Blog 1 Spe 2020-2021

 America Puerto Rico My heart's devotion Let it sink back in the ocean Always the hurricanes blowing Always the population growing And the money owing And the sunlight streaming And the natives steaming I like the island Manhattan (I know you do) Smoke on your pipe and put that in I like to be in America O.K. by me in America Everything free in America For a small fee in America Buying on credit is so nice One look at us and they charge twice I'll have my own washing machine What will you have, though, to keep clean? Skyscrapers bloom in America Cadillacs zoom in America Industry boom in America Twelve in a room in America Lots of new housing with more space Lots of doors slamming in our face I'll get a terrace apartment Better get rid of your accent Life can be bright in America If you can fight in America Life is all right in America If you're all-white in America La la la la la la America America La la la la la la...

 

 A) What is the declaration of Arbroath?  B) Use your own words to sum up this text. C) Who are the different people mentioned in this text? D) Explain the links between the text and the extract from the autobiography you studied (Stone of Destiny). E) Translate the first three lines The Declaration of Arbroath "As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours, that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself". These are the best known words in the Declaration of Arbroath, foremost among Scotland's state papers and the most famous historical record held by National Records of Scotland. The Declaration is a letter written in 1320 by the barons and whole community of the kingdom of Scotland to the pope, asking him to recognise Scotland's independence and acknowledge Robert the Bruce a...

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