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74 Cards in this Set
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Name Calling
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Tree-hugger, Feminist, White-Trash, Elitist...
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Logical Fallacy
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A banana is a fruit.
An orange is a fruit. Therefore a banana is an orange. |
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Sex Appeal
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Using Beyonce to sell "Upgrades" for Direct TV. What does she have to do with it?
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Repetition
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Mark Mitsubishi? Mark Mitsubishi.
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Glittering Generalities
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"democracy", "patriotism", "youth", "beauty", and "freedom"
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Plain Folks
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Aw gee whiz, even David Beckham likes French Fries.
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Bandwagon
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Everyone is getting the new iPhone, you should too!
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Testimonial
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Chuck Norris selling the Total Gym
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Transfer
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Doctor in a lab coat selling prescription meds.
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Euphemism
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Saying something nicer than it really is. Slimming jeans, previously-owned vehicle.
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Who wants goodness, freedom, God, anger, danger and literature
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John the Savage
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Who wants to be able to do things alone?
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Helmholtz Watson
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Who feels he has the power to say something important, but has nothing important to say?
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Bernard Marx
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Who voices their concern about the kind of government needed to control science?
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Aldous Huxley
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Who considers stability to be most important need of human kind?
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The Controller
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What is Huxley's main theme of the novel?
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A warning about the power of science
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What is the motto of the New World State?
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Community, Identity, Stability
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What is the name of the sleep teaching process?
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Hypnopaedia
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When did the Utopian State begin?
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After a disastrous 7 year war
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Brave New World sacrifices truth and beauty for what?
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Comfort
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The social order of the New World State is based on what?
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Clearly defined social classes: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon
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Does family, monogamy and romance exist in the New World State?
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No
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What is Bokonovsky's Process?
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Budding embryos
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What is the bond between Helmholtz and Bernard based on?
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Their feeling of being individuals, and outcasts.
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The World State discourages what?
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Monogamy
Love of nature Family |
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Who is the Eager, young employee at the Hatchery?
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Henry Fost
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Who is the Alpha Plus psychologist?
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Bernard Marx
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Who is the pretty and popular fertility nurse?
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Lenina Crowne
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Who is the Resident Controller for Western Europe?
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Mustapha Mond
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Who is the Indian that lives on the Reservation?
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Pope
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Who is the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning?
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Tomakin
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Who is the writer of State Propaganda?
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Helmholtz Watson
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Who is the uncivilized person brought back to the New World State? (Utopia)
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John the Savage
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Who was the "Utopian" girl that gave birth to the child on the Reservation?
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Linda
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Joey Margolis
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the kid that got in trouble all the time, saw a psychologist
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Charlie Banks
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3rd base, Hazel's boyfriend
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Nana Bert
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Joey's Step Mom
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Craig Nakamura
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Joey's Best Friend, the Green Hornet
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Donald M. Weston
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Psychologist
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Harlan
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Charlie's Brother
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Hazel McKay
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Singer, Charlie's girlfriend
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Rachel Panitz
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Joey's crush
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Mrs. Aubaugh
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Neighbor with the wooden leg
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Stuke
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1st base, Charlie's best friend
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Morris Leiberman
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the Rabbi
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Carrie Gettinger
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Joey's aunt
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Janet Hicks
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Joey's teacher
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Rancine, Wisconsin
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Where Charlie is buried
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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the President's wife
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Pedestrian
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lacking in vitality, boring, no imagination
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Galvanizing
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To startle into sudden activity, to stimulate
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Catawampus
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askew, awry, off in some way
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Indubitably
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certain, unquestionable
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Engrossing
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fully occupying the mind or attention, absorbing
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Facetious
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not meant to be taken seriously or literally
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Tantalizing
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expectation, interest, desire
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Beauteous
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beautiful
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Spelunking
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to explore caves as a hobby
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Gallivanting
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to roam about in search of pleasure and amusement
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Shenanigans
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mischief, prankishness
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Inertia
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inactivity, sluggishness
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Vivificate
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to give life to, to animate
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Ex-sanguination
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to drain of blood
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Perpetuity
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endless or indefinitely long duration or existence
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Writing style characterized by economy and understatement.
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Hemingway
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Known for developing "New Journalism" a style of writing that was a cross between journalism and literature.
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Capote
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Complete dialogue from interviews of subjective quotes, point-of-view variation.
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Capote
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His protagonists are typically stoic men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure."
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Hemingway
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Wrote the true crime novel, In True Blood," and screenplay for "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
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Capote
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Known for living life "to the extreme" and was an adrenaline junkie."
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Hemingway
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Threw a party of socialites in New York every year called the "Black and White Ball."
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Capote
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Wrote about family from an autobiographical point of view from childhood.
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Capote
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Wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and Old Man and the Sea
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Hemingway
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Was an alcoholic that eventually took his own life. Lived life as a pessimistic agnostic.
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Hemingway.
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