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  許多熟為人知的諺語皆來自富蘭克林 Franklin

      No pain, no gain.

      Time is money.

      The sleeping cat catches no duck.

      A money saved is a money gain.

  The Age of Innocence (1993)

 The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's 12th novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,^[1] making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and making Wharton the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s.

                                         

   Irony: 

      Ex. For Brutus is an humble man.

   Manifest destiny

In the United States in the 19th century, Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. Historians have for the most part agreed that there are three basic themes to Manifest Destiny:

• The special virtues of the American people and their institutions;
• America's mission to redeem and remake the west in the image of agrarian America;
• An irresistible destiny to accomplish this essential duty.
  
  
  

   最早開發美國的不是英國人，而是其他歐美族群(法國、西班牙......)

   Thomas Jefferson "Empire of Liberty" (Abraham Lincoln, Woodrew Wilson, Douglas MacArthur)

The Empire of Liberty is a theme developed first by Thomas Jefferson to identify America's world responsibility to spread freedom across the globe. Jefferson saw America's mission in terms of setting an example, expansion into the west, and by intervention abroad. Major exponents of the theme have been Abraham Lincoln (in the Gettysburg Address), Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson (and "Wilsonianism"), Franklin D. Roosevelt,Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.

In the History of U.S. foreign policy the Empire of Liberty has provided motivation to fight the Spanish American War (1898), World War I (1917),the latter part of World War II (1941), the Cold War (1947-1991) and the War on Terror (2001-present).

   wiretapping 馬王案、背信

   Presumed Innocent (1990) 假設無罪

         Presumed Innocent is a 1990 film adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name by Scott Turow, which tells the story of a prosecutor charged with the murder of his female colleague andmistress.Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film stars Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raúl Juliá, Bonnie Bedelia,Paul Winfield, and Greta Scacchi. It was the eighth highest grossing film of 1990, grossing $221 million worldwide.A sequel, Scott Turow's Innocent, was a made-for-TV movie aired as part of TNT's Mystery Movie Night series in December 2011. It featured Bill Pullman in the Ford role, with no one from the original cast.

         IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100404/

   華盛頓郵報適合想閱讀內幕、深度報導的讀者

   美國有哥倫布節

哥倫布日為10月12日或10月的第二個星期一，這一日正是哥倫布在1492年登上美洲大陸的日子。
哥倫布日是美國於1792年首先發起的，當時正是哥倫布發現美洲300週年的紀念日。後來在1893年，芝加哥舉辦了哥倫布展覽會，並舉辦了盛大的紀念活動。從此，每年的10月12日，美國大多數州會舉辦紀念活動。而這個習俗亦開始傳遍整個美洲，現在不論北美洲，南美洲，還是加勒比海地區的國家都會在哥倫布日舉行紀念活動。由於哥倫布為歐洲人開啟了殖民美洲的大門，而對印地安人來講則是侵略的開始，哥倫布日在美國的一些局部左派思想地域，如加州伯克利，被稱為「原住民日」。委內瑞拉從2002年開始把這個節日稱作「原住民抵抗日」。

   Working girl 

      希拉蕊競選歌曲

      美國夢 巧取豪奪is totally fine

   Anne Bradstreet----- 10th Muse