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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,2014-11-24,#,Advanced English Book 1,L,esson 9,A,More,P,erfect,U,nion,-,By group 4,1/71,Background information,Vocabulary an,d,Paraphrase,Structure,Lesson 9 A More Perfect Union,Advanced English Book 1,2/71,Lesson 9 A More Perfect Union,About“A More Perfect Union”,the speech was delivered on march 18,during Obamas campaign for presidency.This was to response to the Jeremiah Wright controversy.Jeremiah Wright was the pastor of Obamas trinity united church of Christ in Chicago and also a participant in Obamas campaign.Rev.Dr.Jeremiah Wright has been caught on tape saying vicious,racist,and un-American things.,Advanced English Book 1,3/71,Lesson 9 A More Perfect Union,Rev.Wright said that Sept.11 was somehow the fault of America,and now“Americans chickens are coming home to roost.”Therefore,Obama suffered a huge crisis of confidence.,Advanced English Book 1,4/71,5/71,Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th and current President of the United States.He is the first African American to hold the office.,He began his presidential campaign in,and in,after a close primary campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton,he won sufficient 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,.Nine months later,Obama was named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.He was re-elected president in November,defeating Republican nominee Mitt Romney.He is the first Democrat since Franklin D.Roosevelt to win two presidential elections with a majority of the popular vote.,Lesson 9 A More Perfect Union,Advanced English Book 1,6/71,Lesson 9 A More Perfect Union,Advanced English Book 1,Trinity United Church of Christ,Trinity United Church of Christ is a predominantly African-American church with more than 8,500 members,located on the southwest side of Chicago.It is the largest church affiliated with the United Church of Christ,a predominantly white Christian denomination with roots in Congregationalism,which branched from American Puritanism.,7/71,The churchs early history coincided with the American civil rights movement,subsequent death of Martin Luther King,Jr.,and the turmoil that entered the movement after his death.During that tumultuous period,an influx of radical black Muslim groups had begun to headquarter in Chicago,and Trinity sought to recontextualize Christianity through black liberation theology in order to counter the influence of radical black Muslim leaders,who taught that it was impossible to be both Black and Christian.,8/71,Trinity is best known today for its social programs on behalf of the disadvantaged,both nationally and internationally,although in its earliest days such outreach did not even figure in its mission.,In early,as part of their presidential election coverage,news media outlets and political commentators brought Trinity to national attention when controversial excerpts of sermons by the churchs longtime pastor Jeremiah Wright were broadcast to highlight Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obamas relationship with Wright and the church.Obama responded with a speech,A More Perfect Union,which addressed the criticisms.,9/71,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 were equal.,Lesson 9 A More Perfect Union,Advanced English Book 1,10/71,What is the theme of the address?Where is it stated?,What is Obamas story?Why did he call it“my story”?,3.,Did Obamas ethnic background put him in an advantageous position during the campaign?What racial issue did he confront?,Pre-questions,11/71,4.,Some people questioned Obamas attitude even though he condemned Reverend Wrights remarks.Why?,5.,How did Obama describe Reverend Wright in Para.18?How did Obama describe the Trinity United Church of Christ in Para.20?,6.,What is the relationship between Reverend Wright and Obama?What did Obama mean when he said he could not disown Reverend Wright?,12/71,7.,What remarks did Reverend Wright make that compelled Obama to condemn them?What was the fundamental mistake made by Wright?How is Obamas condemnation related to the title of his address“A More Perfect Union”?,8.,Is race an essential issue in the election in Obamas opinion?Why?,9.,How are so many of the disparities that exists in the African-American community today related to the past of slavery and Jim crow?,13/71,Vocabulary and Paraphrase,14/71,1.Farmers and scholars;statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape,tyranny,and persecution that lasted through the spring of 1787.,tyranny:n.,unfair or cruel use of power or authority,Paraphrase:,The early settlers,including farmers,scholars,statesmen and patriots sailed across the Atlantic ocean to escape misrule and persecution.They eventually turned the concepts embodied in the declaration of independence into articles in the Constitution at the Constitutional Convention which was held in the Philadelphia State House in the spring of 1787.,15/71,2.The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished.,Paraphrase:,After heated debate and compromises,the Constitution was finally adopted by the Constitutional Convention and 39 out of 55 delegates signed the document.But“three-fifths ”clause and the twenty years allowed for the slave trade showed the slave issue was not solved,so the process of forming a more perfect union did not end with the enforcement of the Constitution.,16/71,3.,It was,stained,by this nations original sin of slavery and to leave any final,resolution,to future generations.,Stain:n.change the color of sth.;leave or make marks on sth.,esp.ones that are difficult to remove.,stalemate,:,n.,a situation in which neither side in an argument or contest can win or in which no progress is possible.,resolution:n.,solution /make a resolution to do,17/71,Paraphrase:,It was dishonored by slavery which is American original sin.Whether the slavery should be kept became a question which divided the colonies and made the convention come to a halt.Finally,the founders of American decided to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty years,and to leave the question to future generations.,18/71,4.Of course,the answer to the slavery question was already,embedded,within our Constitution and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.,embedded:v.,fix something deeply and firmly into something else.(implant,，,engraft),Paraphrase:,Of course,the resolution of the slavery issue was already included under the law.According to the Constitution,its people should enjoy liberty,justice,and a union that could be and should be perfected over time.,19/71,5.And yet words on a,parchment,would not be enough to deliver slaves from,bondage,or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States.,parchment:n.,a substance made from animal skin,used in the past for writing on;a document,manuscript,or diploma on parchment.,bondage,:,n.,the state of being a slave or prisoner.,20/71,Paraphrase:,However,the Constitution or any law is not enough to set the slaves free or to give American people of different origins or beliefs equal rights.,21/71,6.What would be needed were Americans in,successive,generations promise of our ideals and the reality of their time.,disobedience:n.,failure or refusal to obey.,Paraphrase:,Only through risky protests and struggles in different forms,such as on the street,in the courts,through a war,would generation after generation of American succeed in narrowing the gap between the rights promised in the Constitution and the reality of their time.,22/71,6.I chose to run for the President at and our grandchildren.,Paraphrase:,I chose to run for the Presidency at this critical moment in history because I firmly believe that only we solve the challenges together can we solve them.Despite different stories we have,we hold common hopes.Despite different appearances we have and different places we come from,we all want to make a better future for later generations.Only we understand that can we perfect our union.,23/71,7.But it also comes from my own American story.,Paraphrase:,My personal background and my success story,rising from rags to riches,also teaches me the importance of unity.,24/71,7.I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Pattons Army during World War II and a white grandmother while he was overseas.,Paraphrase:,I was raised with the help of my grandparents who are white.My grandfather lived through the depression,and during World War he was fighting under General Patton.At that time,my grandmother worked on a bomber assembly line at Fort Leavenworth.,25/71,8.Ive gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the worlds poorest nationsan inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters.,Paraphrase:,I have studied in some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the worlds poorest nations.My wife is a black American woman who carries the blood of slaves and slaveowners which is inherited our two beloved daughters.,26/71,9.I have brothers,sisters,nieces,nephews,uncles and cousins,of every race and every,hue,scattered across three continentsthat in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.,hue:,n.,color,Paraphrase:,My relatives of different races and colors lived scattered across three continents.I will always remember that my story is only possible in America and I can become what I am only in America.,27/71,10.Its a story that hasnt made me the most conventional candidate.But it is a story that has,seared,into my genetic makeup we are truly one.,sear:,v.,to cause sb.to feel sudden and unpleasant.,Paraphrase:,My life experience has infused deeply in me the concept that the united states is not just a total of adding all the states or all the elements together but is the product of fusion,of sharing the same creed.,28/71,11.Throughout the first year of this campaign,against all predictions to the contrary,we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity.,Paraphrase:,In spite of all announcements that America was not ready for a black president,that I would fail in the campaign,we gained momentum in the first year of the campaign,which showed that the America people demanded unity and change.,29/71,.,12.Despite the temptation powerful,coalition,of African Americans and white Americans,commanding,:adj.authoritative and powerful.,coalition:n.,alliance between political partier.,deem:n,.have a particular opinion about something,30/71,Paraphrase:,people,couldnt help,judge me from the perspective of a black candidate,raising the question of whether the united states would fare better with a black president.However we won great victories even in some of the more conservative states,states with,a strongerly racial bias.,We succeeded in uniting African Americans and white Americans in South Carolina,which was one of the Confederate states in the Civil war.,31/71,13.We saw racial tensions bubble to the surface but black and brown as well.,exit poll:n.,the activity of asking people who they have voted to discover the likely results.,polarization :n.,the situation of having or giving polarity.,32/71,Paraphrase,:the week before the Democrats were to select their delegates to the national convention in South Carolina,attacks on me,on blacks became more frequent,more intense.The press had polls of people who had just voted thoroughly to find evidence of people dividing into two opposing groups,in terms of white and black,as well as black and brown.,33/71,14.On one end of the spectrum,weve heard the implication,that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in,affirmative,action purchase racial,reconciliation,on the cheap.,spectrum:n.,a complete or wide range of,related qualities,ideas,etc.,on the cheap:,spending less money than need.,affirmative:adj.,expressing agreem,ent,reconciliation,:n.,a situation in which two people,countries etc.become friendly with each other again after quarreling.,34/71,Paraphrase:,At one end of the entire range of opinion,there are people who say that I decided to run because I wanted to show black and white should have equal opportunity and I wanted to play on the desires of nave liberals to achieve racial harmony without making great efforts.,35/71,15.On the other end,pastor,Reverend Jeremiah Wright,use,incendiary,but views that,denigrate,both the greatness black alike.,pastor:n.,a Christian priest in some protestant churches.,incendiary:adj.,an incendiary speech,piece of writing etc.is intended to make people angry.,denigrate:vt.,to criticize sb./sth.unfairly;to say sb./sth.does not have any value or is not important.,unequivocal:adj.,expressing your opinion or intention very clearly,36/71,Paraphrase:,At the other end of the wide range of opinions,Jeremiah Wright was wrong because the improper language he used in expressing his views,would not only widen the gap between different races but attack on the basic nature of America as a nations.His words caused the anger and condemnation of both white and black.,37/71,16.Did I know him to be an priests,or,rabbis,with which you strongly disagreed.,rabbis,:(title of a)spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation;teacher of the Jewish law,Paraphrase:,I did know that sometimes he criticized American domestic and foreign policy.I did hear that he made disputed comments while I was in church.I did strongly disagree with many of his political views.However.I am sure many of you may have similar experiences so this is not unique to me.,38/71,17.Instead,they,distorted,view as,endemic,in the actions of,stalwart,emanating from,the,perverse,and hateful,ideologies,of radical Islam.,distort,:,vt,.give a false account of(sth.).,endemic,:,adj.,regularly found in a particular place or among a particular group of people and difficult to get rid of.,emanate from,:to come from something or somewhere.,stalwart:adj.,loyal,unequivocal:adj.,expressing your opinion or intention very clearly,profess,:,v.,to state a personal feeling or belief openly.,39/71,perverse:adj.,marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict,ideology:n.,an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation,Paraphrase:,Wrights view were a gross distortion of America.On the one hand,Wright considered white racism as an inseparable part of America,leaving out all the good characteristics which we associated with America.On the other hand,Wright thought that the cause of conflict in the Middle East lied with Israel,not radical Islam.,40/71,18.,And I confess the,snippets,of those,sermons,that have run in an endless,loop,on being,peddled,by some commentators,in much the same way.,snip