El tercer lunes de enero se celebra en Estados Unidos el día de Martín Luther King Jr. Es una oportunidad para reconocer la labor y enorme influencia que el doctor King tuvo en el movimiento de lucha por los derechos civiles. En estos tiempos tan complicados es imprescindible recordar algunas de sus citas más célebres. ¿Cuál es tu favorita?

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. (burden: a heavy load that you carry)

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King Jr. & the Civil Rights Movement

Bonfire Night 

Remember, remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.

Every year Britain remembers the attempt by Guy Fawkes and 12 other men to blow the houses of Parliament on November 15th, 1605. This group decided to kill the king because of his persecution of Catholics.

They put 36 barrels of gunpowder under Westminster but some of the group started to have worries about their plan and one of them sent an anonymous letter to his friend telling him to stay away from Parliament on November 5th. The plotters were therefore caught and Guy Fawkes executed.

Nowadays people celebrate the failure of the plot by letting off fireworks and building a bonfire, sometimes with an effigy/ model of Guy Fawked on the top that they burn.

More information: http://www.bonfirenight.net/gunpowder.php

YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMNOnYxhpOY

(Source: Oxford University Press)

Written by Gema Grande, Head of the English Department.