【正文】 dent has the power to make treaties with other nations and to make all appointments to federal positions,including the position, of Supreme Court Senate,however,must approve all treaties and confirm all appointments before they bee this way the Congress can prevent the president from making unwise do you understand the saying: ”British history has been a history of invasion.” ?Before the 1st century AD Britain was made up of many tribal kingdoms of Celtic people:a powerful cultural originating in central in 43AD Britain was invaded by Roman Empire, and England and Wales became part of the Roman Empire for nearly400 the Roman Empire came under threat from the east, the Roman armies and Roman protection were withdrawn from Britain, and Britain was again divided into small kindoms, andagain it came under threat from outside, this time from Germanic peoples:the Angles,and the the 5th century AD it is said that a great leaderKing Arthur appeared, united the British, and with his magical sword, Excalibur,drove the Saxons Arthur’s success,legend or not,it did not last,for the AngloSaxons did succeed in invading Britain,and either absorbed the Celticpeople,or pushed them to the western and northern edges of the late 8th century on, raiders from Scandinavia, the ferocious Vikings, threatened Britain’s settlements in England grew until large areas of northern and eastern England were under their , the Normans, from northern France, whowere descendants of William of Normandy they cross the English Channel and in the Battle of Hastings, defeated an English army under King marks the last an army from outside the British Isles succeeded in invading understanding of the characteristics of American religion and its social functionsFirst of all, American with different religions live together under the same Bill of Rights in the US Constitutioninsists that there should be no state means that the government has no right to interfere in people’s religious freedom of religion and the separation of state and church guaranted in the Constitution is believed to be the basic principles against religious ,the religious beliefs of Americans continue to be strong with social Sunday morning, all over America people pour into the of American Protestants are active church members, and there are few who habitually stay only the Catholic churches,but the Protestant ones too,are flourishing,and new evergrowing all the social and economic changes religion has remained a constant ,in the united states every church is a pleteluy independent organization,and concerned with its own finance and its own one goes to a Protestant church,he or she will hear morality preached,but not a word of and religious sects are expressions of group solidarity rather than of rigid adherence to doctrine.第四篇：英美文學(xué)主觀(guān)題Neoclassicismage: 16601798．It mainly applies to the classical tendency which dominated the literature of the 17th century and 18th was, at least , the result of a reaction against the fires of passion which had blazed in the late Renaissance, especially in the metaphysical Neoclassicism esteemed objectivity, harmony, rationality, dignity, proportion, and moderation, stressed artistic systems and technical correlation of stylistic ponents, admired conciseness, elegance, good taste and wit, bined pleasure with instruction and matched content to style.．Its representatives are: John Dryden, Alexander Pope, age: 17981870．Romanticism stresses individual and creative function of places individual at the very center of all life and all experience and at the center of art.．Its characteristics are:Romanticism is a rebellion against the objectivity of romantics, the feelings, intuitions and emotions are more important than reason and mon do not think of the world as a ticking watch made by GodThey emphasize individualism, placing the individual against the group,against affirm the inner life of the self, and want each person to be free to develop and express his own inner thoughtsThey cherish strong interest in the past, especially the are interested in variety and attracted by the wild, the irregular, the indefinite, remote, the mysterious, and the strange.．Characteristics of romantic writers and their works:ImaginationWorship of nature Symbolism and myth Simplicity and humanity Spontaneity．Characteristics of romantic poets and their works:An increasing interest in nature and attention to the spiritual and emotional life to man Loose poetic formInformal, free language of the mon people Victorian literature age:18361901 amp。 amp。 plex amp。 realistically in lifeamp。thought writers amp。 great works aboundedVictorian literature naturally took on its quality of magnitude and was manysided and plex, and reflected both romantically and realistically the great changes that were going on in people39。s life and Renaissance Periodage: 15001660．“Renaissance”“rebirth”．a(chǎn) reawakening／ learning →Greece amp。 Romeof— the individual → selfexpressioninterest in＼ the world of nature →appreciation of beauty；discovery of new lands amp。 scientific truths ．The essence of the Renaissance spirit:the idea that people were wonderful creatures that could reason and create.“Man is the measure of all things”．The chief character: the expression of secular values with man instead of God as the centre of the emphasizes the dignity of man, affirms the value of man, which often implies a lessening in the power of advocates the full expression of individualism and the fulfillment of one’s affirms the delight of earthly achievement, as well as man’s desire for happiness and of Sonnet 18In this sonnet, Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of time and the eternal beauty brought forth by poetry to the one he nice summer39。s day is usually transient, but the beaut in poetry can last for author has a faith in the permanence of devices: metaphor。 and PrejudiceIn