American Dream
The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals (Democracy, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, and Equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers. In the definition of the American Dream by James Truslow Adams in 1931, "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth.
Far and Away
Far and Away is a 1992 romantic adventure drama film directed by Ron Howard from a script by Howard and Bob Dolman. It stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. It was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
Cruise and Kidman play Irish immigrants seeking their fortune in 1890s America, eventually taking part in the Land Run of 1893.
Far and Away – trailer
The Joy Luck Club喜福會 (novel)
The Joy Luck Club (1989) is a best-selling novel written by Amy Tan譚恩美. It focuses on four Chinese American immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club known as The Joy Luck Club, playing the Chinese game of mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured somewhat like a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters. The three mothers and four daughters (one mother, Suyuan Woo, dies before the novel opens) share stories about their lives in the form of vignettes. Each part is preceded by a parable relating to the game.
List of systems of the human body:
- Cardiovascular / Circulatory system
- Digestive system / Excretory system
- Endocrine system
- Integumentary system/ Exocrine system
- Lymphatic system / Immune system
- Muscular system/Skeletal system
- Nervous system
- Renal system / Urinary system
- Reproductive system
- Respiratory system
SARAS: severe acute respiratory syndrome
new words:
Genesis (noun): the origin of something, when it is begun or starts to exist
the Torah(noun): the first five books of the Jewish Bible that deal with the law of God.
the Torah
Cardiovascular (adjective) 心血管的 : of or relating to the heart and the blood vessels
Endocrine (adjective) 內分泌: of or relating to any of the organs of the body that make hormones
Motif (noun): Ⅰ. A pattern or design
Ⅱ. A motif is also an idea that appears repeatedly in the work of an artist or in a piece of writing or music.
prefix & suffix：
ann -: year
eg. annuity (noun)年金: an amount of money paid to someone every year, usually
until that person’s death, or the insurance agreement or investment that provides money that is paid this way.
eg. anniversary (noun): the day on which an important event happened in a previous year
gen -: born, produced
eg. hydrogen (noun): 氫
eg. generator (noun) 發電機: a machine that produces something, especially electricity
chron- : time
eg. chronic (adjective): (especially of a disease or something bad) continuing for a long time
eg. synchronous (adjective): happening or done at the same time or speed
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