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    Not surprisingly‚ the (i) ____________ of the printing press (ii) ____________ mass literacy‚ as books were no longer (iii) ____________ exclusive to the clergy and aristocracy. Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii) prospect subsidized tokens advent engendered windfalls triumph ameliorated assets Question 1 of 62 Dickens’s Uriah Heep‚ literature’s exemplar of (i) ____________‚ is doubtlessly not a unique figure either in fiction or in life. Who in real life

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    ’Dedicated to work‚ sobriety and regular hours ’. To what extent is Malvolio an anomalous character in the revelry of ’Twelfth Night ’? Malvolio is portrayed primarily as the Puritan servant of Olivia against a backdrop of raucous Catholic festivities. Twelfth Night was a celebration in Elizabethan England held on the 5th January‚ whereby for one night of the year‚ households would invert their hierarchy with servants acting as their superiors. A Lord of Misrule would be chosen through placing

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    He was out of school for a couple of years‚ had tutors but prefer to lie in bed and read. The accident almost made him lost his eye and a sort of limp. He got interested and curious in one of their topics in classics which is the Bakcheia or the Dionysian Frenzy‚ an ancient‚ wild ritual designed to release people from the ’burden of the self’. Henry‚ Bunny‚ Francis‚ Charles and Camilla did everything to succeed in doing the ritual; they wore chitons (a form of clothing in Ancient Greek worn by both

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    The Aesthetics of San Tomasso D’Aquino The Relevance of The Aesthetics of St. Thomas Aquinas to Contemporary Concept of Art and Beauty Dean Michael Anthony C. Vasco‚ PhD Professor‚ ‘St. Thomas on Critical Thinking’ Majella Antonia Z. Salceda - Tresvalles MFA Candidate University of Sto. Tomas‚ Graduate Studies March 23‚ 2011 Majella Salceda-Tresvalles • budji_tresvalles@yahoo.com • UST Graduate School 1 Table of Contents Preface Introduction Tomasso D’Aquino Medieval Concept of Beauty

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    A History of Ancient Greece The Greek Genius Author: Robert Guisepi Date: 1998   The Greeks were the first to formulate many of the Western world’s fundamental concepts in politics‚ philosophy‚ science‚ and art. How was it that a relative handful of people could bequeath such a legacy to civilization? The definitive answer may always elude the historian‚ but a good part of the explanation lies in environmental and social factors. Unlike the Near Eastern monarchies‚ the polis was not

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    Answer on your notecards To turn in at the end of class. What legacy did the Greek civilizations leave to be implemented by Future generations? “A” “P” “E” ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL GREECE CIVILIZATION COMES TO EUROPE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY • The Land – Mountains dominate land; cross land travel difficult – Fertile river valleys were center of settlement and the basis of the polis – No place more than a few miles from sea – Outdoor life common due to temperate climate • The Sea – Greece is a series

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    downfall of the king. To Sophocles the king is not always representative of the people‚ but acts on his own personal desires and judgments. Sophocles was born in 496 B.C. and from 490 B.C. until 442 B.C. when the first performance of Antigone at the Dionysian theater; there had been many wars in the Greek and Persian history. These ongoing battles would not involve women in combat nor negotiations in the political arena‚ but merely a person to remain at home‚ responsible for domestic affairs. There would

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    Anticrist Summery Nietzsche’s readers Nietzsche claimed in the Foreword to have written the book for a very limited readership. In order to understand the book‚ he asserted that the reader "... must be honest in intellectual matters to the point of hardness to so much as endure my seriousness‚ my passion." The reader should be above politics and nationalism. Also‚ the usefulness or harmfulness of truth should not be a concern. Characteristics such as "Strength which prefers questions for

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    Throughout history the unspoken but highly evocative language of music has exerted powerful influences on individuals and societies alike. Felix Mendelssohn once remarked that music is more specific about what it expresses than words written about those expressions could ever be. That music has the power to express‚ convey and illicit powerful emotions is without question‚ however the issue of music’s moral and ethical power‚ and how that power affects individuals and societies‚ is one that receives

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    Introduction Antigone is a Greek dramatic play tragedy by Sophocles.  Sophocles was born into a wealthy family (his father was an amour manufacturer) and was highly educated. Sophocles’ first artistic triumph was in 468 BC‚ when he took first prize in the Dionysian theatre competition over the reigning master of Athenian drama‚ Aeschylus. Sophocles wrote the three Theban plays‚ a collection that has survived for centuries‚ and for good reason. One of these plays was Antigone. It follows the struggle of a young

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