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Lesson 11. It is no easy job to educate a people who have been told over centuries that they were inferior and of no importance to see that they are humans, the same as any other people.2. If you break the mental shackles imposed on you by white supremacists, if you really respect yourself, thinking that you are a Man, equal to anyone else, you will be able to take part in the struggle against racial discrimination.3. The liberation of mind can only be achieved by the Negro himself/herself. Only when he/she is fully convinced that he/she is a Man/Woman and is not inferior to anyone else, can he/she throw off the manacles of self-abnegation and become free.4. Power in the best form of function is the carrying out of the demands of justice with love and justice in the best form of function is the overcoming of everything standing in the way of love with power.5. At that time, the way to evaluate how capable and resourceful a person was was to see how much money he had made (or how wealthy he was).6. A person was poor because he was lazy and not hard-working and lacked a sense of right and wrong.7. This kind of work cannot be done by slaves who work because the work has to be done, because they are forced to work by slave-drivers or because they need to work in order to be fed and clothed. 8. . when the unfair practice of judging human value by the amount of money a person has is done away with. 9. Those who harbor hate in their hearts cannot grasp the teachings of God. Only those who have love can enjoy the ultimate happiness in Heaven. 10. Let us be dissatisfied until America no longer only talk about racial equality but is unwilling or reluctant to take action to end such evil practice as racial discrimination.Lesson 21. I imagined myself as different types of prodigy, trying to find out which one suited me the best. 2. I had new thoughts, which were filled with a strong spirit of disobedience and rebellion. 3. The girl was Shirley Temple-like, slightly rude but in an amusing way.4. When I said those words, I felt that some very nasty thoughts had got out of my chest and so I felt scared. But at the same time I felt good, relieved, because those nasty things had been suppressed in my heart for some time and they had got out at last.5. I could feel that her anger had reached the point where hex self-control would collapse, and wanted to see what my mother would do when the lost complete control of herself.6. When the lid to the piano was closed, it shut out the dust and also put an end to my misery and her dreams.Lesson 31. Yet globalization is not something that you can accept or reject, it is already a matter of life which you will encounter and have to respond to every day.2. Political groups with broad support have come into being to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign cultural assault.3. . in China, the two trends of closed-door and open-door policies have long been struggling for dominance.4. The Chinese people should continue to live a backward life while we live comfortably with all modern conveniences.5. . westernization is a concept full of self-contradiction and held by people of very different backgrounds or views.6. In trying to find out what will be the future trend, you do not need to be fashionable yourself. All you need is awareness, that is to say, you need to be on the alert, to be observant.7. He was moving around, playing a game through the Internet with people living in different time zones, thus their activity on the computer broke down time zone limit.8. The Gucci store did not expert that in the first two weeks of its opening in Shanghai business could be so good.9. From the very beginning I know I need some theory as guideline to help me in my study of global cultures as globalization, to guide me through such a variety of cultural phenomena.10. The way of showing repentance might be peculiar to the Jews, but the strong desire of gaining forgiveness from God is common, shared by all.Lesson 41. If you want to be a musician or a painter, you must own a piano or hire models, and you have to visit or even live in cultural centers like Paris, Vienna and Berlin. And also you have to be taught by masters and mistresses. However, if you want to be a writer, you dont need all this.2. Those conventional attitudes would have taken away the most important part of my writing, the essence of my writing.3. Thus, whenever I felt the influence of the Victorian attitudes on my writing, I fought back with ail my power. 4. It was a sensible thing for men to give themselves great freedom to talk about the body and their passions. But if women want to have the same freedom, men condemn such freedom in women. And I do not believe that they realize how severely they condemn such freedom in women, nor do I believe that they can control their extremely severe condemnation of such freedom in women, 5. It will take a long time for women to rid themselves of false values and attitudes and to overcome the obstacle to telling the truth about their body and passions. 6. Even when the path is open to women in name only, when outwardly there is nothing to prevent a woman from being a doctor, a lawyer, a civil servant, inwardly there are still false ideas and obstacles impeding a womans progress. 7. (Through fighting against the Angel in the House, through great labor and effort,) you have gained a position or certain freedom in a society that has been up to now dominated by men.Lesson71. It took me a long time to get rid of illusions and realize the simple and apparent truth that I am nobody but myself. It was a painful process. I started with high expectations only to be deeply disappointed and thoroughly disillusioned.2. I am perfectly normal physically and I am a natural product of history; my growth reflects history. When things seemed likely to happen to me, other things had been equal (or unequal) eighty-five years ago. 3. About 85 years ago, they were told that they were freed from slavery and became united with the white people in all the essential things having to do with the common interests of our country, but in social life the blacks and whites still remain separated.4. In these days before I realized I was an invisible man, I imagined that I would become a successful man like Booker T. Washington.5. On the one hand, I felt embarrassed that i wanted to run away from the ballroom. On the other hand, I took pity on the girl and so wanted to protect the naked girl from the eyes of the other men, I wanted to love her tenderly because she was an attractive girl, but at the same time I wanted to destroy her because after all she was the immediate cause of our embarrassment6. If I should try my best and win the fight, then 1 would be winning against the bet of that white man, who shouted I got my money on the big boy. In that case I would not behave with humility, and yet my speech talked about humility as the essence of success. So maybe I should let that big boy win without putting up resistance, for this was time for me to show humility.7. Make full use of what you have and do the best you can. Take this attitude in making friends in every honorable way, making friends with people of different races among whom we live.8. You were not trying to seem clever in a disrespectful way, were you, boy? We intend to do the right thing by setting you up as role model, but you must never forget who you are.Lesson 81. I knew that Oppenheimer was a man of great talent but his way of showing his talent at my seminars caused uneasiness and resentment among people, especially among his fellow students. 2. Since those attending the conference were people devoted to poetry, such an anecdote, though interesting, might not be appreciated by the audience.3. There were two reasons for my going to the conference set against the reasons for my not going and they became decisive in my final decision.4. According to my view, Spender belongs to the group whose writings about their lives, experiences, that is whose autobiographies, are more interesting than their literary works.5. Like Dirac, Auden was outstanding in clarity. He was also outstanding in the powerful use of the language and the sense of fun about serious issues. All these greatly fascinated me.6. Spenders record of his visit is interesting not only because of the things he mentions but also because of the things he does not say.7. In his book, Spender fails to give a connected, complete picture of Oppenheimer and does not mention that Oppenheimers background and situation has quite a lot to do with Spender.8. The real person looked much better than the pictures.9. Maybe one should not attach too much importance to appearance.10. He had live longer than any of his more famous friends but traces or influences of these friends, especially those of Auden, could still be found on him.Lesson 91. The landscape makes your imagination vivid and lifelike, and you believe that the creation of the whole universe was begun right here.2. The Kiowas often fought, just because they were good warriors, because they fought out of habit, character, nature, not because they needed extra land or material gains for the sake of surviving and thriving. And they could not understand why the U. S. Cavalry never gave up pushing forward even when they had won a battle.3. Luckily, my grandmother did not suffer the humiliation of being put into a closure for holding animals, for she was born eight or ten years after the event.4. They moved toward the east, where the sun rises, and also toward the beginning of a new culture, which led to the greatest moment of their history.5. Now they got horses. Riding on horseback, instead of walking on foot, gave them this new freedom of movement, thus completely liberating their ancient nomadic spirit.6. In a sense, their migration confirmed the ancient myth that they entered the world from a hollow log, for they did emerge from the sunless world of the mountains.7. Their stature was measured by the distance they could see. Yet, because of the dense forests, they could not see very far, and they could hardly stand straight.8. The earth unfolds and the limit of the land is far in the distance, where there are clusters of trees and animals eating grass. This landscape makes one see far and broadens ones horizon.9. They would not yet change the direction southward to the land lying below which was like a large kettle. First, they must give their bodies some time to get used to the plains; secondly, they didnt want to lose sight of the mountains so soon. 10. I was not sure that I had any right to overhear her praying, which did not follow any customary way of praying, and which I guess she did not want anyone else to hear. 11. In this way she was entranced in the dancing light among the shadows of her room, and she seemed to be timeless (what she represented would last for ever). 12. On these special occasions, women might make loud and elaborate jokes and talk among themselves. Their gossip revealed their position as servants of men and also a reward for their servitude.Lesson 101. In our memory, the pre-September 11 world was peaceful, happy and safe (overlooking the fact that this was not the case) and we will talk about those days with a feeling of deep respect and love which can only be found in talking about dead people.2. In order to win the war, we might have to give up some of the basic values and liberties we treasure most. This might be the cost we have to pay.3. They are planning to carry out the plan of expanding the power of law enforcement agencies at home and of striking at the axis of evil abroad so as to extend American domination into areas originally beyond American reach, such as Central Asia. Hence, the colonization of the future.4. which takes for granted that people thing in a simple and uniform way while actually the feelings, thou