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A movement not a moment. Against Religon and intellectuals at the time. About transcending pyshical and empirical states. placed value on ones intuition rather then doctrines of religions
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Presents humans sinful and self-destructive. A reaction to transcendatilism.
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Northern States fought the the southern States after the south seceeded. Last until 1865. Devasted the south and caused massive amounts of death
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Style pioneered by French writers at the end 19th century and then spread. Depicts life and society as is. Usually protrays characters doing average everyday things
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Shows a characters inner dialogue. Can be hard to follow
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Movement that bases poetry on image rather then a theme
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War that lasted from from 1914 till 1919. Tranch Warfare resulted in large casualities. Chemical Warfare had horrific results. Caused many to lose faith in humanity, their nation, and religion which helped led to the modernism movement
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A movement starting in 1919 and ending in the mid 30's. Centered in Harlem it was a devlopment and coming to promience of black writers in America
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Not an actual event, but a movement that lasted a long time. Started in the 19th century and continued for a long time but really exploded and grew in the 1920s. Moved away from traditional society and literatery traditions. Questioned society and religion.
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Wall Street Stock Market crash causing the Great Deppression and widespread poverty until the start of mobilization for World War II
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Written while she worked in Haiti, this novel is considered her masterpeice.
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This started with the German invasion of Poland and endedin Europe with Hitler's suciude and Axis surrender and in Asia with Japan surrendering to the United States and the Allies after the deployment of the Atomic Bomb in 1945. Majorly reallgined global political world and caused many deaths.
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A group of writers from the 1950s. Started meeting in New York but eventually moved to San Francisco. Prominent authors included Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Borroughs.
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Like modernism not a moment but a movement. Like modernism but even crazier.
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Bill is signed that makes it illegal to discrimate against women or blacks.
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Style of Poetry where poets square off against each in duels. Mixs early rap competition with elements of beat poetry, such as disdain for the system.
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The USSR, the major communist power of the time, disbands and becomes a democracy. U.S. Wins the Cold War against those pinkos.
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Terriost working for Al Queda hjack planes and destroy the World Trade Centers in New York and crash in to the Pentagon. A fourh plane was hijack but was brought down by the passengers. 3,000 victims died in the attacks and since then 836 responders have died, as of July 2009. Attcks occured after President Bush recieved several reports that terriost would likely use hijacked airplanes as weapons against the U.S. and ignored them.
