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Faust/Faustian Bargain

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Plays by Christopher Marlow
Goethe(Faust) Mephistopheles sells his soul
Has everything he desires
Despair sacrificing one self or ones value getting what one desires, often material wealth

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Philistines/Philistinism

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Old Testament,enemies of the Israelites, David, great philistine warrior, goliath

No appreciation for culture taste are commonplace

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Coals to Newcastle

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Coal mining city England
Superfluous

Giving a superfluous gift
Gracious and unnecessary

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Freudan Slip

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Sigmund Freud, Austrian physician and psychotherapist
Subconscious mind in human behavior
Is an unconventional or accidental error in speech or actions revealing someone’s subconscious thoughts or feelings

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Sisyphus or Sisyphean

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Greek mythology
King who Offended Zues
Hades, Rolling a boulder up a hill then roll back to the bottom and start over again seeming endless perhaps futile

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Babylon

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Capital of the ancient Babylonian empire
leisurely and corrupt
Jews were excited about the prophet Daniel
Place of dependence or corruption

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Pheonix/rising from the ashes

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Mythological bird one-of-a-kind
Five or 600 years
Burn itself then arise from its own ashes
Symbolize rebirth resurrection
Surmounting great obstacles
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Xandu

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Mongolia 
Mongol emperor of Chin
Kublai Khan 
Magnificent residence 
 Poem "Kubla Khan" 1816 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
Magnificent, almost magical place
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Muckrakers

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President Theodore Roosevelt
Reformed mind journalist
Badge of honor
Exposed corrupted or needed 
Promote for reform

To authors or journalist who expos corrupt

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Sin qua non

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Latin “without which nothing”

Essential ingredient without which would be impossible

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Methuselah

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Oldest of the patriarchs in the Bible
969 years

Extremely old person

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Cylla and Charybdis

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Greek mythology many headed sea monster
Cave on one side of a narrow straight of whirlpool on the opposite side of the straight steer their very carefully between the two

Between to equal dangers avoiding one means getting closer to the other

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Holy grail

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Medieval legend object of quest
Cup from which Jesus drank at the last supper
Legends of King author and Knights of the round table perfection
Extremely and desirable not Long and difficult quest

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Luddites

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British laborers in early 1800’s
Opposed industrialization
Threatening there jobs
Smashed exile industry

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Pass the Buck

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In poker a marker that was passed
From person to person whose turn it was to deal
Is to shift the responsibly and often blame to another person