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Week 10 Chap. 11-13 Dom 圓頂 Capitol Hill 國會山莊 Capitol Hill, aside from being a metonym for the United States Congress, is the largest historic residential neighborhood in Washington D.C., stretching easterly in front of the United States Capitol along wide avenues. It is one of the oldest residential communities in Washington, and, with roughly 35,000 people in just under 2 square miles (5 km2), it is also one of the most densely populated. White House 白宮 http://www.whitehouse.gov/ The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States, located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. It has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800, and the term is often used by journalists as a metonym to refer to the acts of the President and his top advisors. -lexia Hand Take the medicine ...

Week 11 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by  Mark Twain , first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels , the work is among the first in major  American literature  to be written throughout in  vernacular  English, characterized by  local color regionalism . It is told in the  first person  by  Huckleberry "Huck" Finn , a friend of  Tom Sawyer  and narrator of two other Twain novels ( Tom Sawyer Abroad  and  Tom Sawyer, Detective ). It is a direct sequel to  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer . “ Star light, star bright. ” Youtube: http://goo.gl/hj22ix Star light, star bright, The first star I see tonight; I wish I may,...

1.       munificent , adjective : very generous. Another munificent friend has given me the most splendid reclining chair conceivable. -- George Eliot, Letters 2.       indolent , adjective : lazy; inactive. We worked very hard--at least Iris did; I was more naturally indolent. -- John Bayley, Elegy for Iris 3.       intransigent , adjective : uncompromising. Sometimes I was intransigent, and proud of it. At other times I seemed to myself to be nearly devoid of any character at all, timid, uncertain, without will. -- Edward W. Said, Out of Place: A Memoir 4.       tortuous , adjective : marked by repeated turns and bends. Thus in the 1970s Terry Erwin of the Smithsonian Institution anaesthetized and then counted all the species of beetle in just one tree in Panama, perceived that the number of unknown species far outweighed the ones that had previously been iden...