It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation: Yes, we can.
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights: Yes, we can.
It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness: Yes, we can.
It was the call of workers who organized, women who reached for the ballot, a president who chose the moon as our new frontier, and a king who took us to the mountaintop and pointed the way to the promised land: Yes, we can, to justice and equality.
Yes, we can, to opportunity and prosperity. Yes, we can heal this nation. Yes, we can repair this world. Yes, we can.
And so, tomorrow, as we take the campaign south and west, as we learn that the struggles of the textile workers in Spartanburg are not so different than the plight of the dishwasher in Las Vegas, that the hopes of the little girl who goes to the crumbling school in Dillon are the same as the dreams of the boy who learns on the streets of L.A., we will remember that there is something happening in America, that we are not as divided as our politics suggest, that we are one people, we are one nation.
And, together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story, with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea: Yes, we can.
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- alliteration: „trail toward .through“; „documents declared destiny“
- anaphora: Yes, we can; it was; who; we will
- personification: The third world that will ring, creed sumps up the spirit
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
Broken glass everywhere
People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don’t care
I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise no more
Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
Rats in the front room, roaches in the back J
unkie's in the alley with a baseball bat
I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far
'Cause a man with a tow-truck repossessed my car
Chorus: Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window
Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
Crazy lady livin' in a bag
Eatin' out of garbage pails, she used to be a fag-hag
Said she danced the tango, s.....
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You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey"
They pushed that girl in front of the train
Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again
Stabbed that man right in his heart
Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy after dark
Keep my hand on my gun, cause they got me on the run
I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jaw
Hear them say: “You want some more?" livin' on a seesaw
[4th Chorus]
A child is born with no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind
God is smiling on you but he's frowning too
Because only God knows what you’ll go through
You’ll grow in the ghetto, living second rate
And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
The places you play and where you stay
Looks like one great big alley way
You'll admire all the number book takers
Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers
Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
And you wanna grow up to be just like them, huh,
Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers
Pickpockets, peddlers even panhandlers
You say: “I'm cool, I'm no fool!”
But then you wind up dropping out of high school
Now you're .....
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- car is repossessed
family
- speaker is a drug addict
- speaker is physically ill
- badly educated
- wife is scared by bill collector
- son does not want to go to school anymore
- brother stole mothers TV
Main Themes
- the unnatural city: the ghetto is a place of chaos, filth, destruction and violence
- crime: stealing, prostitution, drug abuse and addiction are described in various ways; these crimes are met with force and arbitrary interventions by the police
- hopelessness: people react with indifference, desperation to their surroundings
- dreaming the American Dream: the way to riches seems to be closed to people living in the ghetto; they cannot get well-paid jobs and the only way to earn lot of money seems to be turn criminal; criminals therefore become role-models for the young, who neglect their education
Words: African-American Experience
The slave trade
- Labor-intensive crops were grown for the European market and labor needed
-> Colonies started to import slaves from Africa
- Congress outlawed the importation of slaves in 1807 but the slave trade continued
withi.....
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- Sharecroppers had to deliver a certain share of their crop
- High prices for cotton seed and fertilizer
èendless hard work and poverty
The black vote
- Poll taxes were imposed to keep poor blacks form voting
- Intimidation like beating and lynching restrained the African-Americans to vote
èThe South was ruled by white men alone
Segregation
- Separation of all races in all areas of life
- “Jim Crow” laws: 1876-1965
èJure segregation in public facilities=legal racism
èe.g. schools, places, transportation, prisons, restaurants
èBlacks had no Civil Rights and could not vote
separate but equal
Lynching
- Was used to fear the African-Americans
- When a black man looked twice at a white woman he could be lynched
- Emmet Till, a 14-year old boy, asked a white woman for a date
èTwo white men killed him but they were acquitted
The Civil Rights Movement
- “National Association for the Advancement of Colored People” (NAACP) was founded in
1909 to call attention to discrimination and segregation
- In 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white passenger
èblack citizens fought for their rights
- Under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. African-Americans organized a
boycott of publ.....
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Please downloadthe paper. - 2(15-18): Angela stays after graduation ceremony a week on the beach in Noosa, G. visits her aunt (Auntie Flo and her brother Dougy) in Cunningham, which is like a mother for her, A. and G. are very close to each other (Aboriginal and white), planning their first holiday together; first hints of broken friendship
- 3(19-28): Christmas time: Granddad and -mom visit A.´s family, G. at first visits them, G. starts to live with Angela´s family; first hints of broken friendship
- 4(28-33): both get the news that they can study at the Queensland University, A. gets the Corolla of her mother, trust between Gracey and Angela
- 5(33-35): A.´s family and Gracey visit Noosa after New Year, both met nice boys at the beach, talk about G.´s brother Dougy
UQ
- 1(36-41): family comes back from Noosa, Angela does not want to live with Gracey in one room, Gracey feels stunned about getting an own room, they colour her room
- 2(41-44): February: orientation week: G. and A. visit UQ, find a coffee shop, first interest of Gracey in organisation for blacks
- 3( 44-46): end of orientation week: drive every day to UQ, G. and A. are best friends and mess about the the others, G. visits the Indigenous students, Support Unit, meets Rhonda (PhD on “Indigenous Australian Literature”) Haines the first time
- 4(46-52): G. meets the club every day, A. meets Rhonda for the first time, Jarred plays tennis like Angela, A.= party girl, G. does not want to play this bad games with Angela
- 5(52-55): G. meets A. and questioned after game with Jarred, first big lie of A.
- 6(55-58): A. likes J., but no sign of him the whole week, in the shop shows Jarred that he likes Angela, G. does not come often to the coffee shop
- 7(58-67): G. visits a party of her race, she was asked by Aboriginal girls, if she wants to life with them in a flat, reaction A.: shocked because she thought they were like sisters, G. says she had a good life with A Cheryl Riley makes a list of costs for G. => business woman, G. wants to think about it a week longer, G. decides to life in the house with the girls, A. wants her to come every Tuesday, A. drives G. to her new house => very bad looking, but cheap, G. will live with Shirley, Barbara and Wendy, Rhonda comes in and gives G. some bocks to read => it´s all her idea, embarrassing situation for A. because A. and R. .....
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