I Have A Dream

1. I Have A Dream By Jessica Li

2. The Montgomery Bus Boycott ∆ Who Rosa Parks ∆ When 1954 –1955 ∆ How Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat to other white people and she was arrested. --- It sparked a massive scale of bus boycott movement, contributing to Dr. King’s leadership.

3. Martin Luther King, Jr. ∆ Where was he born? in Atlanta ∆ Who influenced him most ? Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Gandhi advocated civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to social injustice

4. ∆ What is Somebodiness? Don’t let anybody make you a nobody give people a new sense of worth and dignity ∆ Who killed him? James Earl Ray He has to serve a sentence of 99 years.

5. The Speech ∆ The Film ∆Five scores ofyears twenty One hundred years ∆ a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand Abraham Lincoln statuein the Lincoln Memorial Hall

6. ∆ signed the Emancipation Proclamation ∆This momentous decree important official decision ∆ Negro slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice burned in the fire severe and critical injustice

7. ∆ It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. see the light of hope of freedom slavery was abolished ∆ the life of Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination is damaged by the injustice, unfair treatment, restriction

8. ∆ the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material property. they are segregated from white people, living a poor life among white people are living an affluent life, and enjoy the freedom granted by the law

9. ∆ the Negro ---- and finds himself an exile in his own land the Negro are driven out of the American society ∆ dramatize a shameful condition to highlight the severe racial discrimination

10. ∆ It is a dream deeply rooted in the American Dream. a dream that is deeply rooted in Ex. The virtue of honesty is rooted in my mind since my parents put an emphasis on it all the time. everyone has an equal chance to realize his/ her dream as long as he/she makes efforts to it.

11. American Dream for immigrants ∆

12. ∆ this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed----. to carry out its creed/ doctrine ∆We holdthese truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. believe N to be adj these truths are obvious and self-proved

13. Ex. As well-informed consumers, people hold this concept to be partly true that inexpensive products are not necessarily good in quality. ∆ one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

14. the next generation can discard the hatred and start to cooperate with each other like brothers and sisters.

15. ∆ the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression ---- a state that swelters with ---- Ex. Working under the sweltering heat, people tend to suffer from heatstroke. oppression, suppression, repression

16. ♦ stop opposition using military force or strict laws suppression ♦ the use of force or violence to control people/ the behavior of someone who refuses to show or admit strong feelings that they have repression

17. ♦ unfair and cruel treatment by a powerful person or government oppression Ex. The ruthless _____on the minor ethnic groups has aroused global concern for Iraq’s chemical weapons. repression/ suppression

18. Ex. The slaves stood up to fight for freedom because they couldn’t endure the _____ any more. oppression Ex. _____ of true feelings is believed to be blamed for certain cancer; thus, moderate entertainment can help relax oneself and relieve negative emotions. Repression

19. ∆ my four little children will one day live in a nation wherethey will notbe judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. where S+V not A but B Ex. What you need right now isn’t your teacher’s compassion but your own iron determination.

20. their inner virtues are seen by people

21. ∆ down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification the racists treat Negro people ruthlessly and degradingly dripping with / brimming with / teeming with / filled with exert influence to interfere with justice make sth lose its legal effect

22. Interposition

23. Nullification

24. ∆little black boys and girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and girls as sisters and brothers. There will be no racial discrimination in U.S. and people can live in harmony with each other.

25. ∆ one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low --- Please find out the meanings of the metaphors the position of Negro people shall be lifted the arrogance of white people shall be eliminated.

26. ∆ the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight ---- When it comes to civil rights, there will be no obstacles or barriers for Negro people, and they deserve the same rights as the white people

27. ∆ the gloryof the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. that all men are created equal all humankind

28. ∆ This is the faith that I go back to the South with. This is the faith with which I go back to the South. ∆ With this faith, we will be able to hewout of the mountain of despaira stone of hope. hew a stone of hope out of the mountain of despair (從絕望之山砍下一顆希望之石) With the faith, we can spark people’s hope for equality despite the great barrier ahead

29. ∆ With this faith, we will be able to transform the sour notes of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. the disagreements, disputes, interposition of politicians, and the nullification of laws granting Negro people civil rights

30. ∆ With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that one day we will free. to fight for freedom together The Republic of Plato

31. ∆ we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children ----black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics --- will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: “ Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” All humankind can live in a harmonious world where all men are equal.

32. ∆ we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children ----black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics --- will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: “ Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” All humankind can live in a harmonious world where all men are equal.