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Pamela Zoline’s “The Heat death of the Universe” Show & Tell Pre-Reading Research Activity

Please research the term/s you were assigned using the Internet or reference books. Explain and summarize using your OWN words. Wherever possible, please print an image to illustrate the term. Next class we will share your findings. Synthesize is the key word! Also use our online databases through the Portnet site [library à reference à Worldbook Encyclopedia or try PWPL Port Washington Public Library sites and seek encyclopedias like Britannica Online. Use the Internet only if databases do not help. Be careful that you are using a legitimate site. CROSS REFERENCE when using the Internet: don’t just assume the first answer is correct. Visit multiple sites and compare and then synthesize!

Terms/Words/Names to Define

1. King Solomon’s Judgment [see two mothers’ story]
2. Boyle’s Law [physics, simplified]
3. J.S. Bach [type of musical style, form, brief bio]
4. Fugue [define the different kinds of fugues]
5. Transparent eye; Emerson’s “Self Reliance” reference – what does the eyeball mean? [Find a sketch and analyze]
6. Entropy [explain in human language!]
7. Heat Death of the Universe
8. Metastasis
9. Yin and Yang Signs [get a picture; print it large enough to show the class; what does it represent?]
10. Saint Veronica [see Shroud; get photo; what is history?]
11. Baba (Wooden Russian Dolls) [get a picture; print it large enough to show the class; what are they?]
12. Manna
13. Dada (Dadaism)
14. Marcel Duchamp (related to Dada)
15. “elle a chaud au cul” LHOOQ (related to Dada) [get a picture; print it large enough to show the class; why is it significant?]
16. Picabia [Related to Dada]
17. Salvador Dali’s painting “Persistence of Memory” [get a picture; print it large enough to show the class; what is represented? What does it mean?]
18. Tantalus [know story of his crime and punishment; find a depiction of it in art and print graphic]
19. Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa [get a picture; print it large enough to show the class; for what is it famous?]
20. Duchamp’s Mona Lisa (Dada) [get a picture; print it large enough to show the class; why is this significant?]
21. Gibbs’ Universe [simplify as best you can!]
22. “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost [summarize/explain]
23. Turtle Symbolism [hint: look for meaning in look in mythologies around the world. What does it mean?]
24. Cosmic Egg [this appears in several myths; get a picture; print it large enough to show the class]
25. First Wave Feminism
26. Second Wave Feminism
27. Third Wave Feminism
28. Metaphysics
29. Metaphysical Conceit
30. Metaphysical Poetry
31. The Absurd
32. Existentialism
33. What were the social issues of the 1950s?
34. What were the social issues of the 1960s?
35. Frosted Flakes History