Tina Tang的部落格

Moby-Dick

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick

“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.” – CHAPTER 1. Loomings.

In the Heart of the Sea

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1390411/

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-H35Mpj4uk

Ron Howard

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Howard

Chris Hemsworth

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hemsworth

Thor

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800369/

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOddp-nlNvQ

Beowulf

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf

Ishmael

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael

Ishmael was born to Abraham and Sarah's handmaiden Hagar.

Abraham

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham

Isaac

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac

Sacrifice Isaac

The Handmaid's Tale

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale

dystopian novel

The novel's title was inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

Margaret Atwood

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood

Archangel

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archangel

Michael and Gabriel are recognized as archangels in Judaism, Islam, and by most Christians.

Pirates of the Caribbean

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean

Herman Melville

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville

The Old Man and the Sea

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea

Ernest Hemingway

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway

Miami Marlins

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Marlins

2012

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190080/

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce0N3TEcFw0

“2012:” The end can't come soon enough

http://blog.al.com/entertainment-press-register/2009/11/2012_the_end_cant_come_soon_en.html

Apocalypse

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction

Robert Burns

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns

A Red, Red Rose

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Red,_Red_Rose

O my Luve's like a red, red rose

That’s newly sprung in June;

O my Luve's like the melodie

That’s sweetly play'd in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,

So deep in luve am I:

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

Till a’ the seas gang dry:

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:

I will luve thee still, my dear,

While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only Luve

And fare thee weel, a while!

And I will come again, my Luve,

Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.

Haggis

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis

Roast Turkey

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_meat

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJLpx0Qx1o

Auld Lang Syne

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne

Youtube (Sex and the City):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foZG74PSl2A

Scottish version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXX4D_tktzQ

Lyrics:

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,

and never brought to mind?

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,

and auld lang syne*?

For auld lang syne, my jo,

for auld lang syne,

we’ll tak' a cup o’ kindness yet,

for auld lang syne.

And surely ye’ll be your pint-stoup!

and surely I’ll be mine!

And we’ll tak' a cup o’ kindness yet,

for auld lang syne.

We twa hae run about the braes,

and pou’d the gowans fine;

But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,

sin' auld lang syne.

We twa hae paidl’d in the burn,

frae morning sun till dine;

But seas between us braid hae roar’d

sin' auld lang syne.

And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere!

and gie's a hand o’ thine!

And we’ll tak' a right gude-willie waught,

for auld lang syne.

Amazing Grace

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Grace

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6H9p4EYrkY

Lyrics:

Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)

   That sav'd a wretch like me!

I once was lost, but now am found,

   Was blind, but now I see.

'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,

   And grace my fears reliev'd;

How precious did that grace appear

   The hour I first believ'd!

Thro' many dangers, toils, and snares,

   I have already come;

'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,

   And grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promis'd good to me,

   His word my hope secures;

He will my shield and portion be

   As long as life endures.

Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail,

   And mortal life shall cease;

I shall possess, within the veil,

   A life of joy and peace.

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,

   The sun forbear to shine;

But God, who call'd me here below,

   Will be forever mine.

Scottish diaspora

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_diaspora

Naturalism (literature)

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(literature)

Jack London

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London

White Fang

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Fang

The Call of the Wild

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_the_Wild

Heart of Darkness

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness

“An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.”

http://www.udncollege.com/learning/web_lttc2/ii_w8/w8_0630.htm

Captains Courageous

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captains_Courageous

The Sea-Wolf

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea-Wolf

Life of Pi

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876/

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX2HBsHbNZM

The Crossing

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crossing_(2014_film)

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHqneqezpZM

He knew no haste. 不要急。

Walt Whitman

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman

Emily Dickinson

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

Leaves of Grass

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass

keep the journal. 寫日記

               memory.

               book. 作帳

Abraham Lincoln

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln

William Faulkner

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner

Banquet Speech (William Faulkner Nobel Prize speech)

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOg30JBnik8

Ladies and gentlemen,

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work - a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose and significance of its origin. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand here where I am standing.

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands.

Until he relearns these things, he will write as though he stood among and watched the end of man. I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last dingdong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.

I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

A Rose for Emily

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rose_for_Emily

關鍵時刻 20151117

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFc7PTW75lU

ISIS血洗巴黎相關報導

Detachment

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683526/

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7lBleOF9Pw

A Powerful Lesson from Adrien Brody(We must learn to read.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_zRSMVi50w

Free verse

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_verse

Dead Poets Society

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097165/

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrBk780aOis

O Captain, my Captain!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j64SctPKmqk

O Captain! My Captain!

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Captain!_My_Captain!

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done;

The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;

The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,

While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:

But O heart! heart! heart!

O the bleeding drops of red,

Where on the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! My Captain! rise up and hear the bells;

Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;

For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;

For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

Here captain! dear father!

This arm beneath your head;

It is some dream that on the deck,

You've fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;

My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;

The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;

From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;

Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!

But I, with mournful tread,

Walk the deck my captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

Midterm!!

Allegory

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory

Fable

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable

Parable

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable

Leo Ou-fan Lee李歐梵

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Ou-fan_Lee

His given name "Ou-fan" is the Chinese version of Orpheus, the Greek god of music.

Orpheus

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus

Lyra 天琴座

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyra

In Greek mythology, Lyra represents the lyre of Orpheus.

You're So Vain - Carly Simon

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g

You're So Vain in “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zahlMAwHrsM

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251127/

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFGr2_cOOTk

Let The River Run - Carly Simon

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv-0mmVnxPA

Working Girl

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096463/

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odR6tGpZTis

Hillary Clinton - Action Is Eloquence

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvUfEpaPOls

Sistine Chapel

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel

Michelangelo, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Khanacademy:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/high-ren-florence-rome/michelangelo/a/michelangelo-ceiling-of-the-sistine-chapel

360度環景:

http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

Serpents in the Bible

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpents_in_the_Bible

The serpent was a symbol of evil power and chaos from the underworld as well as a symbol of fertility, life and healing.

Serpent said to have tempted Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

Sabbath

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath

snobbish勢利眼

snob

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snob

"That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves." – Thomas Jefferson

管得最少的政府就是最好的政府。

Thomas Jefferson

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

Electoral College

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_States)

University of Virginia

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia

official website:

http://www.virginia.edu/

French leave 不告而別

e.g., My plan is to take a French leave. I hate this party!

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_leave

商業週刊:

http://www.businessweekly.com.tw/KBlogArticle.aspx?id=12170

American Dream 努力不懈便能成功圓夢

e.g., Some Americans believe that the American dream is now out of their reach.

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream

Spanish Athlete

e.g., Jack has been a Spanish athlete since he was 5!

http://buzzorange.com/techorange/2015/05/22/eight-words-with-nations-you-should-know/

Thermometer 溫度計

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermometer

Hydrometer 溼度計

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrometer

Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKdq249uOGs

lyrics:

I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,

Borne, like a vapor on the summer air,

I see her tripping where the bright streams play,

Happy as the daisies that dance on her way

Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour

Many were the blithe birds that warbled them o'er

Oh I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair,

Floating like a vapor on the soft summer air!

Old Black Joe

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YGxk7VC3ic

lyrics:

Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay

Gone are the toils of the cotton fields away

Gone to the fields of a better land, I know

I hear those gentle voices calling, 'Old black Joe'

I'm comin', I'm comin'

Though my head is bendin' low

I hear those gentle voices calling, 'Old black Joe'

I'm comin' home , I'm comin' home

Well, I'm comin' home, I'm comin' home

Though my head , my head, my head is bendin' low

I hear those gentle voices calling, 'Old black Joe'

Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay

Gone are the toils of the cotton fields away

Gone to the fields of a better land I know

I hear those gentle voices calling, 'Old black Joe'

I'm comin' home , I'm comin' home

Oh, an' I'm comin' home, I'm comin' home

Well, oh well, my head, my head is bendin' low

I hear those gentle voices calling, 'Old black Joe'

I'm comin' home , I'm comin' home

Oh, an' I'm comin' home, I'm comin' home

Can you see my head, my head is bendin' low

I hear those gentle voices calling, 'Old black Joe

Old black Joe, old black Joe'

Ode on a Grecian Urn

poetry foundation:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173742

Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,

       Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,

Sylvan historian, who canst thus express

       A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:

What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape

       Of deities or mortals, or of both,

               In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?

       What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?

What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?

               What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard

       Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;

Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,

       Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone:

Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave

       Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;

               Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,

Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve;

       She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,

               For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed

         Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu;

And, happy melodist, unwearied,

         For ever piping songs for ever new;

More happy love! more happy, happy love!

         For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd,

                For ever panting, and for ever young;

All breathing human passion far above,

         That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd,

                A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.

Who are these coming to the sacrifice?

         To what green altar, O mysterious priest,

Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,

         And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?

What little town by river or sea shore,

         Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel,

                Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?

And, little town, thy streets for evermore

         Will silent be; and not a soul to tell

                Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.

O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede

         Of marble men and maidens overwrought,

With forest branches and the trodden weed;

         Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought

As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!

         When old age shall this generation waste,

                Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe

Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,

         "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all

                Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

The Philosophy of Composition

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_Composition

Alliteration

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration

sepulcher 地下墓穴

highborn kinsman 死神

The Scarlet Letter (novel)

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uen92KjCSsg

The Scarlet Letter(movie)

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114345/

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5x4VabB56Y

Easy A

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1282140/

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKY4GpVoTqQ

Nathaniel Hawthorne

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne

Sonnet 18

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_18

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)

William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,

Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.

     So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

     So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Young Goodman Brown

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Goodman_Brown

My Kinsman, Major Molineux

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Kinsman,_Major_Molineux

Gradesaver:

http://www.gradesaver.com/young-goodman-brown-and-other-hawthorne-short-stories/study-guide/summary-my-kinsman-major-molineux

Araby

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araby_(short_story)

Epiphany (feeling)

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(feeling)

Epiphany (holiday)

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(holiday)

Twelfth Night

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Night

She's the Man

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454945/

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4OhwrMidSU

Taste of Apples 兒子的大玩偶

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste_of_Apples

兒子的大玩偶 (電影)

wiki:

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%92%E5%AD%90%E7%9A%84%E5%A4%A7%E7%8E%A9%E5%81%B6_(%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1)

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI0cITwF7wk

Paramount Pictures/Walden Media/TKEC/Nickelodeon Movies

youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxnTVQvjCsw

omni-  all powerful

omnipotent

omniscient

omnivore 雜食

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnivore

cannibal 食人族

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism

herbivore 草食

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore

carnivore 肉食

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore

Walden Pond

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_Pond

Francis of Assisi

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi

Saint Christopher 旅遊者保護神

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Christopher

the mass of men 芸芸眾生

The Great Gatsby

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

These words conclude the novel and find Nick returning to the theme of the significance of the past to dreams of the future, here represented by the green light. He focuses on the struggle of human beings to achieve their goals by both transcending and re-creating the past. Yet humans prove themselves unable to move beyond the past: in the metaphoric language used here, the current draws them backward as they row forward toward the green light. This past functions as the source of their ideas about the future (epitomized by Gatsby’s desire to re-create 1917 in his affair with Daisy) and they cannot escape it as they continue to struggle to transform their dreams into reality. While they never lose their optimism (“tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther . . .”), they expend all of their energy in pursuit of a goal that moves ever farther away. This apt metaphor characterizes both Gatsby’s struggle and the American dream itself. Nick’s words register neither blind approval nor cynical disillusionment but rather the respectful melancholy that he ultimately brings to his study of Gatsby’s life.

(From Sparknotes:http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/quotes.html)

pro- in favor of

protagonist

prolific

propaganda

Black Forest

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest

The Biblical Job

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_(biblical_figure)

Territorial Expansion

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_territorial_acquisitions

Gold rush

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_rush

Far and Away

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104231/

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR7Wm7QB9Ws

有事請假

barrel

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel

American Renaissance

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Renaissance_(literature)

Frederick Douglass

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

Andrew Jackson

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson

Jude the Obscure

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_the_Obscure

United States territorial acquisitions

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_territorial_acquisitions

Iron Road

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013119/

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rO7PE2JMiQ

Sun Li

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Li_(actress)

Transcendentalism

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism

Inferiority complex

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferiority_complex

The Age of Innocence

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106226/

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0bENHsyGPg

Anne Bradstreet

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bradstreet

The Author to Her Book

 Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,

Who after birth didst by my side remain,

Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true,

Who thee abroad, exposed to public view,

Made thee in rags, halting to th’ press to trudge,

Where errors were not lessened (all may judge).

At thy return my blushing was not small,

My rambling brat (in print) should mother call,

I cast thee by as one unfit for light,

The visage was so irksome in my sight;

Yet being mine own, at length affection would

Thy blemishes amend, if so I could.

I washed thy face, but more defects I saw,

And rubbing off a spot still made a flaw.

I stretched thy joints to make thee even feet,

Yet still thou run’st more hobbling than is meet;

In better dress to trim thee was my mind,

But nought save homespun cloth i’ th’ house I find.

In this array ‘mongst vulgars may’st thou roam.

In critic’s hands beware thou dost not come,

And take thy way where yet thou art not known;

If for thy father asked, say thou hadst none;

And for thy mother, she alas is poor,

Which caused her thus to send thee out of door.

Bridal shower

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridal_shower

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhBKBwDAWA0

Baby shower

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_shower
Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3vRDLIKkiA

Salem, Massachusetts à witch

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem,_Massachusetts

Nathaniel Hawthorne

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne

WASP=White Anglo-Saxon Protestant à 北美政治參與菁英

R.I.P = rest in the peace

Vincent van Gogh

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

Go Dutch! 各付各的

Elizabeth II

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II

Christopher Columbus

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus

West Indies

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Indies

Caribbean Sea

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean_Sea

American Renaissance (literature)

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Renaissance_(literature)

Émile Zola

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Zola

Mark Twain

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain

Moby-Dick

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick

Romeo and Juliet

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet

What’s in a name?

That which we call a rose by any other would smell as sweet.

玫瑰不叫玫瑰，亦無損其芳香。

The Tudors

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tudors

Thomas Paine

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine

Common sense

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_sense

National Treasure

IMDb:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368891/

youtube:

Intro to American Literature

youtube:

Puritans

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans

Amendment

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amendment

Red herring

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring

Tit for tat

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat

Whac-A-Mole

wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whac-A-Mole