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61 Cards in this Set
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Why does the girl get angry when the natives don’t move out of her way?
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Its considered rude
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What does the girls name mean?
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• Chieftainess
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Persia
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iran
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As a small child Lessing moved to
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• - Rosida/Zimbabwe
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lessing was a
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communist
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What does she carry with her to protect her?
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• Gun and two dogs
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What is the main agriculture
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maize
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What was chief’s words when the girl shows up at his village?
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the son of nokosi soidan is welcome”
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What did the girl think of chief chulanka at the village?
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- considered vale and chink
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where was borowski born?
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Zytomierz
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What happened to borowski because of his first publication?
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He was arrested
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What is the blade river
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• smoke from the crematorium
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What was the name of the camp borowski was imprisoned in
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auchwitz
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Whats the name of the camp called verblechor
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• City of criminals
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What did SS soldiers wear?
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black and silver
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What was tattooed on camp workers?
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131-132
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In the end, the narrator calls the camp a
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• “haven of quiet”
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Harappan
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Indus valley civilization
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Aryan migration
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nomads came from the northwest (central asia)
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Sanskrit (well formed)
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• what the Aryan language evolved into
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Veda (wisdom)
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• sacred oral tradition that becomes the foundation for Hinduism
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Stratified society
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Aryans have this kind of society… later becomes castes
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Cosmic maintenance
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Hinduism was concerned with this ritual
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Veda (wisdom
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four collections of sacred texts that remained deliberately unwritten
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Classic Hinduism develops from
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the newer axial age and tradiational vedic understanding of the world
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Transmigration
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reincarnation of the soul as a direct result of karma
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Karma
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the concept that all action in this life has a consequence in future lives
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Samsara
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the cycle of birth/death/birth - not desirable
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Brahmanas
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commentaries on the Vedas concepts of Brahmin priesthood, reincarnation into immortal body, ritual sacrifices
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Upanishads
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commentaries supporting “enlightenment” as path to salvation, responsibility, denies efficacy of ritual sacrifice of necessity of priesthood
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Castes
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hindu - there were 4 - color
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Dharma
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obligations or duties
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Mughal empire
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• 1526-1858 (muslim)
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india independence
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1947
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Muslim states of E&W Pakistan
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Pakistan and Bangladesh
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East India company founded
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1600
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East India company colonizes until
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1857 - mutiny
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Raj era
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1858 british gov assumes control of India
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Urdu
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Sanskrit grammar, Persian vocab, written right to left in nastalig script (muslim)
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Charles Darwin
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wrote “the origin of species
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Teleology
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the idea of a world that has no destiny
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Objectivity
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artist must be invisible and must reflect but not interpret reality
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Inclusivity
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artist should not edit reality - ugly and beautiful both have equal claim
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Anti romantic
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themes often seek to debunk romantic concepts
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Albert Einstein
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came up with relativity
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Relativity
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the relationship of space to time defines fluid reality
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freedom
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evokes either despair (prufrock) or enthusiasm (marvell) from artists
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qing dynasty collapses
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1911
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sun yatsen
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succeeded by chiang kai-shek - nationalist
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communist party established(china)
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1921 - mao zedong
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communist party
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defeats nationalists - becomes dominant 1927
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lu xun
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establishes literary journal “new Youth
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lu xun
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establishes the “league of left wing writers
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diary of a madman
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written by lu xun - 1st work of modern Chinese literature
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critical realism
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school of writing that used realistic characters to examine the obstacles to social progress in china
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premchand
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the father of urdu short stories - introduced the afsana
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afsana
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short story
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hubris
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character flaw - pride
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prufrock
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THE modernist pom
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metonymy
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poetic device of letting an associated object suggest the whole
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synecdoche
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poetic device of letting a part stand for the whole
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