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Poetry terminology
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onomadtepoeia
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words that sound like their meaning
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denotation
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dictionary defintion of what a word literally means
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alliteration
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words in succession with same beginning sound
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limerick
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humerous, aabba
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euphony
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pleasant sounding arrangement of words, smooth sounding letters, l,m,n,r, soft gentle tone
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connotation
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associated with the denotation
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allusion
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reference to something from history or literature
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simile
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explicit comparision between 2 things using as or like
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metaphor
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implicit comparision
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rhyme scheme
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pattern of rhymes
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sonnet
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14 lines, abab cdcd efef gg
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caesura
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pause within line
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haiku
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3 lines, 5,7,5 syllables
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octave
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8 lines any length
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refrain
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repeated part in same position in each stanza
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consonance
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repeated final consonant in word row
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assonnance
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repeated vowel sound
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apostrophe
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as if speaking directly to subject of poem
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personification
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human qualities to non-human
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hyperbole
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overstatement or gross exaggeration
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elegy
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poem written to commerate the dead
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foot
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one accented syllable on one or two unaccented
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stanza
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group of lines whose natural pattern is repeated
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villanelle
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French poem with form:
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metric unit
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set of 2-3 syllables, only one stressed. Anapestic, dactylic, iambic, trochaic
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iambic
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one foot, two syllables, (iamb) accent on the 2nd syllable, the KING/ was IN/ his COUNT/ ing HOUSE
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anaspestic
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foot using 3 syllables, (anapest) accent on 3rd syllable, Twas the NIGHT/ be-fore CHRIST/ mas ann ALL/ through the HOUSE
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dactylic
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foot using 3 syllables, (dactyl) accent on 1st syllable, HEY did-dle/ DID'dle the/ CAT and the/ FID-dle
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trochaic
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foot using 2 syllables (trochee) accent on 1st syllable, PE-ter/ PET-er/ PUMP-kin/Eat-er
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deux ex machina
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(god from the machine-Latin) sudden plot twist, resolution of seemingly hopeless situation
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Italian sonnet
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(Petrarchan for Petrarch-Italian poet), abba abba cdcdcd
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metonomy
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related item to refer to item itself, As Washingto(DC) for US Gov
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synecdoche
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part to refer to whole, married ear to refer to married husband
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didactic
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instilling feeling, message or moral
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cacophony
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harsh sounds
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epic
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long length poem
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satire
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poke fun at ridiculous
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couplet
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stanza of 2 lines, distich
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tercet
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3 lines
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quantrain
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quintain
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5
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cinquain
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sestet
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7
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octave
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eye rhymes
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(sight rhymes)look the same written but not sound alike. through, trough
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blank verse
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unrhymes iambic pentamenter
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soliloquy
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character talks to self to reveal thoughts
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aside
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degression that offers insight or explanation
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spoonerism
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initial consonants of 1st and other word switched
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situational irony
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outcome differs from expectation
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dramatic irony
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speaker words and meaning contradicted
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free verse
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free of conventions
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Michel Montaigne
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On Friendship.
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Suetonius
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Twelve Caesars, a biography of the lives of the Caesars
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Peloponnesian War
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battle between Athens and Sparta, effectively destroyed Athens
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Martin Luther King, Jr
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"""I have a Dream"" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963.King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 by James Earl Ray.
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John Brown
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"took over the Harper’s Ferry arsenal in 1859 in an attempt to lead a slave uprising, Brown encouraged slaves to claim their freedom themselves by murdering their owners. Though captured by Robert E. Lee before his plan went very far, he had many open supporters, including Henry David Thoreau.
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John Hancock
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President of the Continental Congress, he was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence, and did so with a flourishing signature
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Charles Darwin
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Origin of Species
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John Scopes
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persecuted for teaching Darwinism in his biology classroom
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William Randolph Hearst
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began his career in publishing with the San Francisco Examiner, and his publishing house grew to 18 newspapers and 9 magazines during his lifetimeOrson Well’s Citizen Kane is said to be based on Hearst’s life
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Charles Lindbergh
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"made the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.,His family made headlines in 1932 after his young son was kidnapped from their home and murdered.
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Anne Hutchinson
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helped to found Rhode Island,slaughtered by Indians,believed that one could reach heaven through faith alone, and that denying one pleasures during life or engaging in elaborate religious rituals were futile and unnecessary
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Virginia Dare
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first English child born in America, She and her family settled at Sir Walter Raleigh’s Roanoke Island, the inhabitants of which all mysteriously disappeared
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Emily Post
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"wrote Etiquette, Her descendents, most recently Peggy Post, have continued to update her initial work to keep up with the changing times.
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George Washington
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"appointed Thomas Jefferson his Secretary of State and Alexander Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury, Jay’s Treaty and the Whiskey Rebellion caused him considerably controversy by his second term, and he was accused of being an aristocratic enemy of democracy.
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Christopher Columbus
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sailed three ships across the Atlantic in 1492, Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria
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Amerigo Vespucci
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America derived its name, Italian navigator, As a result of Vespucci’s work, maps of the entire planet changed radically
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Malcolm X
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"militant Black Muslims, Founder of Muslim Mosque, Inc.,was assassinated in February 1965.
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Gloria Steinem
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"Feminist founded Ms. magazine.,National Women’s Political Caucus, the Women’s Action Alliance, and the Coalition of Labor Union Women. Her books include Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions and Revelation from Within.
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Aristotle Onassis
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"Jacqueline Kennedy eventually went on to marry after her husband John’s death.,One of the richest men in the world, Onassis controlled a major shipping company, the Monte Carlo casino, and Olympic Airways, among many other holdings.
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Galileo Galilei
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belief that the sun was at the center of the universe led to his death during the Inquisition.
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Henry Ford
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perfected the assembly line
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Sigmund Freud
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Oedipus complex theory, and attributed most psychological problems (particularly sexual ones) to childhood occurrences.
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Albert Einstein
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work led to the development of the atomic bomb and nuclear fission
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Michel Montaigne
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On Friendship.
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Suetonius
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Twelve Caesars, a biography of the lives of the Caesars
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Peloponnesian War
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battle between Athens and Sparta, effectively destroyed Athens
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Martin Luther King, Jr
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"""I have a Dream"" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963.King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 by James Earl Ray.
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John Brown
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"took over the Harper’s Ferry arsenal in 1859 in an attempt to lead a slave uprising, Brown encouraged slaves to claim their freedom themselves by murdering their owners. Though captured by Robert E. Lee before his plan went very far, he had many open supporters, including Henry David Thoreau.
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John Hancock
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President of the Continental Congress, he was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence, and did so with a flourishing signature
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Charles Darwin
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Origin of Species
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John Scopes
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persecuted for teaching Darwinism in his biology classroom
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William Randolph Hearst
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began his career in publishing with the San Francisco Examiner, and his publishing house grew to 18 newspapers and 9 magazines during his lifetimeOrson Well’s Citizen Kane is said to be based on Hearst’s life
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Charles Lindbergh
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"made the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.,His family made headlines in 1932 after his young son was kidnapped from their home and murdered.
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Anne Hutchinson
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helped to found Rhode Island,slaughtered by Indians,believed that one could reach heaven through faith alone, and that denying one pleasures during life or engaging in elaborate religious rituals were futile and unnecessary
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Virginia Dare
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first English child born in America, She and her family settled at Sir Walter Raleigh’s Roanoke Island, the inhabitants of which all mysteriously disappeared
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Emily Post
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"wrote Etiquette, Her descendents, most recently Peggy Post, have continued to update her initial work to keep up with the changing times.
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George Washington
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"appointed Thomas Jefferson his Secretary of State and Alexander Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury, Jay’s Treaty and the Whiskey Rebellion caused him considerably controversy by his second term, and he was accused of being an aristocratic enemy of democracy.
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Christopher Columbus
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sailed three ships across the Atlantic in 1492, Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria
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Amerigo Vespucci
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America derived its name, Italian navigator, As a result of Vespucci’s work, maps of the entire planet changed radically
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Malcolm X
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"militant Black Muslims, Founder of Muslim Mosque, Inc.,was assassinated in February 1965.
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Gloria Steinem
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"Feminist founded Ms. magazine.,National Women’s Political Caucus, the Women’s Action Alliance, and the Coalition of Labor Union Women. Her books include Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions and Revelation from Within.
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Aristotle Onassis
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"Jacqueline Kennedy eventually went on to marry after her husband John’s death.,One of the richest men in the world, Onassis controlled a major shipping company, the Monte Carlo casino, and Olympic Airways, among many other holdings.
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Galileo Galilei
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belief that the sun was at the center of the universe led to his death during the Inquisition.
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Henry Ford
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perfected the assembly line
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Sigmund Freud
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Oedipus complex theory, and attributed most psychological problems (particularly sexual ones) to childhood occurrences.
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Albert Einstein
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work led to the development of the atomic bomb and nuclear fission
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Non-fiction - religions
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Transcendentalists
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"Emerson and Thoreau,spirituality in nature and the natural world.
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Humanism
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Humans at center of universe, capabilities of humans
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Neoplatonism
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Pagan, founded by Platinus on ideas of Plato, The One, The World Soul, dead reabsorbed into The One
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Existentialism
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Martin Heidegger(wrote Being and Time) and Jean-Paul Sartre (no God, no moral absolutes), with Søren Kierkegaard(father of movement)
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Hermeneutics
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Hans-Georg Gadamer wrote Truth and Method, influenced by Heidegger-everything is biased by our experience
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Manichaeism
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Mani -founder, no personal sin, elect had happy afterlife
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Islam
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Followers, called Muslims, go by the book of the Qur’an, the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first, there is only one God, and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; second, five daily ritual prayers; third, paying a religious tax; fourth, fasting during sunlight during the month of Ramadan; and fifth, traveling to Mecca to reunify the nation of Islam (a pilgrimage taken by many each year).
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Buddhism
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"Nirvana, do not believe in a god, they follow the teachings of the mortal Buddha, who through much meditation finally discovered the Truth and sought to share the experience with others. Buddhists follow five basic rules: no stealing, no promiscuity, no lying, no drinking, and no killing.believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering, suffering is caused by need, suffering can cease, and there is a path to the cessation of suffering.
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Confucianism
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ethical system of being neighborly
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Taoism
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Lao Tzu (founder-father)adopted from Buddhism, Taoism incorporates many gods, the head of which is the Jade Emperor, with the Emperor of the Eastern Mountain serving as second-in-command
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Hindu
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Bhagavad-Gita, Caste systems-Brahmans (highest)remaining three castes are Kshatriyas (warriors), Vaishyas (farmers/merchants), and Shudras (laborers).
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized), Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superman that would bring salvation, an ordinary man who could will himself to power and live at the height of passion and creativity.
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Georg W.F. Hegel
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published Phenomenology of Mind in 1807 and Philosophy of Right in 1821; being, not being, becoming
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Immanuel Kant
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Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone,believed that reality extended only so far as an individual’s personal degree of “knowing,” and it is impossible to “know” things that one cannot experience firsthand
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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But human nature does not go backward, and we never return to the times of innocence and equality, when we have once departed from them.” Man good, civilization corrupts
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Rene Descartes
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"founder of modern rationalism,“I think, therefore I am.”
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John Locke
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"Critique of Pure Reason in 1781. Two Treatises on Government, influenced the writing of the Declaration of Independence,An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
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Thomas Hobbes
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"Leviathan, and believed that human life on its own was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”Seventeenth-century British philosopher who argued for a strong, even brutal government in order to keep humanity from becoming savages.
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Epicureans
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are a sect of hedonism (Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure)
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Aristotle
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Greek,Alexander the Great’s tutor, and a student of Plato, wrote Rhetoric, Poetics, and Metaphysics
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Cynics
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formed by Antisthenes in Greece in 400 A.D, austere, celibate
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Stoicism
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restraining emotion
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Plato
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c. 427–c. 347 BC Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates, wrote Republic and Symposium,expressed his philosophical beliefs largely through fictional dialogues
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Socrates
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Greek, Plato’s teacher, he was later condemned to death by drinking poison hemlock by fellow Athenians for his alleged atheism
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Karl Marx
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chief designer of modern socialist and communist practices. He wrote Das Kapital, an expose of Marxism and a foundation for socialism around the world.proletariet, Borgeious
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St. Augustine
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"City of God, a defense of Christianity against pagan animosity, and On the Trinity.
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Confessions"
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
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The Canterbury Tales,Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
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Milton
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Paradise Lost, Behemoth: biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness
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Tennyson, Alfred Lord
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1809-92, The Eagle(He clasps the crag with crooked hands;Close to the sun in lonely lands,Ringed with the azure world, he stands.The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;He watches from his mountain walls,And like a thunderbolt he falls.), Poems (most successful), In Memorium (for Friend Arthur Hallam), "Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields"
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Donne, John
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(religious symbolism and elaborate metaphors)Death be not proud. The Calme, A Hymn to God our Father, Confined Love, The Good-Morrow, At Round Earth's imagined Corners
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Pope, Alexander
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An Essay on Criticism (a little learning is a dangerous thing), Sephyr
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Shakespeare
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"b. 1564, The Rape of Lucrece, Venus and Adonis, Winter(“Tu-whit, tu-who!”A merry note,While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
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Blake, William
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(Incorporated religious visions in his work) The Tiger, The Lamb (famous pair of Poems), Compilations: Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence, The Sick Rose
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Nash, Ogden
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The Turtle
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Burns, Robert
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(Scottish) Auld Lang Syne, O my Love is like a red red rose(And fare thee weel, my only luve!And are thee weel, a while! And I will come again, my luve,Tho it were ten thousand mile!), To a Mouse, Tam O'Shantner
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cummings, e.e.
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(first letter lowercase, time in French prison)
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Robinson, Edward Arlington
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The Mill, Richard Cory(suicide), Mr. Flood's Party
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Hughes, Langston
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"Cross, Dream Deferred(“Does it dry up/like a raisin in the sun?”“Or crust and sugar over—/like a syrupy sweet?”“Or does it explode?” “Maybe it just sags/like a heavy load.”)
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Wadsworth, William
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(discusses wastfulness and indifference of humans toward nature. Nature often his theme) The World is too much with us
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Herrick, Robert
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b. 1591, (mostly English countryside and fictional women) To the virgins To Make Too Much of Time(Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,Old Time is still a-flying;And this same flower that smiles todayTomorrow will be dying), the Vine, Upon Julia's Voice(so smooth, so sweet, so silverly is thy voice
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Frost, Robert
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1874-1963 The Road not Taken The Pasture, Birches, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening(And miles to go before I sleep.), Acquainted with Night, Fire and Ice, Home Burial(one of longest), Snowy Evening
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Dickenson, Emily
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"(each poem known by first line, no titles, 10 published while alive, 160 posthumously)Much(Much madness is divinest sense
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To a discerning eye,Much sense, the starkest madness.‘Tis the majorityIn this, as all, prevail:Assent, and you are sane;Demur,you’re straightway dangerousAnd handled with a chain.), I heard a fly buzz when I was dead, I felt a funeral in my brain"
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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(Friend of Thoreau)Suum Cuique(Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill), Nature, The Snowstorm
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Whitman, Walt
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(gay American, outbursts of thrilled emotion) Leaves of Grass(collection of 30), Sang this- Song of Myself,
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Yeats, William Butler
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(b. Dublin, Gaelic-influenced) Sailing to Bysantium, the Second Coming, When you are Old, To a child Dancing in the Wind
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Algelou, Maya
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The Rock Cries out to us Today, Million Man March, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
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Browning, Robert
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"My last Duchess(That’s my last duchess painted on the wall,Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
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Plath, Sylvia
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(Suicide at 30, dark macabre pieces) Ariel, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees
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Housman, AE
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To an athlete dying young
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Caroll, Lewis
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(Charles Dodgsen), Jabberwocky
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Kinnel, Galway
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Blackberry eating
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Thomas, Dylan
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Do not Go Gentle into that good night
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Atwood, Margaret
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(Candian poet and novelist) Landcrab, In the Secular Night, This is a photograph of me
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St, Vincent Millay, Edna
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(1892-1950,sonnets, lively tone) Elegy before Death, Thou art lovelier than Lilacs, the Suicide, the Little Ghost,Pulitzer prize for Harp Weaver and Other Poems
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Keats, John
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(1795-1821) To Autumn(Seasons od mists and yellow fruitfulness), To Hope, Ode to a Nightingale, On Death,On looking into Chapman's Homer
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Dante
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Divine Comedy
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Eliot, TS
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Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, Wasteland(compilation)
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Thoreau, Henry David
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"On Civil Disobedience(“That government is best which governs least”), On Walden Pond, I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I went to live deeply and suck out all the marrow of life! To put to rest all that was not life and not when I came to die discover that I had not lived.
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Shelley, Percy
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Ozymandias
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Homer
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Illiad, Odyseey, 8th century BC, Greek, epic
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Gillihan, Strickland
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Lines on Antiquity of Micrilus (Adam, Had'em)
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Marlowe, Christopher
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b. 1564 , Dr. Faustus, Was this the face that launched a thousand ships
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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Sonnets from the Portugese, How do I love thee let me count the ways
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley
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1844-1889 the Wreck of Deutschland, the caged Skylark, Heaven-Heaven, Pied Beauty, God's Grandeur
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Larkin, Philip
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(deadly wit, exposed less savory sides of English life) the North Shop, The Whitsun Weddings, High Windows
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Hardy, Thomas
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(Themes-man fighting against supernatural forces) A Study of Reading Habits, Church Going Toads
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Byron, Lord
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(friend of Percy Shelley, incest, homo) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers(negative re: the Pope), The Dream, Don Juan
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Hayden, Robert
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(Detroit) The Whipping, Those Winter Sundays, Ballad of Remembrance (grand prize 1966 World Fest Negro arts
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Nemerov, Howard
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Grace to Be Said at the Supermarket
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Parker, Dorothy
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One Perfect Rose
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Fiction
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Daniel Defoe
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"Robinson Crusoe, which is considered the first English novel.
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Jonathan Swift
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Gulliver’s Travels was written as a satire of human existence
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The Scarlet Letter,The House of the Seven Gables, which deals with Puritanism.
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Last of the Mohicans,The Leatherstocking Tales, which begins with The Deerslayer
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Edgar Allen Poe
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The Raven and The Fall of the House of Usher,The Masque of the Red Death and the poems The City in the Sea and Annabel Lee
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Herman Melville
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Moby Dick
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Charles Dickens
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"Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby,A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations(Pip), David Copperfield, and A Christmas Carol.
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Mark Twain
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"real name was Samuel Clemens,The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Prince and the Pauper.
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Joseph Conrad
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"The ****** of Narcissus, The Secret Agent, and Heart of Darkness.,novella Youth and the novels Nostromo and Under Western Eyes.
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Jack London.
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Call of the Wild
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William Faulkner
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The Sound and the Fury, and As I Lay Dying,The 1949 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This Side of Paradise, are loosely based on his own life. greatest works include The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, and Tender is the Night
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James Joyce
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Ulysses, based largely on Homer’s Odyssey,Dubliners and the book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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John Steinbeck
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"Pulitzer Prize for The Grapes of Wrath,The Sea of Cortez to the folk piece The Short Reign of Pippin IV. Many take place in Salinas Valley, His other novels include East of Eden and Winter of Our Discontent.
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Ernest Hemingway
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The Sun Also Rises, The Torrents of Spring, A Farewell to Arms, In Our Time, a collection of short stories
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Anne Bronte
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Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
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Charlotte Bronte
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Jane Eyre, (Gothic romance)
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Emily Bronte
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Wuthering Heights
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Jane Austen
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"Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma.
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Virginia Woolf
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The Waves,(A fan of stream of consciousness),The Common Reader and The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
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Miguel Cervante
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Don Quixote, first Western novel, parody
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John Bunyon
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Pilgrim’s Progress, allegory.
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King Arthur
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poem Gododdin in 600 B.C,from Celtic mythology
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Stephen Crane
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"The Red Badge of Courage, The Monster and Other Stories.
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Simone de Beauvoir
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"The Second Sex.
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Amy Tan
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"Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses, both also about Asian-American struggles.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
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The Sport of the Gods and the poetry collection Lyrics of Lowly Life, Folks from Dizie
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Ray Bradbury
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"The Martian Chronicles, short stories such as The Golden Apples of the Sun and Something Wicked This Way Comes.
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Mary McCarthy
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The Oasis (1949) and The Group (1963).,Birds of America and Cannibals and Missionaries, satire
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George Sand
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"Amandine Dupin, her given name, The Haunted Pool and The Master Bell-Ringers, Rose et Blance, published in 1831, and other notable works include Indiana, Consuelo, and Francis the Waif.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Poor Richard’s Almanack,
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Jules Verne
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"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea., Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, and The Mysterious Island, among some fifty others.
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Alexandre Dumas
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The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo
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Victor Hugo
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables
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Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein, husband Percy, Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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The Prince
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Henry Miller
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The Tropic of Cancer and The Tropic of Capricorn
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Aldous Huxley
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Brave New World, test tube babies
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George Orwell
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1984, Big Brother , Orwell’s real name was Eric Blair
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Toni Morrison
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Song of Solomon, Beloved, Sula, Tar Baby, and Jazz , racial tensions in the South and the quest to understand family heritage
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J.D. Salinger
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"The Catcher in the Rye, (Picaresque),Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters.short stories involve the Glass family
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Ernest Gaines
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"A Lesson Before Dying, young black man sentenced to death by electrocution for a crime he did not commit—-and how his lawyer helps him to come to grips with taking his final breath.
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Betty Smith
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,
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William Golding
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Lord of the Flies
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Harper Lee
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To Kill A Mockingbird
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Slaughterhouse Five, aliens-Billy pilgrim
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Joseph Heller
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Catch 22
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Anthony Burgess
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Clockwork Orange
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Ken Kesey
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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Jack Kerouac’s
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"On The Road, loosely autobiographical, follows Sal Paradise on a cross-country journey, exploring the basics and intricacies of life itself.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Upton Sinclair’s
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"The Jungle, immigrant Jurgis through meat-packing, living on the streets, and then an eventual rise to management.
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Oracle
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priest(ess) spoke on behalf of the gods
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bacchae
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(maenads) woman worshippers of dionysus(Greek god of wine and fertility)
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Prometheus
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stole fire from the sun and gave top human(supposedly made first human from clay)
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Morality Play
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Everyman (15th century)
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Plays
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Shakespeare
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Hamlet
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Othello
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Romeo and Juliet Montagues and Capulets
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King Lear
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Julius Caesar, I came I saw I conquered(vini, vidi, vinci)
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the merry Wives of Winsor
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The Merchant of Venice
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the Tempest
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Twelfth Night
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Two Gentlmen of Verona
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King Henry iv, v, vi, viii
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Oscar Wilde
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the Importance of Being Earnest, Ideal Husband, Lady Windemere's Fan, A Woman of no Importance
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Edmund Rostand
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The Romancers, The Woman of Samaria, Chanticler, Cyrano De Bergerac
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Jean Baptiste Moliere
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b. 1622, French, comedies, poked fun at intellectuals: The Doctor in Spite of Himself, Sganorelle, George Dandin, The Learned Woman, The School For Husbands, The School for Wives
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Samuel Beckett
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1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, Waiting for Godot, Endgame
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Eugene O'Neill
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A Long Day's Journey into Night, Strong Interlude (Pulitzer prize), The Iceman Cometh, Mourning becomes Electra (based on Oresteria)
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Eugene Ionesco
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absurdity of the proletariet and the Borgiouse, the Bald Soprano, La Lecon, Les Chaises, Rhinoceros
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Tennessee Williams
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A Streetcar named Desire (pulitzer 1947), The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Night of the Iquana, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop here anymore, The 7 Descents of Myrtle, In the Bar of the Tokyo hotel, Small Craft Warning
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Sophocles
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Oedipus Rex(father King Laius), Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, 497 BC, – 406 BC, Greek tragedians
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Aeschylus
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Oresteria - Agamemnon, The Cloephoroe, The Eumenides; Prometeus Bound (never found 2nd and 3rd parts to trilogy)(525 BC—456 BC,Greek tragedians
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Aristophenes
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(satire) Lysistrada, The Clouds (re:Socrates), the Wasps,448 BC – c. 385 BC) was a Greek Old Comic
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Lorraine Hansberry
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A raisin in the Sun, The Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window
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Pierre Cornielle
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(17th century)Le Cid, Cinna, Polyeucte
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Henrik Ibsen
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A Doll's House, Ghosts, Enemy of the People
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Helen of Troy, Tyndareus( surrogate father), Paris, Menelaus, Tojan War
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Euripides
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Alcestis, Medea, Electra, and The Bacchae, c. 480–406 BCE Greek tragedians
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