【American Literature】
《week 3》
《Disaster prevention practice》
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Disaster prevention practice
《A history of American literature》
- The classical
- The dark age (Medieval)
- Renaissance
- Neoclassical
- Romanticism
- Victorian
- Modernism
《1492》
From their nakedness, Columbus inferred the native people to be an inferior race. Columbus wrote of the Indians he encountered, "They all go around as naked as their mothers bore them; and also the women." However, he noted that "they could easily be commanded and made to work, to sow and to do whatever might be needed, to build towns and be taught to wear clothes and adopt our ways." Although Columbus also wrote that "they are the best people in the world and above all the gentlest," his record of the first encounter between Europeans and New World Indians was filled with accounts of enslavement, murder, and rape.
《Thomas Paine》
Thomas Paine: Thomas Paine was an American and English political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. As the author of the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, he inspired the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
“The best government is that which governs least”
《Al Gore’s speech》
Al Gore: Al Gore is an American politician, advocate and philanthropist, who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States under President Bill Clinton. He was Democratic Party’s nominee for President and lost the 2000 U. S. presidential election despite winning the popular vote.
“Now the US Supreme Court has spoken. Let there be no doubt, while I strongly disagree with the court’s decision, I accept it. I accept the finality of this outcome which will be ratified next Monday in the Electoral College. And tonight, for the sake of our unity of the people and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession.”
(by BBC NEWS)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1069866.stm
《Time is money》
Time is money
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