1. Allegory (寓言)– The word derives from the Greek allegoria ( “speaking other-wise” ). It loosely describes any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning. This fictional literary narrative acts as an extended metaphor in which persons‚ abstract ideas‚ or events represent not only themselves on the literal level‚ but also stand for something else on the symbolic level. An allegorical reading usually involves moral or spiritual concepts that may be more significant than the actual‚ literal
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Edexcel Medicine and Health through Time: A development study Revision Booklet 2013 Success in this exam requires: A general understanding of how medicine developed over time. You need to have an overview of how medicine changed in your mind. Was there PROGRESS / CONTINUITY / REGRESSION from one period of time to the next. Knowledge about different areas of medicine: Understanding CAUSE of disease Developing TREATMENTS / preventions / cures Understanding ANATOMY
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Perspectives Historical keywords Stress Stress will be a familiar concept to most modern medical workers. Its widespread use reflects the ambiguity of the term: stress can refer to mental or physical states‚ minor irritants‚ life crises‚ verbal emphases‚ or problematic forces in engineering and dentistry. These many meanings‚ moreover‚ support a rich range of metaphorical associations. Doctors and patients complain of being under pressure; of having workloads that place them at breaking
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The Silk Roads are a network of land and see lanes all over three continents of the world – Asia‚ Europe and Africa. Starting in the third century BCE‚ China used the Silk Roads to carry trade goods to the lands of the Mediterranean. Moreover‚ people from Eurasia and Africa participated in the commercial transactions since the second century BCE. Traders and religious pilgrims travelled the roads for a bigger purpose than just trading: They spread political and religious ideas throughout three continents
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Art History of African Art and New World Culture - Exam #1 Study Guide --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction: Ceremonial Robe (Chilkat Blanket)‚ 19th-20th c. Haida red cedar bentwood box Cultural Anthropology: -the study of learned behavioral systems. -Includes kinship systems‚ religion‚ economic systems‚ political systems‚ and symbolic systems Holism: Cultures make sense when the relationships
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Work refers to: Human labor Employment‚ a contract between two parties‚ one being the employer and the other being the employee House work‚ cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a home Labor (economics)‚ measure of the work done by human beings Manual labour‚ physical work done by people Wage labour‚ in which a worker sells their labor and an employer buys it Work (project management)‚ the effort applied to produce a deliverable or accomplish a task Working the system‚ using the rules and procedures
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Ancient China In ancient Chinese cosmology‚ the universe was created not by divinities but self-generated from the interplay of nature’s basic duality: the active‚ light‚ dry‚ warm‚ positive‚ masculine yang and the passive‚ dark‚ cold‚ moist‚ negative yin. All things‚ animate and inanimate‚ and all circumstances were a combination of these fundamentals. The ultimate principle of the universe was the tao‚ "the way‚" and it determined the proper proportions of yin and yang in everything. Anything
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Lullabies Main article: Lullaby The oldest children’s songs of which we have records are lullabies‚ intended to help a child sleep. Lullabies can be found in every human culture.[2] The English term lullaby is thought to come from "lu‚ lu" or "la la" sound made by mothers or nurses to calm children‚ and "by by" or "bye bye"‚ either another lulling sound‚ or a term for good night.[3] Until the modern era lullabies were usually only recorded incidentally in written sources. The Roman nurses’ lullaby
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Globalization I September 5‚ 13 From Western Civilization to Global History Why study history? Orientation – why do we…? How did we get here? Analysis – avoiding past mistakes (ex: appeasement)‚ Edmund Burke‚ “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” “The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” Identification – pride in historical achievements‚ values Entertainment purposes What to study? Histories of nations – cant forget about
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The Turn of The Screw is a recurring concept throughout the story as sort of a motif‚ it is a saying that is repeated to gain your attention and make you question how it fits in the story. Not only is this meant to grab your attention but it is repeated at crucial parts in the story making you start to personify the statement and it becomes an overlaying character that helps progress or digress the storyline‚ and finally it is also a marker to insinuate the governesses slow descent into madness!
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