A similar definition comes from Meher Baba: "Pride is the specific feeling through which egoism manifests." In this sense, the opposite of pride is either humility or guilt; the latter in particular being a sense of one's own failure in contrast to Augustine's notion of excellence.

Pride (Janie Fricke song)

"Pride" is a song written by Wayne Walker and Irene Stanton, and recorded by American country music artist Janie Fricke. It was released in February 1981 as the second single from her album I'll Need Someone to Hold Me When I Cry. The song reached #12 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart and #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.

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Pride (Johnna album)

Pride is the debut, solo album of American pop singer Johnna Lee Cummings, released under the name Johnna. The album was released in July 1996 on PWL International.

Background

Cummings first found success as a member of the American pop group Boy Krazy, who were formed in New York City through auditions held by talent agents in 1990. The group was signed to a sub-label of Polydor Records. They were flown to London to record material with Stock Aitken Waterman, who had massive success in both the UK and the US in the 1980s with acts like Kylie Minogue, Bananarama, Rick Astley, Jason Donovan, Dead Or Alive among many others.

Their debut single "That's What Love Can Do" was released in the UK in July 1991, peaking at No. 86. The follow up single "All You Have To Do" stalled at No. 91 in February 1992, resulting in Polydor deciding to drop the group from the label. By chance, as the group was returning to the US to finalize the release from their record deal in the fall of 1992, a Denver radio station discovered a re-edit of "That's What Love Can Do" found on a Hot Tracks remix compilation. An employee of the station loved the track, and they decided to edit the song down to be suitable for radio and playlist it. Shortly after, it because the station's most requested song. The success revived interest in the group, and the girls were flown back to London in December 1992 to finished their album. "That's What Love Can Do" was officially released in January 1993 and peaked at No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 2 on the radio Pop Charts.

Plus

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Plus (band)

Plus (stylised as +Plus) is a Japanese pop boy band formed in December 2009 that has been signed to the label, Pony Canyon. The group combines in its pop tunes elements of genres such as hip hop, reggae, and R&B.

They released their debut album Canvas in 2010. They are well known for singing the opening and ending themes for popular anime such as Fairy Tail and Reborn! (aka Hitman Reborn) .

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Plus (novel)

Plus is Joseph McElroy's fifth novel. Set in some unspecified future, it tells the story of Imp Plus, a disembodied brain controlling IMP, the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform, in earth orbit. The novel consists of Imp Plus's thoughts as he tries to comprehend his limited existence, while struggling with language, limited memories, and communicating with Ground Control. The plot, such as it is, is driven in slow motion by Imp Plus's recall of fragments of his past and of language, his improving comprehension of his present, all while his medical condition gradually deteriorates.

McElroy denies that the novel is science fiction, unless "science" is used in its etymological sense of "knowing".

The novel was reprinted as an e-book by Dzanc Books in 2014, with an introductory 2012 poem "A Green of its Own Breathing" by Sarah Grindley, dedicated to "Joe McElroy & Imp Plus".

Sources

McElroy acknowledges three technical sources: