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An American founding father who invented many things, such as the lightning rod
Who was Ben Franklin?
What is the Book of Revelation?
Loss of religious faith.
What is a theme of the "Dover Beach" poem?
These are the challenges or difficult experiences Gulliver faces throughout his adventures.
What are the trials?
The German scientist that discovered the theory of relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The father of the nation in India. He gained independence from British control.
Who was Gahndi?
A biblical book about suffering, faith, and questioning God.
What is The Book of Job?
AN anti-slavery novel by American AUthor Harriet Beecher Stowe that highlighted the cruel reality of treating human beings as property through Christian love and motherhood.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
An allusion that symbolizes destruction followed by rebirth and renewal.
What is The Phoenix?
King John of England sealed this document that established that everyone, including the monarch is subjected to the law. June 13, 1215.
What is the Magna Carta?
This Founding Father was the 3rd President of the United States and wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
a reference used to describe the trust of Gods provisions and letting go of basic worries such as food clothing
What is Lilies of the Field?
This famous Athenian Philosopher used the "Allegory of the Cave" to illustrate how human perception is limited without the light of true knowledge.
Who was Plato?
Catastrophic 79 CE volcanic eruption in Italy that burned the ancient Roman cities of Pomepit and Herculaneum
What was Vesuvius
He was an American poet, essayist, and journalist;often called the "father of free verse."
Who is Walt Whitman?
A term used to describe the early middle ages in western Europe from approximately the 5th to 10th century.
What is the Dark ages?
A myth from the book of Genesis that explains how diverse human languages developed.
What is the Tower of Babel?
An English playwright poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in English language and the worlds pre-eminent dramatist.
Who is William Shakespeare
Him and his father used wings and wax to escape imprisonment on the isnalnd of Crete, he flew too close to the sun and plummeted into the sea
Who was Icarus
Italian poet, wrote a famous depiction of Christian after life.
Who is Dante?
This person if the father of the modern theory of evolution by natural selection and was a biologist.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This 18th century English poet was discriminated against for being Roman Catholic. He could not attend public schools because of it.
Who was Alexander Pope?
This 1726 book features a traveler who visits a land of tiny people and a land of giants.
What is Gullivers travels?
the Renaissance author of the prince wrote ideas about power and human nature were considered highly racial, dangerous, and tobacco during this.
This famous Greek philosopher was a student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle.
Who is Plato?