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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1. Oral literature: epic narratives, creation myths, stories, poems, songs.<br><br>2. Use stories to teach moral lessons and convey practical information about the natural world.<br><br>3. Deep respect for nature and animals.<br><br>4. Cyclical worldview.<br><br>5. Figurative language/parallelism.</p>]]></description>
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1600-1800: Authors and Works</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>William Bradford<br>-"Of Plymouth Plantation"<br><br>Anne Bradstreet (poetry)<br><br>John Edwards<br>-"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"<br><br>Edward Taylor<br>-"Huswifery"</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Native Americans have inhabited the Americas for thousands of years, long before European colonization. The term "Indian" was a misnomer given by Christopher Columbus, who mistakenly believed he had reached the East Indies.&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First &quot;American&quot; colonies 1600-1800: Period Characteristics</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1. Wrote mostly diaries and histories, which expressed the connections between God and their everyday lives.<br>2. South to "purify" the Church of England by reforming to the simpler forms of worship and church organization described in the New Testament.<br>3. Saw religion as a personal, inner experience.<br>4. Believed in original sin and "elect" who would be saved.<br>5. Used a plain style of writing.</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Puritanism and Early Settlement of First &quot;American&quot; colonies: Fact #1</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Many Puritans migrated to the New England colonies, starting in the 1620s and 1630s, to flee persecution</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Puritanism">https://www.britannica.com/topic/Puritanism</a></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Puritanism and Early Settlement of First &quot;American&quot; colonies: Fact #2</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Puritans believed that it was necessary to be in a <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off mw" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/covenant">covenant</a> relationship with God in order to be redeemed from one’s sinful condition</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Puritanism">https://www.britannica.com/topic/Puritanism</a></p>]]></description>
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         <title>The Enlightenment: Period Characteristics</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1. Mostly comprised of philosophers, scientists, writing speeches and pamphlets<br><br>2. Human beings can arrive at truth (God's rules) by using deductive reasoning, rather than relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or intuition</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Benjamin Franklin<br>—<em>Autobiography</em><br><br>Patrick Henry<br>—"Speech to the Virginia Convention"<br><br>Thomas Paine<br>—"The Crisis"<br><br>Phyllis Wheatley<br>—poetry<br><br>The Constitution<br><br>The Bill of Rights<br><br>The Declaration of Independence</p>]]></description>
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         <title>1607 Early Settlement—Jamestown</title>
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         <title>The Enlightenment: Fact #1</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The Enlightenment had its roots in the past. Three of the chief sources for Enlightenment thought were the ideas of the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink " href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Greek-philosophy">ancient Greek philosophers</a>, the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink " href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Renaissance">Renaissance</a>, and the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink " href="https://www.britannica.com/science/Scientific-Revolution">Scientific Revolution</a> that began in the 16th century.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/summary/The-Enlightenment-Key-Facts">https://www.britannica.com/summary/The-Enlightenment-Key-Facts</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-03 01:36:23 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>The Enlightenment: Fact #2</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The Enlightenment was especially prominent in France, where its leaders were known as the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink " href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/philosophe">philosophes</a>.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/summary/The-Enlightenment-Key-Facts">https://www.britannica.com/summary/The-Enlightenment-Key-Facts</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-03 01:37:48 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Rationalism Fact #1</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>René Descartes was the first of the modern rationalists.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/chapter/rationalism/">https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/chapter/rationalism/</a></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Rationalism Fact #2</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>For Enlightenment thinkers themselves, however, the Enlightenment is not an historical period, but a process of social, psychological or spiritual development, unbound to time or place.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/enlightenment/">https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/enlightenment/</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-04 00:13:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Transcendentalism: Period Characteristics</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1. Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul.<br><br>2. People can use their intuition to behold God's spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls.<br><br>3. Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and link conformity to tradition.<br><br>4. Important social and political movements include the Abolitionist, Utopian, and Women's Suffrage Movements</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Ralph Waldo Emerson<br>—Nature<br>—"Self-Reliance"<br><br>Henry David Thoreau<br>—<em>Walden</em><br><em>—Life in the Woods</em><br><br>Louisa May Alcott<br>—<em>Little Women</em></p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>During the transcendentalism time period, United States was also pursuing a policy of expansion based on “manifest destiny,” the ideology that Americans were in fact destined to extend their nation across the continent.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/foreword#:~:text=the%20full%20notice.-,1830%E2%80%931860%3A%20Diplomacy%20and%20Westward%20Expansion,their%20nation%20across%20the%20continent">https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/foreword#:~:text=the%20full%20notice.-,1830%E2%80%931860%3A%20Diplomacy%20and%20Westward%20Expansion,their%20nation%20across%20the%20continent</a>.</p><p><br></p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Besides expanding westward, the U.S. was also expanding economically during this time period and began to turn to the Pacific for new economic opportunities, establishing a presence in China, and opening Japan and Korea to western commercial interests.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/foreword#:~:text=the%20full%20notice.-,1830%E2%80%931860%3A%20Diplomacy%20and%20Westward%20Expansion,their%20nation%20across%20the%20continent">https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/foreword#:~:text=the%20full%20notice.-,1830%E2%80%931860%3A%20Diplomacy%20and%20Westward%20Expansion,their%20nation%20across%20the%20continent</a>.</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Amazon engineer Tim Bray quits and takes a stand after he ‘snapped’ when the company fired workers who called for coronavirus protections</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/04/amazon-engineer-resigns-over-companys-treatment-of-workers.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/04/amazon-engineer-resigns-over-companys-treatment-of-workers.html</a></p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>U.S. cosmetic brand Glossier took a stand and teamed up with the New York Times to amplify its support for women’s rights in the lead up to the 2024 US elections</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cosmeticsbusiness.com/glossier-unveils-us-presidential-election-advert">https://cosmeticsbusiness.com/glossier-unveils-us-presidential-election-advert</a></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Romanticism: Period Characteristics</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1. Valued feeling, intuition, idealism, and inductive reasoning.<br><br>2. Placed faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination.<br><br>3. Shunned the artificiality of civilization and sought unspoiled nature as a path to spirituality.<br><br>4. Championed individual freedom and the worth of the individual<br><br>5. Saw poetry as the highest expression of the imagination<br><br>6. Dark Romantics: used dark and supernatural themes/settings (Gothic style)</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p> The Salem witch trials and executions came about as the result of a combination of church politics, family feuds, and hysterical children, all of which unfolded in a vacuum of political authority.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Salem-witch-trials">https://www.britannica.com/event/Salem-witch-trials</a></p><p><br></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Poet Facts: Robert Frost #1</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p> Frost first achieved professional publication in 1894 when <em>The Independent</em>, a weekly literary journal, printed his poem “<a rel="noopener" class="external" href="https://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/files/2017/11/My-Butterfly-The-Independent-Nov-8-1894.jpg">My Butterfly: An Elegy"</a></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Frost">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Frost</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-18 01:05:06 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>A top student in his class, he shared valedictorian honors with Elinor White, who would be his future wife. </p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Frost">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Frost</a></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Poet Facts: Emily Dickinson #1 </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Only 10 of Emily Dickinson’s nearly 1,800 poems are known to have been published in her lifetime.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Dickinson">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Dickinson</a></p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Dickinson was influenced by both the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the mid-century tendencies of liberal Protestant orthodoxy. </p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Dickinson">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Dickinson</a></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Poet Facts: Emily Dickinson #3</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The second of three children, Dickinson grew up in moderate privilege and with strong local and religious attachments.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Dickinson">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Dickinson</a></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Poet Facts: Dr. Seuss</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>After graduating from Dartmouth College (B.A., 1925), Geisel did postgraduate studies at Lincoln College, Oxford, and at the Sorbonne</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dr-Seuss">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dr-Seuss</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2025-07-22 01:08:44 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Poet Facts: Dr. Seuss #2</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Geisel first started working with Life</em>, <em>Vanity Fair</em>, and other publications as an illustrator and humorist. In addition, he found success in advertising, providing illustrations for a number of campaigns. Geisel was especially noted for his work on ads for Flit insect repellent. Some of his characters later appeared in his children’s works.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dr-Seuss">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dr-Seuss</a></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Poet Facts: Dr. Seuss #3</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>After illustrating a series of humor books, Geisel decided to write a children’s book, which was reportedly rejected by nearly 30 publishers. </p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dr-Seuss">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dr-Seuss</a></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Realism: Period Characteristics</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1. Feelings of disillusionment.<br>2. Common subjects: slums of rapidly growing cities, factories replacing farmlands, poor factory workers, corrupt politicians.<br>3. Represented the manner and environment of everyday life and ordinary people as realistically as possible (Regionalism).<br>4. Sought to explain behavior (psychologically/socially).</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Realism: Authors and Works</title>
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         <title>Realism: Special Dates</title>
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         <title>Realism: Special Dates</title>
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         <title>Realism: Fact 1 </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink " href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gustave-Courbet">Gustave Courbet</a> was the first artist to self-consciously proclaim and practice the realist aesthetic.<a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/realism-art">https://www.britannica.com/art/realism-art</a></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Mark Twain: Fact #1</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>His real name was Samuel Clemens, and he was relatively poor in health as a child, and was constantly coddled because of it</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain/Old-age">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain/Old-age</a></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Mark Twain: Fact #2</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Places he visited leisurely as a youth, such as Glasscock’s Island in the middle of the Mississippi River or the labyrinthine McDowell’s Cave, became iconic settings within his books such as Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain/Old-age">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain/Old-age</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-01-16 01:09:52 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Mark Twain: Fact #1</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>His real name was Samuel Clemens</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain/Old-age">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain/Old-age</a></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Mark Twain: Fact #3</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Clemens was bitter and lonely during his last years. He took some <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off mw" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solace">solace</a> in the grandfatherly friendships he established with young schoolgirls he called his “angelfish.” His “Angelfish Club” consisted of 10 to 12 girls who were admitted to membership on the basis of their intelligence, sincerity, and good will, and he corresponded with them frequently <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain/Old-age">https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain/Old-age</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-01-16 01:19:44 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Alice Walker: Fact #1</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Won the Pulitzer Prize &amp; National Book Award for <em>The Color Purple</em> (1983)</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-01-22 07:11:19 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Alice Walker: Fact #2</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>She was an activist and took part in Mississippi's 1960s Civil Rights Movement</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://english.colostate.edu/news/black-history-month-alice-walker/">https://english.colostate.edu/news/black-history-month-alice-walker/</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-01-22 07:12:33 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Alice Walker: Fact #3</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>She was accidentally shot in the right eye with an air rifle by her brother, resulting in permanent blindness in that eye, which was what led her to become a writer</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-01-22 07:15:01 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Modernism (1900-1950): Period Characteristics </title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1. Sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the "American Dream": the independent, self-reliant, individual will triumph.<br>2. Emphasis on bold experimentation in style and form over the traditional.<br>3. Interest in the inner workings of the human mind (ex. Stream of consciousness).&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-04 01:39:17 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Modernism: Authors and Works</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Lorraine Hansberry<br>-<em>A Raisin in the Sun</em><br><br>F. Scott Fitzgerald<br>-<em>The Great Gatsby</em><br><br>William Faulkner<br>-"A Rose for Emily"<br><br>Eudora Welty<br>-"A Worn Path"<br><br>Robert Frost<br>-poetry<br><br>T. S. Eliot<br>-<em>The Waste Land</em><br>-"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"<br><br>John Steinbeck<br>-<em>Of Mice and Men</em><br><em>-The Grapes of Wrath</em></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Modernism: Special Dates </title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>World War I<br>1914-1918</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-04 01:40:17 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Modernism: Special Dates </title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The Great Depression<br>1929-1939</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Modernism: Special Dates</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>World War II<br>1939-1945</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-04 01:41:19 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Modernism: Fact #1</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The Modernist impulse is fueled in various literatures by industrialization and <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink " href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/urbanization">urbanization</a> and by the search for an authentic response to a much-changed world.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/Modernism-art">https://www.britannica.com/art/Modernism-art</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-04 01:44:24 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Modernism: Fact #2</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>In modernistic <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink autoxref " href="https://www.britannica.com/art/dance">dance,</a> a rebellion against both balletic and interpretive traditions had its roots in the work of <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink " href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emile-Jaques-Dalcroze">Émile Jaques-Delcroze</a>, proponent of the eurythmics system of musical instruction; <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink " href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rudolf-Laban">Rudolf Laban</a>, who analyzed and systematized forms of human motion into a system he called Labanotation (for further information, <em>see</em> <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink " href="https://www.britannica.com/art/dance-notation">dance notation</a>); and <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink " href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Loie-Fuller">Loie Fuller</a>, an American actress turned dancer who first gave the free dance artistic status in the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink autoxref " href="https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States">United States</a>.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/Modernism-art/Modernism-in-the-visual-arts-and-architecture">https://www.britannica.com/art/Modernism-art/Modernism-in-the-visual-arts-and-architecture</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-04 01:50:19 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>American Dream in the 20s: Fact #1</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ElizaGoh/7esh7qinxo4f3d3n/wish/3784292341</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>in the 1920s America seemed to break its wistful attachments to the recent past and usher in a more modern era. The most vivid impressions of that era are flappers and dance halls, movie palaces and radio empires, and Prohibition and speakeasies.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/roaring-twenties">https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/roaring-twenties</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-10 03:15:16 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>American Dream in the 20s: Fact #2</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>At the turn of the twentieth century the Ku Klux Klan experienced a major revival in the United States. By the early 1920s, nationwide membership reached over two million. The KKK positioned themselves as the guardians of a traditional, prosperous, and homogeneous America, claiming to protect the "American Dream" from what they perceived as threats—immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and African Americans.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/roaring-twenties">https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/roaring-twenties</a></p><p><br></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-10 03:17:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>American Dream in the 30-40s: Fact #1</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ElizaGoh/7esh7qinxo4f3d3n/wish/3790906904</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Because of the Great Depression, the 1920s focus on material success was replaced by a fight against poverty. Millions lost their homes, farms, and savings as 9,000 banks failed.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Depression">https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Depression</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 02:42:30 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>American Dream in the 30-40s: Fact #2</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ElizaGoh/7esh7qinxo4f3d3n/wish/3790907513</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>The American Dream in the 1940s shifted from wartime survival to pursuing stability, suburban homeownership, and rising consumerism</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-16 02:43:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>American Dream in the 50s: Fact #1 </title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ElizaGoh/7esh7qinxo4f3d3n/wish/3794287238</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Often hailed as the Golden Age of American Capitalism, the 1950s was a decade of economic boom in the United States. It was characterized by minimal inflation, low unemployment rates, and high consumerism—a stark contrast from the unstable and turbulent war years prior.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.thecollector.com/american-dream-revisited-1950s-america/">https://www.thecollector.com/american-dream-revisited-1950s-america/</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-19 02:34:14 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>American Dream in the 50s: Fact #2</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>In tandem with the baby boom was the suburban boom as suburban living quickly became a physical manifestation of the American dream in the 1950s. The famous Levittowns—the brainchild of real estate developer William Levitt—sprouted in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, attracting newlyweds and new parents to call the suburbs home. Complete with built-in television sets, family rooms, and backyards for barbeque and kids to frolic, these suburban homes sold like hotcakes. Best known for the construction of a house every 16 minutes, the Levittown project was initiated in 1947 as a postwar planned community. It was built on the belief that every man returning from the frontlines would require a home as he began rebuilding his life. Levitt and Sons quickly bought up vast swathes of land in Long Island that were once potato and onion fields and embarked on an extensive construction project between 1947 and 1951.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-19 18:16:29 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Harlem Renaissance: Period Characteristics</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ElizaGoh/7esh7qinxo4f3d3n/wish/3801154614</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://1.Black">1.Black</a> cultural movement in Harlem, New York<br>2.Some poetry rhythms based on spirituals and jazz, lyrics on the blues, and diction from the street talk of the ghettos<br>3. Other poetry used conventional lyrical forms</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Harlem Renaissance: Authors and Works </title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>James Weldon Johnson<br><br>Claude McKay<br><br>Countee Cullen<br><br>Langston Hughes (poetry)<br><br>Zora Neale Hurston</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-25 02:06:49 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Harlem Renaissance: &quot;The Jazz Age&quot;&quot;The Roaring 20s&quot; </title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1920-1940</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-25 02:07:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Harlem Renaissance: Special Dates</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>"The New Negro Movement"<br>1919-1925</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Harlem Renaissance: Special Dates</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Prohibition<br>1920-1933</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Harlem Renaissance: Fact #1 </title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential movement in African American literary <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink autoxref " href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/history">history</a>.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Harlem-Renaissance-American-literature-and-art">https://www.britannica.com/event/Harlem-Renaissance-American-literature-and-art</a></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Harlem Renaissance: Fact #2</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ElizaGoh/7esh7qinxo4f3d3n/wish/3801161994</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>The social foundations of this movement included the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink " href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Migration">Great Migration</a> of <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink autoxref " href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/African-Americans">African Americans</a> from rural to urban spaces and from <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink " href="https://www.britannica.com/place/the-South-region">South</a> to <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink " href="https://www.britannica.com/place/the-North">North</a>; dramatically rising levels of <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink " href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/literacy">literacy</a>; the creation of national organizations dedicated to pressing African American civil rights, “uplifting” the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-crosslink " href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/race-human">race</a>, and opening <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="md-dictionary-link md-dictionary-tt-off eb" href="https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/socioeconomic">socioeconomic </a>opportunities; and developing race pride, including pan-African sensibilities and programs.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Harlem-Renaissance-American-literature-and-art">https://www.britannica.com/event/Harlem-Renaissance-American-literature-and-art</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-02-25 02:12:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>American Dream in the 60s: Fact #1</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/ElizaGoh/7esh7qinxo4f3d3n/wish/3809385016</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>The 60s was the most consequential and controversial decade of the twentieth century, and it brought major political and cultural shifts to the meaning of the American Dream <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/sixties">https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/sixties</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-03-03 06:59:28 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>American Dream in the 70s: Fact #2</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The American Dream in the 70s became less fantastical and more realistic as the 60s was nothing but a decade of dissent and social violence </p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/16/archives/the-70s-america-learns-to-expect-a-little-less-the-frustrating-70s.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/16/archives/the-70s-america-learns-to-expect-a-little-less-the-frustrating-70s.html</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-03-03 07:03:21 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>American Dream in the 80s: Fact #1</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>In the 1980s, former President Ronald Reagan’s economic policies, known as “Reaganomics,” focused on tax cuts for high-income earners and businesses, deregulation and promoting a market-driven economy to stimulate growth.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cost-american-dream-1980-vs-210227616.html">https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cost-american-dream-1980-vs-210227616.html</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-03-06 02:32:58 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>American Dream in the 80s: Fact #2</title>
         <author>ElizaGoh</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The era was defined by a focus on "having it all," including luxury items like Rolexes, Ferraris, and large homes.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.amdigital.co.uk/insights/blog/electric-dreams-and-excess-in-the-1980s">https://www.amdigital.co.uk/insights/blog/electric-dreams-and-excess-in-the-1980s</a><br></p><p><br></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-03-06 02:35:23 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>American Dream in the 90s: Fact #1</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The American Dream in the 1990s was transformed by technology. In business, Silicon Valley was the place to be. The birth of the World Wide Web and rise in internet investments in the late 90s, known as the “dotcom bubble”, marked the point when tech entrepreneurs became billionaires. The American Dream was reborn: computer geeks could get rich seemingly overnight, with the likes of Bill Gates (pictured, right) and Steve Jobs becoming the poster boys for Silicon Valley success.</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.lovemoney.com/gallerylist/84477/what-the-american-dream-looked-like-the-decade-you-were-born">https://www.lovemoney.com/gallerylist/84477/what-the-american-dream-looked-like-the-decade-you-were-born</a></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-03-18 01:44:37 UTC</pubDate>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>in the 2000s, the first African American President, Barack Obama was elected, marking a huge milestone in American history. </p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2026-03-18 01:48:13 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Contemporary &quot;Postmodernism&quot;: Period Characteristics </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>1. Influenced by studies of media, language, and information technology.<br>2. Sense that little is unique; culture endlessly duplicates itself.<br>3. New literary forms and techniques:works composed of only dialogue, or combining fiction and nonfiction, experimenting with physical appearance of their work.</p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>Alice Walker<br><br>Wallace Stevens<br><br>e.e. cummings<br><br>Maya Angelou<br><br>Anne Sexton<br><br>James Baldwin<br><br>Richard Wright<br><br>Sandra Cisneros<br><br>Amy Tan<br></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Contemporary &quot;Postmodernism&quot;: Special Dates</title>
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