American Literature (1)

• Student orientation

Student orientation or new student orientation is a period of time at the beginning of the academic year at a university or other tertiary institution during which a variety of events are held to orient and welcome new students. The name of the period varies by country.

• Dome (n.) A dome is an element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. (圓頂，又稱穹頂)

 

              United States Capitol Washington, D.C., United States (美國華盛頓國會山莊)

Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building(美國國會圖書館)

White house(白宮)

• John Smith (c. January 1580 – 21 June 1631) (JOMESTOWN) 

• Wasp（White Anglo-Saxon Protestant，WASP）

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) is an informal term, sometimes derogatory or disparaging, for a closed group of high-status Americans mostly of English Protestant ancestry. The term applies to a group believed to control disproportionate social and financial power. The term WASP does not describe every Protestant of English background, but rather a small restricted group whose family wealth and elite connections allow them a degree of privilege held by few others.

• Church of England

(1) Pilgrims wanted to separate from the established Church of England.(Mayflower)

(2)Puritans wished to purify the Church from within.

• The new promised land → Thirteen Colonies

"We shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us...," the Puritan John Winthrop wrote. The Puritans who disembarked in Massachusetts in 1620 believed they were establishing the New Israel. Indeed, the whole colonial enterprise was believed to have been guided by God.
Promised Land imagery figured prominently in shaping English colonial thought. The pilgrims identified themselves with the ancient Hebrews. They viewed the New World as the New Canaan. They were God's chosen people headed for the Promised Land. (資料來源：http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/joshua/manifest.html)
 

• 電影推薦：The Firm

• United States Declaration of Independence

     ........ That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, ............
     

• vocabulary

1.Lame duck

*無能力的人(組織或事物); 不中用的人(或物)

The government should not waste money supporting lame ducks .

*(任期將滿的)官員
a lame duck President

2.Senator(n.)議員

3. impeachment(n.)彈劾

The verdict resulting from his impeachment destroyed his political career .

          4. government (n.)政府

             管理

         5. indifference(n.)冷漠