Unit Four (PPT)课件.pptVIP

Unit FourTEXT I The Invisible Poor;1. (1) Vietnam War: The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti- communist nations. Indochina: a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore. 印度支那半岛 （中南半岛或中印半岛）;(2) hippies: Hippy is someone who rejects the established culture and advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle. The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the U. S. during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The early hippies inherited the countercultural values of the Beat Generation, created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs such as cannabis (hemp) and magic mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness. ; ;(3) The Beat Generation: refers to a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired. Central elements of “Beat” culture included experimentation with drugs, alternative forms of sexuality, an interest in Eastern religion, a rejection of materialism. 垮掉的一代 2. “A land of plenty” , “the American Dream” ;The Author --- Michael Harrington is a U.S. Professor of political science at Queen’s College(皇仁书院), New York, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party. ;Library work: 1. The middle class in the United States --- broadly speaking, the middle class is the social group betweenthe upper or the wealthy and working classes, including professional and business workers and their families. Since World War II, the middle class