Week 2

poetry by Anne Bradstreet of the Colonial America.

This period in American Literature ran from about 1830 to around the Civil War.[1] A central term in American studies, the American Renaissance was for awhile considered synonymous with American Romanticism[2] and was closely associated with Transcendentalism.[3]



Iron Road is a 2009 Canada/China television miniseries written by Barry Pearson and Raymond Storey and directed by David Wu.[1]Starring Sun Li, Luke Macfarlane, Peter O'Toole, Sam Neill, and Charlotte Sullivan, Iron Road chronicles the untold story of Chinese workers who helped to build the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s.[2] The mini-series was filmed in the Kamloops, B.C. area with many local actors.[3]
Iron Road is only the second joint venture to be created under a Canada/China co-production treaty established in the 1960s.[4] The first was 1989's Bethune: The Making of a Hero.[1]
ante-: before
-bell-: war
November: New year in ancient Rome


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