Sujet Anglais LV1 — Terminale — Polynésie — Bac 2019

DOCUMENT 1 The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. remains frozen in time for many Americans. Seared into our consciousness is the man who battled Southern segregation. We see him standing before hundreds of thousands of followers in the nation’s capital in 1963, proclaiming his dream for racial harmony. We see him marching, arms locked with 5 fellow protesters, through the battleground of Alabama in 1965. But on the 50th anniversary of his death, it is worth noting how his message and his priorities had evolved by the time he was shot on that balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis in 1968. Dr King was confronting many challenges that remain with us today. He was battling racism in the North then, not just in the South. He was pushing the 10 government to address poverty, income equality, structural racism and segregation in cities like Boston and Chicago. He was also calling for an end to a war that was draining the national treasury of funds needed to finance a progressive domestic agenda. This may not be the Dr King that many remember. Yet, his words resonate powerfully – and, perhaps, uncomfortably – today in a country that remains deeply divided on issues of 15 race and class. “All the issues that he raised toward the end of his life are as contemporary now as they were then,” said Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer-Prize winning historian who had written several books about Dr King. [...] What would Dr King make of America today? Historians believe he would marvel at1 the expansion of rights for women and the 20 L.G.B.T.Q.2 community, the growth of the black middle class and the number of black elected leaders, including America’s first black president. He would also see a country beset3 by many of the problems he had urged Americans to focus on during the last years of his life. “I think we should have listened to him then,” Mr Branch said. “We really ought to listen to 25 him now”. Rachel L Swarms, www.nytimes.com, 4 April 2018 (adapted) 1 be happily surprised at 2 Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Queer 3 troubled by 19AN1TEPO1 2/5 DOCUMENT 2 Yes, we face some extraordinary challenges. Economic inequality and a changing climate. Terrorism and mass migration. The rise of nationalist thought, xenophobic sentiment, and a populist politics that too often pits "us" against "them" ‒ a politics that threatens to