GROUP 7

汪 蘋 張舜明 康富期 簡莉芸  洪石良

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• * POLITICIAN

• * GENERAL

• * POET

• * WRITER

• * ACTOR / ACTRESS

We will introduce the most famous people in the USA and the UK…….

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

• 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• 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. ………….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.………….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

William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616

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Hamlet

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).

"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:My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun: Coral is far more red than her lips’ red.Coral is far more red than her lips’ red. If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white,I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.But no such roses see I in her cheeks. And in the breath that from my mistress reeks.And in the breath that from my mistress reeks.   I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowI love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.That music hath a far more pleasing sound. I grant I never saw a goddess go;I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.   And yet, by Heaven, I think my love as rareAnd yet, by Heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.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)

Baffled for just a day or two --

Embarrassed -- not afraid --

Encounter in my garden An unexpected Maid.

She beckons, and the woods start -- She nods, and all begin -- Surely, such a country I was never in!

Angels, in the early morning May be seen the Dews among, Stooping -- plucking -- smiling -- flying -- Do the Buds to them belong?

Angels, when the sun is hottest May be seen the sands among, Stooping -- plucking -- sighing -- flying --

Parched the flowers they bear along.

Ernest Hemingway 1899- 1961

Hemingway's Published WorksListings 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 Stories1979 88 Poems1981 Selected Letters

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• 江深竹靜兩三家 多事紅花映白花• 報答春光知有處 應須美酒送生涯

• 東望少城花滿煙 百花高樓更可憐• 誰能載酒開金盞 喚取佳人舞繡筵

• 黃師塔前江水東 春光懶困倚微風• 桃花一簇開無主 可愛深紅愛淺紅

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• 不是看花即欲死 只恐花盡老相催• 繁枝容易紛紛落 嫩蕊商量細細開

如夢令　　　　如夢令　　　　李清照李清照  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 English-speaking 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