G: have you seen the new Cosmo magazine that I was reading this morning? W: I think I may have seen it on the kitchen table. G: you're right, thanks. There's an interesting interview with a top director about his latest film that I want to finish. W:

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He began his career as a Baptist preacher but went on to lead a sweeping grassroots effort to end racial discrimination, known as the Civil Rights Movement. Along the way, Martin Luther King Junior made history and emerged as one of the most influent

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AS IT IS 2016-10-07 US Security Agency Contractor Arrested 美国安局承包商雇员被捕 The United States Department of Justice says a man employed by a private company that was performing work for the National Security Agency has been arrested.

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AS IT IS 2016-06-14 Orlando Gunmans Father: I Do Not Know What Caused This 奥兰多枪手之父:我不知道引发此事的原因 The father of the man identified as the gunman in the Florida mass killings says he is extremely upset over the incid

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今天我们要学的词是civil rights。 Civil rights, 民权。每年一月第三个星期一是美国联邦假日马丁.路德金日。Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent civil rights leader, 马丁.路德金是著名民权领袖。He played a

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今天我们要学的词是celebrate。 Celebrate, 庆祝。 President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama celebrated his inauguration by dancing in ten inaugural balls, 美国新任总统奥巴马和第一夫人米歇尔参加了十场就职舞

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Growing up in the South was not easy for Martin Luther King, Jr. He was born in 1929, when black people were treated very differently than white people. One day, Martins father took his young son to buy a pair of shoes. The store was empty. But the w

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On January 15, 1929, a baby boy was born in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. The doctors said he was perfect. His parents were so happy. They named him Michael, the same name that his father had. But when little Michael was five, his father decided to c

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Martin Luther King, Jr., was always a very good student. He loved to read and make speeches. He studied very hard and skipped two grades. At just fifteen years old, he graduated from high school. That summer, Martin worked in Simsbury, Connecticut. I

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Two churches, one in Massachusetts and one in New York, wanted Martin to become their minister. While Martin was deciding which job to take, another letter camefrom the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. The church, which had no min

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Martin started his job as the pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church on September 1, 1954. In his sermons, he persuaded church members to register to vote. Voting was one way to change unjust laws. He also encouraged them to join the NAACPthe Nat

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Integrating the buses in Montgomery had worked. But Martin Luther King, Jr., knew that this was just the beginning. Martin and other black leaders met in Atlanta, Georgia. They formed a civil rights group called the Southern Christian Leadership Conf

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By 1961, there were not as many whites only lunch counters left in the South. But far too many waiting rooms, bathrooms, and restaurants in bus and train stations still had separate areas for blacks and whites. It didnt matter that the courts said th

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Birmingham proved to black people all around the country what protesting could do. From North Carolina to Tennessee to Oklahoma, black Americans marched and held sit-ins. They held protests in front of government buildings. Gradually, thousands of lu

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Martin Luther King, Jr., understood that the civil rights movement would suffer defeats. But now he was more determined than ever to prove the power of peaceful protest. He looked for the city with the toughest Jim Crow laws. It was Birmingham, Alaba

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Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the greatest civil rights leaders of all time. Today, people around the world still remember all he did in his fight for equality. After Martins death, Coretta carried on her husbands fight. She traveled around the

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If he couldnt get a city government to cooperate, Martin decided to go higher up. Martin and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference planned another march to Washington, D.C., for the spring of 1968. The purpose was to get Congress to pass laws

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Even with the right to vote, even with the right to sit anywhere on a bus or eat in any restaurant, black people were struggling. Too many did not have jobs. And those with jobs werent making enough to live decently. They lived in homes with no heat

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Martin showed people all over the world the power of words, not fists. In 1964, Martin was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This award is given almost every year to the person or group who has done something important in the cause of world peace. Marti

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He came, said the guard, and swore that an engine which stood near by was his. 这人来后,那位警卫说,指天发誓说停放附近的那辆机车是他的, He said it was one he had made to go to the moon in, and that it had been stolen fr

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