11/26

* American News – African – American, Poverty, Protest, unemployment
* Taiwanese News – Voting
            à “The ruling Kuomintang (KMT) shed seats across the island, including in the capital  
                 Taipei, where a candidate backed by the pro-independence opposition party was
                 elected as the next mayor, ending the ruling party's 16-year hold on the city.”
                 (Reuters)
                                   

* 只要考去做，就不怕沒工作，重要的是態度，也要懂得把握機會。

* Rationale (說服自己的想法)

* CF = Commercial Film

* Coursera (商業周刊 -  是自己不長進，還是資源分配不公平？)
            à 「或許我們太天真的認為，只要我們讓每個人都能夠接觸到高階教育，就會立刻讓
                 每個人渴望學習，改進他們自己、家庭和國家的生活水準，並讓貧富、開發與否以
                 及受教育與否之間的差距消失。我們忘了考慮一個非常基本的人的因素。」
            à 1. 真正有定期使用這個資源的所有使用者中，80%已經有一個學位

　        　 2. 他們多數來自已開發國家，而且，有超過80%的人已經受過良好教育

                 3. 平均的背景樣貌是30歲，住在一個國際大城市，有穩定且成功的工作和學位，
                但依然想要深造並發展職涯，依然在下班後每天上這些課程。
            à 「要讓人有慾望想要去改進，以及有紀律去強迫他們自己去追尋，且每一天   
               都去執行。」

* Edgar Allan Poe
            à likes to use first person perspective to write his story
            à likes to write about the death of beautiful women
                        à “Annabel Lee”
                        à “To Helen”
                        à “John Keath – “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
                                    - “In this kingdom by the sea”
                                    - nighthorn kinsman (death)
                                    - sepulcher (木屑)
                                    - the sound of the ocean           
      à Poe’s house in Baltimore - Classic Author’s American House
   
                        à Baltimore team
                          
            à “The Raven”
                        à Nevermore (曾經的美好不會再來)         
                        à alliteration: “r” sound; dreary, weak, weary
                        à repetition: words that often appear  in Romantic literature pieces
                                    - “floating”: “I wander lonely as a cloud”
                                    -  “bird”
                        à psychological abnormality
                        à prophet: Ode to the West Wind - Shelley
            à “Longfellow”: “Art is long and time is fleeting / And our heart, though stont and
                 brave.”
   à an American author, poet, editor, and literary critics, considered part of the American
                 Romantic Movement.
            à “The Tell-Tale Heart” 
                        àtold by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity,
                            while describing a murder he committed. The ambiguity and lack of details
                            about the two main characters stand in stark contrast to the specific plot details
                            leading up to the murder.
                                           

* Movie: The Blind Side
    àThe story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All
                    American football player and first round NFL drat pick with the help of a caring
                    woman and her family.
                                       

* Steinbeck – “The Grapes of Wrath” (1939) 

* John Updike

     àMost famous work is his "Rabbit" series, which chronicles the life of the middle-
                    class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades. He
                    won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction more than once. He published more than twenty
                    novels and more than a dozen short story collections as well as poetry, literary  
                    criticism and children's book.
                                                  

* 5 well-known Romantic Period poets
    àWilliam Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel
                     Taylor Coleridge 

* 雅典娜
            à God of knowledge: Eagle, Apollo