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55 Cards in this Set
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Democracy
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Government by the people; either directly or indirectly through their representatives.
*All Citizens have equal rank *No Titles of Nobility |
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What does Democracy presuppose?
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That people are fit to govern themselves.
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What kinds of democracy are there?
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Political
Social Economic Educational |
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What poet wrote about democracy?
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Walt Whitman
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Democracy is a new idea.
What were the views of Plato, Confucius, Augustine, and the Islamic faith concerning government? |
Plato-Kings, Rule by elite
Confucius-Governming by example of excellence. Augustine- Strong government necessary to restrain human sin. Islam-Submission to god's will. |
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Forms of Government before the 18th Century:
Aristocracy & Kinship |
Family based
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Forms of Government before the 18th Century:
Theocracy |
Religous leaders=political leaders.
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Forms of Government before the 18th Century:
Monarchy |
Unitary Executive
Rule by "helmsman" (Thomas Aquinas) "Divine Right of Kings" |
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Who described monarchy as rule by "helmsman"?
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Thomas Aquinas
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What years encompassed "The Age of Empire" and what did it regard?
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1875-1914
"regareded by Western diplomats as deserving the title of 'Emperors' was at its maximum" -Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire (1989) |
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What were the limits of Pericles' Athenian democracy?
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Citizenship-"barbarians" are out!
Gender-Women are not citizens Slavery- 125,000 in Attica at time of Peloponnesian war "only serious blot" -H.D.F. Kitto, The Greeks (1951) |
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How do monarchys divide power?
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Monarch and subject
*Women can rule |
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How does a democracy divide power?
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Citizen and non-citizen
(Men by definition are citizens) |
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What forces favor democracy?
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-Emergence of cities, craft guides, prosperity (bourgeoisie)
-Protestant reformation- individual relationship with god/ individual relationship with state. -Enlightenment Anthropology (Locke's "tubula rasa," shifting ideas of human nature |
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According to Thomas Jefferson, What assisted in the spread of democracy?
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Science.
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What was representitive of the expansion of democracy?
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-declining property qualifications for male
(Major theme of Jacksonian Age (1830s-1840s) |
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Democracy expanded at the expense of what groups?
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Blacks and Native Americans
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What are characteristics of Political democracy?
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-Participation in an electoral system
-VOTE! -Political parties -Interests & Interest Groups |
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What ammendment gave women the vote?
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19th Ammendment
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What year was the Voting rights act?
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1965
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What and whose metaphore was Jane Addams influenced by?
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Abraham Lincoln's metaphore of a "House-Divided"
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Where did Jane Addams attend college?
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Rockford Female Seminary in Illinois.
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What defined Jane Addams political career?
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Labor Legislation
Pullman strike of 1894 |
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What year did Jane Addams win the nobel peace prize?
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1931
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What year was Hull house opened?
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1889
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What were some characteristics of Hull house?
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-"Community of female reformers"
-regarding the city as organic -A broker between classes, ethnicities, relgious cultures -Politics before the vote -An example to the city "socializing" democracy |
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What happened in the years W.E.B. Dubois was born and died?
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1868-14th ammendment ratified
1963-JFK was assasinated |
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What was Dubois' Harvard thesis on and in what year?
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1896- "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870."
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What year was the Philadelphia Negro Published?
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1899
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What year was The Souls of Black Folk published?
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1903
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What year did he write on Black Reconstruction in America (1860-1880)?
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1935
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Random Shit
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NAACP
The Crisis 1913 The Star of Ethiopian Pageant in New York |
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What did Dubois support in the 1920's.
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Anti-Lynching Campaigns
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Where does he die and when?
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Accra, Ghana 1963
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In what year was the play set?
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1922
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What years was WWI
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1914-1918
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who says: "Of emotional paralysis...the lost children, the psychological devastation of WWI, and the deep-running vein of desperation within these forgotten women"
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Matthew Barber
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How many died in WWI
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11 Million
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Who said, "The suffering was beyond imagination?"
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E.H. Gombrich, A Little History of the World
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Who painted the painting "We are making a New World?"
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Paul Nash
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What was London like in 1922?
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Dreary, empty
Act 1: Looks gloomy and shrouded |
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How are the young represented?
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Falsely bright and flippant
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Which Character says: "to change what we have into what we wished for... because for every after found, a before must be lost... to discover before gone, w/o an after having taken its place."
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Lotty
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What is the Italian city were enchantment takes place?
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San Salvatore
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Where was the story of the walking stick first found?
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Tale of Celtic St. Patrick
Fell asleep under frosty thorn tree-wakes to find it in protective bloom over him. |
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In what story does the pope deny knight clemency "Staff would sooner burst into flower than he would forgive the pilgrim for his carnal pleasures." Staff blooms (Majesty of Divine grace)
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Wagners Tannhauser
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What are the plants called?
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Crozier Ferns (Dicksonia Antarctica)
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What is the tree in the play?
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acacia tree
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Who developes the "Green World Theory?"
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N. Frye
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What does the "Green World Theory describe"
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drama's simple pattern
melancholy of fall seeming death of winter glorious rebirth of spring Journey in all plays |
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What is the Argument of Comedy in what year?
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Struggle and rebirth of divine hero
sunk into marriage freeing of a slave triumph of young man over older 1948 |
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How does theater relate to Locke?
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Enjoy benefits of community
Theater production=community event |
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Who was teh novelist in what year was the original novel published?
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Elizabeth Von Arnim 1922
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Who was the playwrite and what year was the play written?
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Matthew Barber 2000
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Who directed the play performed by the Hendrix Players?
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Jana Tift
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