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Rome is a city and special " comune " ( named " Roma Capitale ") in ___MASK56___ . Rome is the capital of ___MASK56___ and of the Lazio region . With 2 , 870 , 336 residents in , it is also the country ' s largest and most populated " comune " and fourth - most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits . The Metropolitan City of Rome has a population of 4 . 3 million residents . The city is located in the central - western portion of the Italian Peninsula , within Lazio ( Latium ), along the shores of Tiber river . The ___MASK50___ is an independent country geographically located within the city boundaries of Rome , the only existing example of a country within a city : for this reason Rome has been often defined as capital of two states . A doctorate ( from Latin " docere ", " to teach ") or doctor ' s degree ( from Latin " doctor ", " ___MASK37___ ") or doctoral degree ( from the ancient formalism " licentia docendi ") is an academic degree awarded by universities that is , in most countries , a research degree that qualifies the holder to teach at the university level in the degree ' s field , or to work in a specific profession . There are a variety of doctoral degrees , with the most common being the Doctor of Philosophy ( PhD ), which is awarded in many different fields , ranging from the humanities to the scientific disciplines . There are also some doctorates in the US , such as the Juris Doctor ( JD ), Doctor of Nursing Practice ( DNP ) and the Doctor of Medicine ( MD ), which are generally regarded internationally as professional degrees rather than doctorates , as they are not research degrees and no defense of any dissertation or thesis is performed . Many universities also award " honorary doctorates " to individuals who have been deemed worthy of special recognition , either for scholarly work or for other contributions to the university or to society . Central America is the southernmost , isthmian portion of the North ___MASK55___ continent , which connects with South America on the southeast . Central America is bordered by ___MASK84___ to the north , Colombia to the southeast , the Caribbean Sea to the east , and the Pacific Ocean to the west . Central America consists of seven countries : Belize , ___MASK90___ , El Salvador , Honduras , Nicaragua , Costa Rica and Panama . The combined population of Central America is between 41 , 739 , 000 ( 2009 estimate ) and 42 , 688 , 190 ( 2012 estimate ). The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States . The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context . The eight institutions are Brown University , Columbia University , Cornell University , Dartmouth College , Harvard University , the University of Pennsylvania , Princeton University , and Yale University . The term " Ivy League " has connotations of ___MASK76___ excellence , selectivity in admissions , and social elitism . Expert is defined differently in varying ___MASK76___ fields . Psychology defines an expert using superior performance ; sociology considers that expertise is a label given to an individual by a group and is interested in the power held by experts ; philosophy stresses the kind of knowledge held by experts but not novices . Informally , an expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of technique or skill whose faculty for judging or deciding rightly , justly , or wisely is accorded authority and status by peers or the public in a specific well - distinguished domain . An expert , more generally , is a person with extensive knowledge or ability based on research , experience , or occupation and in a particular area of study . Experts are called in for advice on their respective subject , but they do not always agree on the particulars of a field of study . An expert can be believed , by virtue of credential , training , education , profession , publication or experience , to have special knowledge of a subject beyond that of the average person , sufficient that others may officially ( and legally ) rely upon the individual ' s opinion . Historically , an expert was referred to as a sage ( Sophos ). The individual was usually a profound thinker distinguished for wisdom and sound judgment . An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking , research , and reflection about the reality of society , and proposes solutions for the normative problems of society , and thus he or she gains authority as a public intellectual . Coming from the world of culture , either as a creator or as a mediator , the intellectual participates in politics , either to defend a concrete proposition or to denounce an injustice , usually by producing or by extending an ideology , and by defending a system of values . The ___MASK55___ Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783 during which colonists in the Thirteen ___MASK55___ Colonies rejected the ___MASK85___ monarchy and aristocracy , overthrew the authority of Great Britain , and founded the United States of America . Continental philosophy is a set of 19th - and 20th - century philosophical traditions from mainland Europe . This sense of the term originated among English - speaking philosophers in the second half of the 20th century , who used it to refer to a range of thinkers and traditions outside the analytic movement . Continental philosophy includes the following movements : German idealism , phenomenology , existentialism ( and its antecedents , such as the thought of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche ), hermeneutics , structuralism , post - structuralism , French feminism , psychoanalytic theory , and the critical theory of the ___MASK63___ School and related branches of Western Marxism . Rhode Island , officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , is a state in the New ___MASK25___ region of the northeastern United States . Rhode Island is the smallest in area , the eighth least populous , and the second most densely populated of the 50 U . S . states , following New ___MASK82___ . Its official name is also the longest of any state in the Union . Rhode Island is bordered by Connecticut to the west , Massachusetts to the north and east , and the Atlantic Ocean to the south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound . The state also shares a short maritime border with New York . The word authority ( derived from the Latin word " auctoritas ") can be used to mean the right to exercise power given by the State ( in the form of government , judges , police officers , etc .), or by ___MASK76___ knowledge of an area ( someone that can be an authority on a subject ). Higher education , post - secondary education , or third level education is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completion of secondary education . Often delivered at universities , academies , colleges , seminaries , and institutes of technology , higher education is also available through certain college - level institutions , including vocational schools , trade schools , and other career colleges that award ___MASK76___ degrees or professional certifications . Tertiary education at non - degree level is sometimes referred to as further education or continuing education as distinct from higher education . Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence , Rhode Island , United States , founded in 1764 as " The College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ." Brown is the seventh - oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges established before the ___MASK55___ Revolution . Juan Carlos Quintero Herencia , born in Santurce , ___MASK2___ in 1963 , is a literary voice from the Puerto Rican literary scene . Member and co - editor of the Poetry journal Filo de juego ( 1982 -- 1987 ) the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña published , in 2002 , his early poetry under a volume entitled El hilo para el marisco / Cuaderno de los envíos ( 2002 ) . This volume received the Puerto Rican Pen Club Poetry Prize in 2004 . Quintero Herencia has published other collections of poetry such as La caja negra ( 1996 , Isla Negra ) and Libro del sigiloso ( 2007 , Terranova ) . Quintero Herencia ' s poetry is complex and contains an intense desire for experimentation and baroque imagery . In Quintero ' s recent poetry a concern for the specific nature of the political gesture of poetry is a recurrent topic . As an essayist Quintero - Herencia established himself with Fulguración del espacio : Letras e imaginario institucional de la Revolución cubana ( 1960 -- 1971 ) ( Beatriz Viterbo , 2002 ) , a contextual and critical reading of the crucial debates which defined the Cuban intellectual field during the 1960s . His second book , La máquina de la salsa : Tránsitos del sabor ( Ediciones Vértigo , 2005 ) has been hailed by Puerto Rican critics as the most comprehensive critical balance on the Salsa phenomenon . As a Professor , Quintero - Herencia teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Latin ___MASK55___ and Caribbean literatures and cultures at the University of Maryland , College Park ( USA ) . He also teaches Literary Theory . Before going to the University of Maryland , he taught at the University of ___MASK2___ , Río Piedras and Brown University . Literary theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature . However , literary scholarship since the 19th century often includes  in addition to , or even instead of literary theory in the strict sense  considerations of intellectual history , moral philosophy , social prophecy , and other interdisciplinary themes which are of relevance to the way humans interpret meaning . In humanities in modern academia , the latter style of scholarship is an outgrowth of critical theory and is often called simply " theory ." As a consequence , the word " theory " has become an umbrella term for a variety of scholarly approaches to reading texts . Many of these approaches are informed by various strands of Continental philosophy and sociology . The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the ___MASK83___ ' s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". The University of ___MASK2___ ( UPR ) is the main public university system of ___MASK2___ and a government - owned corporation of ___MASK2___ . It consists of 11 campuses and has approximately 58 , 000 students and 5 , 300 faculty members . UPR has the largest and most diverse ___MASK76___ offerings in ___MASK2___ and the Caribbean , with 472 ___MASK76___ programs of which 32 lead to a doctorate . South America is a continent located in the western hemisphere , mostly in the southern hemisphere , with a relatively small portion in the northern hemisphere . It is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas , which is the model used in nations that speak Romance languages . The reference to South America instead of other regions ( like Latin America or the Southern Cone ) has increased in the last decades due to changing geopolitical dynamics ( in particular , the rise of ___MASK59___ ). The Caribbean ( or ) is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea , its islands ( some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean ) and the surrounding coasts . The region is southeast of the Gulf of ___MASK84___ and the North American mainland , east of Central America , and north of South America . ___MASK56___ , officially the Italian Republic , is a unitary parliamentary republic in Europe . Located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea , ___MASK56___ shares open land borders with ___MASK21___ , Switzerland , ___MASK10___ , Slovenia , San Marino and Vatican City . ___MASK56___ covers an area of and has a largely temperate seasonal climate and Mediterranean climate ; due to its shape , it is often referred to in ___MASK56___ as " lo Stivale " ( the Boot ). With 61 million inhabitants , it is the fourth most populous EU member state . Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Americas where Romance languages are predominant . The term originated in 19th century ___MASK21___ as " Amérique latine " to consider French - speaking territories in the Americas ( Haiti , French Guiana , Martinique , Guadeloupe , Saint Martin , Saint Barthélemy ) along with the larger group of countries where Spanish and Portuguese languages prevailed . It is therefore broader than the terms Ibero - America or Hispanic America  though it usually excludes French Canada and modern French Louisiana . Poetry ( the term derives from a variant of the Greek term , " poiesis ", " making ") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language  such as phonaesthetics , sound symbolism , and metre  to evoke meanings in addition to , or in place of , the prosaic ostensible meaning . ___MASK84___ (, modern Nahuatl ), officially the United Mexican States , is a federal republic in the southern half of North America . It is bordered to the north by the United States ; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean ; to the southeast by ___MASK90___ , Belize , and the Caribbean Sea ; and to the east by the Gulf of ___MASK84___ . Covering almost two million square kilometers ( over 760 , 000 sq mi ), ___MASK84___ is the sixth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent nation in the world . With an estimated population of over 120 million , it is the eleventh most populous country and the most populous Spanish - speaking country in the world while being the second most populous country in Latin America . ___MASK84___ is a federation comprising 31 states and a federal district that is also its capital and most populous city . Other metropolises include Guadalajara , Monterrey , Puebla , Toluca , Tijuana and León . The Baroque ( or ) is often thought of as a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear , easily interpreted detail to produce drama , tension , exuberance , and grandeur in sculpture , painting , architecture , literature , dance , theater , and music . The style began around 1600 in Rome and ___MASK56___ , and spread to most of Europe . Professor ( commonly abbreviated as " prof .") is an ___MASK76___ rank at universities and other post - secondary education and research institutions in most countries . Literally , " professor " derives from Latin as a " person who professes " being usually an expert in arts or sciences , a ___MASK37___ of the highest rank . Language is the ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication , particularly the human ability to do so , and a language is any specific example of such a system . The scientific study of language is called linguistics . Questions concerning the philosophy of language , such as whether words can represent experience , have been debated since Gorgias and Plato in Ancient ___MASK95___ . Thinkers such as Rousseau have argued that language originated from emotions while others like Kant have held that it originated from rational and logical thought . 20th - century philosophers such as Wittgenstein argued that philosophy is really the study of language . Major figures in linguistics include Ferdinand de Saussure and Noam Chomsky . The term Hispanic ( or , , , , " hispàno ") broadly refers to the people , nations , and cultures that have a historical link to ___MASK64___ . It commonly applies to countries once colonized by the Spanish Empire in the Americas ( see Spanish colonization of the Americas ) and Asia , particularly the countries of Latin America and the Philippines . It could be argued that the term should apply to all Spanish - speaking cultures or countries , as the historical roots of the word specifically pertain to the Iberian region . It is difficult to label a nation or culture with one term , such as " Hispanic ", as the ethnicities , customs , traditions , and art forms ( music , literature , dress , architecture , cuisine , and others ) vary greatly by country and region . The Spanish language and Spanish culture are the main traditions . Humanities are ___MASK76___ disciplines that study aspects of human culture . In the Middle Ages , the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics , the main area of secular study in universities at the time . Today , the humanities are more frequently contrasted with natural and sometimes social sciences as well as professional training . The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere . It is bounded by ___MASK84___ and Central America to the west and south west , to the north by the Greater Antilles starting with ___MASK11___ , to the east by the Lesser Antilles , and to the south by the north coast of South America . ___MASK2___ , ( Spanish for " Rich Port ") officially the Commonwealth of ___MASK2___ (" Free Associated State of ___MASK2___ ") and briefly called Porto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea . The Gulf of ___MASK84___ is an ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent . It is bounded on the northeast , north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States , on the southwest and south by ___MASK84___ , and on the southeast by ___MASK11___ . The U . S . states of Alabama , Florida , Louisiana , Mississippi and Texas border the Gulf on the north , which are often referred to as the " Third Coast " in comparison with the U . S . Atlantic and Pacific coasts , or sometimes the " south coast ", in juxtaposition to the Great Lakes region being the " north coast ." One of the gulf ' s seven main areas is the Gulf of ___MASK84___ basin .