A Brief Survey on the Themes of Mark Twain′s Works

While I was studying some of Mark Twain's representative short stories and novels I got deep inclination to follow the general themes which he chose to develop his own subjects in his literary works. In generalizing his major themes I can not avoid the overlap of one theme and another. But simply for the convenience of understanding his wide range of literary themes I'dlike to divide them largely into five categories. Mark Twain is the major novelist of the era of realism along with James and Howells.Earlier writers as Hawthorne and Melville of the era of American Renaissance in New England had turened towards the world of nature and had emphasized the abstract universality of their themes. But the realists were determined to write novels, standing firm-     

Scholars in Liaoning University

Professor Xu Ping, male and Han nationality, was born in Shenyang of Liaoning Province in 1959, is a Communist Party member and became a teacher after he got the Bachelor and Master degrees of History in the History Department in Liaoning University from the year 1980 to 1987. From 1993 to 1994, he did research with the Institute of Social Sciences of Waseda University. He was exceptionally promoted as a professor in 1997, and in the same year he started working for his PhD degree in …     

GATSBY-A MODERN AMERICAN DON QUIXOTE

Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940) won his international fame with hisThe Great Gatsby,which was published in 1925 but has always been somethingnew and exciting to literary critics and readers of many countries.His successfulportrayal of Jay Gatsby has made the fictional character a household name,alegendary figure,a symbol,and a modern American Don Quixote.The story takes place in the early 20’s.America was then booming in thereestablished international order after World War I,yet it could hardly afford to     

The Mirror of America——Notes on "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

<正> Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name ofMark Twain, was the first real American auther. He grew upnext to the river (Mississippi), and had been tramp printer, ri-ver pilot, Confederate guerilla, prospector, journalist. He traveled ac-ross the country for more than a third of his life, digestingthe American experience, after that he translated it into litera-ture. When he was old, he grew cynical, bitter, saddened by the     

初三阅读专项训练

（一）Buy a Car for Me as Well Mr Johnson wants a car for long. His home is far from his factory. He has to set the alarm clock（闹钟） for his wife every evening before he goes to bed. The Woman has to get up earlier. When breakfast is ready, she wakes him up. Then he hurried to catch the early bus. Once something was wrong with the clock, he was late for work. At the gate of the shop he met with the head. He was hardly sent away.     

The Artistic Form of Leaves Grass

As we all know, Whitman was one of the great innovators in American literature. Through Whitman, American poets finally freed themselves from the old English traditions. Leaves of Grass was Whitman's lifework. In Leaves of Grass he tried to celebrate the American masses to express the labouring people's love for freedom and portray the people's life under certain conditions of 19th. century America. In     

没完没了的故事

Little Jack asks his mother to tell him a very very long story,or he is notgoing to bed.So his mother begins to tell him like this.There is a very big old house,and thers is some rice in it.One day abird goes into the house and comes out with apiece of rice.Then another birdgoes into the house and comes out with a piece of rice.Then a third bird goesinto the house and comes out with a piece of rice.Then a fourth bird…Thena fifth bird…“Stop,stop!I want to go to bed.”Jack says.阅读自评译…     

A Note on the Interpretation of "A Sea of Troubles" in Hamlet''''s "To-be" Soliloquy

“To be or not to be.”Of all famous words in the literature of theworld the six words spoken by Hamlet when he is thinking aloud are perhapsthe most famous.They are the best known words in the golden treasury ofliterature,for they have sunk into the heart and gripped the imagination of     

The Wind in"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Generally, Coleridge's poems are mainly divided into two groups:one is to use common Language to depict commom things and common people; the other is to use unique imagination to describe supernatural things. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"belongs to the second group. Some critics blame Coleridge for his lack of morals in this poem, but in fact,this poem contains lots of morals, as Coleridge himself said.Coleridge succeeds in exploring the theme of sin and punishment by his rich imagination and by the depicting of supernatural things. In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", Coleridge intentionally built a symbolic world of the supernatural wind, the bird, the sun, the moon ,the ship and the sea. All these symbols serve to develop the theme of Fall and Redemption, and play so important a part in the poem that we even can take it as a symbolic poem. In the following pages, I am going to devote to the functions of the supernatural wind in particular. Coleridge bestows the wind with a great deal of supernat     

THE RESPONSIBLITY OF TEACHING

The job of teaching is one of the most important careers that exist in this modern day in which we live. It is much more than a job. It is a vocation with it the connotation of a call upon an individual's life to sacrifice all that he has, and is in order to shape the lives of those who have been entrusted to his care. The teacher, though highly regarded and respected, is still one of the lowest paid professionals anywhere in the world. This is sad, but true. An individual seeking to amass a     

ABSTRACTS OF MAJOR ARTICLES

Confucius and Official Book System （Ⅱ） ：Confucius＇ Historical Contribution to Book Dissemination
Confucius took six governmental works as private teaching materials. As a result, this turned out to form six kinds of folk books, and was the first important desertion in the ancient system of Official Book. By giving lectures and folk writing, Confucius took a critical first step to end the system of Official Book. Under that sys- tem, Confucianism was not and could not be any personal writings. It was only a collective work of many scholars. Comparing Official Books with other books in Han Dynasty, the author believes that Confucius dicta- ted his ideas to his disciples rather than recording the text. The evolution of Confucianism is a learning of the collective work, which has been affected by the three objective factors of Official Book System. It will provide a new way to rediscover the Pre-qin academics and philosophers in Interpreting Confucius views on ideas of public dissemination.     

Random Remarks on the Teaching and Study of Scientific Prose——A Tentative View of the Formation of Technical Texts

Perhaps the readers might wonder why the writer would like to choose the topic "The Teaching and Study of Scientific Prose" for his writing today. The rcason. for this is not far to seek. It is twofold: First, we are teachers of technical English or students majoring in science and     

英文摘要

ABSTRACTS OF MAJOR ARTICLES
Confucius took six governmental works as private teaching materials. As a result, this turned out to form six kinds of folk books, and was the first important desertion in the ancient system of Official Book. By giving lectures and folk writing, Confucius took a critical first step to end the system of Official Book. Under that sys- tem, Confucianism was not and could not be any personal writings. It was only a collective work of many schol- ars. Comparing Official Books with other books in Han Dynasty, the author believes that Confucius dictated his ideas to his disciples rather than recording the text. The evolution of Confucianism is a learning of the collective work, which has been affected by the three objective factors of Official Book System. It will provide a new way to rediscover the Pre-qin academics and philosophers in Interpreting Confucius＇ views on ideas of public dis- semination.     

Conents

Zhai Yongming, the herald of feminine poem writing in Mainland China, cheering for her consciousness of dark, blazed a trail for the poems of confessional style, which could be described as crazy and unscrupulous. Later, this style was transformed into a style of drama in which one can find intercourses and dialogues. The two different poetic styles imply two specific paradigms for the history of Chinese contemporary poems. The author adheres to the method called ＂the few is the numerous＂, with which she exposes many different aspects of life. Her works, mosf of which are both reserved and uncommunicative, and tempt the audience to thinking deeply of them. For these reasons, she can be recognized as one of the poets with both inner powers to write and outstanding profundity.     

在游戏中玩转英语

第一部分:Riddles(英语谜语)第二部分:Chinglish(病句修改看谁准)1、Swings by his thigh a thing most magical!Below the belt,beneath the folds of his clothes ithangs,a hole in its front end,stiff-set and stout,butswivels about.Levelling the head of this hanginginstrument,its wielder hoists his hem above the knee:it is his will to fill a well-known hole that it fitsfully when at full length.He has often filled it before.Now he fills it again.2、She learns soon enough,the curly-haired crea-ture who …     

英语笑谈

Cut Hair While Bill was at the Barber's one day dur-ing working hours,his manager of the officecame in by chance to have his own hair cut.Billsaw him and tried to hide his face,but themanager came and sat beside him,and soonrecognized him.     

Zhou Fohai:Changeable Life

As we know,Zhou Fohai had changed his identity for three times in his life.He was once an representative offirst national congressof CPC and deputy secretary;in 1924,he withdrew from CPC,and became trusted follower of Jiang Kai-shek andNO 1 Central Committeein Kuomintang;during anti-     

钮文新梦想照进现实

他的标题和字里行间,总是诗意闪耀。对艺术的狂热和数学培养起来的逻辑思维,使他的性格在矛盾的二元统一中呈现出悖论的部分。There are always beauties and rhythms in his titles and words.The combination of his fanaticism for arts and the logical reasoning he got from his mathematical training produces a kind of dichotomy in his personality.     

皇帝的衬衣不好洗

Go to Buy What You Want Henry was a careless young man,He often made mistakes,It brought him a lot of trouble.For example,he fell over a chair in his girl friend＇s home once,and the chaair hurt a little boy＇sdog,     

A STUDY OF STUDENTS＇ANXIETYON THE LISTENING PERFORMANCE IN CET BAND IV

This paper mainly focuses on investigating to what extent and how listening comprehension was affected by students‘anxiety, which was considered to be one of the factors to which EFL/ESL teachers must pay attention. The author of the thesis used a questionnaire on trait anxiety and one on state anxiety to look into students‘anxiety levels exhibited in the listening part of the College English Band IV Test. 52 subjects from the Inner Mongolia (Polytechn:c) University of Technology were involved in the investigation. Data collected from the investigation were statistically analyzed using SPSS 10. 0. The research findings indicate that anxiety is a factor to affect the students’ listening performances, that means the reduction of trait anxiety levels may facilitate listening performances of the students. Visualization is a promising technique for treatment.