Forest Gump. Дроздова И.В. - 8 стр.

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          Forest Gump:
            Sometime later, for….., somebody…… when he was riding in his car.
         And a few years after that ….. when he was in the hotel’s kitchen. Must …. I
         would know. Now could …. after five years ….. mama was so proud.

                                        Follow up

  Using your background knowledge speak about John F. Kennedy. Say whether, in
your opinion, he was an unusual President or Just an ordinary one. (Read the extract
below).
                             John Fitzgerald Kennedy:
                                Thirty Fifth President
                                    (1961 - 1963)

   John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the youngest man elected President, he was the
youngest to die.
   Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29,1917.
Graduating from Harvard in 1940, when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a
Japanese destroyer, Kennedy, despite grave injuries, led the survivors through perilous
waters to safety.
    Back from the war, he became a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area,
advancing in 1953 to the Senate. In 1961 he became the first Roman Catholic President.
His Inaugural Address offered the memorable injunction: «Ask not what your country
can do for you – ask what you can do for your country». As President, he set out to
redeem his campaign pledge to get America moving again. His economic programs
launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II; before his
death, he laid plans for a massive assault on persisting pockets of privation and poverty.
     Responding to ever more urgent demands, he took vigorous action in the cause of
equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. He wished America to resume its
old mission as the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights. His vision of
America extended to the quality of the national culture and the central role of the arts in
a vital society.
     Kennedy did a lot to solve the Cuban crisis during which the world trembled on the
brink of nuclear war. He realized that both sides had a vital interest in stopping the
spread of nuclear weapons and slowing the arms race. The months after the Cuban crisis
showed significant progress towards the goal of «a world of law and free choice,
banishing the world of war». This progress led to the test ban treaty of 1963.
    John F. Kennedy’s administration thus saw the beginning of new hope for both the
equal rights of Americans and the peace of the world.

                                         Unit IV

                             Forest Gump’s Induction Day
                                   Before you view
Brush up the words:
induction – призыв на военную службу