Empezamos nuevo curso en el nuevo IES Vicente Verdú. ¿Sabéis quién era este periodista, escritor y pintor ilicitano? Escribió muchos años en el diario más leído e influyente de España, en El País. Para comenzar FUERTES este curso, en cuanto a la materia de Historia (aunque sea de España) voy a utilizar esta canción de Billy Joel porque cita a más de 40 personajes y países en su letra. La idea es ver cuántos de vosotros conocéis a los personajes. Es de esperar que os suene un tal John F. Kennedy o Walt Disney o, quizás, Marilyn Monroe...como vemos no cita a ningún español (salvo al filósofo Santayana, nacido en España, pero que vivió toda su vida en EE.UU. y norteamericano se consideraba) pero sería conveniente, más si habéis cursado la asignatura de Historia del Mundo Contemporáneo, que os sonaran muchos más (no todos, obviamente). Como un juego iremos viendo uno a uno, los personajes, películas, países, acontecimientos...que nos han configurado cultural y científicamente, siendo "hijos" del imperio norteamericano. Vemos que las tendencias van hacia un nuevo eje geopolítico con centro en Asia, pero todavía la influencia USA (tienen bases militares en España, ¿cómo puede ser esto?) es principal en nuestro mundo diario (celebramos Halloween, vestimos vaqueros, escuchamos rock, pop u otras músicas americanas, vemos cine made in Hollywood, etc.). Me ha parecido una forma interesante de entrar en un nuevo curso, el que os llevará a una mayor sabiduría y acceso a la universidad el próximo año.
LETRA:
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana, goodbye
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK – blown away, what else do I have to say?
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law
Rock and roller, cola wars, I can't take it anymore
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it
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