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1、Unit4,Watch the movie clip and answer the following questions. Questions for discussion,1. Why did Sally Regenhard say that 9/11 was “a shattering of faith”?,Pre-reading Activities - Audiovisual supplement 1,Audiovisual supplement,cultural background,She believed in the system, and now that the syst
2、em was shattered by the terrorist activity, so she thought the event is faith-shattering.,3000 people were killed. And the surviving family members had very right to know the truth about the 9/11. So there needed to be an investigation.,2. Why did Carol Ashley think that there must be an investigati
3、on?,What do you know about the 9/11 attacks and what influences have the events exert?,Pre-reading Activities - Audiovisual supplement 2,Audiovisual supplement,cultural background,Pre-reading Activities - Audiovisual supplement 3,Audiovisual supplement,cultural background,From On Native Soil,Policem
4、an: Policeman: Eunice Hanson: Sally Regenhard: Carol Ashley: Max Cleland:,Move back! Move back! Move it! Go back! I knew we had enemies, naturally, but I always felt pretty safe here. I never, never, in a million years dreamed that anything like this could happen to us. We believed in the system and
5、 you know, 9/11 was a shattering of faith. 3000 people were killed. It was a mass murder. And there needed to be an investigation. The surviving family members, nobody can deny that they had the ultimate claim to the truth about 9/11.,Video Script,Audiovisual supplement,cultural background,Atomic bo
6、mb or A-bomb is a weapon deriving its explosive force from the release of atomic energy through the fission (splitting) of heavy nuclei. The first atomic bomb was produced at a laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and successfully tested on July 16, 1945. This was the culmination of a large U.S. ar
7、my program that was part of the Manhattan Project. It began in 1940, two years after the German scientists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman discovered nuclear fission.,Cultural background 1,Audiovisual supplement,cultural background,Atomic Bomb,Cultural background 2,Audiovisual supplement,cultural back
8、ground,On Aug. 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima with an estimated equivalent explosive force of 12,500 tons of TNT, followed three days later by a second, more powerful, bomb on Nagasaki. Both bombs caused widespread death, injury, and destruction, and there is still considerable deb
9、ate about the need to have used them.,Cultural background 3,Audiovisual supplement,cultural background,Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction powered by atomic, rather than chemical, processes. Nuclear weapons produce large explosions and hazardous radioactive byproducts by means of either
10、nuclear fission or nuclear fusion. After World War II, the proliferation of nuclear weapons became an increasing cause of concern throughout the world. At the end of the 20th century, the vast majority of such weapons were held by the United States and the former Soviet Union; other countries that p
11、ossess known nuclear capabilities are the Great Britain, France, China, Pakistan, and India. Israel also has,Nuclear Weapon,Cultural background 4,Audiovisual supplement,cultural background,nuclear weapons but has not confirmed that fact publicly; North Korea has conducted a nuclear test explosion bu
12、t probably does not have a readily deliverable nuclear weapon; and South Africa formerly had a small arsenal. Over a dozen other countries can, or soon could, make nuclear weapons.,Cultural background 5,Audiovisual supplement,cultural background,On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb attack occurr
13、ed over Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, on August 9, Nagasaki, Japan, was bombed. The bombing of Nagasaki was the last major act of World War II and within days, on August 15, 1945, the Japanese surrendered. In estimating the death toll from the attacks, there are several factors that make it di
14、fficult to arrive at reliable figures: inadequacies in the records given the confusion of the times, the many victims who died months or years after the bombing as a result of radiation exposure, and not least, the pressure to,The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,Cultural background 6,Audiovisual s
15、upplement,cultural background,either exaggerate or minimize the numbers, depending upon political agenda. That said, it is estimated that by December 1945, as many as 140,000 had died in Hiroshima by the bomb and its associated effects. In Nagasaki, roughly 74,000 people died of the bomb and its aft
16、ereffects. In both cities, most of the casualties were civilians. The intentional killing of civilians by the Allies of World War II who claimed that their cause was just raised moral questions about the just course of the war.,Global Reading - general,General analysis,Structural features,Through introducing Yamahatas pictures, the author aims at bringing to peoples attention what kind of catastrophic consequences nuclear threat may lead to and that the unpredictability of nuc
