Martin Luther King´s Speech Homework

1.) Right order
1. – e)  – Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Declaration
 2. – d)  – But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the negro is still not free.
 3. – b)  – We can never be satisfied as long as the negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality.
 4. – a)  – I have a Dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of ther skin
5. – c)  – Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

 

2.) Explain
a) I think he means that it´s not the time to sleep, but it´s the time to act against the racism and segregation.

b) I think with this sentence he wanted to say that the past of segretation are very bad, and that they must begin to change that. They need to take Action against segregation and demand the justice of all human equate.

c) I think he mean that, whe the fight for freedom and liberty, they don´t think about bitterness and hatred.

d) With this statement he wanted to say that he see one day all human, all races, and the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaves owners are happy with each other and don´t fight against each other!

 

President Bush´s Speach

In this Speech of Goerge W. Bush, on Independence day in 2006, he honors the bravery and sacrifices who have made freedom possible. He says that this Day has to be celebrated like no other festival. Many American people have sacrifices themselves to make the freedom and Independence possible for all citizens. The people who defend the freedom today were also honored. The rural men of America who are sitting in different, maybe  dangerous places, are highly valued by the president, and he respects  and is greatful for them. He also admires and comforts the family and related of the soldiers, who also have to live with uncertainty!
Every American citizen should be happy, and have to honor all sacrifices.

Vocabulary :
– commemorated  =   gedacht
– honor                    =   Ehre, ehren
– amid                      =   inmitten
– determined          =   entschlossen
– strive                     =   streben
– proud                    =   stolz
– torch                     =   Fackel