英语开场白英语演讲稿.docx

1、英语开场白英语演讲稿英语开场白-英语演讲稿Opening Statement mr. chairman, senator thurmond, members of the committee, my name is anita f. hill, and i am a professor of law at the university of oklahoma. i was born on a farm in okmulgee county, oklahoma, in 1956. i am the youngest of 13 children. i had my early education

2、 in okmulgee county. my father, albert hill, is a farmer in that area. my mothers name is irma hill. she is also a farmer and a housewife. my childhood was one of a lot of hard work and not much money, but it was one of solid family affection, as represented by my parents. i was reared in a religiou

3、s atmosphere in the baptist faith, and i have been a member of the antioch baptist church in tulsa, oklahoma, since 1983. it is a very warm part of my life at the present time. for my undergraduate work, i went to oklahoma state university and graduated from there in 1977. i am attaching to this sta

4、tement a copy of my resume for further details of my education. i graduated from the university with academic honors and proceeded to the yale law school, where i received my jd degree in 1980. upon graduation from law school, i became a practicing lawyer with the washington, dc, firm of ward, hardr

5、aker, and ross. in 1981, i was introduced to now judge thomas by a mutual friend. judge thomas told me that he was anticipating a political appointment, and he asked if i would be interested in working with him. he was, in fact, appointed as assistant secretary of education for civil rights. after h

6、e had taken that post, he asked if i would become his assistant, and i accepted that position. in my early period there, i had two major projects. the first was an article i wrote for judge thomas signature on the education of minority students. the second was the organization of a seminar on high-r

7、isk students which was abandoned because judge thomas transferred to the eeoc where he became the chairman of that office. during this period at the department of education, my working relationship with judge thomas was positive. i had a good deal of responsibility and independence. i thought he res

8、pected my work and that he trusted my judgment. after approximately three months of working there, he asked me to go out socially with him. what happened next and telling the world about it are the two most difficult things - experiences of my life. it is only after a great deal of agonizing conside

9、ration and sleepless number - a great number of sleepless nights that i am able to talk of these unpleasant matters to anyone but my close friends. i declined the invitation to go out socially with him and explained to him that i thought it would jeopardize what at the time i considered to be a very

10、 good working relationship. i had a normal social life with other men outside of the office. i believed then, as now, that having a social relationship with a person who was supervising my work would be ill-advised. i was very uncomfortable with the idea and told him so. i thought that by saying no

11、and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. however, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions. he pressed me to justify my reasons for saying no to him. these incidents took place in his office or mine. they were in the

12、 form of private conversations which would not have been overheard by anyone else. my working relationship became even more strained when judge thomas began to use work situations to discuss sex. on these occasions, he would call me into his office for reports on education issues and projects, or he

13、 might suggest that, because of the time pressures of his schedule, we go to lunch to a government cafeteria. after a brief discussion of work, he would turn the conversation to a discussion of sexual matters. his conversations were very vivid. he spoke about acts that he had seen in pornographic fi

14、lms involving such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes. he talked about pornographic materials depicting individuals with large penises or large breasts involved in various sex acts. on several occasions, thomas told me graphically of his own sexual pr

15、owess. because i was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, i told him that i did not want to talk about these subjects. i would also try to change the subject to education matters or to nonsexual personal matters such as his background or h

16、is beliefs. my efforts to change the subject were rarely successful. throughout the period of these conversations, he also from time to time asked me for social engagements. my reaction to these conversations was to avoid them by eliminating opportunities for us to engage in extended conversations.

17、this was difficult because at the time i was his only assistant at the office of education - or of fice for civil rights. during the latter part of my time at the department of education, the social pressures and any conversation of his offensive behavior ended. i began both to believe and hope that

18、 our working relationship could be a proper, cordial, and professional one. when judge thomas was made chair of the eeoc, i needed to face the question of whether to go with him. i was asked to do so, and i did. the work itself was interesting, and at that time it appeared that the sexual overtures

19、which had so troubled me had ended. i also faced the realistic fact that i had no alternative job. while i might have gone back to private practice, perhaps in my old firm or at another, i was dedicated to civil rights work, and my first choice was to be in that field. moreover, the department of ed

20、ucation itself was a dubious venture. president reagan was seeking to abolish the entire department. for my first months at the eeoc, where i continued to be an assistant to judge thomas, there were no sexual conversations or overtures. however, during the fall and winter of 1982, these began again.

21、 the comments were random and ranged from pressing me about why i didnt go out with him to remarks about my personal appearance. i remember his saying that some day i would have to tell him the real reason that i wouldnt go out with him. he began to show displeasure in his tone and voice and his dem

22、eanor and his continued pressure for an explanation. he commented on what i was wearing in terms of whether it made me more or less sexually attractive. the incidents occurred in his inner office at the eeoc. one of the oddest episodes i remember was an occasion in which thomas was drinking a coke i

23、n his office. he got up from the table at which we were working, went over to his desk to get the coke, looked at the can and asked, “who has pubic hair on my coke?” on other occasions, he referred to the size of his own penis as being larger than normal, and he also spoke on some occasions of the p

24、leasures he had given to women with oral sex. at this point, late 1982, i began to feel severe stress on the job. i began to be concerned that clarence thomas might take out his anger with me by degrading me or not giving me important assignments. i also thought that he might find an excuse for dism

25、issing me. in january of 1983, i began looking for another job. i was handicapped because i feared that, if he found out, he might make it difficult for me to find other employment and i might be dismissed from the job i had. another factor that made my search more difficult was that there was a per

26、iod - this was during a period of a hiring freeze in the government. in february of 1983, i was hospitalized for five days on an emergency basis for acute stomach pain which i attributed to stress on the job. once out of the hospital, i became more committed to find other employment and sought furth

27、er to minimize my contact with thomas. this became easier when allison duncan (sp) became office director, because most of my work was then funneled through her and i had contact with clarence thomas mostly in staff meetings. in the spring of 1983, an opportunity to teach at oral roberts university

28、opened up. i participated in a seminar - taught an afternoon session and seminar at oral roberts university. the dean of the university saw me teaching and inquired as to whether i would be interested in furthering - pursuing a career in teaching, beginning at oral roberts university. i agreed to ta

29、ke the job in large part because of my desire to escape the pressures i felt at the eeoc due to judge thomas. when i informed him that i was leaving in july, i recall that his response was that now i would no longer have an excuse for not going out with him. i told him that i still preferred not to

30、do so. at some time after that meeting, he asked if he could take me to dinner at the end of the term. when i declined, he assured me that the dinner was a professional courtesy only and not a social invitation. i reluctantly agreed to accept that invitation, but only if it was at the every end of a

31、 working day. on, as i recall, the last day of my employment at the eeoc in the summer of 1983, i did have dinner with clarence thomas. we went directly from work to a restaurant near the office. we talked about the work i had done, both at education and at the eeoc. he told me that he was pleased w

32、ith all of it except for an article and speech that i had done for him while we were at the office for civil rights. finally, he made a comment that i will vividly remember. he said that if i ever told anyone of his behavior that it would ruin his career. this was not an apology, nor was it an expla

33、nation. that was his last remark about the possibility of our going out or reference to his behavior. in july of 1983, i left washington, dc area and have had minimal contact with judge clarence thomas since. i am of course aware from the press that some questions have been raised about conversations i had with judge clarence thomas after i left the eeoc. from 1983 until today, i ha