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| Victorian ENG female novelist who wrote the realist novels Middlemarch and Adam Bede |
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| American born British Modernist poet who wrote the obscure and referential poems "The Wasteland" and the "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." |
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| American poet from the 20th century "Stopping the the Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Mending Wall." |
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| Amer Beat poet and active political figure who became the face of a generations's underground HOWL |
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| Seminal work by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel in which the basic principles of communism are outlined |
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| campaign carried out by the Chinese Red Guards 1966-1976 with the goal of revitalizing the Chinese Communist Party and consolidating Mao Zedong's leadership |
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| belief that those who will achieve Salvation are a select few who are preordained prior to birth. |
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| Patheistic religion and philosophy originating in China focused on principles that allow people to live in harmony with the natural order. Founded by Lao-tzu |
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| Set of domestic programs set foth by FDR's administration to help the US overcome the Great Depression |
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| Palace near Paris that was the seat of power for many French kings, including Louis XIV. Conclusion of WWI (Treaty of Versailles) |
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| Island where Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met to discuss the partitioning of EUR at the conclusion of WWII. |
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| Faith based on the teachings of the prophet Muhammad. Monotheistic worship of Allah centers around the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. |
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| Popular American writer of noir, or detective, fiction. Many of his novels, including Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, became successful movies. |
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| One of the great English writers of the 19th century; his popular novels include Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess fo teh D'Urbervilles. |
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| Important 19th century American writer who wrote celebrated novels and short stories, including The Scarlet Letter and "The Minister's Black Veil." |
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| Holds a place as one of American's most influential writers due to a terse style he honed as a journalist. Best known among his works are the novels The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms. |
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| Swiss-born German writer who wrote often abou the duality of life. His novels include Siddhartha and Steppenwolf. |
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| Ancient Greek writer sometimes called the father of literature. His epics Iliad and Odyssey are two of history's most important achievements. |
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| Expatriate American writer and critic at the turn of the 19th century whose novels include The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller. |
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| The leading thinker of his era, this English writer wrote the first modern dictionary in 1755, |
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| Irish author is one of the towering figures of modern literature due to his groundbreaking narratives, shown most spectacularly in novels Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake. |
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| German existentialist novelist who penned the classic The Metamorphosis. |
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| English Romantic poet who wrote "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn." |
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| American Beat poet and novelist and voice of the counterculture who wrote On the Road. |
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| 19th century American Romantic poet who wrote "Songs of Hiawatha." |
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| English playwright was Shakespeare's contemporary and is often thought ot have influenced him greatly. He wrote Tamburlain the Great as well as Dr. Faustus. |
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| One of the greatest American novelists, his works include the master piece Moby Dick and the short story "Bartleby the Scrivener." |
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| 20th Century American writer who wrote several controversial wordsk including Tropic of Cancer. |
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| Great English language poet. Outspoken essayist during the Reformation; Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. |
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| French playwright and actor who helped define modern theater with plays named Tartuffe and The Misanthrope. |
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| 20th Century playwright. Desire Under the Elms, The Hairy Ape, and The Iceman Cometh. |
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| American poet and novelist of the confessional school whose tempestuous life was the subject of many of her poems. "Daddy," "The Bell Jar." She commited suicide. |
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| Greek essayist and biographer whose monumental tome, The Parallel Lives, influenced many scholars and writers, including Shakespeare. |
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| FR novelist who wrote complex novels and stories, among which is the series of books that make up Remembrance of Things Past. |
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| BR novelist most notable for the death sentence imposed on him by the Ayatollah Khomeini, who thought his novel The Satanic Verses to be blashemous. |
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| Scottish novelist whose historical novels were extremely popular. IVANHOE |
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| master of playwrights in English language. influenced much of modern literature from poetry to tragedy. Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth King Lear |
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| Irish playwright and Nobel Prize winner wrote many notable plays, including Pygmalion and Saint Joan. |
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| English poet during the Romantic movement who also the husband of Mary Shelley. A vocal social critic who published Promethan Unbound. |
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| Greek dramatist who along with Aeschylus and Euripedes wrote some of the greatest Greek tragedies. Oedipus Rex |
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| master of epic poetry adn friend of British a statemen , he is known for The Faerie Queen. |
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| 20th century American novelist whose stories often centered around the plight of the worker. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962 and wrote The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. |
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| English writer who wrote Treasure Island and the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. |
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| Irish-born English writer (satirist) Gullivers Travels and A Modest Proposal. |
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| was a mentor of Ralph Waldo Emerson and champioed Transcendentalism. He wrote Walden. (American) |
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| Russian novelist and philosopher who wrote some of the most famous novels. War and Peace and Anna Karenina. |
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| Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
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| Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer (American literature) |
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| Contemporary American novelist who wrote many popular novels including Rabbit, Runn and Bech at Bay. |
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| Roman poet who wrote the epic Aeneid. |
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| French philosopher and author whose achievments helped shape the Age of Englightenment, Principal among his work is the masterpiece Candide. |
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| AA novelist who wrote The Color Purple |
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| One of the greatest American poets, whose seminal collection, Leaves of Grass, is still considered among the greatest of American poetical works. |
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| Controversial Irish writer whose works included The Importance of Being Earnest and Salome. |
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| Major American playwright from the South who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie. |
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| British novelist and major influence in modern fiction (stream-of-consciousness) To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway. |
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| Poet of the English Romantic movement who published Lyrical Ballads. |
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| Irish playwright and poet who penned The Winding Stair. |
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| French writer and essayist from the naturalist school whose most famous work is "J'Accuse" an article decrying teh French govenment's role in the Dreyfus Affair. |
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| energy, enthusiasm, vitality, animation, brio, esprit |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776; proclaimed American colonies independence from GB |
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| A cooling of Cold War tensions initiated during the adminstrations of Nixon and Brezhnev |
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| Soviet policy introduced in 1985 by M. Gorbechev about "openness" in the sharing of ideas and information |
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| nomadic group from central Asia who undertook a mass migration to the Roman Empire in the 400s C.E. |
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| policy passed by the US Congress in 1941 allowing President Roosevelt to give arms and other supplies to any nation considered vital to the security of the US |
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| document drafted in 1215 tha specifies English political and civil liberties. It forms teh basis of English common law |
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| Belief first articulated in teh mid-1800s that it was the destiny of the US to contine to expand to the west and Pacific Ocean |
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| plan put forth by US Sec of State George c Marshall describing how to rebuild EUR after the conclusion of WWII. |
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| Mohandas Gandhi (Mohatma) |
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| Indian leader who achieved independence for India from the BR through an organized campaign of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience |
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| US president during the Cuban Missle Crisis and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. Lee Harvey Oswald assasinated him |
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| Leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917. First leader of the Soviet Union. Bolshevik and Communist |
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| Sun King. Rule that represented the height of the French monarchy at Versailles. absolute monarch of divine right |
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| French monarch who ruled until the French Revolution |
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| Philosopher who first artculated teh ecnomic principles of communism. |
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| Helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, radon |
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| halogens (free state molecules) |
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| lightest element on periodic table (nonmetal) in IA group |
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| lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, francium |
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| alkali metals (basics of IA group) |
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| 29 metalic elements that have valence elctrons in two shells instead of one |
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| chromium, iron, nickel, copper, silver gold mercury (transition metals) |
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| boron, carbon, silcon, germanium, arsenic, antimony, polonium astatine |
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| metalloids (intermediates between typical metals and nonmetals) |
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| other metals (ductile and malleable) outer shell presence of electrons |
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| kitten, tom, queen, clutter/clowder, feline |
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| foal, stallion/colt, mare/filly, herd, equine |
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| measure of liquid volume equal in the US to 31.5gallons; also half a hogshead and 1/4 of a butt |
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| early 20th century artistic movement predicted on the fragmentation of reality; a direct reaction to Impressionism (Picasso) |
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| absurdist movement of the early 20th century (Duchamp) |
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| early 20th century Italian art movement that emphasized the machine as art |
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| architectural style of 12th - 16th century (arches and stained glass) Norte Dame in Paris |
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| late 19th century French school of art that emphasized the artists visual impressions over realism (Monet, Renior) |
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| print technique in which plates are pressed onto a crayon drawing |
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| late 18th century art movement that rejected the ornate rococo style and returned to a Greek and Roman model |
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| artistic style characterized by use of tiny dots of paint that when seen together make up a whole image (Seurat) |
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| contemporary art movement that borrows heavily from popular culture and commerical art sources (Warhol) |
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| 19th century art movement that borrows in which reality of vision is emphasized over idealization or romanticization |
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| 18th century art movement that was typified by playful and intricate design |
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| movement begun in the 1920s that sought to show the world through fantastic landscapes and dream imagery. (Magritte, dali) |
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| Flemish painter - The Garden fo Earthly Delights and Mocking of Christ |
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| Florentine painter - Fortitude (refined figures brilliant colors) |
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| Sculptor, painter, archtect - Ren artist Italian - David, Pieta, Sistine Chapel |
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| Known as "The Elder" - flemish - landscapes and characters - The Fall of the Rebel Angels. |
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| Russian painter whose work strongly presaged the Surrealist movement. stained glass windows and illustrated books |
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| Late 19th century French painter and sculptor known for his paintings of ballet dancers and sculptors of horses. Influcenced Picasso |
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| German artist whose woodcuts adn engraving are among greatest in history - Four horseman of the Apocalypse and Melencolia I |
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| Florentine mont and painter who supervised and created the making of frescoses in the St. Mark's convent in Florence |
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| German painter of the Dada movement who later shaped Surrealist movement - collages and painting - Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale |
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| French post-Impressionist painter influence modern art. Many of his most famous pieces are of life on the islands of Tahiti and Marquesas |
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| a classical piece written for an orchestra and one or more soloists, most often in 3 movements |
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| form of conditioning first discussed by Russian Pavlov in which a neutral, conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditional stimulus until the conditioned stimulus prompts the same response as teh unconditioned stimulus |
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| Jungian psychology, a part of the unconscious mind, shared by a society, a people, or all humankind, that is the product of ancestral experience and contains such concepts as science, religion, and morality |
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| Freudian theory, conscious component of the psyche that urges teh id with the limitations of conscious and the superego |
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| the division of the psyche that is totally unconscious and serves teh source of instinctual impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs |
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| form of conditioning in which operator acts independently and desirable behaviors are reinforced |
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| the division of the unconscious that is formed thorugh the interanalization for moral standards of parents and society; censors and restraints the ego |
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| American philosopher adn linguist. Believes in an innate "deep structure" to language |
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| Austrian founder of psychoanalytic thought, which presupposes the existence of an unconscoius that exists independent of conscious thought |
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| swiss psychoanalyst who departed from Freud's emphasis on the sexual nature of unconscious thought. Developed theories of personality ytpes and teh collective uncocscious |
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| american behaviorist who believed all behavior could be understood in terms of operant conditioning |
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| American psychologist who first developed behaviorist thought |
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| to embarras (disconcert, discomfit, faze, mortify) |
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| German rationalist phil and mathematician |
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| English empiricist phil who put forth many of th ebasic ideas of empiricism (tabula rasa) Age of Enlightenment. |
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| 14th Cent English philosopher who developed teh motion of "parsimony." simple are better than complex (explanations) |
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| French philosopher, matehmatician, and theologian best known for "Pascals Bargain" which argues for belief in the existence of God. |
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| Greek philo who studied under Socrates and developed a theory of Forms in which things in this world are mere reflections or shadows of objects of knowledge, which are universals. |
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