Social Science
Popular term for those involved in the
production, smuggling, and transport of illegal alcohol
during Prohibition
What is a bootlegger?
A type of material that allows electric charge
to flow freely through it; the opposite of an insulator
What is a conductor?
A literary concept first developed
by Wayne Booth in his book The Rhetoric of Fiction
(1961); refers to a narrator whose judgments or
perceptions either cannot be fully trusted or are
not fully endorsed by the author;
What is an unreliable narrator?
A movement, mostly in architecture and the
decorative arts, with an opulent and colorful visual
style featuring repeating patterns and intricate
geometric shapes
What is Art Deco?
A jazz timbre achieved by waving
the rubber plunger of a plumber’s helper over
What is a Wah-wah-mute?
The brainchild of President
Woodrow Wilson, this international body was
conceived as a place where member nations could
peacefully resolve conflicts and avoid future wars.
What is the League of Nations
A changing magnetic field can generate
a voltage in a wire without any other power source.
What is Faraday's Law?
Refers to an industrial landscape that sits between Great Neck and New York City; modeled loosely after the Corona neighborhood in Queens;
What is the "Valley of Ashes"?
A form of industrial capitalism pioneered
by Henry Ford that maximized output by reducing
the complexity of workers’ tasks and streamlining
production on an assembly line
What is Fordism?
Disney’s animated film The Princess and the Frog quoted from this song.
What is “Dippermouth Blues.”
“It” girl, who helped define the
1920s flapper style in her Hollywood starring roles
Who is Clara Bow?
3.0 × 10^8 m/s
What is the speed of light?
it features an octet (in the form of ABBA
ABBA) followed by a sestet (usually CDC CDC,
but sometimes CDE CDE); the shift between the
octet and sestet usually involves a turn or change of
thinking or focus, referred to as a “volta.”
What is Petrarchan Sonnet?
became
popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, was a style of decoration, architecture,
and design that was characterized by the depiction of
leaves and flowers in flowing, sinuous lines.
What is Art Nouveau?
A stage presentation consisting of
many short, unconnected performances by a
large array of entertainers demonstrating a wide
variety of skills, many unrelated to music
What is a vaudeville?
pseudoscientific movement that fused
elements of evolutionary biology and the philosophy of
Social Darwinism to assert that human society could
be divided into superior and inferior races and that
moral character traits and poverty were hereditary;
it was used to support racial segregation and forced
sterilization laws in the 1920s.
What is eugenics?
A set of four equations describing
the behavior of electric and magnetic fields and how
they relate to each other; these equations predict the
existence of electromagnetic waves.
What is Maxwell's Equation?
An influential modernist writer most
famous for experimental novels that radically altered
conventions surrounding dialogue and language
Who is Gertrude Stein?
A form of studied grace and elegance in portraiture that appears natural and spontaneous.
What is of sprezzatura?
A red-light district in New Orleans
at the beginning of the twentieth century that
is viewed as the launchpad for the earliest
development of jazz
What is Storyville?
A 1928 treaty signed by the United
States, France, and Germany that banned war as “an
instrument of national policy”; dozens of additional
nations pledged to pursue peaceful resolution to
international conflict.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
The first electric street rail system is installed in Richmond, Virginia.
What is 1888?
A journalist and public intellectual
who was one of the most famous writers of the
1920s; he routinely challenged what he viewed
as restrictive moral and political conventions and
was a fierce advocate for free speech.
Who is H.L Mencken?
Artistic movement in the United States during the late 19th-early 20th century[1] that produced works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city's poorer neighborhoods. Unofficial leader was Robert Henri.
What is Ashcan School?
Aaron Copland's most important instructor, but it took time to seek her out to chauvinistic views. He valued “her sensitivity to clarity, elegance and formal continuity" and "confidence in her young American students.”
Who is Nadia Boulanger