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What vast transformations in the human experience characterize the period known as modernity?: new means of transportation, telegraph and telephone, agricultural/nutritional/public health/medical care improvements, and urban life boomed What is one of the major themes of twentieth-century literature that was brought about by the unprecedented numbers of people living in large cities?: the experience of urban life Why did the development of more advance weapons make people long for worl...

Realism Period I ID AoD - I Identify Age of Doubt I- Industrialization ID- Individualism, Darwinism AoD- Age of Doubt Darwinism theory of evolution due to natural selection shed new light on the development of humans as a species; Realists valued Darwin's empirical proof over religious faith. Realism period. natural selection certain traits are removed over generations when they are not necessary. Realism period. Scientific Materialism is the philosophical view tha...

ENG 272 Final Exam Questions With 100% Verified Answers What vast transformations in the human experience characterize the period known as modernity? - answernew means of transportation, telegraph and telephone, agricultural/nutritional/public health/medical care improvements, and urban life boomed What is one of the major themes of twentieth-century literature that was brought about by the unprecedented numbers of people living in large cities? - answerthe experience of urban life Why di...

(Lady) Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978 -c. 1015): Novelist, diarist, and courtesan. She was the author of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), the first known novel; the diary nikki; and a collection of tanka poems. The daughter of the court official Fujiwara Tametoki, she sat in on the classical Chinese literature lessons that her brother received, in spite of the Heian traditions against higher education for women. (Sei) Shonagan (c. 966 - c. 1013): Like Lady Murasaki, was a lady-in-waiting of th...

ABCTE Elementary Education Terms 208 Questions with Verified Answers Acceleration - CORRECT ANSWER A change in velocity Acute - CORRECT ANSWER An angle measuring less than 90 degrees Affix - CORRECT ANSWER A linguistic set of letters added to a word to affect its meaning. For example, the word decompression has two—the prefix de- (meaning to separate, to stop, to contradict, etc.) and the suffix -ion (meaning that the word refers to a condition or process). Alfred Russell Wallace -...

POETS & POETRY | 1600 | He began a famous poem, ""I celebrate myself, and sing myself"" Walt Whitman 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS | 800 | In 1893 this British man published his ""initial"" book, a ""text-book of biology""; many sci-fi novels followed H.G. Wells FRENCH LITERATURE | 2000 | A collection of about 90 tales, ""The Human Comedy"" by this author paints a vivid portrait of 19th c. France (Honoré de) Balzac CONSERVATIVE BOOKSHELF | 400 | Cartoonist Michael Ramirez...

Praxis 5038 Latest Update with Verified Solutions James Fenimore Cooper Wrote famous series Leatherstocking Tales: The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, The Deerslayer. First book was Precaution, which attempted to satirize Jane Austens novels. Last of the Mohicans Main character-Natty Bumppo (Hawkeye), setting 1757 Upstate NY, Seven Years War Harriet Beecher Stowe Born 1811 CT, wrote Uncle Toms Cabin Uncle Toms Cabin Story of a slave sold from KY into a life of...

HIEU 2162 questions answered 100% correct Article 58 Permit the arrest of counter-revolutionary, led to the arrest of many innocent people and powerful people who could be a threat to Stalinist regime. Long sentences, ended up usually 25 yr in gulag Kirov head of the Leningrad Party Association and ally of Stalin until his assassination in Dec. 1924. Stalin decreed that it was a capitalist coup and exiled around 100,000 with questionable backgrounds in response (part of the Mass Purges...

World Scholars Cup Latest Update (2022/2023) Graded A+ Goldilocks Zone The distance a planet needs to be for life to exist. What do people focus more on when they look back at their life? Their mistakes Line of Succession government officials that replace the president if a new president is not elected before they leave office, next in line is Vice President absolute primogeniture where the eldest child of the sovereign enters the throne regardless of gender Agnatic Primogeniture succession ...

ATI TEAS 6 EXAM REVIEW TEST2020/2021 EXAM FILES (with answer sheets) ATI TEAS 6 EXAM REVIEW TEST2020/2021 EXAM FILES(with answer sheets) Section 1. Reading Number of Questions: 53 Time Limit: 64 Minutes 1. Ernestine has a short research project to complete, and her assigned topic is the history of the Globe Theatre in London. Which of the following sources would be the best starting point for Ernestine’s research? a. Roget’s Thesaurus b. Webster’s Diction...