12/22/2016 Western Literature (week15)
※George W. Bush
9/11
Address to the Nation
"A Great People Has
Been Moved to Defend a Great Nation"
Good evening.
Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. The victims were in airplanes or in their offices: secretaries, business men and women, military and federal workers, moms and dads, friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge -- huge structures collapsing have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger. These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed. Our country is strong.
Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. The victims were in airplanes or in their offices: secretaries, business men and women, military and federal workers, moms and dads, friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge -- huge structures collapsing have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger. These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed. Our country is strong.
A great people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist
attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot
touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent
the steel of American resolve. America was targeted for attack because we're
the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will
keep that light from shining. Today, our nation saw evil -- the very worst of
human nature -- and we responded with the best of America. With the daring of
our rescue workers, with the caring for strangers and neighbors who came to
give blood and help in any way they could.
Immediately following the first attack, I implemented our
government's emergency response plans. Our military is powerful, and it's
prepared. Our emergency teams are working in New York City and Washington D.C.
to help with local rescue efforts. Our first priority is to get help to those
who have been injured, and to take every precaution to protect our citizens at
home and around the world from further attacks. The functions of our government
continue without interruption. Federal agencies in Washington which had to be
evacuated today are reopening for essential personnel tonight and will be open
for business tomorrow. Our financial institutions remain strong, and the
American economy will be open for business as well.
The search is underway for those who were behind these evil acts.
I have directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement
communities to find those responsible and to bring them to justice. We will
make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those
who harbor them.
I appreciate so very much the members of Congress who have joined
me in strongly condemning these attacks. And on behalf of the American people,
I thank the many world leaders who have called to offer their condolences and
assistance. America and our friends and allies join with all those who want
peace and security in the world, and we stand together to win the war against
terrorism.
Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the
children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and
security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a Power
greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23:
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I
fear no evil for you are with me.
This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in
our resolve for justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and
we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day, yet we go
forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world.
Thank you. Good night. And God bless America.
Thank you. Good night. And God bless America.
White Anglo-Saxon
Protestant (WASP) is an informal, sometimes
disparaging term for a closed social
group of high-status and influential white Americans of English Protestant ancestry. It is also sometimes applied to those of
Scottish Protestant and Irish Protestant ancestry. The term applies to a group
who control disproportionate financial, political and social power in the
United States.
In Christian tradition the Holy Chalice is the vessel which Jesus used at the Last Supper to serve the wine. The Holy Chalice in the form of the
"Holy Grail" became a topos in Arthurian romance in the high medieval period. In Roman Catholic relic veneration of the later medieval period, two artifacts,
one kept in Genoa and the other in Valencia, were identified as the Holy
Chalice.
The Sermon on the Mount is a collection of sayings and
teachings of Jesus,
which emphasizes his moral teaching found in the Gospel of Matthew (chapters 5, 6, and 7). It is the first of the Five Discourses of
Matthew and takes
place relatively early in the Ministry of Jesus after he has been baptized by John the Baptist and preached in Galilee.
Protestantism is a form of Christian faith and practice which originated with the Protestant Reformation,a movement against what its followers
considered to be errors in the Roman Catholic Church.It
is one of the three major divisions of Christendom, together with Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy.The term derives from the letter of protestation from German Lutheran princes in
1529 against an edict condemning the teachings of Martin Luther as heretical.
Sodom and Gomorrah were cities
mentioned in the Book of
Genesis and
throughout the Hebrew Bible the New Testament and in the deuterocanonical books, as well as in the Quran and
the hadith. According to the Torah,
the kingdoms of Sodom and Gomorrah were allied with the cities of Admah, Zeboim and Bela. These
five cities, also known as the "cities of the plain", (from Genesis
in the Authorized Version) were situated on the Jordan River plain in the southern region of the land of Canaan.
The plain, which corresponds to the area just north of the modern-day Dead Sea, was compared to the garden of Eden as
being a land well-watered and green, suitable for grazing livestock.
The Vulgate is a late
fourth-century Latin translation of the Bible that became, during the 16th
century, the Catholic Church's
officially promulgated Latin version
of the Bible.
The translation was largely the work
of St. Jerome, who, in 382
AD, was commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the Vetus Latina ("Old Latin") collection of biblical
texts in Latin then in use by the Church. Once published, it was widely adopted
and eventually eclipsed the Vetus Latina and, by
the 13th century, was known as the "versio vulgata" (the
"version commonly-used") or, more simply, in Latin as vulgata or
in Greek as βουλγάτα ("Vulgate").
※Book Of Revelation
The Book of Revelation, often called
the Revelation to John,
the Apocalypse of John, The Revelation, or simply Revelation or Apocalypse, is a book of the New
Testament that occupies a central place in Christian eschatology. Its
title is derived from the first word of the text, written
in Koine Greek: apokalypsis, meaning "unveiling" or
"revelation". The Book of Revelation is the only apocalyptic document
in the New Testament canon (although there are
short apocalyptic passages in various places in the
Gospels and
the Epistles).
The Parable of the Prodigal Son (also
known as the Lost Son, Running Son, Loving Father, or Lovesick Father) is one of
the parables of Jesus which appears in Luke 15:11-32. Jesus
Christ shares it with his disciples, the Pharisees and others.
※Joseph's
Coat Of Many Colors
In the Hebrew Bible, the coat of many colors is the name for the garment that Joseph owned, which was given to him by his father,
Jacob.
Elizabeth
II has been Queen of
the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New
Zealand since 6 February 1952. She is also Head of the
Commonwealth and the queen of 12 countries that have become independent
since her accession: Jamaica, Barbados, the
Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, Solomon
Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and
Nevis.
Hark
the herald angels sing
"Glory
to the newborn King!
Peace
on earth and mercy mild
God and
sinners reconciled"
Joyful,
all ye nations rise
Join
the triumph of the skies
With
the angelic host proclaim:
"Christ
is born in Bethlehem"
Hark!
The herald angels sing
"Glory
to the newborn King!"
Christ
by highest heav'n adored
Christ
the everlasting Lord!
Late in
time behold Him come
Offspring
of a Virgin's womb
Veiled
in flesh the Godhead see
Hail
the incarnate Deity
Pleased
as man with man to dwell
Jesus,
our Emmanuel
Hark!
The herald angels sing
"Glory
to the newborn King!"
Hail
the heav'n-born Prince of Peace!
Hail
the Son of Righteousness!
Light
and life to all He brings
Ris'n
with healing in His wings
Mild He
lays His glory by
Born
that man no more may die
Born to
raise the sons of earth
Born to
give them second birth
Hark!
The herald angels sing
"Glory
to the newborn King!"
BY Charles
Wesley
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.
We twa hae run aboot the braes
And pou'd the gowans fine;
We've wander'd mony a weary foot
Sin' auld lang syne.
We two hae paidled i' the burn,
Frae mornin' sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin' auld lang syne.
And here's a hand, my trusty friend,
And gie's a hand o' thine;
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.
We twa hae run aboot the braes
And pou'd the gowans fine;
We've wander'd mony a weary foot
Sin' auld lang syne.
We two hae paidled i' the burn,
Frae mornin' sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin' auld lang syne.
And here's a hand, my trusty friend,
And gie's a hand o' thine;
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.
I, the Lord of sea and sky
I have heard my people cry
All who dwell in dark and sin
My hand will save：
I who made the stars and night
I will make the darkness bright
Who will bear my light to them?
Whom shall I send?
Here I am Lord
Is it I Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night
I will go Lord
If you lead me
I will hold your people in my heart
I the Lord of snow and rain,
I have borne my people's pain,
I have wept for love of them,
They turn away...
I will break their hearts of stone
Fill their hearts with love alone
I will speak my word to them
Whom shall I send?
Here I am Lord
Is it I Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night
I will go Lord
If you lead me
I will hold your people in my heart
I, the Lord of wind and flame
I will tend the poor and lame
I will set a feast for them
My hand will save:
Finest bread I will provide
Till their hearts be satisfied
I will give my life to them
Whom shall I send?
Here I am Lord
Is it I Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night
I will go Lord
If you lead me
I will hold your people in my heart
I have heard my people cry
All who dwell in dark and sin
My hand will save：
I who made the stars and night
I will make the darkness bright
Who will bear my light to them?
Whom shall I send?
Here I am Lord
Is it I Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night
I will go Lord
If you lead me
I will hold your people in my heart
I the Lord of snow and rain,
I have borne my people's pain,
I have wept for love of them,
They turn away...
I will break their hearts of stone
Fill their hearts with love alone
I will speak my word to them
Whom shall I send?
Here I am Lord
Is it I Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night
I will go Lord
If you lead me
I will hold your people in my heart
I, the Lord of wind and flame
I will tend the poor and lame
I will set a feast for them
My hand will save:
Finest bread I will provide
Till their hearts be satisfied
I will give my life to them
Whom shall I send?
Here I am Lord
Is it I Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night
I will go Lord
If you lead me
I will hold your people in my heart
※Definition
Inaugural address: is a speech given during this ceremony which
informs the people of his or her intentions as a leader.
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