美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-06-01（在线收听） |
This is CNN Student News, it's Thursday May 29th, I'm Carl Azuz. The first story we are covering, president Obama's speech yesterday at Westport, it was a graduation speech at the US military academy, but it was a foreign policy speech too, the president wanted to define how his administration has dealt and would deal with other nations, basically representing the US on the world stage. He's been criticized on this issue, Republicans say the America has lost influence in the world under president Obama's leadership, critics say the US has appeared soft on issues concerning the Syria civil war and unrest in Ukraine. The president highlighted his administration's worked in the war in Iraq, wound down the war in Afghanistan, killed terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden, he also said the true leadership isn't only having the world's most powerful military but doing the right thing. Time for the shout out, who said we may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated, if you think you know it, shout it out. Was it Franklin Roosevelt, Kevin Garnett, Helen Keller, or Maya Angelou, you've got 3 seconds, go! It was poet Maya Angelou who penned these words in addition to many others.
American writer Maya Angelou or Angelou knew something about defeat, she was sexually abused as a child, she's struggled and made mistake before her rise to renown, her refusal to be defeated led her to victories in literature, dancing, acting. Angelou past away yesterday morning at age 86, Fredricka Whitfield reviews a life as enduring and persevering as the words Angelou wrote.
The hells we have lived through and live through still have sharpened our senses and toughened our will.
Celebrated poet and activist Maya Angelou may have been speaking about herself on that day in 1995, born Margaret Annie Johnson in St. Louis Missouri April 4th 1928, the hells she lived through began at the age of 7, was raped by her mom's boyfriend, after she spoke out against him, she was beaten to death by a mob. Young Margaret blamed herself, I was seven and half, and my seven and half year old logic deduced that my voice had killed him, so I stopped speaking, about almost 6 years. And it was during those years of silence that she discovered poetry and her love of art.
Her poetry was first physical, winning a dance and drama scholarship in San Francisco, then later touring Europe in 1954 in Porgy and Bess, but her growing love for the written word took her to Egypt and Ghana where she became a newspaper editor, in Ghana she met Malcolm Max and returned to the US in 1964 to join his fight in the civil rights movement, after Malcolm Max's assassination, Dr.Martin Luther King Junior asked her to join him. He was killed on his birthday 1968, the following year, her memoir was published, I know why the cage bird sings. More best-sellers would follow.
Blazing trails on the big and small screens, she directed documentaries, her screen play for 1972's Georgia Georgia was nominated for Pulitzer Prize, Maya Angelou was nominated for a Tony Award, she won 3 Grammys and in 2011 president Barack Obama presented her with a presidential medal of freedom.
I am the hope and the dream of the slave, and so naturally, there I go rising. |
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