English Club
Who is leading: Mila Hooten
Who is generating ideas today: Matt MozingoTask with Partners
- After a week of such cold weather, imagine that you won a vacation to any warm-weather location on Earth… where would you go and what would you do there?
Discussion Topic: “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” What does ‘pursuit of happiness’ mean to you?
1. Do you think that people who live in comfortable climates are happier? Would people in Ukraine be happier if there was a tropical climate here?
2. Would you like to live in a place that did not have 4 seasons, but was warm all year long? Do you think that you personally would generally be happier if you lived in a tropical location?
3. Miami was recently been rated as the “most miserable city in America,” or that city where people are the least happy, even though it has beautiful weather every day. Why do you think this is true?
4. Other than the climate, what other factors are important for the happiness of a city or country? Which of these are the most important?
5. The US Constitution says that all Americans have the right to “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” What does ‘pursuit of happiness’ mean to you?
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The first slaves in America were black Africans who arrived in the 1600s. European settlers set them to work on farms, in mines, or in the home. Late in the 17th century some religious groups started arguing that slavery was wrong and should be abolished. many Americans pressed the government to abolish slavery. it was a long fight,, but by 1804 slavery had been abolished in many Northern states.
/soʊˈdʒɜrnər ˈtruːθ/; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. Her best-known extemporaneous speech on racial inequalities, Ain't I a Woman?, was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. During theCivil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war, Truth tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves.
