People often use words like “freedom,” “truth,” “morality,” and “love” in a way that presumes they have obvious and concrete meaning. In The Big Questions, Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins contend that when abstract concepts are used like this, without clearly articulating their specific meaning, they become  __________.

Though the term “culture” has a few closely related but distinct meanings, the term, at its core, refers to that which is___________ made.

Albert begins thinking of different ice cream flavors that have never been tried but might be good. Independent of Albert’s actions, Daniella thinks of and tries to create new flavors of ice cream. Eventually she creates a new flavor that she and her family and friends love. Daniella’s friend, Eric, thinks the new flavor is so good he markets the flavor to a local ice cream shop. Eventually Daniella is offered a significant amount of money to sell the rights to her novel ice cream flavor. She accepts and shares the proceeds with Eric. Applying Kenneth Robinson’s definitions of innovation, imagination, and creativity, we would say that Albert utilized , Daniella utilized , and Eric utilized .

The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965 established the “National Endowment for the Humanities” (NEH) in order to support artistic and humanistic projects in society. According to the law, the arts and humanities deserve public or governmental support because __________________________ Select all that apply.

According to cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, human beings use cultural representations of the world to make sense of the world and give or assign meaning/significance to things in it.

Abraham Maslow argued that an education that fails to highlight the guiding role of _______ was akin to a pilot making good time without a destination.

In the movie, Deadpool (2016), Deadpool is too late to save a man being robbed. After comedically commenting that he should have just called 911, Deadpool lies on the dead man’s body and proceeds to casually eat some of the food the man had bought before being robbed. Drawing on the definitions supported by Sissela Bok this scene exemplifies________

Late in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Penny cooks a meal at Olivia’s parents’ house. In the scene nothing material is achieved. The two listen to music, enjoy their dinner, and share a free-flowing and authentic conversation. During the conversation Dodge, who had explicitly said he avoided getting to know people, asks Penny questions about her life and background. His questions and her answers do not “lead” to a significant discovery or obvious plot development, but they do enable Dodge to better know Penny and stimulate a palpable intimacy between the two. Implementing Erich Fromm’s ideas, one could argue that Dodge and Penny, during the dinner scene, exemplified the_________.

According to Erich Fromm, the being mode of existence requires us to ___________. Select all answers that apply

Antislavery party in the 1848 and 1852 elections that opposed the extension of slavery into the territories.