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Here’s another climate diagram. Which biome do you think this site best exemplifies?  

Polydipsia can lead to all these symptoms except:  

A patient follows unit staff and imitates al their movements. What is the patient exhibiting?

A psychiatrist treating a patient with schizophrenia asks the patient to interpret this saying, “People who live in glass houses must not throw stones.” The patient replies, “It means that people who live in glass houses must not throw stones because the hours might break.”  This is an example of:

The best-known modernist movement, _______________________, dates from the 1870s, when people were astonished by the flickering network of color paintings used by painters like Edouard Manet and Claude Monet, to render simple scenes from everyday life.

Schoenberg’s method of composing with the twelve pitches of the chromatic scale held them to a fixed order. An ordered sequence of the twelve pitches is a twelve-tone row, or series, hence the term _____________.

As melody grew more complex and harmony grew more dissonant, tonality grew more indistinct. Finally, some music reached a point at which no tonal center could be detected at all. This is __________music.

The positive side of Wagner’s program was the development of a new kind of opera in the 1850s, for which he reserved a special name: __________________. Music in these works shares the honors with poetry, drama, and philosophy- all furnished by Wagner himself-as well as the stage design and acting.

A further step in program music, conceptually, was the __________________________, which was never intended to be followed by a stage play or opera.

Set in contemporary Spain, _________________ by George Bizet,  tells the story of a fiery, sexually irresistible Gypsy woman who works in a cigarette factory and a soldier who falls under her spell.