Guided Readings in Anglo-American Culture: What? Why? Where to start?
Week
I: Bertrand Russell: What I Have Lived For
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II: Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence
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III: Helen Keller: Three Days to See
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IV: Martin Luther King Jr: I Have a Dream
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V: Francis Bacon: Of Studies
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VI: Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature
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VII: Albert Einstein: The World As I See It
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VIII: Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Contemplation of Excellence
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IX: Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address
Week X: John H. Newman: Athens, the Eye of Greece
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XI: John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address
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XII: Ernest Hemingway: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
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XIII: Edward Gibbon: A Retrospect
Types of Final Examination Questions
Appendix I 作者信息
Appendix II Cultural Celebrities in America
Appendix III English Level Tests
Appendix IV Cultural Literacy Tests
Appendix V Internet Courseware Links
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