The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic honor society with the mission of "fostering and recognizing excellence" in the undergraduate liberal arts and sciences. Founded at the College of William and Mary on December 5, 1776, it is the oldest, and considered the most prestigious, liberal arts honor society in the United States. Phi Beta Kappa is also the first collegiate organization to adopt a Greek-letter name. Today there are 276 chapters and over half a million living members.
2009/03/13
The Phi Beta Kappa Key
Phi Beta Kappa (ΦΒΚ) stands for Φιλοσοφία Βίου Κυβερνήτης or philosophia biou kybernētēs — "Love of learning is the guide of life."
2009/03/11
An interview with Barack Obama
An authorized transcript of an Eye on Books author interview.
Barack Obama “Dreams From My Father”
Interview recorded 8/9/1995
Barack Obama was born to a Kenyan father and an American mother in 1961, but his parents divorced when he was just two years old. Obama has said his father was little more than a myth to him, at the time of the elder Obama’s death in 1982. Just before he went off to law school, Obama traveled to Kenya to learn more about his father, and to try and put perspective on his mixed-race heritage. The result was his book “Dreams From My Father,” first published in 1995. That’s when Eye on Books talked with him:
EYE ON BOOKS: Why did you write this book?
BARACK OBAMA: My father is a black African, was a black African. My mother is a white American. He came to the States to study, right after [the] independence of Kenya, and was part of that first wave of Africans to travel to the west in search of knowledge to bring back to post-independence Africa. My mother came from small towns in Kansas (my grandfather on my mother’s side was a traveling salesman for a long time). And so they came from very different backgrounds.
They came together during the civil rights movement – although they weren’t active, I think they were swept up in the spirit of integrationist America and the dream of Dr. King, and the optimism and the idealism of the Kennedys – and ended up separating shortly thereafter. So the book is really me trying to understand what their lives were about, and thereby understand what my life is about.
EOB: This is not the kind of book you originally set out to write, though?
Obama: No. I originally got the idea of writing a book while I was at Harvard Law School, where I served as president of the Law Review. In listening to a number of the debates going back and forth about affirmative action and voting rights and all the controversies surrounding race issues in the country, I thought that I might be able to insert myself into the debate and hopefully clarify it.
What I realized, though, was that the starting point for any insights I might have really had to do with the story of my own family, and coming to terms with that multi-cultural heritage. So the first book, at least, that I needed to write was a book that came to terms with that divided heritage.
EOB: Is it then an oversimplification to say you had to get your own house in order, in your mind, before you could work on the country’s?
Obama: Well, I certainly think that you have to know where you’ve been if you want to know where you’re going. For someone who comes out of a family and a background that’s both black and white, that’s an especially important process that one has to go through.
We live in a land of strangers. Blacks and whites don’t know each other, they don’t know their stories very well. Within my own family, even in the best-meaning family, there’s a tremendous scope for misunderstanding, for suspicion, for fear. Until I understood what those fears were, what those hopes were, and what those dreams were, I think I was destined to - potentially, at least - repeat some of the mistakes that my parents and grandparents had made.
more ~ http://www.eyeonbooks.com/obama_transcript.pdf
Barack Obama was born to a Kenyan father and an American mother in 1961, but his parents divorced when he was just two years old. Obama has said his father was little more than a myth to him, at the time of the elder Obama’s death in 1982. Just before he went off to law school, Obama traveled to Kenya to learn more about his father, and to try and put perspective on his mixed-race heritage. The result was his book “Dreams From My Father,” first published in 1995. That’s when Eye on Books talked with him:
EYE ON BOOKS: Why did you write this book?
BARACK OBAMA: My father is a black African, was a black African. My mother is a white American. He came to the States to study, right after [the] independence of Kenya, and was part of that first wave of Africans to travel to the west in search of knowledge to bring back to post-independence Africa. My mother came from small towns in Kansas (my grandfather on my mother’s side was a traveling salesman for a long time). And so they came from very different backgrounds.
They came together during the civil rights movement – although they weren’t active, I think they were swept up in the spirit of integrationist America and the dream of Dr. King, and the optimism and the idealism of the Kennedys – and ended up separating shortly thereafter. So the book is really me trying to understand what their lives were about, and thereby understand what my life is about.
EOB: This is not the kind of book you originally set out to write, though?
Obama: No. I originally got the idea of writing a book while I was at Harvard Law School, where I served as president of the Law Review. In listening to a number of the debates going back and forth about affirmative action and voting rights and all the controversies surrounding race issues in the country, I thought that I might be able to insert myself into the debate and hopefully clarify it.
What I realized, though, was that the starting point for any insights I might have really had to do with the story of my own family, and coming to terms with that multi-cultural heritage. So the first book, at least, that I needed to write was a book that came to terms with that divided heritage.
EOB: Is it then an oversimplification to say you had to get your own house in order, in your mind, before you could work on the country’s?
Obama: Well, I certainly think that you have to know where you’ve been if you want to know where you’re going. For someone who comes out of a family and a background that’s both black and white, that’s an especially important process that one has to go through.
We live in a land of strangers. Blacks and whites don’t know each other, they don’t know their stories very well. Within my own family, even in the best-meaning family, there’s a tremendous scope for misunderstanding, for suspicion, for fear. Until I understood what those fears were, what those hopes were, and what those dreams were, I think I was destined to - potentially, at least - repeat some of the mistakes that my parents and grandparents had made.
more ~ http://www.eyeonbooks.com/obama_transcript.pdf
2009/03/04
To Write Down Some Words
Dear all:
I like the policy to seperate the group into member to be responsibe for reading parts, but it would be much better if we can have our leader of each book to write down some words on the blog that would be helpful for us more understanding to the book, for example the main theme of the book, or good statements of a sentence.
Florence
2009/03/03
April Meeting Notice REVISED
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March 27, 2009
1. Steve can’t come to April meeting. He will come in May, instead.
2. You can send what you want to discuss to Steve in advance.
Steve's email address: sdvl.dorward@msa.hinet.net
3. We decided to cancel April meeting. Please note.
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March 08, 2009
The initial plan for April meeting has been revised -
1. We have invited Steve as the instructor for April meeting.
2. The split book reading was cancelled. We want to finish the whole book reading in April meeting, and the previous practice of each member to handle some chapters won't be applied.
Leader: Steve
Book: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance / Barack Obama
You can find the narrative from our blog http://kiwcebdgroup.blogspot.com/ .
(NO split book reading)
Date: Monday, April 6, 2009
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Our study group starts at 1:00p sharp. Therefore we would assume that any orders (drinks or lunch) are taken care of before we start.
Place: Gondola Italian Restaurant 剛朵拉義大利餐廳 - No. 157, Zi-you 1st Road, San Min District , Kaohsiung City 高雄市自由一路 157號 (across the street from Kaohsiung Medical University 高雄醫學大學) - Tel: 311-8889 - Parking lot available
April Book - Dreams from My Father
Dreams from My Father
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is a memoir by President of the United States Barack Obama. It was first published in 1995 after Obama was elected the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, but before his political career began. The book was re-released in 2004 following Obama's keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention (DNC); the 2004 edition includes a new introduction by Obama, then a Senator-elect, as well as his DNC keynote address.
The autobiographical narrative tells the story of the life of Obama up to his entry in Harvard Law School. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Obama, Sr. of Kenya, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas, both students at that time at the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Obama's parents separated when he was two years old and divorced in 1964. Obama formed an image of his absent father from stories told by his mother and her parents. He saw his father only one more time, in 1971, when Obama Sr. came to Hawaii for a month's visit. The elder Obama died in a car accident in 1982.
After her divorce, Ann Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, an East-West Center student from Indonesia. The family moved to Jakarta. When Obama was ten, he returned to Hawaii under the care of his grandparents (and later his mother) for the better educational opportunities available there. He was enrolled in the fifth grade at Punahou School, a private college-preparatory school. Obama was one of three Black students among the majority Asian-American population at that school, and he first became conscious of racism and what it means to be an African-American.
Obama attended Punahou School from the 5th grade until his graduation in 1979. Obama writes: "For my grandparents, my admission into Punahou Academy heralded the start of something grand, an elevation in the family status that they took great pains to let everyone know."
Upon finishing high school, Obama enrolled at Occidental College, where he describes living a "party" lifestyle of drug and alcohol use. He transferred to Columbia College at Columbia University, where he majored in political science.[6] Upon graduation, he worked for a year in business. He then moved to Chicago, working for a non-profit doing community organizing in the Altgeld Gardens housing project on the city's South Side. Obama recounts the difficulty of the experience, as his program faced resistance from entrenched community leaders and apathy on the part of the established bureaucracy. It was during his time spent here that Obama joined Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ.
Before attending Harvard Law School, Obama decided to visit relatives in Kenya. He uses part of his experience there as the setting for the book's final, emotional scene.
As well as relating the story of Obama's life, the book includes a good deal of reflection on his own personal experiences with race and race relations in the United States.
2009/03/01
線上即時翻譯.點到哪裡翻譯到哪裡
利用google工具列.用滑鼠翻譯英文單字. 線上即時翻譯.點到哪裡翻譯到哪裡
1. 首先﹐到下面的網址﹕http://toolbar.google.com/T4/intl/zh-TW/index_pack.html
2. 該網頁右上方有一個「安裝google工具列」的按鈕﹐你只要在按鈕上點一下就會轉到「同意條款」的網頁﹐
3. 當中有一個「工具列」的項目﹐注意「選取位置：」是否為「台灣版」﹐還有3個選項﹕
□ 將 Google 設定為我的預設搜尋，並在有變更時通知我
□ 將 Google 設定為我的首頁
□ 請允許我們收集匿名的使用統計資料，以協助我們改進此軟體依你的需要全部不打勾﹐然後再按「同意下載」的按鈕。
4. 然後會出現「檔案下載」的對話框﹐或「檔案下載-安全性警告」的對話框問你要「執行」﹑「儲存」或「取消」﹐你就按「執行」﹐
5. 安裝完畢之後你的瀏覽器上方的網址列下面就會多了一條「google工具列」﹐此後﹐你的游標指到任何英文字就有中文翻譯出現。
注意事項﹕如果你的電腦上開了兩個以上的網頁視窗﹐google的翻譯功能可能只在其中一個網頁有作用﹐如果你想翻譯的字很不巧就是在沒有翻譯功能的視窗裡﹐你只要把沒有翻譯功能的視窗裡的網址轉貼到有翻譯功能的視窗裡﹐再按ENTER﹐把你需要翻譯的網頁連上就解決了。
其他主題延伸:英文段落整句翻譯(或英文網站翻譯)請使用google語言翻譯機
1.輸入整句需要翻譯的英文段落
2.輸入需要翻譯的英文網站網址
http://blog.sina.com.tw/gdiwsws/article.php?pbgid=43819&entryid=578520
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