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Lorenzo Medici
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Sponsored Michelangelo

Poet and Painter

Made florence a dominant military power

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Cosimo Medici
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collected ancient manuscripts

established academy in florence

lavish money on arts

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Petrarch
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Created the sonnet

contains octave

and sestet

 

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Shakespeare
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Created different sonnet

four quatrains and a couplet

Birth 1564 stradford at avedon

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Ficino
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philosophyser

beauty of this world as God's means of showing himself to human kind.

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Martin Luther
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Led the lutheran reformation

95 thesis

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John Calvin
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led the calvinist reformation
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Machiavelli
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Stressed that a good leader must never be hated

"The prince" he wrote it

wrote specifically the truth

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Descartes

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"I think therefore I am"

Mind/ Body conflict

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Voltaire
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Wrote the Candide
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Jonathon Swift
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Wrote Gulivers Travels
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Jane Austen
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Wrote Pride and Prejudice
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Napoleon
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Emperor of France

implemented Napoleonic Code

 

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Louis XVI
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King of France during revolution

created many economic problems

very young king

married to marie antoinette

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Daguerre
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Photographer
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Berlioz

Definition

French

Dream of athe Witches Sabbath (marching to scaffold and then down in hell)

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Schubert
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Austrian

Elf King (man rushing son home in carriage)

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Chopin
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Polish

child prodigy

Revolutionary (when warsaw fell to russia)

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Wagner

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German

Studied with Beethoven

Born to opera

Lohengrin Bridal Chorus

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Whitman

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Controversial american poet

Leaves of Grass

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Emily Bronte
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Wuthering heights passionate drama in serene atmosphere
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Pasteur
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Microscope to look at microorganisms he thought might spread disease

led to pasurizing milk

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Blake
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Saw himself as a prophet

 innocence vs. experience

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Thoreau

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Walden Pond

live close to nature inspiration

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Dickinson
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reclusive female poet

nature, death, loss

hymn pattern

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Einstein
Definition

theory of relativity

laws of physics are the same in moving objects

light is a constant

time=light according to mass

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Nietzsche
Definition

Theoretical Framework

Master Morality- Greeks) Good=wealth, strenght, health, power. Bad=poor, weak, sick

Slave Morality- Good=charity, piety, subservience Bad=cruel, selfish, wealthy, aggressive

 

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Freud
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invented psychoanalysis

psychosexual developement

hypnosis access to unconscious

Free association

dreams

oral, anal, phallic, latency, and genital phases

weaning, toilet training, oedipus, social contact, adulthood or family

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Baudelaire

Definition

Wrote poems using the senses that had musical qualities.

the sound of the words were musical

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Lenin

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formed the separate faction, the Bolsheviks

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Stalin
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Helped Lenin

after Lenin's death overthrew Trotsky for Communist dictatorship

Violent Great Purges

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Trotsky
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Dictator before Stalin
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Marx and Engels
Definition
Together wrote the Communist Manifesto
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Emerson
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Coleridge

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Muybridge
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Wordsworth
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Goethe
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Newton
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Kepler
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Galileo
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Hobbes
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Locke
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Kepler
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Leeuwenhoek
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Dutch scientist, known for work in microbiology
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Brunelleschi
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Renaissance architect
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Cummings
Definition

random word order

outside of grammatical accuracy

experimented with form punctuation and spelling

chaotic life expressed in poems

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Eliot
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wrote the love song of j alfred prufrock
won nobel prize in literature
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O'Connor
Definition

We weren't there we will never know for sure

A good man is hard to find

murders because of connection

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Camus
Definition

The Myth of Sysiphus

ruler of his fate

Faith- turn it to God

Meaningless- accept it but find something

Revolt

Freedom

Passion

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Sartre
Definition
French philosopher
contraposed to albert camus
existentialist
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De Beauvoir
Definition
Femenist writier
wrote she came to stay
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