Ism Flashcards
Feminism
the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.
Urbanization
is a word for becoming more like a city. When populations of people grow, the population of a place may spill over from city to nearby areas. This is called urbanization.
Clara Barton
Clarissa Harlowe “Clara” Barton was a pioneer nurse who founded the American Red Cross. In addition to being a hospital nurse, she worked as a teacher, patent clerk, and humanitarian.
Patriotism
generally speaking, cultural attachment to one’s homeland or devotion to one’s country, although interpretations of the term vary with context, geography and political ideology. It is a set of concepts closely related to those of nationalism.
Literacy
The ability to read and write
Romanticism
a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.
Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.
Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers.
Realism
the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly.
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, FRS was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory.
Charles Dickens
Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.
Modernism
modern character or quality of thought, expression, or technique.
Symbolist
the art or practice of using symbols especially by investing things with a symbolic meaning or by expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or sensuous representations.
Impressionists
a painter, writer, or composer who is an exponent of impressionism.
Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.
