The source of American language

The first genuine Americanisms were undoubtedly words borrowed bodily from the Indian dialects words indicating natural objects that had no counterparts in England.

For example word “opossum” in the form of opasum, in Captain John Smith’s “Map of Virginia” (1612), and, in the form of “apossoun”, in a Virginia document two years older. The word is borrowed from the Algonquin musa, and must have become familiar to the Pilgrim Fathers soon after their landing in 1620

In addition to the names of natural objects, the early colonists, of course, took over a great many Indian place-names, and a number of words to designate Indian relations and artificial objects in Indian use.

In the beginning of the eighteenth century, new words were made during the period by translating Indian terms.

For example: war-path, war-paint, pale-face, big-chief, medicine-man, pipe-of-peace and fire-water. The total number of such borrowings, direct and indirect, was a good deal larger than now appears, for with the disappearance of the red man the use of loan-words from his dialects has decreased. In our own time such words as: papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use

From the very earliest days of English colonization the language of the colonists also received accretions from the languages of the other colonizing nations.

Leonardo da Vinci story

Leonardo da Vinci, the famous artist, was born in April 15, 1452. He born as the illegitimate son ( or we can call bastard son) of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, were unmarried name Caterina, in the small Tucson town of Anchiano, near Vinci the region of Florence. Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter.

When his age of 15, Leonardo had already mastered skills in the fine arts and the young man was sent to Florence to work as an apprentice in the renowned workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio. He worked with del Verrocchio until 1477. During which time del Verrocchio had been commissioned for a painting that would be “The Baptism of Christ”.

From video I think Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t ordinary artist. He always interested in something different from other artist from studio. He was a kind of guy who focus on goal but he didn’t consider method to create his art for example:

· When there was punishment in public, the government stuff hangs a prisoner on the top of building. He was an only one who draw picture of hangman. He was freak.

· When he want to draw baby picture. He boughs someone baby got naked and draw detail of baby’s body. He didn’t care baby will cold or not even the baby crying so much until baby’s mother came to yell him.

· When he wants to learn about human body he went to hospital and perform an autopsy. It’s very extreme method.

But some Leonardo learning is normal such as: He study to draw a detail of horse by looking horse all the time or how to study to draw detail of light and shadow by saw from the real thing.
All these method to make the new art and unique art style is the essential skill that made him become a successful artist that world ever know.

Amazing grace

The lyrics are based on his reflections on an Old Testament text he was preparing to preach on, adding his perspective about his own conversion while on his slave ship, the Greyhound, in 1748.

The author of the lyrics to Amazing Grace name John Newton was born in London July 24, 1725, the son of a commander of a merchant ship which sailed the Mediterranean. He was captain of slave ship in 1744.

Newton's lyrics have become a favourite for Christians, largely because the hymn vividly and briefly sums up the doctrine of divine grace. The lyrics are based on 1 Chonicles 17:16-17, a prayer of King David in which he marvels at God's choosing him and his house. Newton apparently wrote this for use in a sermon he preached on this passage on New Year's Day 1773

The song has also become known as a favorite with supporters of freedom and human right, both Christian and non-Christian, in part because many assume it to be Newton's testimony about his slave trading past.

Since its creation in 1779 in England, "Amazing Grace" has grown in popularity to become one of the best-known musical works in the world. This Web site explores its history through items from the collections of the Library of Congress from the earliest printing of the song to various performances of it on sound recordings.

This song tells the passion and pain of African slave. The listeners feel sympathy African slave when listen it.