vocabulary

Vocabulary

Narcissistic: excessive self-admiration and self centeredness.

Renaissance: A period in European history from about the 14th through 16th centuries regarded as marking the end of the Middle Ages and featuring major cultural and artistic change.

Nazism: Philosophy of the German National Socialist Party under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. Central to it was a belief in the inherent superiority of a supposed Aryan race.

Fascism: A movement and ideology that favors dictarorial government, centralized control of private enterprise, repression of all oppositio, and extreme nationalism.

Kaiser: German Emperor.

Marxism: The political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, in which class strggle is a central element in the analysis of social change in Western societies.

Genocide: The systematic killing of all the people from a national, ethnic, or religious group, or an attempt to do this.

Ideologies: A set of beliefs, values, and opinions that shapes the way an idividual or a group such as a social class thinks, acts, and understands the world.

Social Realism: The use of realistic portrayals of life in art or literature to make a social or political point.

Commissar: In the former Soviet Union, the chief minister in a government department.

Politburo: The executive and policymaking committee of a governing Communist Party, especually the committee consistin of twenty members in the former Soviet Union.

Generalisimo: The supreme commander of a combined military force consisting of the air force, navy, and army.

Posthumously: Occurring after somebody's death.

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The Politic Influence

Josef Stalin's Biography

Postulate: A basic principle.A statement that is assumed to be true but has not been proven and that is taken as the basis for a theory, line of reasoning, or hypothesis.

Natural Selection: Process of adapting to environment, according to Darwin by which organism best suited to survival in a particular environment achieve great reproductive success, thereby passing adcantageous genetic characteristics on to future generations.

Catastrophe: Terrible disaster or accident, especially one that leads to great loos of life.

Clergyman: A person ordained for religious service, especially in the Christian Church.

Chagas: An often fatal disease, occurring in South and Central America, that affects the hearts and nervous system and is caused by a protozoan parasite transmitted by blood-sucking insects.

Science in the Era

Charles Darwin Biography

Dogmas: A belief or set of beliefs that a political, religious, philosophical or moral group holds to be true.

Pigment: A substance that is added to guve something, such as paint or ink its color, pigments are often available in the form of dry powders to be added to liquids.

Departure: The action of setting off on a journey.

Urchins: A mischievous child, especially a youn one who is unkempt in appearance.

Bold: Having darker thicker lines than standart type, fonts or lettering.

Visual Art

Edouard Manet Biography.

Romanticism: Movement in late 18th and early 19 century music, literature, and art that departed from classicism and emphasized sensibility, the free expression of feelings, nature and the exotic.

Degradant: Great humilliation brought about by loss of statu, reputation or self-esteem.

Suggestive: Implying or hinting at something

Walt Whitman: U.S poet and essayist. He is known for his free verse, best exemplified in the stylistically revolutionary collection Leaves of Grass.

Nimrod: Mightly hunter

Tolstoy: Russian writer. he wrote the epic novel War and Peace. A profound social thinker and moralist, he was excomminicated from the Russian Orthodox Church for his radical views on church authority.

Alexander: Alexander Magno of Macedonian conqueror of Egypt and Middle East

Nebuchadnezzar: Monarch of Babylonian conqueror of Jerusalen in 586 B.C.E.

Los Andes: Huge South American mountain system that extends north to south along the western coast from Panama to Tierra del Fuego. It consists of several ranges and has its highest peal at Aconcagua 6,960 m/22,835 ft.

Hugo: Romantic poet and novelist from France, author of " Los Miserables (The wretched)"

Grant: U.S general during the Civil war.

Hercules: Mythical heroe famous for his extraordinary strenght.

Mammon: symbol of avarice.

Netzahualcoyotl: King of Chichimeca, Texcoco, in Mexico on 1431. Also considered a great poet.

Bachu: God of vine.

Platon: Greek philosopher that talked about Atlantis in most of his literal works, imaging it as an ideal society.

Montezuma: King of the Aztec civilization.

Cuahtemoc: The last Aztec emperor.

Saxon: Relative to the the first settlers in England.

Modernist Literature

Ruben Dario

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