“In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” . . . Benjamin Franklin 0 20 40 60 80 100 1789 Taxes paid in Ben Franklin’s time accounted for 5 percent of the average American’s income

Ladies and gentlemen: I have come to a decision which I felt I should tell you and all of my fellow American citizens, as soon as I was certain in my own mind and in my own conscience that it is the right thing to do. I have learned already in this* office that the difficult decisions always come to this desk. I must admit that many of them do not look at all the same as the hypothetical questions that I have answered f reely and perhaps too f ast on previous occasions

On behalf of the Empire State and the family of New York, I thank you for the great privilege of being able to address this convention. Please allow me to skip the stories and the poetry and the temptation to deal in nice but vague rhetoric. Let me instead use this valuable opportunity to deal immediately with questions that should determine this election and that we all know are vital to the American people

I am proud to come to this city as the guest of your distinguished Mayor, who has symbolized throughout the world the fighting spirit of West Berlin. And I am proud to visit the Federal Republic with your distinguished Chancellor who for so many years has committed Germany to democracy and f reedom and progress, and to come here in the company of my fellow American

\Putting American Back to Work\ Thank you. Thank you. Senator Hatfield, Mr. Chief Justice, Mr. President, Vice President Bush, Vice President Mondale, Senator Baker, Speaker O’Neill, Reverend Moomaw, and my fellow citizens: To a few of us here today this is a solemn and most momentous occasion. And, yet

Ladies and gentlemen of the convention: My name is Geraldine Ferraro. I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us. As I stand before the American people and think of the honor this great convention has bestowed upon me, I recall

Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Four Freedoms Mr. Speaker, members of the 77th Congress: I address you, the members of this new Congress, at a moment unprecedented in the history of the union. I use the word “unprecedented” because at no previous time has American security been as seriously threatened f rom without as it is today

Ｃ语言是在 70 年代初问世的。一九七八年由美国电话电报公司(AT&T)贝尔实验室正 式 发 表 了 Ｃ 语 言。 同 时 由 B.W.Kernighan 和 D.M.Ritchit 合 著了 著 名 的 “ THE C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE”一书。通常简称为《K&R》，也有人称之为《K&R》标准。 但是，在《K&R》中并没有定义一个完整的标准 C 语言，后来由美国国家标准协会（American National Standards Institute）在此基础上制定了一个 C 语言标准，于一九八三年发表。通常 称之为 ANSI C

Forthcoming in the Chicago Law Review (2005) In March of 2003, as American tanks rolled toward Baghdad, international lawyers in the United States and abroad decried the action as a violation of the United Nations Charter. The invasion, some worried, would strip away the last pretense that international law could

2. The Great Gatsby (chapter 3, p267 on your textbook) The Great Gatsby's Theme Theme Analysis The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic twentieth-century story of Jay Gatsby's quest for Daisy Buchanan, examines and critiques Gatsby's particular vision of the 1920's American Dream. Written in 1925, the novel