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Today I want to tell you three stories. Just three stories about three different men.

The first story is about Civil Rights.

Was August 28, 1963 and in United States was pronounced a famous speech that would mark a before and an after in the history of mankind. The tittle of the speech was “I Have a Dream” y fue pronounced by Martin Luther King.

Martin Luther King was a black Christian who believed that god made black and white people all equally.

Martin Luther King started his discourses saying: I say to you today, my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

He continuing saying: I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers.

And he finished his discourse saying:

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last"!

The original idea of freedom for all men and equality between whites and blacks in which Martin Luther King with a group of followers had been working for decades marked a milestone in the history of the United States.

My second story is about science

Between 1847 y 1931 lived in USA a famous American Inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

I am talking about Thomas Alva Edison.

Thomas Alva Edison was a very curious child. He was always asking questions. Even his mother, who had once been a schoolteacher could not answer all his questions. He would experiment to try to find the answers. Once he tried to hatch some eggs by sitting on them. Another time he accidently burned down the family's barn.

The teacher told someone she thought there was something wrong with Alva; that he was "addled" * (podrido) . He told his mother and they took him out of the school. He only went to school for 3 months in his whole life.

He wanted to experiment. To make money for his experiments, he went to work at age 12 selling newspapers and candy on a train. When he had some spare time on the train, he would do experiments in the baggage car.

When he was 16 he went to work for the telegraph * office sending messages.

He became nearly deaf due to an injury to his ears. He later said he didn't mind being deaf because it helped him to concentrate.

He would work night after night, and sometimes he would fall asleep at his workbench. His wife wouldn't see him for days at a time. He built a laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It was here, with his employees, where he made many of his inventions

He and his team worked to make a light bulb which would burn for a long time without burning out. They tried 1,500 materials and nothing worked well. Finally he tried a new material in the filament that burned nearly 200 hours.

After he had made the light bulb, he worked to make a power system so people could use the bulb. In 1882 he flipped a switch and 85 houses in New York City had electric lights for the first time.

Thomas Edison was probably the world's greatest inventor. He had a patent on 1,093 inventions, each one of them a reflection of great ideas combined with many hours of hard work.

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