【Native Speaker每日综合训练—37系列】【37-20】文史哲

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Part I: Speaker

Taking a Campus Tour

Ji Won: Come on, Dad, the campus tour starts over there. The guide is ready to begin the walking tour.
Guide: Welcome, prospective students and your parents. My name is Jaime and I’ll be conducting your tour today. This tour will last about an hour, and we’ll be making frequent stops so I can point out some of the most important buildings and areas on this campus.
Ji Won: Dad, are you listening?
Guide: First, let’s stop on the quad. On your left, you’ll see the administration building. On your right are the student union and bookstore. Let’s continue.
Ji Won: Dad, stop checking your email. You promised that you’d make these campus visits with me and help me make a decision about which university to attend.
Guide: We’re passing the sports stadium on your left and the arts complex on your right. Those buildings there are the dorms. The research library is just ahead.
Ji Won: Dad, where did you go?
Guide: Let’s stop here a moment so I can point out the science buildings and research labs. Is something the matter?
Ji Won: I think I’ve lost my Dad. I think we’ll have to take the self-guided tour!

Source: ESLPOD
http://www.eslpod.com/website/show_podcast.php?issue_id=15252764

[Rephrase 1, 20:42]

pennyz

Part II: Speed

Ditch 'Old Hickory' and Put Martin Luther King on the $20 Bill

The civil-rights leader helped America to realize its founding ideals as surely as any president, and ending the run of exclusively white faces on bank notes is long overdue.

Conor Friedersdorf  Jun 12 2014, 4:55 AM

[Time 2]

During the 2008 election, Thomas Chatterton Williams wrote an article for Culture11 about the significance of a Barack Obama victory. "On television screens from Bedford Stuyvesant to South Central Los Angeles, images will be broadcast of a black family—a father, a mother, and two little girls—moving into the White House," he wrote. "Whatever you think of policy, the mere fact of electing a black man president, sending him to live in the nation's most iconic, so far whites-only house, would puncture holes through the myth of black inferiority, violating America's racial narrative so fundamentally as to forever change the way this country thinks of blacks, and the way blacks think of this country—and themselves."

I still think Williams had a point. Today's six-, seven-, and eight-year-olds have no memory of an America with anything other than a black president. What seemed improbable to us as recently as 2007 is, for them, a reality so normal they don't even think about it. Yet these same kids are still growing up in a country where the faces celebrated on the paper currency are all white. I don't want to overstate the importance of that. There is a long list of suboptimal policies that are vastly more urgent to remedy. Still, the lack of diversity in this highly symbolic realm is objectionable, and improving matters would seem to be very easy.

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[Time 3]

Martin Luther King Jr. is a universally beloved icon who led one of the most important struggles for justice in American history. When Gallup asked what figure from the 20th century was most admired, MLK beat out every single American, and was second overall in the rankings, placing behind only Mother Teresa. The case for putting him on money is not just elevating a man simply for the sake of diversity. Yet it would address the fact that, but for racism, our money would've long been more diverse. The only loser here would be the historic figure kicked off of a bill. Do any of them deserve the boot? The options are all of the following:

George Washington – $1 bill

Thomas Jefferson – $2 bill

Abraham Lincoln – $5 bill

Alexander Hamilton – $10 bill

Andrew Jackson – $20 bill

Ulysses S. Grant – $50 bill

Benjamin Franklin – $100 bill

As if to underscore how much MLK belongs, notice that most of the men on this list—Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Hamilton, and Franklin—were arguably indispensable to the nation in its struggle to realize the promise of its founding ideals. King meets that standard.

Whatever one thinks of Jackson and Grant, they do not. So which of them to replace? Before drawing straws or picking a name out of a hat, I thought to ask, "Was either particularly instrumental in genocidal acts?" Then the choice was clear.

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[Time 4]

Just months ago, Jillian Keenan argued the following at Slate:

My public high school wasn’t the best, but we did have an amazing history teacher. Mr. L, as we called him, brought our country’s story to life. So when he taught us about the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears, Andrew Jackson’s campaigns to force at least 46,000 Cherokees, Choctaws, Muscogee-Creeks, Chickasaws, and Seminoles off their ancestral lands, my classmates and I were stricken. It was unfathomable that thousands of Native American men, women, and children were forced to march West, sometimes freezing to death or starving because U.S. soldiers wouldn’t let them bring extra food or blankets. It was hard to hear that the Choctaw Nation lost up to a third of its population on the death march. It was disorienting to learn that what amounted to ethnic cleansing had come at the insistence of an American president. But then it was lunchtime, and we pulled out our wallets in the cafeteria.

Andrew Jackson was there, staring out from every $20 bill.

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[Time 5]

We had been carrying around portraits of a mass murderer all along, and had no idea. Andrew Jackson engineered a genocide. He shouldn’t be on our currency.

After granting that Jackson's rise from humble beginnings was symbolically inspiring, Keenan noted that the Tennessean accumulated much of his fortune as a slave trader. "Even in historical context, our seventh president falls short," she argued. "His racist policies were controversial even in his own time. After the Indian Removal Act only narrowly passed Congress, an 1832 Supreme Court ruling declared it unconstitutional. Jackson ignored that decision. In 1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a passionate letter calling Jackson’s policies '… a crime that really deprives us as well as the Cherokees of a country, for how could we call the conspiracy that should crush these poor Indians our government, or the land that was cursed by their parting and dying imprecations our country any more?'"

We needn't definitively adjudicate Jackson's legacy to reach this conclusion: Martin Luther King Jr. is a more deserving symbol for the $20 bill than Old Hickory.

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[Time 6]

He belongs on the merits. His face would end a run of all-white currency, a shameful legacy of generations in which only whites were allowed in positions of power. And the diversity MLK would add to our currency goes far beyond skin color. He wasn't a president, or a member of the ruling elite like Hamilton and Franklin. He was a religious leader, a community organizer, a civil-rights champion, and an anti-war protester. He is a reminder that a citizen need not be a privileged insider to effect change—a man with a strong voice, speaking on behalf of a just cause, can bring about historic progress peacefully, through exhortation and persuasion. And there's not a single historic atrocity to the man's name!

All that leaves is the reverse side of the bill.

MLK is the best symbol of the civil-rights movement, but many preceded him in that long struggle. They ought to be featured on $20's flip side. Perhaps it could include a timeline stretching from Harriet Tubman to Rosa Parks, putting them in the company of Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea, the women featured on U.S. coins. I suppose Jackson might be upset at my judgment that he is less deserving of our esteem than those figures. Then again, he might well support my plan. After all, few men in American history were as adamant about their hatred of paper money.

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Source:theatlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/put-martin-luther-king-on-the-20-bill/372623/

pennyz

Part III: Obstacle

A Father’s Day gift for kids: Protect them from gun violence

BY MARK BARDEN AND DAVID WHEELER June 13

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Mark Barden is advocacy director of Sandy Hook Promise. David Wheeler is a volunteer for the organization. Their sons Daniel Barden, 7, and Benjamin Wheeler, 6, were among the victims of the Dec. 14, 2012, shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

This is the second Father’s Day we will have spent without our sons Daniel and Ben, who were murdered a year and a half ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. But unlike last Father’s Day, when we grieved quietly, passing the day in solemn remembrance with our families and surviving children, this Father’s Day we feel compelled to speak out.

What has changed since the Sandy Hook shooting? There have been 74 more school shootings, according to the group Everytown for Gun Safety, which tracks news of firearms being discharged at schools as a result of assaults, homicides, suicides and accidental firings. Seventy-four, including tragedies such as those just this month in Seattle and Troutdale, Ore. How could that number not make you outraged? Incensed? Incredulous? How is it that after our beautiful sons were murdered, along with 18 of their classmates and six brave adults, we have seen no major federal policy passed to address this problem? Why is it that we now see summer not as a time of celebration and vacation but as a relief from having to read about new school shootings because kids are no longer at school or on campus?

And now so many school shootings later, with so many families facing the same agony and pain we face this Father’s Day, we have to ask a question.

In a first-of-its-kind live Tumblr forum last week, President Obama expressed his frustration that we as a nation have not been able to make more progress on reducing gun violence by keeping guns out of the hands of those who choose to inflict “unbelievable damage.” The president recalled seeing the face of Richard Martinez, who lost his son last month in the mass shooting near the University of California at Santa Barbara, and said, “As a father myself, I just could not understand the pain he must be going through.” He spoke about the “primal scream that he [Martinez] gave out. Why aren’t we doing something about this?”

We understand that pain all too well. But before Dec. 14, 2012, we didn’t think it could happen to us, despite seeing reports of other gun violence and hanging our heads in this same disbelief. Richard Martinez didn’t think it would happen to him. The families who lost loved ones to the shootings since Santa Barbara didn’t think it would happen to them. They now join the terrible club of parents who have lost children to gun violence, a club that grows by thousands every year.

Our question is the same: Why aren’t we doing something about this?

We know that Father’s Day is meant to be a day when fathers sit back on their couches, watch sports and take it easy. But this Father’s Day, we ask you to do one thing differently. Look at your children, your beautiful, growing, pesky children who bring you so much joy and sometimes cause you so much heartache, and ask yourself — really ask yourself — this: Am I doing everything I can to keep them safe? Because the answer to that question, if we all answer honestly, clearly is no.

We believe we have reached the tipping point, but it is up to all of us — people of good faith and conscience — to make our voices known. There is wide popular support for the common-sense solutions that we know can make a difference, from comprehensive mental-health reform and expanded background checks to better gun safety solutions. But only a small, vocal minority speaks out beyond the polls.

Since the shooting that took our children, we have been working with Sandy Hook Promise to advance common-sense legislation that could prevent incidences of gun violence and educate Americans on the causes of gun violence — with a focus on mental wellness, community connectedness and gun safety. We do this because it gives us hope. We do this to honor the children we’ve lost, and those who survive, because we believe that fathers inspired to work together can overcome their political differences and sweep away this sense of powerlessness.

So this Father’s Day, do one thing you didn’t do last Father’s Day that will ensure the safety and protection of your children. Join us at Sandy Hook Promise, join another group working for this cause or take action on your own. Send one postcard, one e-mail, one text. And then go hug your kids a little tighter and cherish every moment you have with them.

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Source:the washinton post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-fathers-day-gift-for-kids-protect-them-from-gun-violence/2014/06/13/224af0cc-f26c-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_story.html

samalagorn

沙发，果断我的

疏离无罪

今天好早~~~~~~
Speaker: Introduce several kinds of buildings in campus
prospective, to conduct a tour

01:13
The victory of Obama means a lot to blacks in America.And many young child know nothing other than a black president.There is a lack of diversity in the high realm of this country.

01:20
MLK IS a universally beloved icon from 20th century in America.And he deserve to be put on the money,more than for diversity.Jackson and Grant may be replaced by him.

00:44
A stroy of Jackson,in which his order made thousands of native americans died on the death march,tells why he should be pout on the bill.

00:59
His genocide and racist policies are a crime,and MLK is a more derserving symbol than him.

01:13
MLK would end the current situation that only white were allowed in positions of power.And he wasn't a president,but he meaned more things.

04:25
Appealing more people to pay attention on the gun violence happened in campus.
There is no najor federal policy now to increase the gun safety.
This father's day,we should do sth different to our loved ones in family.Take action and join us,the Sandy Hook Promise,to protect kids form gun violence.
文笔好棒

小蘑菇开始打怪

占座！终于最后一期了
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谢谢Penny！~~~
37系列终于结束了，38系列果断要翘几期呜呜，考试周啊妈蛋

speaker:

the girl is on a campus tour to decide which college to attend, but her father seems not in that and got lost

time2:

the importance of Obama becoming the President of US

a society of more diversity

time3:

how much MLK belongs?

MLK is the hero who is famous for his struggles for justice in American history

time4:

many American people died  in the march West

time5:

MLK is a more deserving symbol than OH

time6:

MLK is the best symbol of the civil-rights movement

time7:

many kids died in shoot

protect your child on ensure you a happy father’s day

many fathers have joined the terrible club

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----Speaker
Ji Won and her dad were participating a campus tour to decide together whether to attend the university. While the guide was introducing different buildings of the campus, Ji Won's dad wasn't paying attention. Finally, Ji Won lost her dad, she had to take the self-guided tour.

----Speed
[Time 2]2'23''
It is remarkable milestone in American history that a black man was selected as an American president.
[Time 3]0'59''
Martin Luther King Jr. made a significant contribution to the development of American justices, and the importance of his contribution is as big as that of American presidents in the American history
[Time 4] 1'00''
Jillian Keenan, a student of Kings, told how meaningful Kings' classes had been.  
[Time 5] 1'30''
Disagreement against the practice that Andrew Jackson's portrait was selected to be on the $20 bill. Martin Luther King Jr. is a more deserving symbol. (genocide：种族灭亡）
[Time 6]1'45''
It tells the merits of MLK. Even though MLK deserves to be the symbols for the $20 bill, there still many others, who made huger contribution than he did. (adamant: 固执的） (belong on:应属于...）

----Obstacles 4'40''
The author lost two children in the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He and all victims' families were so upset that their country pays little effort to prevent such case from happening again, and that the nation's people kept so quiet towards the tragedy. As a result, they were determined to do something to make a difference. They wanted their voices to be heard, and worked together with Sandy Hook Promise to advance common-sense legislation. On this Father's Day, he called for all the people to join at Sandy Hook Promise to work together on the safety of children, and to cherish the time with their children.

hztbb

Time 2 1:28
Victory of BO in 2008 is of great importance. However, there are areas still need remedy, for example, all the faces on bank notes are white.

Time 3 1:29
MLK has been the most admired American in 20th century. Putting him on the money is not only for diversity, but also for his significance as other great man.  A question is raised that who should be kicked out? Considering the genocide, the answer is clear.

Time 4 1:19
It is ironic that the president whose policy forced thousands of Native Americans out of their lands, some of them starved and died, is shown on 20$ notes.

Time 5 1:03
AJ engineered genocide, so he shouldn't be on US currency. He accumulated his fortune from slave trade and his policy was controversial even in his time. MLK is a more deserving symbol

Time 6 2:00
To put MLK's face on currency will end a run of all-white currency. And the diversity it brings go beyond his skin color. On the serverse side of the bill, those people fighting for civil-rights preceding MLK should have their face shown

Obstacle: 4:00

robot青

speaker
A student and her father took a campus tour.
time2 1:54
Williams wrote that there was a profound effect on Barack Obama' victory to be the first black man president.
The author thought though there is still inequality between the white and the black, Willian' view is right.
time3 1:41
MLK was the second most admired people in the united Stated's history. The factors considered to replace which of the former  president with MLK.
time4 1:24
Jillian argued Jackson should be replaced, becsuse he conducted a ethnic cleansing on Native American.
time5 1:41
Jackson even fals short in his own time.And his policies are controverial.
time6 2:29
the exchange of the face on the notes is profound in two ways 1.ends the history of all white-currency.2.reminds that normal citizens with virtures ,exhortation and persuasion will be admired.
obstacle 4:57
a article to persuade people join the Sandy Hook Promise to protect kids form gun violence.
the  situation of school shooting is serious
there is no fundamantal laws to eliminate school shootings.
gun shooting matters to all families.

弱弱的问一句，是不是做完20篇就能加入小分队工作组了呀

katrina9111

1. 1'57"  all the tv screens show the same image that the black family moves to the White House. The young generations have no memory about Africa but the black president. Even though the black have been reevaluated since then, there is still a long list of policy  to change for diversification as there is only the white in the currency paper at the moment.
2. 1'53" MLK has be widely recognized to be the second most admired figure, beating all Americans. MKL s contribution to the nation is as important as those ppl, meeting the standard of being on the notes. Blbalablabl
3. 1'44" the author is not in the best school but he thinks he has the best history teacher. The history teacher brings the history to life, making students be more interested and feel much real.
4. 1'48" Jackson is a murder who is not deserved to be on the $20 note.  Jackson traded slave to become fortune. The supreme courts didn't prove some rule about Indian, but Jackson ignored it to make the decision that is bad to Indians.
5. 2"10 talk more about how MLK deserved to be on the note. And Jackson is bad.
     MLK should be on the currency to end the white-only currently, and the fact that only ruling guy can be on the currency. MLK is a leader of religion revolution and he has the strong power to persuade babka. MLK is a symbol of civil right. Say something about another two women on the coin. Jackson would jump out from the tomb
6. 6'07"