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[阅读小分队] 【每日阅读训练第四期——速度越障3系列】【3-01】文史哲

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发表于 2012-6-10 21:54:29 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
“Buffalo Bill” Cody, 1846-1917: He Represented the Spirit and Tradition of the American West
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GWEN OUTEN: I'm Gwen Outen.


DOUG JOHNSON: And I'm Doug Johnson with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today, we tell the story of a man called "Buffalo Bill." His real name was William F. Cody. He created "Wild West" shows that people around the world enjoyed for more than thirty years.


GWEN OUTEN: William Frederick Cody was born in eighteen-forty-six in the state of Iowa. He died in Colorado in nineteen-seventeen. Researchers disagree about other incidents in his life. That is because some stories about "Buffalo Bill" are a combination of factual events and make-believe. However, there is general agreement about the influence of "Buffalo Bill" Cody. People say he represented the spirit and tradition of the American West.


DOUG JOHNSON: William F. Cody grew up in the center of the United States. William's family moved from Iowa to the territory of Kansas when he was still a child. His father died in eighteen-fifty-seven. A short time later, William started working at different jobs to help his family. He worked as a driver for a team of oxen. He guided the powerful animals as they moved goods from place to place. He also carried messages for a local company.


Later, William joined a group of men seeking gold in the mountains of Colorado. They were not very successful. Then he got a job as a Pony Express rider. The Pony Express used teams of men and horses to transport mail across the country. William was a skilled rider. Once he rode five-hundred-fifteen kilometers in a single trip. This was one of the longest rides for the Pony Express. At the time, he was just fifteen years old.
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GWEN OUTEN: Kansas became a state in eighteen-sixty-one. A few weeks later, the Civil War between the states started. Southern states fought to protect the rights of individual states. Northern states fought to keep the country united. During the war, Kansas joined with the North and provided men for the Union army.
William was too young to fight when the Civil War started. At first, he served the Union forces as a scout, or explorer.
In eighteen-sixty-four, he joined the United States Army. Cody became a member of the Seventh Kansas Cavalry. His force was sent to nearby southern states during the Civil War. Cody drove a team of horses. He remained there until the war ended.


DOUG JOHNSON: After the war, William Cody married Louisa Frederici in Saint Louis, Missouri. They were married for more than fifty years and had four children. When they were first married, Cody had many different jobs. For example, he operated a hotel in Kansas. Then he began hunting buffalo for work crews building the Kansas Pacific Railroad. The workers used the wild animals for meat. Cody got the name "Buffalo Bill" by winning a buffalo hunting competition. Reports say he shot and killed more than four-thousand buffalo in just eighteen months.


GWEN OUTEN: Cody re-joined the Army in eighteen-sixty-eight. He served as a civilian scout for military forces fighting Indians in the West. His experience and skills made him an able fighter and guide for the Army.
Cody helped the Fifth Cavalry defeat a group of Cheyenne warriors. He also served as a guide for individuals who wanted to hunt buffalo. Some hunters came from big cities in the eastern United States and from other countries. Once he guided a member of Russia's ruling family, the Grand Duke Alexis, on a hunting trip. American newspapers reported on their activities.
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DOUG JOHNSON: Cody's exciting life provided the details for many stories. A number of writers began producing stories about famous people of the western United States. These stories became known as dime novels. Dime novels helped make heroes of people like Davy Crockett and Kit Carson.


A writer named Ned Buntline decided to write a book about Buffalo Bill. Buntline's book and newspaper reports helped make Cody famous. The book became popular and was later made into a play called "Scouts of the Prairie." Buffalo Bill even appeared in the show. Critics said Cody was a bad actor, but the show was very successful.
The play led Cody to form his own traveling show. The group included another hero of the American West, Wild Bill Hickok.


GWEN OUTEN: During this period, Cody often returned to the West to find other work. He assisted the Army in its operations against Indian tribes. In eighteen-seventy-six, Indian warriors defeated General George Custer and his forces in the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana. A few weeks later, Cody and other soldiers clashed with a group of Cheyenne Indians. During the fighting, Cody reportedly killed a Cheyenne warrior named Yellow Hair. This event added yet another incident to Buffalo Bill's collection of stories.


Cody liked the idea of being a showman and telling people about the American West. In eighteen-seventy-nine, he wrote his own life story and began publishing his own dime novels. He also continued to produce plays.
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DOUG JOHNSON: Cody organized his first Wild West show in eighteen-eighty-two in the state of Nebraska. The show was performed outside. It was designed to entertain and educate crowds of people. There were cowboys, Indians, buffalo and other kinds of animals. People were not sure exactly what the show was, but they liked it.


The following year, Cody and his business partners formed a traveling show called "Buffalo Bill's Wild West." It brought cowboys and Indians to people in parts of the United States who might never have seen them. The show was a major success for the next thirty years. People liked it for many reasons. One was a desire to return to earlier, simpler times. The American West of the dime novels was fast disappearing. The area was starting to develop.


GWEN OUTEN: "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" show included cowboys hunting buffalo. It had riders for the Pony Express. It re-created an Indian attack on a carriage transporting goods. The show also re-created the attack against General Custer and his forces. It included Indians who were involved in the real attack. It also included the famous Sioux chief Sitting Bull, who had killed General Custer. Sitting Bull traveled with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show for several months.


In later years, a cowgirl named Annie Oakley performed with the show. She was one of the best gun shooters in the country. Annie Oakley could ride a horse standing up while shooting at a target. She could shoot a piece of money out of someone's hand. Once, she became famous for shooting a cigarette held in the mouth of German Crown Prince Wilhelm.
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"Buffalo Bill's Wild West" performed in cities and towns across the United States and in Europe. In eighteen-eighty-seven, the show performed in England in honor of Queen Victoria's fiftieth anniversary in power. Six years later, the show was popular at the World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois.


DOUG JOHNSON: Buffalo Bill Cody was said to be the most famous American in the world by the beginning of the twentieth century. American presidents met with him to discuss issues important to the West. He had many modern ideas. For example, he supported fair treatment for American Indians. And he supported equal pay and equal voting rights for women. He was also a businessman who looked toward the future. He invested in projects that he hoped would bring economic growth to the West.
Cody made a lot of money from his show business success. However, he lost his wealth because of bad investments and failure to watch how the money was used.


In nineteen-oh-eight, "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" combined with another traveling show. But this show failed. A short time later, Cody got a loan from a Colorado company to keep his show operating. But his financial situation got worse over the next few years.


GWEN OUTEN: Buffalo Bill Cody died in nineteen-seventeen while visiting his sister in Denver, Colorado. He was buried near the city, at the top of Lookout Mountain. His funeral was a major event. Twenty-thousand people traveled there to attend the ceremony.


Today, thousands of people visit Lookout Mountain every year. They see Cody's burial place and a museum built in his honor. And, they hear stories about people who experienced the excitement of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.


DOUG JOHNSON: This program was written by George Grow. Lawan Davis was our producer. I'm Doug Johnson.
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Corporate Political Speech: Who Decides?
For Professor Victor Brudney, who long ago anticipated the significance of corporate law rules for regulating corporate political speech.


The Supreme Court spoke clearly this Term on the issue of corporate political speech, concluding in Citizens United v. FEC that the First Amendment protects corporations’ freedom to spend corporate funds on indirect support of political candidates. Constitutional law scholars will long debate the wisdom of that holding, as do the authors of the two other Comments in this issue. In contrast, this Comment accepts as given that corporations may not be limited from spending money on politics should they decide to speak. We focus instead on an important question left unanswered by Citizens United: who should have the power to decide whether a corporation will engage in political speech?


Under existing law, a corporation’s decision to engage in political speech is governed by the same rules as ordinary business decisions, which give directors and executives virtually plenary authority. In this Comment, we argue that such rules are inappropriate for corporate political speech decisions. Instead, lawmakers should develop special rules to govern who may make political speech decisions on behalf of corporations. We analyze the types of rules that lawmakers should consider. We also offer a set of proposals, and policymaking considerations, for designing such rules.


In Part II, we consider existing corporate law rules governing the political speech decision. As long as corporations are permitted to engage in political speech, we show, decisional rules governing whether and how they decide to do so are inevitable. Under existing corporate law rules, corporate political speech decisions are subject to the same rules as ordinary business decisions. Accordingly, corporate political speech decisions do not require shareholder input, a role for independent directors, or disclosure — the safeguards that corporate law rules establish for special corporate decisions.


We explain that the interests of directors and executives with respect to political speech decisions may diverge from those of shareholders, that the financial implications of these decisions are hardly trivial, and that the costs of the divergence of interests may be exacerbated by the special expressive significance that these decisions carry for shareholders. We conclude that political speech decisions are substantially different from, and should not be subject to the same rules as, ordinary business decisions.


In Part III, we assess lawmakers’ choices with respect to rules that would align corporate political speech decisions with shareholder interests. In particular, we suggest that lawmakers consider adopting rules that (i) provide shareholders with a role in determining the amount and targets of corporate political spending; (ii) require that independent directors oversee corporate political speech decisions; (iii) allow shareholders to opt out of — that is, either tighten or relax — each of these first two rules; and (iv) mandate detailed and robust disclosure to shareholders of the amounts and beneficiaries of a corporation’s political spending, whether made directly by the company or indirectly through intermediaries. We explain how such rules would benefit share-holders. We also explain why the proposed rules are best viewed not as limitations on corporations’ speech rights but rather as a method of determining whether the corporation actually wishes to engage in political speech. Thus, these rules protect, rather than abridge, corporations’ First Amendment interests.


Part IV discusses an additional objective that decisional rules concerning corporations’ political speech may seek to serve: the protection of minority shareholders from forced association with political speech supported by a majority of shareholders. We discuss the economic and First Amendment interests of minority shareholders that lawmakers may seek to protect. Although we conclude that requiring unanimous shareholder approval for corporate political speech would likely be neither desirable nor permissible, we argue that decisional rules addressing political spending opposed by a sufficiently large minority of shareholders should be viewed as constitutionally permissible, and we discuss how lawmakers could best design such rules.


In our view, as long as corporations have the freedom to engage in political spending, the types of decisional rules we describe in this Comment will be desirable. While Citizens United expanded the scope of corporate resources that may be used for such speech, substantial corporate political spending was permitted before the decision. The expansion of the scope of constitutionally protected corporate political speech brought about by Citizens United, however, makes the need for such rules all the more pressing.


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发表于 2012-6-11 08:31:16 | 显示全部楼层
耶,沙发阅读速度还是好慢哟
1'26 Buffalo Bill, the spirit and tradition of the American West. He worked at different jobs to help his family after his father died. He was a good rider when he was 15.
1'46 He joined army. After the war, he married and did different job, his name "Buffalo Bill" was got by his hunting Buffalo. He rejoined army again and served as a guide for hunting buffals.
1'15 Dime novels occured to write about heroes. A writer wrote a book about Buffal Bill and gave a show about it. B decided to write his own story and published.
1'11 Buffalo Bill 's show is successful.A cow girl one of the best gun shooters performed with the show.
1'21 Buffalo Bill did a success for his show. But he lost his wealth by bad investments, his financial problem was worse and worse. He is thought respected untill now

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非熟悉背景,看起来有点累呀. corporate political speech 中文解释啥啥东东呀
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Discuss about the rules for regulatiing corporate political speech.
Currently, the rule for political speech is the same with ordinary business.
Part II, the rules for political speech should not the same with ordinary business decisions.
Part III, the rules align coporate political speen decisions with shareholder interests. Then suggest several rules
Part IV, minority shareholders should be considered into the rules.
Pressing in the making rules
发表于 2012-6-11 09:12:55 | 显示全部楼层
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发表于 2012-6-11 09:23:47 | 显示全部楼层
bench=。=
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发表于 2012-6-11 10:15:39 | 显示全部楼层
02:27 BB代表美国西部精神和传统 真名是WFC 15岁前的一些经历
02:23   1861南北战争 后参军 但一开始年龄太小还不能打仗 战后留下来 结婚15年有4个孩子 做过很多工作 hunt bafflo 很出名 1868又参军 
02:26   很多作家开始写一些关于西部名人的作品  一个作家写的书让C出名了 并编成话剧上演 很成功 同时C还帮助美国西部军队 在一次遭遇战中 他杀了XX让他的故事更有吸引力了。 他很喜欢讲述西部的故事和做演员 1879 开始自传。
????  第一次组织演出不成功 接下来的一年组织的相当成功 火了三十年。 某女加入他们 各种NB 
02:01 他的SHOW各种受欢迎 据说20世纪初最出名的美国人 受总统接见  还有很多现代观点 平等贸易女权之内的    赚了很多钱 但是投资及管理失败亏损完了 贷过款 再次组织过 也失败 在拜访姐姐时 在科罗拉多去世 埋葬在此 很多人们经常去拜访他的埋葬地及博物馆

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感觉前面像背书一样。。。看的时间太长 但是看快了总怕有重要点没看到
发表于 2012-6-11 10:21:32 | 显示全部楼层
做了几期 感觉我花的时间一般double zhe average
发表于 2012-6-11 15:41:18 | 显示全部楼层
1'52, 2'31, 1'52, 1'50, 1'43,
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发表于 2012-6-11 21:47:26 | 显示全部楼层
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5.03公司政治宣言?与公司条例、股东关系。。细节看过就忘了,晕
发表于 2012-6-12 13:30:11 | 显示全部楼层
速度:
前三段:6‘14
后两段“3‘35

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6’30

速度看懂了。
越障没看懂。就看到了四个部分。
发表于 2012-6-12 17:09:28 | 显示全部楼层
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