大学英语精读-U5-The-One-Against-the-Many教学文案.pptVIP

The One Against the Many Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. U5 About author: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.(1917-2007) : one of America‘s most eminent and controversial historians. He was a former Harvard professor and special assistant to President Kennedy. The historian whose more than 20 books shaped discussions for two generations about America‘s past, and who himself was a provocative(煽动性的), unabashedly(不加掩饰的， 公然的) liberal partisan, most notably in serving in the Kennedy White House, His books, includes The Age of Roosevelt, volumes I, II and III; 小阿瑟·施莱辛格,美国著名历史学家和政治评论家。哈佛毕业，曾任美国总统肯尼迪的白宫特别助理，被称为“最了解罗斯福和肯尼迪时代的人”，他支持自由主义，是“美国人争取民主行动”组织的创始人之一。 About author: 《一千天——肯尼迪在白宫》 ——小阿瑟·施莱辛格 Para 2：The country was blessed by notable advantages——above all, by the fact that population was scarce in relation to available resources. Then we can get that as the population spread across the country, the percentage of arable land in counties closest to the densest populations declined. Para 3: One factor was the deep faith in education. The historical reason: The first settlers of America is a group of Puritans. They were men of letters, had attended Oxford or Cambridge, and communicated with intellectuals over Europe. 　　 据记载，早期移民到马萨诸塞州的人当中，有超过一百个牛津、剑桥的毕业生。在到达新大陆仅仅六年之后，虽然清教徒们还在为基本的生存条件而奋斗，但是他们却克服了重重困难建立了哈佛学院。清教徒期望教会的传道人有高等的学历。　　 　　今天的美国人毫无疑问地坚持了清教祖先的优良传统，非常地重视教育。所以可以说清教主义促进了最初美国教育的发展，对美国的教育产生了很大的影响。 Para 5： Self-government：It is the principle that the people are the ultimate source of governing authority and their general welfare is the only legitimate purpose of government. Representative institutions: It is a system of government institutions that give citizens the opportunity to vote for representatives who will work on their behalf. Para 7：hedgehog fox —— an allusion from a Greek poet Archilochus Basically, human beings are categorized as either hedgehogs or foxes. Hedgehogs lives are embodiment of a single, central vision of reality according to which they fe