Cultural Literacy

Q4

Biolerplate

written text that can be reused in multiple setting

On the Mount Rushmore of…

the 4 greatest of a particular category

Tulsa Massacre

greenwood oklahoma where blacks flourished was attacked by a white mob, over 300 killed, largest racial violence in U.S.

Pound of Flesh

a payment or penalty exacted to fultill a deal or punishment. legally justified but morally questioned

Emmet Till

14 yr old African American, assaulted a yooung white woman, then he got beat and shot

“sic transit gloria mundi”

“thus passes the glory of the world”- all glory and fame is temporary

Communism

ideology that promotes replaces private ownership with a classless system.

Faustian Bargian

compromises morals for something beneficial

Dante Alighiera

influential poet- wrote Divine Comedy and Inferno, both about fictional afterlife

Freudian Slip

verbal or memory mistake that is believed to reveal unconscious thoughts, desires, or feeling