- Let's start with 1820 first

-本周主打作者: Anne Bradstreet

The first poet and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. Her first volume of poetry was The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in 1650. It was met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World. 

-來自Benjamin Franklin的世界名言

''Remember that time is money.''
 

-Colonial history of the United States 

美國的殖民歷史

-Literary Realism

Literary realism is the trend, beginning with mid nineteenth-century French literature and extending to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors, toward depictions of contemporary life and society as it was, or is. In the spirit of general "realism," realist authors opted for depictions of everyday and banal activities and experiences, instead of a romanticized or similarly stylized presentation.

-Manifest Destiny (Midtern)
In the United States in the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent. Historians have for the most part agreed that there are three basic themes to Manifest Destiny:
1. The special virtues of the American people and their institutions;
2. America's mission to redeem and remake the west in the image of agrarian America;
3. An irresistible destiny direction to accomplish this essential duty

-Promote and Defend

-Wiretap

竊聽 (v.)

-Presumed innocent

假設無罪

EX:薄熙來、阿扁

-Song: Let The River Run

聽聽他們的美國精神

點我聽

-Promised Land

應許之地

The Promised Land is the land promised or given by God, according to the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible), to the Israelites, the descendants of Jacob. The promise is first made toAbraham  and then renewed to his son Isaac, and to Isaac's son Jacob , Abraham's grandson.


-Cannan 

-Moses
Moses was, according to the Hebrew Bible, theQur'an, and Baha'i scripture, a religious leader, lawgiver, and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed. Also called Moshe Rabbenu in Hebrew, he is the most important prophet in Judaism;he is also an important prophet in Christianity and Islam, as well as a number of other faiths.

-Al Gore's Concession Speech

-Propaganda

 宣傳(N.)

-Jonathan Edwards