风雨哈佛路英语演讲Homeless-to-Harvard.ppt

,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,1.What is your dream?,2.Has it come true?,3.Are you still holding on to this dream?,Homeless to Harvard,Speaker:Wang Shuiyan,An Autobiography by Liz Murray,PREFACE,1,Characters Introduction,2,THEMES,3,PLOTS,4,CONTENTS,4,Classical Quatations,5,Homeless to Harvard,is Liz Murrays autobiography.,It is a true story that takes place in a real person.,Liz,was born in a slum in New York.Her parents are both drug addicts（瘾君子）.Worse still,her mom had schizophrenia(精神分裂症)，and later died of AIDS.Her father went to the homeless shelter because he was drunk and had no job.It was not until her mothers death that Liz known that there was a bright world outside of her own life,.,Then,she decided to change her present terrible situation.After a long struggle with tough life,She was finally admitted to Harvard University,the highest academic institution.,风雨哈佛路主人公丽丝出生在纽约的贫民窟，尽管父母吸毒，但莉丝仍然深爱着他们。她在毒品、艾滋、饥饿充斥的环境中度过童年。,PREFACE,2,CHARACTERS INTRODUCTION,QUATATIONS,J,ean Murray,Mother:Jean Murray,She was a drug addict(瘾君子).,She was an alcoholic(酒鬼).,She was legally blind(基本失明).,She was a schizophrenic(患有精神分裂).,But she loved Liz.,Lizs father scraped into,（勉强挤进）,a college psychology school in downtown New York.,But in less than two years he dropped out of school.,He later became a street muck.,Peter is the most intereting and humerous person in Liz s childhood,in Liz world.He always had ideas.It was because of him that Liz know theres another way of being(,生存之路,).,Peter,Father:Peter,QUATATIONS,Lisa,Murray,Sister:,Lisa,Murray,She is Lizs sister,the girl with the same fate as Liz.,She had been raped,(,强奸,),by her grandfather.,She is Lizs friend.,The girl who had the same experience as Liz,was also sent to a domestic,group home(,教养所,),.,She had a painful experience of being raped by her father.,Chris,Friend:,Chris,QUATATIONS,Liz,Murray,Piogonist:Liz,Murray,Liz Murray was born in 1980 in the Bronx,New York City.At 15,Liz was homeless.,She spent two years of her senior high school years in the homeless street,and she was admitted to harvard with an excellent score,and won the first class scholarship of the New York times.,She is Lizs teacher.,It was h,im,who gave Liz the chance to be born again,c,limb,ing,out of,the,bad situation.,H,e appreciate,d,Liz,very much and helped her a lot.,David,Teacher:David,THEMES,3,QUATATIONS,THEMES,A,Dream,C,Jump out of comfort zone,B,Efforts,D,LOVE,PLOTS,4,POLT 1 Childhood,Both her father and her mother took drugs.Because of drug addiction,they have no ability to work and earn money.As a result,they have no money to pay house rent and no money to buy food and water.They lived in an abandoned house without money.What they drank is tap water.Liz and her sister often felt hungry.When Liz was 8 years old,she started going out to beg,and sometimes when she was too hungry to bear it,she would pick up food from the garbage can.Whats worse,her mother would earn money by prostitution if she had no money to buy drugs and felt herself out of control to go crazy.,POLT,1 Childhood,Shes full of lice,(,虱子,),wearing,very dirty,underwere,.,She was disliked by others.Therefore,she was unwilling to go to school.As a result,she was sent,to group home,.People there,had the tendency to be violent.They,bullied her,and others,.,Even,some,people,pour,ed,sulfuric acid into other peoples body wash,(,沐浴露,),causing disfigureation（毁容）.,POLT 2 15 YEARS OLD,She grew up,gratually,.,And t,hen she met Chris,.They,became good friends.They,both,d,idn,t like the environment at school or home.They decided to go vagabonding,(,流浪,),.They were homeless,sleeping on the subway,begging,stealing.,It was not until her mothers death,of AIDS,that Liz,awoke(,觉悟,).,POLT 3 17 YEARS OLD,She was the last person to leave school and the first to come to school,She has ten courses in one semester,the regular 5,and the saturday programming,the night school,franch and the after school science。,“Y,oull kill yourself you know?,”She studied as well as worked.,She works part-time while she studies.She slept in the subway for hours at night.,T,he B-train took 70 minutes to do its entire run,she would be,back 4 times,everyday.,POLT 4 IN 1996(The ending),At last she was sent to visit harvard,w,ith excellent,grades,.The people here,were,so good and different that she wants to be equal to them and not under them.She used every bit of her potential to do it.,In the end,she got excellent marks in the school.She,earned,a scholarship to Harvard University through an essay contest sponsored by the New York Times.,5,CLASSICAL QUATATIONS,QUATATIONS,1、如果我不顾一切发挥每一点潜能去做会怎样？我必须做到，我别无选择。,I will use my every potential to do that.I just always knew that I need to get out.I have to do it.I have no choice.,2、世界在转动，你只是一粒尘埃，没有你地球照样在转。现实是不会按照你的意志去改变的。,The world is changing while youre just a stardust.The earth turns arround with or without you.Reality doesnt change according to your will.,3、有些人的需求，有些人的信念会比你的更强烈。,Someone elses needs,someone elses plate is going to be stronger than yours is.,4、生活的残酷会让人不知所措，于是有人终日沉浸在彷徨迷茫之中，不愿睁大双眼去看清形势，不愿去想是哪些细小的因素累积在一起造成了这种局面。,Keep their eyes shut to the wholeness of the situation.All those tinny things that have come together to make it,what it is.,QUATATIONS,5、请不要闭眼，机会就在下一秒出现。残酷的现实面前你应勇往直前。,Dont close your eyes,rise again after you fall,you need to get out.,6、我真的很聪明，我会成功的，我只是需要机会而已，是的，是这样的，我需要机会 脱离我出生的环境，我认识的人全都充满了怨气，他们活着只是为了生存，但是我相信有比那更好的地方，那里更发达，我要活在那种地方，就是这样。,Im smart.I know I can succeed.I just need a chance.A chance to climb out of this place Ive born in.Everyone I know are angry and tired.Theyre trying to survive.But I know that there is a world out there that is better,thats better developed.And I want to live in it.,7、我为什么要觉得可怜，这就是我的生活。我甚至要感谢它，它让我在任何情况下都必须往前走。我没有退路，我只能不停地努力向前走。,Did you ever feel sorry for yourself?-That had always been my life and I reallyI feel that I got lucky,because any sensive security was pulled out so I was forced to look forward.I had to there was no going back and I reached a point where I just thought,“oh Im gonna work as hard as I possibly can and see what happens”and now Im going to college.,THANKS,