1. Mark Twain, whose real name is Samuel L. Clemens, is the author of a classic American novel entitled Huckleberry Finn and he lived in Hartford for several years.

2. Mark Twain lived in a very elaborate and elegant house on Farmington Avenue in an area called Nook Farm and he was a neighbor of Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.

3. Mark Twain's home have windows and a balcony, which reminded the people of a steamboat piloted by Twain on the Mississippi in his youth, that overlooked the large side porch.

4. Mark Twain was one of the first three people in Hartford to own a telephone that was first used commercially in nearby New Haven but he never really liked this newfangled gadget since there was no one to talk to.

5. Mark Twain loved industrial inventions and one of these was the elaborate Paige typesetter which unfortunately for Twain developed the same time as the Linotype machine that was much simpler and less expensive so Twain lost a fortune investing them.

6. Since Mark Twain's beloved daughter, Susy, died of spinal meningitis in the Hartford home, he never felt the same about the house again and soon left the house and Hartford but he returned once when he attended the funeral of his friend, Charles Dudley Warner. 

Paraphrasing

1. Aristotle believed that imitation is part of human experience. The artist can freely imitates what he sees on nature but he should strictly observe the unity of form he imitates. Aristotle relates form as the necessary and natural part of an object. It contradicts to what Plato's definition of form is which is ideal.

2. Aristotle and Plato differs in the way they relate imitation to beauty. For Plato, beauty is an idea and an abstract that is important in understanding the natural world. For Aristotle, beauty is real and can be seen in the structure and function of the form itself.

John Berger's "Way of Seeing"

John Berger's "Way of Seeing" is all about the comparison of the art in the past and the art in the present.

• Oil paintings in the past were the only thing that can capture moments in life. Today, we use cameras to capture the moments.
• Art in the past can be solely reproduced while the art today can be reproduced instantly.
• "The typical female nude painting of traditional oil painting seems modest compared to what we encounter today."
• The art of publicity in the past asked about existence while the art of publicity today asks about our future "Will you be happy?".
• "There was no glamour in the past. Today glamour is showing off the materials you have that the other people do not have and wanted."