Analise do Discurso I Have a Dream de Martin Luther King Jr - Ingles III

UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO DEPARTAMENTO DE LETRAS E COMUNICAÇÃO SOCIAL DISCIPLINA INGLÊS III PROF JOÃO CARLOS LOPES Alunoa 1 Read the extract from the famous speech I Have a Dream by Dr Martin Luther King Jr and do the activities that follow I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation Five score years ago a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity But one hundred years later the Negro still is not free One hundred years later the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination One hundred years later the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity One hundred years later the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land And so weve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition a Dr King Jr prefers long nominalizations in his speech so as to convey more precise information and at the same time evaluate this same information Convert TWO long noun phrases into simpler phrases and discuss the changes in meaning Follow the example below the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation freedom march superlative the greatest provides status of greatness in size and importance the noun history maximizes such importance and the noun nation situates this importance within a large geographical region of acknowledged relevance in the world The rewritten shorter version is restricted to identifying the nature of the demonstration b In order to be informative the civil rights leader also uses long prepositional phrases in adjunct function as a means to provide detailed circumstances for the statements Change TWO long adjuncts into shorter ones and discuss possible differences in meaning Follow the example below in the flames of withering injustice in injustice the words flames and withering serve to dramatize the condition of black people in the USA The simplified version only provides the manner within which black people are treated c Now Rewrite and simplify the extract of Dr Kings speech and discuss differences in meaning and attitude of the speaker UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO DEPARTAMENTO DE LETRAS E COMUNICAÇÃO SOCIAL DISCIPLINA INGLÊS III PROF JOÃO CARLOS LOPES Alunoa 1 Read the extract from the famous speech I Have a Dream by Dr Martin Luther King Jr and do the activities that follow I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation Five score years ago a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity But one hundred years later the Negro still is not free One hundred years later the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination One hundred years later the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity One hundred years later the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land And so weve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition a Dr King Jr prefers long nominalizations in his speech so as to convey more precise information and at the same time evaluate this same information Convert TWO long noun phrases into simpler phrases and discuss the changes in meaning Follow the example below the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation freedom march superlative the greatest provides status of greatness in size and importance the noun history maximizes such importance and the noun nation situates this importance within a large geographical region of acknowledged relevance in the world The rewritten shorter version is restricted to identifying the nature of the demonstration But one hundred years later the Negro still is not free One hundred years later the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination One hundred years later the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity One hundred years later the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land And so weve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition We can use weour people in the place of The Negro This would avoid the repetition and even if yet we want to emphasize the word its important to remember that using our people it would make more personal the change they wanna do It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity Breaking day Emphasizing the day noun gives more importance to time thats happening as a demonstration of a history date to remember b In order to be informative the civil rights leader also uses long prepositional phrases in adjunct function as a means to provide detailed circumstances for the statements Change TWO long adjuncts into shorter ones and discuss possible differences in meaning Follow the example below in the flames of withering injustice in injustice the words flames and withering serve to dramatize the condition of black people in the USA The simplified version only provides the manner within which black people are treated A thing added to something else to make it important Five score years ago Exactly five years ago Hes using score to focus on the exact time of the most important of date in that history decree came as a great beacon light of hope a great illumination The words hope and illumination have the same purpose when were talking about lightness c Now Rewrite and simplify the extract of Dr Kings speech and discuss differences in meaning and attitude of the speaker I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the freedom march in the history of our nation Exactly five years ago a great American in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the Emancipation Proclamation This momentous ecree came as a great illumination to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice It came as a joyous breaking day to end the long night of their captivity But one hundred years later the Negro still is not free One hundred years later our life is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination One hundred years later our peoples lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity One hundred years later we are still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land And so weve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition With the changes I made the speech became more personal and yet more casual as it was The speaker would sound more like a friend than a lider The meaning changes as well because although it sounds like a speech looking for change the feeling maintain itself as a less aggressive and less dramatic speech Oii Obrigada por me escolher Tentei dar o meu melhor e espero que meu trabalho possa te ajudar Tenha uma ótima semana