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often the only force standing between the Native Americans and slavery. They formed Christian Native American city-states. They protected the natives whom certain Spanish and Portuguese colonizers wanted to enslave. They were very influential in the pacification, religious conversion and education of Indian nations. Jesuit missionaries were active in New France. Many of them compiled dictionaries or glossaries of the First Nations and Native American languages which they learned. - Ursuline nuns

The status of African Americans in the U.S.A has seen many twists in the story, Let me introduce you to one of the largest part of the U.S story. In the 1619 the slavery was introduced in America. It marks the beginning of many racial events. The Slavery shows us that the Black People were clearly consider inferior to Whites. In 1787 the American Government ratified a Constitution. This one says that Human beings were not equal. In their point of view a Black is three fifth of all other people

and Cold War, 1945-1961, New York, St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998 ; Frank Ninkovich, US Information Policy and Cultural Diplomacy, NY, Foreign Policy Association, 1996 ; Naima Prevots, Dance for Export : Cultural Diplomacy and the Cold War, Middletown, Wesley UP, 1998 ; Yale Richmond, Cultural Exchange and the Cold War : Raising the Iron Curtain, University Park, Pennsylvania UP, 2003 ; Christopher Simpson, Universities and Empire. Money and Politics in the Social Sciences during the Cold War, NY, New

Compréhension 1. It is an extract from an essay 2. • Nationality: American (l. 1) “My first real encounter with the world outside the United States...” • Jobs: – journalist (l. 2) “... I spent several months working for an anti-government newspaper in South Africa.” – teacher (l. 27) “From the classes I’ve taught and experienced abroad...” • Marital status: married (l. 15) “... my wife ...” • Trips abroad: – South Africa (l. 2) “... working for an anti-government newspaper in South Africa.” –

Introduction Since the abolition of slavery in the USA, the American Negro needed changes in his living conditions. With the end of World War 1, and the industrialization in the north, African Americans found it necessary to move north for a better living. They went en mass to big cities and gave rise to a new grand culture. This was “the great migration of African Americans” The great migration expended the Negro’s communities and created a greater market for Negros’ culture, mainly on Art which

sociales dans la société américaine. Des mouvements de protestation s'élèvent et s'intensifient : the rise of feminism - montée du féminisme anti-war movement - mouvements pacifistes Gay Rights Movement African-American Civil Rights Movement (mvt des droits civiques de 1955 à 1965) Concernant le dernier point, 3 lois majeures furent passées : 1964 – Civil Rights Act : cette loi interdit toute discrimination basée sur la race, la religion, la couleur de peau, ou l'origine nationale d'une personne

races of other eras pointless, and limiting rivalries to trade and other pursuits of peace. This strategy is predicated upon the assumption that unipolarity is sustainable for the foreseeable future and should be preserved for as long as possible. American preponderance will discourage potential challengers from seeking the resources need to contend for primacy, and even if dissuasion fails, no state could conceivably pull even with the United States for decades to come. Such confidence is based primarily

1. It is an extract from an essay 2. • Nationality: American (l. 1) “My first real encounter with the world outside the United States…” • Jobs: – journalist (l. 2) “… I spent several months working for an anti-government newspaper in South Africa.” – teacher (l. 27) “From the classes I’ve taught and experienced abroad…” • Marital status: married (l. 15) “… my wife …” • Trips abroad: – South Africa (l. 2) “… working for an anti-government newspaper in South Africa.” – India (l. 15) “… my wife

Norman Rockwell Early Life Norman Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator who was born on the third of February eighteen ninety-four in New York and died on the eighteenth of November nineteen seventy-eight in Stockbridge, so he was 84 years old when he died. He was a naturalist painter of American life in the twentieth century. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over more than

deals with the arrival of an immigrant in the Usa at Ellis Island. 1st person narrative : “I” The passage can be divided into 3 parts: * Lines 1 to 15 : Physical tests * Lines 16 to 31 : Intellectual tests * Line 32 to the end : The American dream First I’m going to talk about the narrator’s situation, then I’ll show why immigrants such as the narrator decide to knock at the door of the new world. Part 1 : The narrator’s situation * Who? An immigrant * Where?