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English 120 Final Exam Study Guide
Neo-Darwinism, Back to Methusela, Absurdism, Post-Modernism
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06/09/2011

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Key elements of Darwinian evolutionary theory?
Definition
  • natural selection
  • Natural variation with in species
  • Traits that are adaptive to a given environment will allow an individual organism to be more successful to live long enough to reproduce
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Key elements of Lamarckian evolutionary theory?
Definition
  • Inheritance of accquired characteristics/habits
  • Environments act on species
  • Species become more complex w/ time--> progress
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Neo-Darwinism
Definition
  • Left no room for Lamarck's theory, stricter form of Darwinism
  • Weismann is a famous Neo-Darwin (German Biologist proposing Germ Plasm Theory)
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Neo-Lamarckism
Definition
  • Had no interest in Lamarck until Darwin came along and looked into the past to challenge Darwin simply because they did not like Darwins theory
  • George Bernard Shaw and Butler (english novelist, social/politcal thinker)
  • Excludes room for Darwins theory in Lamarcks
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What is a first person kind of view?
Definition
Character tells story
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What is Middlesex's narrator's point of view and what is it?
Definition
1st Person Omniscient. Character tells story but knows what each other character is thinking and doing and what is going on outside of the characters own prespective.
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Limited Omniscient is?
Definition
Only able to read a few characters minds
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A narrator from an object type of view is?
Definition
Not able to read other peoples minds.
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Metafiction
Definition

Technique used by Post-Modernist to draw attention in a novel that an outher is writing it and that it is fictional.

 

e.g. Jack saying all plots lead to death in White Noise

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Absurdism
Definition

Something real being shown as rediculous.

 

e.g. SIMUVAC excercise--> meaninglessness of structure of government, organization, philosophy, system  to try to control the world.

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Xavier Bichat
Definition
  • Author of General Anatomy
  • Emphasized belief in tissues being smallest unit of organs.
  • Similar to how chemicals are broken down into elements, so must organs be broken down into tissues.
  • Believed in 21 diffrent kinds of tissue that made up the body
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George Henry Lewes
Definition
  • Author of The Physical Basis of Mind
  • Believed there was too much emphasis on the cell and not the nerve fiber itself.
  • Emphasized examining how the cells connected and interacted with organs and the body as a whole
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Rudolf Virchow
Definition
  • Finished Cell Theory=cell is the smallest unit of the body
  • Compared individual to a society in which one individual cell (the citizen) funtioned and did specific jobs in relation to other cells making each other dependent
  • Author of Cellular Pathology
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Weismann
Definition
  • German Biologist
  • Neo-Darwinist
  • Proposed Germ Plasm Theory
  • Created Modern Synthesis- Combined Darwinism with Mendelian genetics
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