Mandarin Course

World War II with Walter Cronkite – The Seeds of War – Part 4/11

Episode 2: “War in China”, first part This is a really epic documentary series released in 1983 by Cronkite’s Broadcast Studio (you know which one). This particular episode deals with the Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese resistance efforts against the Japanese invasion in the years leading up to World War 2 (or the earliest days of World War 2, when the conflict was largely confined to Asia – depending on your point of view). My collection of this series is all on Beta tapes apparently once purchased by my parents. I really like this particular episode because it’s difficult to find information on the war in China preceding Pearl Harbor, with the sole exception of the occasional reference to the Rape of Nanking. I really wish history were taken more seriously in Californian public schools, because when I was going through the system (90s-early 2000s) it was just a joke. The ONLY time WWII was ever discussed in any of my classes prior to high school was in my 8th grade English class – the teacher was so horrified that we weren’t learning about WWII that she took the time out of her own curriculum to teach us a little about it. Thank you, Mrs. Lathrop, for doing that. The tapes are not numbered in any way, and the episodes deal with individual topics rather than going in chronological order, so I’ll do my best to upload them in some sort of sensible sequence. It may, however, take quite some time to upload them all.

LFO-Summer Girls Karaoke Instrumental

Lyrics: Yeah…I like it when the girls stop by.. In the summer Do you remember, Do you remember? …when we met..That summer?? [Chorus:] New Kids On The block,had a bunch of hits Chinese food makes me sick. And I think it’s fly when girls stop by for the summer,for the summer I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch, I’d take her if I had one wish, But she’s been gone since that summer.. Since that summer [Verse 1:] Hip Hop Marmalade spic And span, Met you one summer and it all began You’re the best girl that I ever did see, The great Larry Bird Jersey 33 When you take a sip you buzz like a hornet Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets Call me Willy Whistle cause I can’t speak baby Something in your eyes went and drove me crazy Now I can’t forget you and it makes me mad, Left one day and never came back Stayed all summer then went back home, Macauly Culkin wasn’t Home Alone Fell deep in love,but now we ain’t speaking Michael J Fox was Alex P Keaton When I met you I said my name was Rich You look like a girl from Abercrombie and Fitch [Chorus:] New Kids On The block,had a bunch of hits Chinese food makes me sick. And I think it’s fly when girls stop by for the summer,for the summer I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch, I’d take her if I had one wish, But she’s been gone since that summer.. Since that summer [Verse 2:] Cherry Pez,cold crush,rock star boogie Used to hate school so I had to play hookie, Always been hip to the B-boY Style Known to act …