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This novel is not great literature; there are too many characters, too many subplots, and no clearly defined protagonist, making for _____________story.
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Despite their current reputation, the original Luddites were neither opposed to innovation technology nor _____________ using it: many were highly skilled machine operators in the textile industry.
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El Greco was one of the most fervent of painters, to the extreme of mania, while Velazquez, by contrast, was one of the most ______________.
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In spite of its rather (i) ______________ subject matter, Brinkley's is (ii)______________ work, one that is moderated by grace and restraint and tempered by an economy that in no way suggests timidity.
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Seemingly (i) ______________ her reputation for tediousness, the university president (ii)______________ a casual, chatty style in the speech she delivered.
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Most capuchin monkey conflict involves such a (i) ______________repertoire of gestural and vocal signals that it is difficult for researchers to tease apart the meanings of the individual signals. This (ii) ______________ is (iii) ______________ by the fact that many signals seem to shift in meaning according to the context in which they are produced and the developmental stage of the individuals producing them.
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A (i) ______________ assumption of the model is that (ii) ______________ the living standards of people living adjacent to a protected area will necessarily enhance conservation within the protected area. Studies of conservation attitudes of people in South Africa and Tanzania have found a positive correlation between affluence and conservation attitudes, but it is unlikely that an improvement in the living standards of communities near protected areas will inevitably (iii) ______________ the long-term viability of many species within the protected areas.
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The general claim that artists are the preeminent specialists in (i) ______________ is refuted by the obvious fact that the great mathematical and scientific discoveries of the past and present have been as much the result of (ii) ______________ thinking as have great (iii) ______________ discoveries.
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It can be ______________ to see well-known historical figures played in films by actors who have become firmly associated in our minds with contemporary celebrity culture.
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Despite much ______________ the county's political system, the fact that supporters failed in their attempts to change the constitution to allow the President to run again speaks well of the system's fundamental strengths.
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Developments in neuroscience and animal behavior have led researchers to question the view that unmitigated competition is ______________ animal life: in primatology, the countermovement started with research into how friendships and conflict resolution favor survival.
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Because they view Earth's resources as strictly limited, some environmentalists find the notion of sustainable growth to be ______________, believing that self-restraint and sacrifice must be at the heart of any environmentally sound strategy for the future.
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Early scholars described square dances as a type of ancient English country dance carried to the southern Appalachian Mountains and preserved unchanged for generations. However, while the Appalachian fiddle repertoire does include traditional reels that can be traced back to the British Isles, it also includes breakdowns, rags, and other musical features native to America. Appalachian songs similarly range from British ballads to African American blues. Given this musical diversity-not to mention the iconic presence of the banjo, an instrument with African roots-it would be naive to think the accompanying dances are purely English forms. While sections of Appalachia are relatively isolated, trade, travel, and immigration have continually introduced new cultural elements, including innovations in social dances, into the region's rural traditions.
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Based on the passage, it can be inferred that Appalachian square dancing
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The author mentions "social dances " primarily to
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In his 1836 landscape The Oxbow, Thomas Cole provided viewers with a grand portrayal of' American wilderness on the canvas's left, which he sharply juxtaposed with a scene of modern human "improvement" of the land on the right. Scholars have been struck by the very distinctive markings on the distant mountain in The Oxbow. It has been argued that these marks can be read as Hebrew letters: when looking directly at the mountain, the Hebrew equivalent for "Noah" is seen, and if viewed from above (by God), the markings spell "Shaddai" or "the Almighty". There are a number of reasons to question such a literal interpretation of the markings: the underdrawings for both the oil study and the finished canvas show no sign of lettering on the mountain, and Hebrew scholars who have carefully examined the markings do not accept this reading.
Moreover, by the 1830s, the Oxbow region of the Connecticut River valley was plagued by rapid clearing of forests including on the sides of mountains. In her watercolor of the site at this time, View of Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts, and the Connecticut River, artist Eliza Goodridge indicated selective clear-cut areas on the mountain Cole had become increasingly alarmed by this development, and he began to depict the effects of clear-cutting in his landscapes in the ears leading up to The Oxbow, as seen in his 1833 View of Hoosac Mountain and Pontoosuc Lake near Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in which areas of deforestation are visible on the distant mountain. Similar clear-cut sections appear on the mountain in his on-site drawing for The Oxbow, highlighting the importance of this transformation of the natural environment.
Yet that Cole might decide, as he was finishing the painting, to draw attention to this area of deforestation by including markings that roughly form a pattern or an inscription, not to be read literally is in keeping with the artist's practice of embedding his compositions with symbols and moral messages. In addition, deforestation had been on his mind for some time as a sign of man's destructive alteration of nature for financial "utilitarian" gain. A possible inspiration for these markings are the works of John Martin as seen in his painting Belshazzar 's Feast, which includes Hebraic letters Cole's constant references to mountains as pyramidal forms, and the fact that he had painted an ancient pyramid that was inscribed with Latin lettering, suggest that Cole may have intended the viewer to read the pattern on the mountain as a biblical reference that alerted them to God' s judgment of humans' recent destruction of his pure creation. The mountain is defaced, just as all other areas of the landscape at right have been altered, by the hand of man.
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The passage is primarily concerned with
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The author mentions the findings of the "Hebrew scholars" mainly to
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The author suggests that Cole's inclusion of "distinctive markings" on the mountain in The Oxbow
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The author mentions which of the following as evidence of how Cole intended the markings on his painting to be read?
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