English Vocabulary and Etymology week 11

mock=make fun of

(1) mockery

For example: The performance was an utter mockery.

Homo=same
(1) homogeneous
For example: The state or quality of being homogeneous.

(2) homosexual
For example: Both sexes exclusive homosexuals were far outnumbered by bisexuals.

arch=first

(1) archenemy
For example: I save my archenemy ' s life.

(2) monarchy For example: It was not a strong monarchy to begin with .

gamy=marry
(1)polygamy
For example: Its leaders renounced polygamy in 1890.

(2) autogamy
For example:Very few plants rely exclusively on autogamy.

(3) bigamy
For example: Bigamy is considered a crime in many countries.

bene=something good, well

(1)beneficial
For example: Personal contact is beneficial to the promotion of understanding .

mal=bad

(1) maladjusted
For example: There are no maladjusted children but misleading parents and teacher.

(1) maladroit 

For example: There are no maladroit persons but idle ones with any kinds of excuses.

ex=out

(1)exhort
For example: He begs me, exhorts me, commands me to work 

(2)exhaust
For example:The gases pass into the exhaust manifold.

(3) exaggerate

For example: John said it was grossly exaggerated.

dia=go through

(1) diagonal 
For example: The lumped mass matrix is a diagonal matrix .

(2) dialogue
For example: The dialogue went on until nine o'clock.

《The Tyger》
Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Anarchism :

Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies with voluntary institutions. These are often described as stateless societies, but several authors have defined them more specifically as institutions based on non-hierarchical free associations. Anarchism holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, or harmful. While anti-statism is central, anarchism entails opposing authority or hierarchical organisation in the conduct of human relations, including, but not limited to, the state system.

Big Love:

Big Love is an American television drama that aired on HBO between March 2006 and March 2011. The show is about a fictional fundamentalist Mormon ^family in Utah that practices polygamy. Big Love stars Bill Paxton,Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny and Ginnifer Goodwin, as well as a large supporting cast.

Six Feet Under:

Six Feet Under is an American drama television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It premiered on the premium cable network HBO in the United States on June 3, 2001, and ended on August 21, 2005, spanning five seasons and 63 episodes. The show was produced by Actual Size Films and The Greenblatt/Janollari Studio and was shot on location in Los Angeles and in Hollywood studios. The show depicts members of the Fisher family, who run their funeral home in Los Angeles, and their friends and lovers. The series traces these characters' lives over the course of five years. The ensemble drama stars Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose,Freddy Rodriguez, Mathew St. Patrick, and Rachel Griffiths as the show's seven central characters.

Western Literature week 11

Tragedy:
Tragedy  is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences. While many cultures have developed forms that provoke thisparadoxical response, the term tragedy often refers to a specific tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western civilization. That tradition has been multiple and discontinuous, yet the term has often been used to invoke a powerful effect of cultural identity and historical continuity—"the Greeks and the Elizabethans, in one cultural form; Hellenes and Christians, in a common activity," as Raymond Williams puts it.
Drama:
In the context of film, television, and radio, drama describes a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone,^[1]focusing on in-depth development of realistic characters who must deal with realistic emotional struggles. A drama is commonly considered the opposite of acomedy, but may also be considered separate from other works of some broad genre, such as a fantasy. To distinguish drama as a genre of fiction from the use of the same word to mean the general storytelling mode of live performance, the word drama is often included as part of a phrase to specify its meaning. For instance, in the sense of a television genre, more common specific terms are a drama show, drama series, or television drama in the United States; dramatic programming in the United Kingdom; or teledrama in Sri Lanka. In the sense of a film genre, the common term is a drama film.
Apollo:
Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The ideal of the kouros (a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of music, truth and prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.

Athena:
Athena orAthene, often given the epithet Pallas , is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, mathematics, strength, war strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill inancient Greek religion and mythology. Minerva is the Roman goddess identified with Athena. Athena is known for her calm temperament, as she moves slowly to anger. She is noted to have only fought for just reasons, and would not fight without a purpose.

Athena is portrayed as a shrewd companion of heroes and is the patron goddess of heroic endeavour. She is the virginpatroness of Athens. The Athenians founded the Parthenon on the Acropolis of her namesake city, Athens (Athena Parthenos), in her honour.

Dionysus:
Dionysus is the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy in Greek mythology. Alcohol, especially wine, played an important role in Greek culture with Dionysus being an important reason for this life style. His name, thought to be a theonym in Linear B tablets as di-wo-nu-so, shows that he may have been worshipped as early as c. 1500–1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks; other traces of the Dionysian-type cult have been found in ancient Minoan Crete.His origins are uncertain, and his cults took many forms; some are described by ancient sources as Thracian, others as Greek.

Dionysia:
The Dionysia was a large festival in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus, the central events of which were the theatrical performances of dramatic tragedies and, from 487 BC, comedies. It was the second-most important festival after the Panathenaia. The Dionysia actually consisted of two related festivals, the Rural Dionysia and the City Dionysia, which took place in different parts of the year. They were also an essential part of the Dionysian Mysteries.

The Great Gatsby:
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutanteDaisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence,idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.

English Vocabulary and Etymology week 10

1.voc=to call

(1)provocative
For example: She wore a very provocative dress

(2)advocate    
For example: The group does not advocate the use of violence.


(3) evocative
For example: Her story is sharply evocative of Italian provincial life

2.con=together

(1)conspiracy
For example: Did you ever swallow the conspiracy theory about Kennedy?


(2) contact
For example: He made contact with someone with an idea for reconditioning laser copiers.

3.pri/pre=basic

(1)premier
For example: The Prime Minister played host to French Premier Jacques Chirac.

(2)primary
For example: It is nearly always women who are the primary care givers.

4.hemo=blood
(1) hemophilia
For example: Hemophilia was first described in 1803.

(2) hemorrhage
For example: The patient died from acute cerebral hemorrhage.

5.uri=尿
(1) urinate
For example: Remember to urinate every 2 hours.

(2) urine
For example: Urine is sterile.

No Man Is Island

No Man Is An Island ——John Donn

No man is an island,
entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main;

if a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were:

any man’s death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind,
and therefore,
never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee.

Grotesque: The word grotesque, originally a noun (1560s), from Italian grottesco (through Middle French), literally "of a cave," from Italian grotta (see grotto). The original meaning was restricted to an extravagant style of Ancient Roman decorative art rediscovered and then copied in Rome at the end of the 15th century.

3D產業=Dangerous、Dirty、Difficult

Movie:007 skyfall