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1、现代大学英代大学英语精精读1 1第二版第十第二版第十课背背景介景介绍Lesson 7 Mandelas Garden I. AuthorNelson Mandela II. Long Walk to FreedomIII. Robben IslandIV. Maximum Security PrisonBackground Background informationinformationNelson Mandela (1918) Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an int
2、ernational hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Lesson 7 Mandelas Garden I.Author To be continued on the next page.SinceSince his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-cent
3、ury of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africas antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority r
4、ule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. Lesson 7 Mandelas Garden I.Author To be continued on the next page.Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on July 25th, 1918. His father was Chief Henry Mandela of the Tembu Tribe.
5、Lesson 7 Mandelas Garden I.Author To be continued on the next page.nMandela himself was educated at University College of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand and qualified in law in 1942.nHe joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling
6、 National Partys apartheid policies after 1948.n He went on trial for treason in 19561961 and was acquitted in 1961.Lesson 7 Mandelas Garden I.Author To be continued on the next page.Mandela married Winnie in 1958. It was a love story, tempered tragically by the political ambitions of its two larger
7、-than-life protagonists. He felt guilty for what Winnie had endured because of years of imprisonment. But Winnie and his family always came second to his other great love, the ANC and the liberation struggle.Lesson 7 Mandelas Garden I.Author To be continued on the next page. In 1960, ANC was banned
8、by the government, so Mandela began the underground activities. In 1963, when many fellow leaders of the ANC were arrested, Mandela was brought to stand trial with them for plotting to overthrow the government by violence. His statement from the dock received considerable international publicity. Le
9、sson 7 Mandelas Garden I.Author To be continued on the next page. “I have fought against white domination and I have fought black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society, in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is the hope to liv
10、e for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.” Mandela the statement from the dockLesson 7 Mandelas Garden I.Author To be continued on the next page. On June 12, 1964, eight of the accused, including Mandela, were sentenced to life imprisonment. From 1964 to 1
11、982, he was incarcerated at Robben Island Prison, off Cape Town; thereafter, he was at Pollsmoor Prison, nearby on the mainland. Lesson 7 Mandelas Garden I.Author To be continued on the next page. “He always made the point. If they say you must run, insist on walking. If they say you must walk fast,
12、 insist on walking slowly. That was the whole point. We are going to set the terms.” fellow prisonerLesson 7 Mandelas Garden I.Author To be continued on the next page. During his years in prison, Nelson Mandelas reputation grew steadily. He was widely accepted as the most significant black leader in
13、 South Africa and became a potent symbol of resistance as the anti-apartheid movement gathered strength. He consistently refused to compromise his political position to obtain his freedomLesson 7 Mandelas Garden I.Author To be continued on the next page.Lesson 7 Mandelas Garden I.Author Mandelas vis
14、its of his former prison cellTo be continued on the next page.Lesson 7 Mandelas Garden I.Author DURING A VISIT IN FEB. 1995: As President, Nelson Mandela chips at a rock in the Robben Island quarry. Authorities had just signed over the tiny island off Cape Town to the Department of Arts and Culture
15、for development as a museum. To be continued on the next page.Lesson 7 Mandelas Garden I.Author PRISON CELL: This photo of Mandelas prison cell shows the desk at which he sat. To be continued on the next page.Nelson Mandela was released on February 18, 1990. After his release, he plunged himself who
16、leheartedly into his lifes work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier. In 1991, at the first national conference of the ANC held inside South Africa after the organization had been banned in 1960, Mandela was elected President of the ANC.Lesson 7 Mandela
17、s Garden I.Author Release dayTo be continued on the next page. 1993 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Excerpt from the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech We stand here today as nothing more than a representative of the millions of our people who dared to rise up against a social system whose very essence
18、is war, violence, racism, oppression, repression and the impoverishment of an entire people. Lesson 7 Mandelas Garden I.Author To be continued on the next page.nIn 1994, he was elected President of South Africa.In 1999, he stepped down from his post and gave his power to his successor.Lesson 7 Mande
19、las Garden I.Author To be continued on the next page.Lesson 7 Mandelas Garden I.Author SMILE KNOWN ROUND THE WORLD: Nelson Mandela walking the streets of Durban, South Africa, during his campaign for the presidency in April 1994. His spirit of forgiveness is widely credited with bringing about a pea
20、ceful transition from white to black rule.During the campaignTo be continued on the next page.Lesson 7 Mandelas Garden I.Author The end of Author. There is consensus in South Africa that without Mandelas personal commitment to reconciliation, his moral authority, integrity, and intense compassion, t
21、he countrys transition to democracy might not have gone as smoothly. He brought about a peaceful transition from white to black rule.Nelson Mandelas Contribution Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, a book destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of historys
22、greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his lifean epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.Lesson 7 Mandelas Garden II.Long Walk to FreedomTo be continued on the next page.The foster son of a Thembu chief, Mandela wa
23、s raised in the traditional, tribal culture of his ancestors, but at an early age learned the modern, inescapable reality of what came to be called apartheid, one of the most powerful and effective systems of oppression ever conceived. In classically elegant and engrossing prose, he tells of his ear
24、ly years as an impoverished student and law clerk in Johannesburg, of his slow political awakening, and of his pivotal role in the rebirth of a stagnant ANC and the formation of its Youth League in the 1950s. He describes the struggle to reconcile his political activity with his devotion to his fami
25、ly, the anguished breakup of his first marriage, and the painful separations from his children. Lesson 7 Mandelas Garden II.Long Walk to FreedomTo be continued on the next page.Lesson 7 Mandelas Garden II.Long Walk to FreedomTo be continued on the next page.He brings vividly to life the escalating p
26、olitical warfare in the fifties between the ANC and the government, culminating in his dramatic escapades as an underground leader and the notorious Rivonia Trial of 1964, at which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He recounts the surprisingly eventful twenty-seven years in prison and the compl
27、ex, delicate negotiations that led both to his freedom and to the beginning of the end of apartheid. Lesson 7 Mandelas GardenII.Long Walk to FreedomFinally he provides the ultimate inside account of the unforgettable events since his release that produced at last a free, multiracial democracy in Sou
28、th Africa.To millions of people around the world, Nelson Mandela stands, as no other living figure does, for the triumph of dignity and hope over despair and hatred, of self-discipline and love over persecution and evil. Long Walk to Freedom embodies that spirit in a book for all time.The end of Lon
29、g Walk to Freedom. Lesson 7 Mandelas GardenIII.Robben IslandTo be continued on the next page.Lesson 7 Mandelas GardenPicture of Robben IslandIII.Robben IslandTo be continued on the next page.Lesson 7 Mandelas GardenPicture of Robben IslandIII.Robben IslandTo be continued on the next page.Lesson 7 Ma
30、ndelas GardenPicture of Robben IslandIII.Robben IslandTo be continued on the next page.Robben island is situated a mere 11km from Cape Town, in the middle of Table Bay, within clear sight of the city. It was on this island that Nelson Mandela was held prisoner for 18 years, much of it under hard lab
31、our. Prior to being a prison for political activists during the Apartheid era, the island was a leper colony. The island is now a museum and conservation area and was declared a World Heritage site in 1999. Lesson 7 Mandelas GardenIII.Robben IslandThe end of Robben Island. Lesson 7 Mandelas GardenIV
32、. Maximum Security PrisonTo be continued on the next page.The sprawling Robben Island Maximum Security Prison was built in the early 1960s. The prison was built over graves from the leper period with slate dug from the stone quarries by the prisoners themselves. The Maximum Security Prison soon beca
33、me known as the hell-hole of apartheid. Nelson Mandela described it as without question the harshest, most iron-fisted outpost of the South African penal system. Lesson 7 Mandelas GardenIV. Maximum Security PrisonTo be continued on the next page.It became notorious worldwide for Spartan conditions a
34、nd brutal treatment. The idea was to crush the opponents of apartheid and the ideas they stood for. Conditions were particularly bad in the first decade. However, by the mid-1970s conditions had improved. Growing resistance, and the Soweto uprising of 1976 started changing the balance of power in So
35、uth Africa. There was also an increase in international pressure. Nevertheless Robben Island remained a place of deprivation and a symbol of apartheids twisted racial ideology. Lesson 7 Mandelas GardenPicture tour of Maximum Security PrisonIV. Maximum Security PrisonTo be continued on the next page.Lesson 7 Mandelas GardenPicture tour of Maximum Security PrisonIV. Maximum Security PrisonThe end of Maximum Security Prison. Lesson 7 Mandelas GardenPart TwoThis is the end of Part Two. Please click HOME to visit other parts.谢谢大家！
