HUM 2020 Final

The ___ were an important decade in the history of the Environmental Rights Movement

1970s

South American country's "Law of the Rights of Mother Earth" is a government gesture of goodwill towards solving environmental issues

Bolivia

the updated, modern equivalent to AD is

CE (Common Era)

The 19th century gave birth to Frankenstein's Creature and which other iconic monster

Dracula

example of contemporary contagion anxiety

HIV/AIDS crisis

Origins of zombies

Haiti, West Africa, Caribbean

Environmental humanities are

Interdisciplinary

Who experimented on frog legs with electricity in an attempt to prove that "animal electricity" causes life

Luigi Galvani

Frankenstein was written by

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

work that is widely credited to have began the environmental movement in the 20th century

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

Civilizations where science flourished in the Middle Ages

Western Europe, Byzantine Empire, Islamic world

Who was Prometheus?

a Greek deity who selflessly imparted wisdom to humanity, influenced the Romantics as a symbol of heroic freedom

example of a digital age "monster"

a cyborg

secondary source

a text telling you about another text

the linguistic meaning of the word monster can be best defined as

a warning, a sign, an admonition

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale argues that

an environmental disaster would intensify gender inequality

primary source

an original text

text

anything that can be read

Aristole's Nichomachean Ethics labelled a monster as

bestial

social anxieties that were classically associated with vampires prior to the contemporary era

death, contagion, disease

Transhumanism

enhancement of the human body through technology

Frankenstein is a landmark fusion of

ethics, science, and literary expression

posthumanism

existence beyond humanity and the physical body

the phrase "western culture" refers to the geographical location of the culture dominantly studied in the humanities

false

characteristics of Romanticism

heroic rebellion, piqued interest in the supernatural, amorous love

context

historical and cultural background

Anthropocentrism

human domination over nature

Bram Stoker

introduced many contemporary tropes of Dracula

three main principles of environmental ethics

justice, sufficiency, and solidarity

general qualities of a monster

large in size, inherently evil, an object of fear

during the Scientific Revolution, it became agreed upon that the universe works according to what

laws of nature

what are the disciplines of humanities

literature, architecture, jurisprudence

Humanities is the study of how people respond to

one another, their own perceptions of the world, external stimulus

images of zombies in the 21st century critique

our obsession with technology

Frankenstein was credited to be the first of what genre

science fiction

images of zombies in the 60s and 70s critiqued

suburbia, alienation from nature, consumerism

modern connotations of monster are concerned with

the ID

Empiricism

the belief that accurate knowledge can be acquired through observation

the Enlightenment

the era marking the divide between the medieval faith-based view of the world and the modern, secular view

subtext

the hidden or underlying meaning of something

what is culture

the learned behavior of a society, a complex whole of knowledge, belief, art, etc., a non-unified collection of symbols and meanings that cannot be definitively interpreted that are contested, temporal, and emergent

Ecocriticism

the study of the relationship between literature and the environment including representations of nature in literary works

Renaissance is an example of how convergence can occur between disciplines such as science and art

true

Studia Humantis was a term coined in the 15th century to distinguish between religious and secular education

true

The Greek aphorism "Know Thyself" means to know the collective essence of being a human as much as it means to know yourself individualistically

true

anxieties about the consequences of the Cold War manifested themselves in 1970s American film

true

in ancient myths, when a hero vanquished a monster, civilization was often established

true

in the ancient world there was no distinction between science and religion

true

the concept of monster can be traced to diverse world traditions

true

the general education programs that many current university students follow can be traced back to Studia Humantis

true

characteristics of Dracula

undead, shape shifting, parasitic

Frankenstein was influenced by what debate

vitalist debate

ecofeminist issues

water contamination hurting minority groups, reproductive technology, equitable rights to basic living needs for children