高级英语unit6Dullwork.ppt

Unit Six Dull Work Eric Hoffer The Author: Eric Hoffer?(July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American social?writer. He was the author of ten books and was awarded the?Presidential Medal of Freedom?in February 1983. His first book,?The True Believer《狂热分子》, published in 1951, was widely recognized as a classic . This book, which he considered his best, established his reputation, and he remained a successful writer for most of his remaining years. Publications: The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955) The Ordeal of Change (1963) The Temper of Our Time (1967) Israels Peculiar Position (1968) Working and Thinking on the Waterfront (1969) First Things, Last Things (1971) Reflections on the Human Condition (1973) In Our Time (1976) Before the Sabbath (1979) Background Information： Albert Einstein: (1879–1955 ) German-born American theoretical physicist .He won a 1921 Nobel Prize for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. He is recognized as one of the greatest physicists of all the time. Einstein in the patent office Einstein was an examiner at the patent office, Bern(瑞士首都) .From 1902 to 1909. While in the Bern patent office he completed an astonishing range of theoretical physics publications, written in his spare time without the benefit of close contact with scientific literature or colleagues. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) German idealist philosopher. He was born in the East Prussian(普鲁士) city of K?nigsberg（格尼斯堡）, studied at its university, and worked there as a tutor and professor for more than forty years, never travelling more than fifty miles from home. Although his outward life was dull, Kants intellectual work easily justified his own claim to have effected a Copernican revolution in philosophy. John Milton： One of the greatest poets of the English language, best-known for his epic poem PARADISE LOST《失乐园》(1667). Miltons powerful poetry had an immense influence especially on the 18th-century ver