Upon arriving in China in mid-February of this year ,I did not quite know what to expect.I had never been to China before .or any other foreign country ,besides noghbor Canada .My only impressions of China were from books and newpapers or second-hand from books and newspapers of second-hand from other foreign travelers who had been to China .I visited another American who taught for a period in China but words can only say so much about a foreign culture
June 30, 2009
June 29, 2009
the Iraqi regime collapsed
Less than three weeks later, the Iraqi regime collapsed ,though wporadic fighting cintinued in the capital and other cities .After a few unconfirmed singhtings ,Saddam went into hiding and even after massive searches was nowhere to be found ,Then ,on 13 December ,US military officials received information from a family with close personal ties to Saddam Hussein that he may be hiding near the down of Adwar ,about 15 kilometres south of Tikrit .
June 28, 2009
invitation nervously
But Gatsby was still in love with Daisy ,and he wanted Jordan and Nick to bring Daisy and him together again.It was arranged that Nick should invite Daisy to tea the same day he invited Gatsby .Gatsby awaited the invitation nervously
June 27, 2009
Few men of letter have been more fully honored in their own day than T.S..Eliot ,and even those who strongly disagree with him seemed content with his selection for the Nobel Prize in 1948.The Complete Poems and Plays (1952) is a relatively small volume ,but it represents an artist whose ideas are large ,whose craftsmanship is the expression of artistic responsibility ,and whose poems represent the progressive refinement and illustration of his aesthetiics
June 26, 2009
He glanced around at his friend
He glanced around at his friend readint the letter and saw the books on the table .Into his eyes leaped a wistfulness and a yearning as promptly as the yearning leaps into the eyes of a starving man at sight of food .An impulsive stride ,with one lurch to right and left of the shoukders ,brought him to the table ,where he began affectionately handing the books ,He glanced at thetitles and the authors’ names ,read fragments of text ,caressing the volumes with his eyes and hands ,and ,once recognized a book he had read
June 25, 2009
THE LITERATURE OF REALISM 6
As the population doubled ,the national income quadrupled,and by the mid-1890s the United States could boast 4,000 millionaires.The rich prospered mightily ,and immense power came to such industrial and banking magnares as John D .rockefeller ,Andreo Carnegie ,and J .Prospeued mightily ,and immense power came to such industrial and banking magnates as John D .Rockefeller ,Adrew Carnegie ,and J ,Pierpont Morgan .
June 24, 2009
WALT WHTTMAN 5
With the publication of Leaves of Grass ,Whitman was praised by Ralph Waldo Emerson and a rew other literati but was attacked by the majjjjjority of critics because of his unconventional style.He wanted his poetry to be for the common people but ,ironically ,it was ignored by the general public
June 23, 2009
WALT WHTTMAN 4
In 1848 he visited New Orleans ,Chicago ,and the Westem frontier ;the later impressed him greatly ;There is speculation that some of his experiences on this trip marked a turning point in his career ,though it is more likely that he was gradually developing as an artist .At any rate ,soon after this he became famous ,He published the first edition of Leaves of Grass in 1855 ,setting the type for the book himself ,and writing favorable reviews of it in the papers ,anonymously .He comtinued to add new poems to the collection ,and tk rearrange and revise them ,untilhis death in 1892 .His best work is usually considered to have been done before 1871
June 22, 2009
THE LITERATURE OF REALISM 3
In the first decades after the Civil War ,Americans ceased to be isolated from the world amd from each other.Telegraph lines spanned the nation ,and in 1866 a trans-Atlantic cable joined America and Europe .The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869 ,linking the Atlantic and the Pacific ,Soon the United States had the most extensive railroad system in the world ,which in turn generated enormous commercial expansion .The cost of transporting raw materials and finished goods dropped .Products once made locally by costly handwork were replaced by inexpensibve goods
June 21, 2009
WALT WHTTMAN 2
Whitman grew up in Brooklyn ,New York ,and worked there as a schoolteacher ,as an apprentice to a printer ,and as the editor of various newspapers.He had very little schooling but read a great deal on his own ,He was especially intrigued by the works of Shakespeare and Milton .Strangely enough,his only contact with the Eastern religions or with German Transcendentalists ,whose ideas he frequectly used in his poetry ,was what he had read of them in the writings of Emerson