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| 8681838980 | When and where was Nathan Hawthorne born | Salem, Massachussets; July 4, 1804 (died in 1864 at 60) | 0 | |
| 8681838981 | Where is the Scarlet Letter set | Boston, Massachussets in the mid-1600's, with the recently arrived Puritan settlers First governor: John Winthrope People were hardworking and devoted | 1 | |
| 8681838982 | Where did Hawthorne's descendant come from | Massachussets Bay Colony | 2 | |
| 8681838983 | When did Hawthorne include the "w" in his name | When he began writing | 3 | |
| 8681838984 | Give details of Hawthorne's educational and familial life | Educated at Borodin College in Brunswick, Maine Married Sophia Peabody in 1842 Got a job at the Custom House Had three children Had lived in England, France, and Spain | 4 | |
| 8681838985 | What eras are evident in the Scarlet Letter | Written in 1850, it has the American Renaissance, Romanticism, and Transcendentalism: rejection of Neoclassicism, slave narratives, inner feelings, burden of Puritan past | 5 | |
| 8681838986 | What was the Transcendentalism | Intellectual movement in the 19th century that thought we used more than senses to understand life and our place in it It was dedicated to the belief that divinity can be found anywhere, especially nature Fellow Transcendentalists, like Ralph Emerson and Henry Thoreau, contributed to the literary scene Human existence transcends sensory realm Belief in individual choice and consequence | 6 | |
| 8681838987 | How is Romanticism/Gothic Literature seen in the Scarlet Letter | Use of supernatural sublime and use of the supernatural individual characters that see themselves at the mercy of forces that aren't understood Motif of "double": people are both good and evil Dark forests Emphasis on symbolism | 7 | |
| 8681838988 | What is Purtianism | Belief that the Church of England was too influenced by the Catholic Church Strict code where people were acted and judged on Rejected divine authority Had a theocracy where the General Court said only church members could become freemen Ministers' interpretation of the Bible was applied to all residents of the colony | 8 | |
| 8681838989 | How was Hawthorne influenced by his background | John Hathorne presided over the witch trials and Major William Hathorne persecuted Quakers His time at the Custom House as a Surveyor of the Port | 9 | |
| 8681838990 | What is the purpose of the Custom House | Creates a frame story that gives an account of his time as a surveyor He emerges from confrontation with a judgmental society with integrity, passion, and moral superiority | 10 | |
| 8681838991 | What are the themes in the Scarlet Letter | Guilt can destroy a person, body and soul Punishment imposed by others aren't as destructive as the guilt we experience True repentance must come from within Revenge destroys the victim and seeker Well-intended deception and secrets are destructive One must have courage to be themselves Recognized weaknesses make people stringers Choice determine who you are Everyone has capacity for good and evil | 11 | |
| 8681838992 | Why did Hawthorne write this story | He was interested in American history and he believed that America needs to understand its religious and moral heritage He also wanted fame in the literary scene | 12 |
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| 11808960157 | Jesus Sutras | The product of Nestorian Christians living in China, these sutras articulate the Christian message using Buddhist and Daoist concepts. | 0 | |
| 11808960158 | Crusades | Modern term meaning "ventures of the cross," used to describe the "holy wars" waged by Western Christendom from 1095 until the end of the Middle Ages and beyond; Crusades could only be declared by the pope and were marked by participants swearing a vow and receiving an indulgence in return. | 1 | |
| 11808960166 | Western Christendom | West European branch of Christianity, and Split in 1054 C.E. from Eastern Orthodox on account of differences in church leadership, languages, religious images and the filioque. | 2 | |
| 11808960159 | Byzantine Empire | Term used by modern historians to refer to the surviving eastern Roman Empire during the medieval centuries; named after the ancient Greek city Byzantium, on the site of which the Roman emperor Constantine founded a new capital, Constantinople, in 330 C.E. | 3 | |
| 11808960160 | Constantinople | New capital for the eastern half of the Roman Empire, established by Emperor Constantine in 330 C.E. on the site of the ancient Greek city of Byzantium; Constantinople's highly defensible and economically important site helped assure the city's cultural and strategic importance for many centuries. | 4 | |
| 11808960167 | Justinian | Byzantine emperor (r. 527-565 c.e.), noted for his short-lived reconquest of much of the former western Roman Empire and for his codification of Roman law | 5 | |
| 11808960161 | Caesoropapism | A political-religious system in which the secular ruler is also head of the religious establishment, as in the Byzantine Empire | 6 | |
| 11808960168 | Eastern Orthodox Church | Branch of Christianity that developed in the eastern part of the Roman Empire and gradually separated, mostly on matters of practice, from the branch of Christianity dominant in Western Europe; noted for the subordination of the Church to political authorities, a married clergy, the use of leavened bread in the Eucharist, and insistence on church councils as the ultimate authority in Christianity belief and practice | 7 | |
| 11808960169 | Icons | Holy images ventered in the Eastern Orthodox Church | 8 | |
| 11808960162 | Kievan Rus | State that emerged around the city of Kiev in the ninth century C.E.; a culturally diverse region that included Vikings as well as Finnic and Baltic peoples. The conversion of Vladimir, the grand prince of Kiev, to Orthodox Christianity in 988 had long-term implications for Russia. | 9 | |
| 11808960163 | Prince Vladimir of Kiev | Grand prince of Kiev (r. 978-1015 C.E.) whose conversion to Orthodox Christianity led to the incorporation of Russia into the sphere of Eastern Orthodoxy. | 10 | |
| 11808960164 | Charlemagne | Ruler of the Carolingian Empire (r. 768-814) who staged an imperial revival in Western Europe. | 11 | |
| 11808960165 | Holy Roman Empire | Term invented in the twelfth century to describe the Germany-based empire founded by Otto I in 962 C.E. | 12 | |
| 11808960170 | Roman Catholic Church | Western European branch of Christianity that gradually defined itself as separate from Eastern Orthodoxy, with a major break in 1054 C.E.; "Roman Catholic" was not commonly used until after the Protestant Reformation, but the term is just because, by the eleventh century, Western Christendom defined itself in centralized terms, with the bishop of Rome (the pope) as the ultimate authority in matters of doctrine. | 13 |
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| 15002383949 | migrasyon | pagkilos o paglipat ng tao o mga tao mula sa isang lugar patungo sa isang dako sa layuning doon mamalagi o manirahan | 0 | |
| 15002383950 | panloob na migrasyon(internal migration) | kapag ang tao ay nagmula sa isang bayan, lalawigan, o rehiyon patungo sa ibang pook sa loob ng bansa | 1 | |
| 15002383951 | migrasyong panlabas(international migration) | kapag lumipat na ang mga tao sa ibang bansa upang doon na manirahan o mamalagi nang matagal na panahon | 2 | |
| 15002383952 | emigrasyon | pag-alis ng tao sa isang bansa | 3 | |
| 15002383953 | emigrante | tawag sa kanila sa iniwang bansa | 4 | |
| 15002383954 | imigrasyon | pagpasok ng isang tao sa isang bansa | 5 | |
| 15002383955 | imigrante | tawag sa kanila sa pinuntahang bansa | 6 | |
| 15002383956 | refugee | tapng lumikas na nangibang bansa dulot ng diskriminasyon at gyera para makahanap ng masisilungan | 7 | |
| 15002383957 | push factor | nag-uudyok sa isang tao upang lumipat ng tirahan upang humanap ng mas magandang buhay | 8 | |
| 15002383958 | pull factor | umaakit sa isang tao upang lumipat ng pook | 9 | |
| 15002383959 | artikulo 1, seksyon 1 ng 1987 PH konstitusyon | ang pambansang teritoryo ay binubuo ng kapuluanh Pilipinas, kasama ang lahat ng pulo at mga karagatang nakapaloob dito | 10 | |
| 15002383960 | UNCLOS | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea | 11 | |
| 15002383961 | unclos | pandaigdigang batas na nagtatakda sa mga alituntunin ng mga bansa | 12 | |
| 15002383962 | territorial dispute | di pagsang-ayon sa pag-angkin ng teritoryo | 13 | |
| 15002383963 | territorial sea | (12 nautical miles) | 14 | |
| 15002383964 | contiguous zone | 12 nautical miles | 15 | |
| 15002383965 | exclusive economic zone | 200 nautical miles | 16 | |
| 15002383966 | international waters | outside territorial waters | 17 |
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