English, Literature, and the Bible: 10月 2017

2017年10月31日星期二

A Vist to a Doctor

A Visit to a Doctor

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2017年10月30日星期一

Annabel Lee/ Edgar Allan Poe

Annabel Lee

Edgar Allan Poe

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea,

But we loved with a love that was more than love—

I and my Annabel Lee—

With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven

Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsmen came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

In this kingdom by the sea.

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1. 期中作業

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4. 11/23 （四）運動會不用上課

2017年10月28日星期六

Mid-term

1. The Raven (6%)

Please talk about the psychological process of the speaker.

2. Nothing Gold Can Stay (2%)

Please talk about the main idea of this poem (in three sentences).

3. The Road Not Taken (2%)

Please talk about the main idea of this poem (in five sentences).

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2017年10月26日星期四

One More Hour of Relaxing Hymns on Piano

Learning about Taiwanese Culture with Jesus Trapero

2017年10月23日星期一

The Raven/ Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

Only this and nothing more.”

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow

From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—

Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain

Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;

So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating

“’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door—

Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;—

This it is and nothing more.”

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,

“Sir,” said I, “or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;

But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,

That I scarce was sure I heard you”—here I opened wide the door;—

Darkness there and nothing more.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,

Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;

But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,

And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?”

This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!”—

Merely this and nothing more.

2017年10月19日星期四

Lab-Grown Embryos Raise Ethical Questions

Lab-Grown Embryos Raise Ethical Questions

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2017年10月18日星期三

Lab-Grown Embryos Raise Ethical Questions

Lab-Grown Embryos Raise Ethical Questions

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2017年10月16日星期一

新人的生命/ 柯志明教授

新人的生命

1903年代，非裔美國人受洗

柯志明教授
2017 0924東海大學路思義教堂主日證道

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證道經文

Ephesians 4: 17-32

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22to put off your old self,f which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,23and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

25Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27and give no opportunity to the devil. 28Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 29Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Notes (Sermon)

In the modern period, the tendency has been to interpret freedom to mean complete freedom from any constraint. To be free is to do whatever you like doing. However, the modern idea of freedom doesn't fit our experience at all. First of all, society cannot survive if you get everybody to determine their own definition of existence. Take the example of the mass shooting at the Las Vegas concert, the gunman tried to do whatever he wanted according to his own definition of freedom. Secondly, in order to gain freedom, we have to accept limitations. For instance, if you want to be a scientist, you have to conform to nature. Thirdly, modern idea of freedom destroys human relationship of love. If you love somebody, you must accept limitations.

People have freedom to make choices and God gives us different gifts and we should use them. Each of us is the unique individual and has unique contribution to make. This is the origin of human rights. But it does not mean that freedom is without restraint, but it is to adopt the right restraint. Freedom comes from conforming to truth. (Sermon, Dr. David Clotfelter, Tunghai University Christ Church)

2017年10月13日星期五

Nothing Gold Can Stay/ Robert Frost

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Robert Frost

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Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.