135113473 | Gertrude Stein | Famous writer who coined the phrase "lost generation" | 0 | |
135113474 | Ernest Hemingway | Lost Generation writer, spent much of his life in France, Spain, and Cuba during WWI, notable works include A Farewell to Arms | 1 | |
135113475 | lost generation | Group of writers in 1920s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values and often choose to flee to Europe | 2 | |
135113476 | Oswald Spengler | German philosopher who argued that cultures grow and decay in cycles (1880-1936) | 3 | |
135113477 | Arnold J. Toynbee | argues that societies are born, mature, decay, and sometimes die. | 4 | |
135113478 | Karl Barth | Protestant theologian. Basic fact about people is that they are imperfect whose reason is flawed and should not expect to work out god and his ways. | 5 | |
135113479 | Niokolai Berdiaev | Wrote, "Man's historical experience has been one of steady failure, and there are no grounds for supposing it will be ever anything else" | 6 | |
135113480 | Albert Einstein | This 20th Century scientist revolutionized the way scientists thought about space, time and matter, the most notable being his theory of relativity. | 7 | |
135113481 | theory of relativity | einsteins theory that time is different depending on how fast you travel or how massive of object that you are on | 8 | |
135113482 | Werner Heisenberg | Stated the uncertainty principle | 9 | |
135113483 | uncertainty principle | Impossible to measure both speed and position of an electron at the same time | 10 | |
135113484 | Sigmund Freud | austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis | 11 | |
135113485 | Oedipus complex | according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father | 12 | |
135113486 | psychoanalysis | a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders | 13 | |
135113487 | Paul Gauguin | Pioneered expressionist techniques. b. Saw form and design of a painting as important in themselves c. Became famous for his paintings of the South Pacific where he spent some time | 14 | |
135113488 | Pablo Picasso | a Spanish artist, founder of Cubism, which focused on geometric shapes and overlapping planes | 15 | |
135113489 | Edgar Degas | A nineteenth-century French painter and sculptor. Among his preferred subjects were ballet dancers and scenes of cafe life. | 16 | |
135113490 | Bauhaus | school in germany, that influnced architecture by blending science and technology with design | 17 | |
135113491 | Walter Gropius | German architect who broke form previous design with light, airy, bright buildings of glass and iron | 18 |
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