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• Mao's "little red book"

  bible of the Chinese Revolution
• Adolf Hitler


  The Nazi policy of militant racism brought about the brutal deaths of millions throughout Europe
• Totalitarianism


  Excessive centralization of power in the hands of a single person or a small group of people who control all aspects of the society
• Totalitarian


  A person advocating a totalitarian system of government
• Sigmund Freud


  Founder of psychoanalysis
• Psychoanalysis


  A therapeutic method by which repressed desires are brought to the conscious level
• Charles Darwin


  Theory of evolution - describes how species change over time, give rise to new species, and share a common ancestor
• Albert Einstein theory


  That matter is a form of energy, and time and space are relative to the position of the observer
• Oedipus complex


  Describes a child's attraction to their opposite-sex parent and feelings of competition with their same-sex parent
• Joan Miro


  • The Harlequin's Carnival, 1924. Oil on canvas, 26 361⁄2 in. Miro claimed that some of the imagery in his bearly art was inspired by hallucinations brought on by hunger and by staring at the cracks in the plaster walls of his shabby Paris apartment
• Democracy


  Form of government where the people hold the power and participate in decision-making
• Anthropology


  Study of human societies and cultures, including their origins and development
• Literature


  Literary form varies according to the manner in which words are arranged
• Humanities


  Group of academic disciplines that study human society and culture, including the fundamental questions that humans ask
• Poetry


  By its freedom from conventional grammar, provides unique opportunities for the expression of intense emotions
• Prose


  Usually functions to convey information, to narrate, and to describe
• Philosophy


  The search for truth through reasoned analysis
• Visual arts


  A wide variety of digital media, including photography and film
• Music


  The medium of music is sound. Like literature, music is durational: it unfolds over the period of time in which it occurs
• Dance


  The art form that makes the human body itself the medium of expression
• Intrinsic value


  Humanities research has a value in and of itself; even if it leads to other benefits, it should also be pursued for its own sake
• Social value


  The humanities benefit society in a number of ways. They help create tolerance and understanding between citizens, leading to social cohesion
• Economic value


  There are direct economic benefits from humanities research, for example in publishing, media, tourism
• Modernism


  New direction of styles and norms
• Werner Heisenberg


  Concluded that the operations of the universe cannot be measured with absolute certainty
• Le Corbusier


  Pioneer of the vertical city, developed the International Style, which proclaimed the credo: form follows function
• Frank Lloyd Wright


  Invested the techniques of glass and steel technology and the functional principle of the cantilever with the aesthetics of Japanese art to create a modern style of domestic architecture
• Pablo Picasso


  • Man with a Violin, 1911. Oil on canvas, 3 ft 31⁄2 in. 297⁄8 in.
• The context describes the historical and cultural environment of a text
• The subtext of a primary source refers to its secondary or implied meanings
• The humanities enable citizens to understand, preserve and sometimes challenge their national heritage and culture
• The humanities teach empathy
• The humanities teach us to deal critically and logically with subjective, complex, imperfect information
• Modernism rejected former cultural values and conventions in favor of innovation, experimentation, and anarchy, the absolute dissolution of established norms
• Freud pioneered its principal tools: dream analysis and "free association" (the spontaneous verbalization of thoughts)
• Expressionism Art


  • EDVARD MUNCH, The Scream, 1893
  • ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER, Street, Berlin, 1913
  • JOAN MIRÓ, The Harlequin's Carnival, 1924
  • GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, Cow's Skull: with Calico Roses, 1931
  • FRIDA KAHLO, The Broken Column, 1944
  • SALVADOR DALI, The Persistence of Memory, 1931
  • HANNAH HÖCH, Cut with the Kitchen Knife, 1919