GROUP 7
汪
蘋
張舜明
康富期
簡莉芸
洪石良
We will introduce the most famous people in the USA and the UK…….
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POLITICIAN
GENERAL
POET
WRITER
ACTOR / ACTRESS
Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
Victoria was the daughter of Edward, the Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg.
She was born in Kensington Palace in London on May 24th, 1819.
*Victorian age was a time when Britain was at the height of
its colonial power.
*Queen Victoria’s reign was the longest in English history.
*Victoria became a symbol of British expansionist foreign
policy.
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
The
Gettysburg
Address
Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania
November 19,
1863
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a
new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are
created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great
battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final
resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is
altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can
not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have
consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note,
nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is
for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated
to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of
devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government
of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer
Churchill 1874-1965
• Sir Winston Churchill, a British politician and Prime Minister of the
U.K. , is widely regarded as the greatest British leader of the 20th
Century.
• He is celebrated primarily for his leadership during World War II
(1939-1945). His courage, decisiveness, political experience and
enormous vitality enabled him to lead his country through the war, one
of the most desperate struggles in British history.
• Churchill had a varied career as war correspondent, writer and member
of Parliament. During the 1930’s he held no cabinet posts but wrote
hundreds of newspaper articles warning of the dangerous rise of
German military power under the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.
• During World War II Churchill supervised every aspect of the war
effort in England and led his country with great courage and energy.
• Speeches and Quotes
• While Winston Churchill is best remembered
as a statesman, politician and world leader
who saved the world from Nazi domination in
the dark days of 1940, throughout his life he
cared for his family and sustained his lifestyle
through use of the pen. His books and
speeches were numerous and, generally,
memorable and have led to a plethora of
quotes and witticisms from which one might
be able to select just the right quote for
almost any occasion.
Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
The Benjamin Franklin National Memorial
• America has never forgotten Benjamin
Franklin because he did both. He lived these
words of wisdom by writing as much as he
possibly could and by doing even more.
• He became famous for being a scientist, an
inventor, a statesman, a printer, a
philosopher, a musician, and an economist.
Today, we honor Ben Franklin as one of our
Founding Fathers and as one of America's
greatest citizens.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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battery
a group of electric cells for providing electric current; a single electric cell
circuit
the complete path through which current flows, from the source and back
again
condenser
a device providing capacitance; see capacitance
solar energy
radiant energy from the sun
meteorology
the science of the atmosphere and its conditions
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• wind energy
energy obtained from turbine engines powered by wind
Quotations
“The U.S. has
broken the second
rule of war. That is,
don't go fighting with
your land army on
the mainland of
Asia. Rule One is
don't march on
Moscow. I
developed these two
rules myself.”
General Douglas MacArthur
1880 - 1964
• The son of Civil War hero Lt. General Arthur
MacArthur, Douglas MacArthur was a brilliant,
controversial, aloof, egotistical, imperious,
courageous, highly intelligent five-star U.S.
Army General.
* Strongly dedicated to country and duty, and
gifted with superior command ability,
MacArthur's military service included
important command assignments in the both
World Wars and the Korean War.
Duty - Honor – Country
No human being could fail to be deeply moved by such a tribute
as this, Thayer Award.
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Duty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently
dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems
to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith,
to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
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Duty, Honor, Country. Today marks my final roll call with you.
But I want you to know that when I cross the river, my last conscious
thoughts will be of the corps, and the corps, and the corps.
I bid you farewell
poet
actor
dramatist
poet
poet
actor
William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616
Romeo and Juliet "My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!"
(from Romeo and Juliet)
Romeo and Juliet was based on real lovers who lived in Verona, Italy, and
died for each other in the year 1303. At that time the Capulets and
Montagues were among the inhabitants of the town. Shakespeare found
the tale in Arthur Brooke's poem 'The Tragical Historye of Romeus and
Juliet' (1562).
Hamlet
"The time is out of joint; O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!"
Hamlet was first printed in 1603. It is Shakespeare's largest drama.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, a small country town.
English poet, dramatist, and actor, considered by many to be the greatest dramatist
of all time. Some of Shakespeare's plays, such as Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, are
among the most famous literary works of the world. Shakespeare was the most
popular dramatist of his age.
By 1584 he emerged as a rising playwright in London, and became soon a central
figure in London´s leading theater company, the Lord Chamberlain´s Company,
renamed later as the King´s Men. He wrote many great plays for the group.
Shakespeare was known in his day as a very rapid writer: "His mind and hand went
together,"
He possessed a large vocabulary for his day, having used 29,066 different words in
his plays. Today the average English-speaking person uses something like 2,000
words in everyday speech.
His sonnets were written earliest by 1598 and published in 1609
A number of his plays were published during his lifetime, but none of the original
dramatic manuscripts have survived. Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616
My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun:
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red.
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks.
And in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound.
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by Heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886)
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Emily Dickinson Angels, in the early
morning (94)
Baffled for just a
day or two (17)
Embarrassed -- not afraid -Baffled for just a day or two -Encounter in my garden
An unexpected Maid.
She beckons, and the woods start --
Angels, in the early morning
She nods, and all begin --
Angels, when the sun is hottest
Surely, such a country
I was never in!
May be seen the sands among,
May be seen the Dews among,
Stooping -- plucking -- smiling -- flying --
Do the Buds to them belong?
Stooping -- plucking -- sighing -- flying -Parched the flowers they bear along.
Ernest Hemingway
1899- 1961
Hemingway's Published Works
Listings in Red have a short synopsis
1923 Three Stories and Ten Poems (Short Stories)
1925 In Our Time (Short Stories)
1926 The Torrents of Spring (Novel)
1926 The Sun Also Rises (Novel)
1927 Men Without Women (Short Stories)
1929 A Farewell to Arms (Novel)
1930 The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (Short Stories)
1932 Death in the Afternoon (Novel)
1933 Winner take Nothing (Short Stories)
1935 Green Hills of Africa (Novel)
1937 To Have and Have Not (Novel)
1940 For Whom the Bell Tolls (Novel)
1942 Men at War (Edited Anthology)
1950 Across the River and into the Trees (Novel)
1952 The Old Man and the Sea (Novel)
1962 The Wild Years (Compilation)
1964 A Moveable Feast (Novel)
1967 By-Lines (Journalism for the Toronto Star)
1970 Islands in the Stream (Novel)
1972 The Nick Adams Stories
1979 88 Poems
1981 Selected Letters
江畔獨步尋花七絕句
• 江上被花惱不徹
• 走覓南鄰愛酒伴
無處告訴只顚狂
經旬出飲獨空牀
• 稠花亂蕊畏江濱
• 詩酒尚堪驅使在
行步欹危實怕春
未須料理白頭人
• 江深竹靜兩三家
• 報答春光知有處
多事紅花映白花
應須美酒送生涯
• 東望少城花滿煙
• 誰能載酒開金盞
百花高樓更可憐
喚取佳人舞繡筵
杜甫
• 黃師塔前江水東
• 桃花一簇開無主
春光懶困倚微風
可愛深紅愛淺紅
• 黃四娘家花滿蹊
• 留連戲蝶時時舞
千朵萬朵壓枝低
自在嬌鶯恰恰啼
• 不是看花即欲死
• 繁枝容易紛紛落
只恐花盡老相催
嫩蕊商量細細開
如夢令
李清照
昨夜雨疏風驟， 濃睡不消殘酒。
試問捲簾人， 卻道海棠依舊。
知否？知否？應是綠肥紅瘦。
Sir Laurence Olivier
1907-1989
He is an actor who many
consider to be the
greatest in the Englishspeaking world during
the twentieth century.
1. Divorce of Lady X, the (1938)
2. Hamlet (1948)
3. Henry V (1944)
4. Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
5. Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
6. Pride and Prejudice (1940)
7. Prince and the Showgirl, the (1957)
8. Rebecca (1940)
9. Richard III (1955)
10. Romeo and Juliet (1968)
11. Withering Heights (1939)
Katharine Hepburn
1907-2003
Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn has
died at the age of 96.
One of the silver screen's most unique and
enduring personalities, onscreen and off,
Katharine Hepburn's career as a leading lady
spanned seven decades, over fifty quality films
(running the gamut from screwball comedies and
romances to high drama), a record twelve Oscar
nominations and four gold statuettes. She formed