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发表于 2011-9-19 17:19:20 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

Listen to part of lecture in an American literature class.
Today, we are going to discuss the life of Mark Twain. Do you know who he is?
Yeah, everyone has heard about him, he wrote the Adventures of TS, and Adventure of XX, didn't he?

Right. I don't know all the books, but he was a newspaper reporter, and he wrote a lot of different things, like historical fiction, travel books, religious fiction and short stories, right?
And, that's it. OK, you are about to learn some more things that are less talked about, did you know he was a thorn in US government’s side?
Surprised! MT was his pen name, he was actually born SC, and today you are going to learn about MT and his activities in anti-imperial league.
Really, he was friends with Roosevelt and other politicians I read about it.
He was a rebel, a rebel with a cause, he more than belonged to the league, he was the vice president from 1901 to 1910.
Let’s start at the beginning, the league was the first of its kind in the US. and was formed in reaction to outcome of the Spanish American war in 1898.
Basically, Spain turned over colonies in the Caribbean and
Pacific to the US, as the loser in a settlement.
It was called the treaty of P, it named Cuba Guam, Puerto Rico and Philippines
Twain supported the US in the beginning, but did a turn-about-face when he learned about the terms of the treaty.
He believed it was just a way for US expansion
Twain was in Europe at the time of Spanish American war, and returned to US in 1900. He was always ready to tell how he felt about the treaty
He campaigned fiercely against the imperialism, by making speeches, writing articles and after sending a salutation speech between 19 century to 20 century, to the league as well as the New York herald
He became the vice president of the league, in a nutshell, he believed that US could not be both an empire and a republic at the same time
Twain admired IA, tremendously, and what he was all about
Who was he? He was a Filipino rebel, he wanted freedom for his country.
He organized rebellions against the Spanish, and was exiled by them to Hong Kong before the war
When the war started, he went back to the Philippines, thinking the US was going to help free the Philippines. Wrong.
I don't think he realized that the US wanted the Philippines for its own.
In the end, the US kept the Philippines
The US criticized the Spanish for having concentration camps in Cuba, and used it as propaganda to against them
Then they turned around and did the same thing, open concentration camps in the Philippines
This was what got on Twain's nerves
Anyway, Twain was thoroughly displeased by the whole thing. When he went back to the US in 1901, he published to the person sitting in the darkness
This had a great impact on the war and government's dishonesty
It came to be the league of most popular publication. That same year, he did it again and signed a July 4th address to the American people
This was published in newspapers everywhere and did not make politicians happy
In 1902, he signed a petition to the Sensatethat made it clear that he knew all about concentration camps and that he was against them
He thought it might help stop the hostile US Philippine go negotiations
And in 1903, Twain was active in helping the League protest how they treated the Filipino’s in
their own country

Does that surprise you about Twain, he was involved with anti-imperial league until his death in 1910. There was a lot more to Twain than T and XX

今天郁闷了，本来以为早上晚上听写的东西一样，就办事准备晚上听写
结果两次的不相同，于是我只有自己听然后 ABOBOO不太会用这个听得明显感觉很差
算了多读重复听重复读来弥补了吧
加油!!!
P.S. 我找出错误后才看清群主的颜色要求，不好意思，下次一定按要求来