Topic:Chapter 23~24
Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American drama film written by Tom
Schulman, directed by Peter Weir and starring Robin Williams. Set at the
conservative and aristocratic Welton Academy in the Northeastern United States
in 1959, it tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his
teaching of poetry.
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
James Madison, Jr. (1751 – J1836) was an American statesman,
political theorist. He was the fourth President of the United States (1809–17).
He is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for being instrumental in the drafting of the U.S. Constitution
and as the key champion and author of the Bill of Rights.
"O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor poem written in 1865 by Walt Whitman, about the death of American president Abraham Lincoln.
The poem was first published in the pamphlet Sequel to Drum-Taps which
assembled 18 poems regarding the American Civil War, including another Lincoln
elegy, "When Lilacs Last in the
Dooryard Bloom'd".
→extended
metaphor: also known as a conceit or sustained metaphor, is when an
author exploits a single metaphor or analogy at length through multiple linked
vehicles, tenors, and grounds throughout a poem or story.
→When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d: The poem, written in free verse in 206 lines, uses many of the literary techniques associated with the pastoral elegy. Whitman
uses a series of rural and natural imagery including the symbols of the lilacs, a drooping star in the
western sky (Venus), and the hermit thrush, and employs the traditional
progression of the pastoral elegy in moving from grief toward an acceptance and
knowledge of death. The
poem also addresses the pity of war through imagery vaguely referencing the
American Civil War (1861–1865) which ended only days before the assassination.
●Has the jury reached the verdict?
Verdict (ver-: “truth” ; -dict: “to say, to tell a word”): an
opinion or decision made after judging the facts that are given, especially one
made at the end of a trial
→The
jury reached/returned a unanimous verdict of (not) guilty.
→Voters
gave their verdict on the
government's economic record last night by voting overwhelmingly for the
opposition.
The presumption of
innocence, sometimes referred to by the Latin expression Ei incumbit probatio
qui dicit, non qui negat (the burden of
proof is on the one who declares, not on one who denies), is the principle that one is considered innocent unless
proven guilty.
Alan Mathison Turing (1912 –1954) was a British pioneering computer scientist,
mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist. He was highly
influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation
of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can
be considered a model of a general purpose computer. Turing is widely
considered to be the father of theoretical computer
science and artificial intelligence.
The Imitation Game is a
2014 American historical drama thriller film directed by Morten Tyldum, with a
screenplay by Graham Moore loosely based on the biography Alan Turing: The
Enigma by Andrew Hodges. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch as real-life British
cryptanalyst Alan Turing, who decrypted German intelligence codes for the
British government during World War II.
●CF= commercial film
●Computer illiterate VS proficiency on computer
●Onomatopoeia
1.screetch & scrap→ skyscraper
2.doom day
●Study carrel
The
International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the NATO
phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used
radiotelephonic spelling alphabet. The
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) alphabet assigned code words
acrophonically to the letters of the English alphabet so that critical combinations of letters and numbers can be
pronounced and understood by those who transmit and receive voice
messages by radio or telephone regardless of language barriers or the presence
of transmission static.
●nil; nihil- : "nothing, not at all; in vain"
nil- (SPOKEN) the number 0 in the result of a game; used
for saying that something does not exist
●nil; nihil- : "nothing, not at all; in vain"
nil- (SPOKEN) the number 0 in the result of a game; used
for saying that something does not exist
→Birmingham won three nil.
→Their chances of survival are virtually nil.
Nihilism-a belief that all political and religious
organizations are bad, or a system of thought that says that there are no
principles or beliefs that have any meaning or can be true
annihilate- to destroy completely so that nothing is left
→During the Cold War the threat of nuclear
annihilation was always on people's minds.
●-petent; -potent: “ability;
power”
incompetent- not having the ability or skill to do something as it should be
done
→He
has described the government as corrupt and incompetent.
impotent- not having the power or ability to change or improve a situation;
If a man is impotent, he cannot have sex because his penis cannot become hard
or stay hard.
→You
feel so impotent when your child is ill and you cannot help them.
omnipotent- having unlimited power; able to do anything
→How
can a loving, omnipotent God permit disease, war and suffering?
●omni-: “all, every,
the whole, of every kind”
omniscient- having or seeming to have unlimited knowledge
→the
omniscient narrator
omnibus- (n.)a bus; a book containing reprints of a number of works
(adj.) of,
relating to, or including many things
→The
president's state of the union speech is usually an omnibus look at the issues
that the country is confronting.
omnivorous- naturally able to eat both plants and meat; enthusiastic and
interested in many different areas of a subject
→She
is an omnivorous reader.
● astro-; aster: “star”
astronaut- someone who travels and works in space
asterisk- the symbol *. In a piece of writing, an asterisk is used after a
word or phrase to show that more information is given in a footnote.
→Sometimes
taboo words are written with asterisks to avoid causing offence.
astronomy- the scientific study of the stars, planets, and other objects in
the universe
astrological- relating to the study of how the stars and planets move and how
they might influence people’s characters and lives
→astrological
prediction
astronomical- describes an amount which is extremely large
→We
got an astronomical telephone bill this month.
→What’s
your sign/ star?
●dec-: “ten”
decade- a period of ten years, especially a period such as 1860 to 1869,
or 1990 to 1999
→Prices
have risen sharply in the last decade.
The
Decalogue- the rules of behaviour God gave to Israel through Moses on
Mount Sinai
→the
decalogue for scouting known as the Scout Oath
decimal- relating to or expressed in a system of counting based on the
number ten
→If
you calculate the result to two
decimal places (= give two numbers
after the decimal point, as in 3.65), that should minimize any possible errors.
1)mono-
2)bi-
3)tri-
4)qua-
5)penta-
8)oct-
11)nov-
●homo- “same, the same, equal, like” VS
hetero- “other, different”
1. homo-
homogeneous- consisting of
parts or people that are similar to each other or are of the same type
→The population of the village has remained remarkably
homogeneous.
homoerotic- (of art,
literature, etc.) connected to or causing sexual desire for a person of
the
same sex
→homoerotic photographs/literature
homograph- a word that is
spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning
→"Bow" meaning the front of a ship, "bow"
meaning a loop made in a string or ribbon, a
nd "bow"
meaning a device used to shoot arrows are all homographs.
2. hetero-
heterogeneous- consisting
of parts or things that are very different from each other
→Switzerland is a heterogeneous confederation of 26 self-governing
cantons.
heterodox- (of beliefs,
ideas or activities) different and in opposition to generally accepted
beliefs or standards
→His opinions have always been distinctly heterodox.
heterosexual- a person who
is sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex
→I don't think he's heterosexually
inclined.
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