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Who determined that light waves behave as "quanta," breaking up into discrete and separate bundles of energy?

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Max Planck

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Michelson and Morley determined that what is a universal constant and might be the only that never changes?

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the speed of light

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Imagists were a group of poets who were in the search for what?

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more concentrated style of expression

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Who was the American expatriate who studied the literatures of many peoples in the East and West and was also the forefront of the modernist revolution in poetry?

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Ezra Pound

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The plain-speech American poet who penned "The Road Not Taken" is who?

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Robert Frost

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What sought to arrive at a more concentrated emotional experience through visual art and is one of the central tenets of modernism?

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abstraction

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Picasso's bold, new style of painting was shaped by two forces: the arts of Africa, Iberia, and Oceana; and the paintings of which painter?

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Cezanne

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Picasso's new "language" of painting was called?

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cubism

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The Futurists were enthralled by what?

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speed and dynamism of automobiles,trains, places; new forms of technology

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Matisse led the group of painters who made what element the principal feature of their canvas in this era?

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color

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Nonobjective art is an artistic movement pioneered by whom?

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kadinsky, malevich, mondrian

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Prairie School architecture and a clear influence from Japanese structure were the signatures Of which architect?

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wright

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Who was the principle founder Of the Bauhaus?

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Gropius

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Insisting that the house "is a machine for living," who championed form Over function and employed devices such as roof gardens, partitions, and large faqades Of glass?

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Le Corbusier

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Igor Stravinsky shocked musical audiences with his famous composition for ballet called?

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Rite of spring

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Of all his discoveries, Freud considered his research on what his most important?

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Dreams

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Most psychic disorders, according to Freud, were the result Of what?

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Sexual Trauma as a chid

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What are the members of the three—part psyche as identified by Freud?

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The id, ego, and superego

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The positive modification and redirection Of primal urges is termed?

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sublimation

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Jung's idea of a shared layer of human psyche, a layer all humans are tied to, is called?

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the collective unconscious

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Primal patterns frorn the realm of the shared layer of human psyche such as myths, dreams, and fairy tales are called?

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Archetype

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Which Irish expatriates popularized the literary interior monologue and stream-of-consciousness writing?

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James Joyce

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Which author was a virtual shut-in who, from his cork-lined room in France, pursued a life of introspection and literary achievement?

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Proust

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Edvard Munch's "The Scream" exemplifies which of the following schools of painting?

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Expressionism

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What movement, founded in Switzerland, consisted of a loosely knit group of European painters and poets who, perceiving WWI as evidence of a world gone mad, dedicated themselves to spreading the gospel of irrationality?

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Dada

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What movement was one of modernism's most distinctive movements that was devoted to giving physical expression to the workings of the unconscious mind?

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Surrealism

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The Freudian impact on music was most evident in the second decade of the century in what media?

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Musical Drama and Theater

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A full eighty percent of the casualties of WWI were from which technological development?

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Automatic Machine Gun

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The underlying cause of both world wars was?

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Militarism

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Which WWI poet produced The Waste Land, which became the single most influential poem in early modern literature?

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T.S. Elliot

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Which writers immortalized the WWI Allied offensive in Italy in A Fare—Well to Arms?

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Hemingway

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Wounded in combat several times, which writers brought first-hand experience of World War I to his book "All Quiet on the Western Front"?

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Remarque

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In his biting cartoons, which artist mocked the German military and its corrupt and mindless bureaucracy in sketchy, brittle compositions filled with pungent caricatures?

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Grosz

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Who was the French artist who, after four years at the front, adopted a "mechanical" aesthetic, visible in his Painting Three Women. Robust and robotic, the near identical nudes (and their cat) share a common, austere geometry?

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Ledger

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Which artists portrayed gas-masked machine-like monsters in his collage, Two Ambitious Figures, by combining the images of equipment in a scientist's laboratory?

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Earnest

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According to which post-Soviet leader, in the first phase of communist society (generally called socialism), private property would be converted into property held in common, and the means of production and distribution would belong to the whole of society?

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Lennon

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John Steinbeck's classic Depression era novel of migrant farmers en route to California is called?

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The Grapes of Wrath

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This famous Depression—era photographer whose images of the downtrodden, such as Migrant Mother, remain icons of this period of history named?

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Dorothea Lange

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The first hot of the cold war era was fought in which country?

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Korea

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Who is the leading philosopher of the twentieth century, made significant contributions as a playwright, novelist, journalist, and literary critic?

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Sartre

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Who anticipated a society in which the behavior of human beings might be scientifically engineered for the benefit of both the individual and the community?

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Skinner

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Faulkner, Percy, Cheever, Bellow, and Kerouac were all writers who wrote from what perspectives?

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Existential perspective

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In what medium did characters undergo little or no change, dialogue contradicts actions and events follow no logical order.

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Absurdist plays

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Who created a logo for despiritualized Modernism?

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Dekooning

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What was the first important style of painting originating in the United States rather than Europe?

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Abstract Expresssionism

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Jackson Pollock's daring new method, which came to be called ______ allowed him to walk around (the canvas) work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

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Action Painting

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Who is famous for his sculptures of very elongated human figures?

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Gin

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Among the most daring of the International Style proponents and the last director of the Bauhaus was the Dutch architect who?

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

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Who was the architectural champion of the geodesic dome?

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Fuller

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The quest for an autonomous Muslim state on the Indian subcontinent resulted in the creation an independent _____ in 1947.

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Pakistan

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The long and bitter history of the Mexican Revolution commemorated in the murals of _____ provides a vivid example of the repeated social upheaval experienced in Latin American countries in their attempts to cope with persistent problems of inequality, exploitation, and underdevelopment.

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Diego Rivera

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One of the earliest revolts against colonial rule took place against the British Empire in what country?

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India

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Who took the first Africans to America in 1619, and during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, thousands of slaves were imported to the American colonies, especially those in the South.

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The Dutch

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Between 1920 and 1940, the quest for racial equality and a search for self-identity among African—Americans inspired the Renaissance, which is?

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The Harlem Renaissance

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What was the stage name of a popular nineteenth—century minstrel performer, Thomas D. Rice, had come to describe anything pertaining to African-Americans, including matters of racial segregation?

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Daddy Rice

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jrs Letter from addressed Birmingham jail to a group Of?

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White Clergy

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Who joined the Nation of Islam while in prison, later using Muslim morality and social structure to encourage racial separatism in the United States?

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Malcolm X

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Apartheid was the system of strict racial segregation that prevailed legally in which country until 1994?

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South Africa

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Ellison's novel Invisible Man is about what themes?

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The black estrangement from white culture

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The first b ack woman to be honored with the Nobel Prize in literature is?

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Tony Morrison

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What is probably the most important contribution made by African-Americans to world culture occurred in the birth and development of what unique form of modern music?

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Jazz

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Ragtime is a form Of composition and performance featuring?

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Highly Syncopated rhythms and simple, appealing melodies.

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WhiIe difficult to define, what may best be described as the practice of playing just off the beat—slightly ahead or behind?

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Swing

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In 1992, AIDS activists assembled what artistic media in Washington, D.C., to protest governmental inaction with regard to the AIDS crisis?

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Panels in 16 foot squares

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The decade of the Holocaust and the devastation of World War Il prompted the Postmodern shift from an Industrial Age (dominated by farming and manufacturing) to what age?

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The Information Age

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The two key contributing factors to today s historical age as explained by the text are?

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Television and Computers

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What was the name of the world's first online, nonprofit English—language encyclopedia launched in 2001?

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Wikipedia

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As communications theorist Marshall famously observed ______ is the message.

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The Medium

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String theory seeks to unite quantum physics with what theory?

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The theory of relativity

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The proponents of what theory find that universal patterns underlie the seemingly random operations Of nature.

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Chaos Theory

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What theory became the popular mode Of analysis in philosophy, linguistics, and literary criticism in the late twentieth century?

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Language Theory

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What artists appropriate (or borrow) pre—existing texts and images from history, advertising, and the media.

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Postmodern Artists

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Arthur C. Clarke, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Isaac Asimov all write within what literary genre?

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Science Fiction

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The quintessential style of the Information Age, embraced the imagery Of consumerism and celebrity culture as mediated by television, film, and magazines is called?

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Pop art

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The oversized paintings of Lichtenstein is modeled on?

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Comic book cartoons

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The operation of conflicting visual cues and the elemental effects of colors and shapes on the faculties Of the human retina is a style known as?

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Op Art

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What kind of art is not overtly political nor even necessarily critical Of the status quo but seeks to transform society by awakening its visionary potential?

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Social Conscience art

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What classic kind of total art, was pioneered by the American artist Allan Kaprow (1927—2006). Kaprow, who coined the name for this conceptual genre, called it a "performance that occurs in a given time and space."

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The Happening

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In 1962, the Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan predicted the electronic transformation of the planet earth into a What?

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Global Village

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Edward Osborn Wilson's early work in evolutionary biology examined parallels between ants and other animal societies, including those of human beings; and more recently he has proposed a new type Of interdisciplinary research which he calls _______ that works to improve the human condition?

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Scientific Humanism

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The Swiss Re building is called "the Gherkin" by Londoners and is famous for what reasons?

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It is environmentally sustainable

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An ongoing counterpoint to Globalism is the recurring emphasis in the arts regarding what?

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Ethnicity

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Define Identity politics.

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The exercise of power by means of group solidarity, has often pitted ethnic groups against each other in militant opposition.

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What is probably the greatest single threat to the global community and is the deliberate and systematic use of violence against civilians in Order to achieve political, religious, Or ideological goals?

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Terrorism

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It is widely believed that what will be the next great global power?

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The peoples republic of China

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What is art in which the computer is employed as a primary tool, medium, or creative partner?

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Digital Art

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What is perhaps the most intriguing computer driven form of interactive art is a technology that allows the user to interact with a computer—simulated environment?

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Virtual Reality

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what is One Of the most notable experiments in contemporary intercultural music which involves the exchange Of Western musical traditions with those of the vast skein of trade routes that linked East Asia to Europe?

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The Silk Road Project

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The vocal dimension of hip—hop music is which Of the following?

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Rap

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Paul Taylor's 1999 chorographical spoof Of the Ku Klux Klan is named which of the following?

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Oh, You Kid

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