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Find and correct errors in the following sentence: Many historians have believed that the American dialect of English has to do with the way that English immigrants spoke during the colonial period.

Corrected: Many historians believed.....

What is one of the central features of nineteenth-century Romantic poetry and name one leading Romantic poet.

Romantic poetry was a love affair with nature and one of the leading poets of the age was William Wordsworth.

In John Locke's, "Essay Concerning Human Understanding," written in 1690, what does Locke mean by "tabula rasa?"

Locke's "tabula rasa" meaning "blank slate," refers to the human mind at birth. We are born a blank slate upon which our experiences writes the script. No innate moral principles or ideas exist, rather, human knowledge consists of accumulating experiences which then dictate our behavior.