美国简介 Brief Introduction.ppt

The United States of America Chapter 1 A Brief Introduction National Symbols National Flag—The Stars and Stripes The Stars and Stripes originated as a result of a resolution adopted by the Second Continental Congress at Philadelphia on June 14, 1777. The thirteen stripes (alternating red and white) represent the original colonies; known as Old Glory; the 50 stars represent the 50 states; White in a blue field represents a new constellation. The Star Spangled Banner Oh, say can you see, by the dawns early light,What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming?Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,Oer the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.O say, does that star-spangled banner yet waveOer the land of the free and the home of the brave?On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,Where the foes haughty host in dread silence reposes,What is that which the breeze, oer the towering steep,As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?Now it catches the gleam of the mornings first beam,In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it waveOer the land of the free and the home of the brave. And where is that band who so vauntingly sworeThat the havoc of war and the battles confusionA home and a country should leave us no more?Their blood has wiped out their foul footsteps pollution.No refuge could save the hireling and slaveFrom the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth waveOer the land of the free and the home of the brave.Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall standBetween their loved homes and the wars desolation!Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued landPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,And t