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1、Lesson 9 A More Perfect Union Lesson 9 A More Perfect Union(Part I)Part I)Barack Obama Barack ObamaPre-reading Questions1.When delivering a speech,how could you impress your audience?2.When and where was the speech delivered by Obama?3.Why did Obama deliver the speech?4.Could you give some brief int
2、roduction to Obama?1.An amusing statement,incident or joke2.A startling statement3.A quotation 4.A story5.Rhetorical questions 6.SuspenseBackground InformationBackground InformationBarack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama II(born August 4,1961)is the 44th and current President of the United States,in office
3、 since 2009.He is the first African American to hold the office.Born in Honolulu,Hawaii,Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School.He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.He served
4、three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004,running unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 2000.He won election to the U.S.Senate in November 2004.He began his presidential campaign in 2007,and in 2008,after a close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton,he won s
5、ufficient delegates in the Democratic party primaries to receive the presidential nomination.He then defeated Republican nominee John McCain in the general election,and was inaugurated as president on January 20,2009.Nine months later,Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.He was re-ele
6、cted president in November 2012,defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney,and was sworn in for a second term on January 20,2013.The Jeremiah Wright The Jeremiah Wright ControversyControversy The Jeremiah Wright Controversy is an American political issue that gained national attention in March 2008 wh
7、en ABC News,after reviewing dozens of U.S.2008 Presidential Election candidate Barack Obamas pastor Jeremiah Wrights sermons,excerpted parts which were subject to intense media scrutiny.Wright is a retired senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago and former pastor of the U.S Presi
8、dent Barack Obama.Obama denounced the statements in question,but after critics continued to press the issue of his relationship with Wright he gave a speech titled“A More Perfect Union,”in which he sought to place Dr.Wrights comments in a historical and sociological context.In the speech,Obama again
9、 denounced Wrights remarks,but did not disown him as a person.The government gives them the drugs,builds bigger prisons,passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing God Bless America.No,no,no,God damn America,thats in the Bible for killing innocent people,he said in a 2003 sermon.God damn Ame
10、rica for treating our citizens as less than human.God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.We bombed Hiroshima,we bombed Nagasaki,and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon,and we never batted an eye,Rev.Wright said in a sermon on Sept.16
11、,2001.We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans,and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards.Americas chickens are coming home to roost,he told his congregation.Issue of Racial Discriminati
12、onRacial Discrimination In the 1800s the slaves were freed by President Abraham Lincoln.After this starting in about the 1870s Jim Crow laws were introduced.These laws promoted the idea separate but equal,meaning that the races although having to be in different areas and not allowed to intermingle
13、were equal.The Jena Six were six black teenagers convicted in the beating of Justin Barker,a white student at Jena High School in Jena,Louisiana,on December 4,2006.2004 成名演讲稿:无畏的希望 The audacity of hope2008.3.18 费城演讲 A More Perfect Union2008.7.24 柏林演讲 A world that stands as one2008.11.06 胜选演讲:Change
14、Has Come To America 2009.1.20 就职演讲 Barack Obamas Inaugural Address 奥巴马在宾夕法尼亚州奥巴马在宾夕法尼亚州费城费城 发表的演讲,发表的演讲,也是他在参选以后第一次就也是他在参选以后第一次就种族种族问题发表公开演讲问题发表公开演讲Structure Part 1(P1-5):The background leading to Obamas campaign in 2008.Part II(P6-11):By mentioning his own story as a black person,Obama points out t
15、hat biased opinion on race does exist and also bring much influence.Part III(P12-16):Obama condemned some divisive discussion of race,including his former pastor Reverend Wrights opinions.Part IV(P17-23)The good features of Reverend Wright and the Trinity Church:love for and between every American p
16、eople.Part V(P24-26):Conclusion.Urgency for perfecting the union.Part 1(P1-5):The background leading to Obamas campaign in 2008.1.Why does Obama begin his address with the words“We the people,in order to form a more perfect union.”?2.Are you familiar with the first sentence of Para 2?3.The document
17、they produced was eventually signed out but ultimately unfinished.How to understand the sentence?4.According to Obama,how to narrow the gap between the promise and reality?5.Whats the function of P1-5?Para 1 Para 1 We the people,in order to form a more perfect union.A quote from the Preamble to Cons
18、titution of the United States.“We the people of the United States,in order to form a more perfect Union,establish justice,insure domestic tranquility,provide for the common defense,promote the general welfare,and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,do ordain and establish
19、this Constitution for the United States of America.”我们美利坚合众国的人民,为了组织一个更完善的联邦,树立正义,保障国内的安宁,建立共同的国防,增进全民福利和确保我们自己及我们後代能安享自由带来的幸福,乃为美利坚合众国制定和确立这一部宪法。Purpose for the quotation:To show where the title came from;To appeal to the audience because American people worship the Constitution,regarding it as a s
20、acred document like the Bible.Para 2 Para 2 Two hundred and twenty one years ago,in a hall that still stands across the street,a group of men gathered and,with these simple words,launched Americas improbable experiment in democracy.improbable:not likely to happenImprobable experiment in democracy:It
21、 was the first written document initiating the beginning of the end of the concept of the divine right of kings.At that time,America is small and weak,so no one can be sure whether the country or this Constitution would survive or succeed.Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on t
22、his continent,a new nation,conceived in Liberty,and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.87年前,我们的先辈们在这块大陆上建立了一个崭新的国家。这个国家以自由为立国之本,致力于实现人人生而平等的理想。Farmers and scholars;statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real the
23、ir declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention traveled across an ocean:referring to the early settlers,the Puritans who sailed across the Atlantic ocean.made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention:turned the concept embodied in the Declaration of Independen
24、ce into articles in the Constitutiondeclaration of independence独立宣言独立宣言the proclamation made by the second American Continental Congress on July 4,1776,which asserted the freedom and independence of the 13 Colonies from Great Britain;1776年7月4日美国第二次大陆会议上通过的宣言,宣告美国13个殖民地脱离英国获得独立和自由.finally made real t
25、heir declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.The Constitutional Convention met in the Philadelphia State House from May 25 to Sept.17,1787;the Convention was attended by 55 delegates from 12 states.(Rhode Island declined to send delegates.)Tran
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