Cuban poet Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

The current leader of Cuba, Fidel's brother Raul Castro, was on board the Granma when it sailed to Cuba from Mexico in 1656 to overthrow the dictator True The most emphatic and expressive example of Marxist-Leninist Revolution in twentiethcentury Latin America is the ____ Revolution Cuban The CIA financed and trained the "Contras" (counterrevolutionaries) to fight against the revolutionaries in _____. They became a household name in the Reagan era after the IranContra Scandal Nicaragu...

Spain today (politics, economy, geography, culture) - Answer- -*Democracy under parliamentary constitutional monarchy* -*Member of EU* -*Majority Roman Catholic* (religious freedom) -*Tourism* is one of the main sources of income. -Important developers/producers of *renewable energy*, in particular *solar power*. -*strong economy, high quality of life* -*SW Europe, Iberian Peninsula to the south of France and Andorra and to the east of Portugal. It has coastlines on the Bay of Biscay (a p...

CSET Spanish Subtest II Exam With 100% Correct Answers 2023 Cuban poet, lived in Mexico, Writes about beauty of indigenous ruins - Correct AnswerJosé Maria Heredia true father of contemporary poetry wrote "good book of love" Castillian Chaucer - Correct Answer-Juan Ruiz Archpriest of Hita circle of Spanish poets wanted to work with advant garde art & poetry - Correct Answer-Generación de '27 changes after Franco rule in Spain changes in every day life - Correct Answer-La Movida 197...

John Locke 17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, liberty, and property. Social Contract A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by creating a government and abiding by its rules. Tabula Rasa blank slate philosophes Writers during the Enlightenment and who popularized the new ideas of the time. Baron Montesquieu Enlightenment thinker who s...

POETS & POETRY | 1600 | He began a famous poem, ""I celebrate myself, and sing myself"" Walt Whitman 19th CENTURY BOOKS & AUTHORS | 800 | In 1893 this British man published his ""initial"" book, a ""text-book of biology""; many sci-fi novels followed H.G. Wells FRENCH LITERATURE | 2000 | A collection of about 90 tales, ""The Human Comedy"" by this author paints a vivid portrait of 19th c. France (Honoré de) Balzac CONSERVATIVE BOOKSHELF | 400 | Cartoonist Michael Ramirez...

CSET Spanish Subtest 2 | 397 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | 30 Pages What are the characteristics of Modernism (1888-1910)? There are 10. - Correct Answer-1. Loneliness 2. Sensuality 3. Defense of Indigenism 4. Harmony 5. Exoticism 6. Fine Materials 7. Mythological 8. Sayings/Gallicism 9. Aristocratic 10. Change of meter Who was the most important modernist? Where was he from? - Correct Answer-Ruben Dario Nicaragua This type of writing Gained popularity in mid-13th Century ...

(Lady) Murasaki Shikibu (c. 978 -c. 1015): Novelist, diarist, and courtesan. She was the author of the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), the first known novel; the diary nikki; and a collection of tanka poems. The daughter of the court official Fujiwara Tametoki, she sat in on the classical Chinese literature lessons that her brother received, in spite of the Heian traditions against higher education for women. (Sei) Shonagan (c. 966 - c. 1013): Like Lady Murasaki, was a lady-in-waiting of th...

Analyzing Romanticism in Spanish Poetry.This activity will help you meet these educational goals: You will demonstrate an understanding of gurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. You will analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure speci c parts of a text contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact. You will write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics using valid reasoning and r...

CSET Spanish CSET Spanish V Sociopolitcal Context - ANS -Compare governmental systems (ie -democratic, -totalitarian -theoretic) and legal systems (-judicial, -civil liberties, -due process rights) of the cpuntry or countries of origin and the US Sociopolitcal Context - ANS -Understand the distribution of political power and the nature of citizen participation in the country or countries of origin and analyze the ways in which this political tradition has influenced...

Sociolinguistics Studies the relationships between language and society and how they interact, modify, and impact eachother. Modification factors of Sociolinguistics Geographical location SES class Education level Age group Gender Ethnicity Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Espanola) Responsible for regulating the Spanish language Seeks to provide linguistic agreement and a common standard among all the Spanish speaking regions R RAE Motto "Limpia, fija y ...