張瑋芯的部落格

Class Notes

1. Protagonist & Antagonist

• protagonist: A protagonist is the main character in any story, such as a literary work or drama. The protagonist is at the center of the story, should be making the difficult choices and key decisions, and should be experiencing the consequences of those decisions. The protagonist should be propelling the story forward.
• antagonist: An antagonist is a character, group of characters, institution, or concept that stands in or represents opposition against which the protagonist(s) must contend. In other words, an antagonist is a person or a group of people who opposes a protagonist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protagonist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antagonist

2. bildungsroman/ coming-of-age story

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman (German: "novel of formation, education, culture"), novel of formation, novel of education, or coming-of-age story (though it may also be known as a subset of the coming-of-age story) is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood (coming of age), in which character change is extremely important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsroman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming-of-age_story

3. United States Newspapers

• The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated to NYT) is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18, 1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 117 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times
http://www.nytimes.com/?WT.z_jog=1&hF=f&vS=undefined

• USA Today

USA Today  is an internationally distributed American daily middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, it operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters on Jones Branch Drive in McLean, Virginia, United States. 

It is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. Its dynamic design influenced the style of local, regional and national newspapers worldwide, through its use of concise reports, colorized images, informational graphics, and its inclusion of pop culture stories, among other distinct features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Today
http://www.usatoday.com/

• The Washington Post

The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper. It is the most widely circulated newspaper published in Washington, D.C., and was founded on December 6, 1877, making it the area's oldest extant newspaper.

Located in the capital city of the United States, the newspaper has a particular emphasis on national politics. Daily editions are printed for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. The newspaper is published as a broadsheet, with photographs printed both in color and in black and white.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/?reload=true

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4. field trip

A field trip or excursion is a journey by a group of people to a place away from their normal environment. When done for students, it is also known as school trip in the UK, New Zealand; and school tour in the Philippines.

A field trip or excursion is a journey by a group of people to a place away from their normal environment. When done for students, it is also known as school trip in the UK, New Zealand; and school tour in the Philippines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_trip

5. Hooding ceremony

The Hooding Ceremony is an event whereby recognition is given for those graduating with doctoral degrees. These individuals are doctoral candidates and will be full receipents of their doctorates at the graduation ceremonies. The Hooding Ceremony is symbolic of passing the guard from one generation of doctors to the next generation of doctors. During the ceremony a faculty advisor or Dean of the Graduate School place the doctoral hood over the head of the graduate, signifying his or her success in completing the graduate program. The ceremony is similar to a graduation in that faculty and students are dressed in academic attire. The Hooding Ceremony is in addition to and does not replace the Graduation Exercises.

6. 

• on one's knees: In a position or manner of supplication or humble entreaty.

Jeb might have scorned me for the manual labor job I offered him here 10 years ago, but he's been on his knees begging for it now that the economy has gone south.

• on one's back:  In bed recovering from an injury or illness.

​​​​​​​ He was on his back for 3 weeks. 

* off someone's back: No longer harassing or bothering someone. Its antonym is on one's back (as in He's been on my back about that report all morning).​

• run for life: to run away to save one's life

​​​​​​​The dam has burst! Run for your life! The captain told us all to run for our lives.

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Peter Rabbit

Peter Rabbit is a fictional animal character in various children's stories by Beatrix Potter. He first appeared in The Tale of Peter Rabbit  in 1902 and subsequently in five more books between 1904 and 1912. Spinoff merchandise includes dishes, wallpaper, and dolls. He appears as a character in a number of adaptations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rabbit

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a British children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother, who puts him to bed after dosing him with camomile tea. The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter's former governess Annie Carter Moore, in 1893. It was revised and privately printed by Potter in 1901 after several publishers' rejections, but was printed in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1902. The book was a success, and multiple reprints were issued in the years immediately following its debut. It has been translated into 36 languages, and with 45 million copies sold it is one of the best-selling books of all time.

Since its release the book has generated considerable merchandise for both children and adults, including toys, dishes, foods, clothing, and videos. Potter was one of the first to be responsible for such merchandise when she patented a Peter Rabbit doll in 1903 and followed it almost immediately with a Peter Rabbit board game.

​​​​​​​Cover of the 1901 privately published edition

Peter feasts on Mr. McGregor's vegetables

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Mr. McGregor tries to trap Peter under a garden sieve

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Peter_Rabbit

http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/peterrabbit/pageflip.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14838/14838-h/14838-h.htm

• Chamomile

Chamomile or camomile is the common name for several daisy-like plants of the family Asteraceae that are commonly used to make herb infusions to serve various medicinal purposes. Popular uses of chamomile preparations include treating hay fever, inflammation, muscle spasms, menstrual disorders, insomnia, ulcers, gastrointestinal disorders, and hemorrhoids.

German chamomile

Roman chamomile

Loose leaf chamomile tea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamomile

Miss Potter

The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.
 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Potter
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482546/

Miss Potter trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMDMD7q101I