American Way Of Life

takes care of her husband’s health by keeping an eye on his diet, preventing him from drinking alcohol during the week and making him do sports at the week-end. 8) By thinking this, Victoria certainly means that she finds Hayden’s life boring. She thinks he works too much to enjoy the pleasures of life and spend time doing things he likes. Moreover, she certainly insinuates that Nancy regulates his life too much since she imposes him many life’s rules, which doubtlessly makes his life too strict

Britain represents for Americans. – ll. 26-47: The discovery of Britain by the American mother. 2. Where exactly does the scene take place? Where does each of these characters live: the narrator, Mrs Lovell? 8 points The scene takes place in London: “Mom, you’re coming to London” (l. 10) indicates that the narrator lives in London. The person called Mom by the narrator most probably lives in the USA, which explains the narrator’s reflection about the relationship between Americans and Great Britain

COMPREHENSION Read the whole text 1. What kind of text is it? Key elements: Extract, novel, autobiography, ‘Tis, Frank McCourt, 1999. Example: This text is an extract form a novel called ‘Tis, written by Frank McCourt and published in 1999. 2. What do we learn about the narrator? Key elements: Young man, Frank McCourt, 19 years old, came “New York city in the late forties to escape for poverty in Ireland”, wants to be a student, doesn’t want to be a houseman, or have a low-paid job, admires university

DOWN THE AMERICAN DREAM This text is an article, entitled “Teenage gangsters shoot down the American Dream” It is an extract from The Weekly Telegraph published in 1994. It deals with the American gangs and the reasons of the existence of these gangs and their consequences according to the reporter. We can divide this text into 3 parts : -The first one will be “A gang member’s story” and we will talk About James Wade life -The second, alludes to facts and figures on American violence

The story takes place in India. We may say so because of a couple of elements. First, two castes are mentioned which refer to the Hindu caste system. What’s more, at the end of the text, the main character and his father are in the inner ashram yard, which belongs to a religious Hindu community. Identify the different members of the family. A family of three people is presented in the text. The son is the main character of the text. His parents have different social background: his

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 was composed of painting

The approach of realism in the American literature come after the change that America underwent after the civil war that occurred between 1861 and 1864. By then, the United State of America achieved sign of modern society. As a result, the States knew the new composition of the society through immigration, which led to the new shape of the American culture and the new approaches to literature. One of the main streams was realism, which is an understanding of reality that is based on

The Americanization of Shadrach Cohen is a story by Bruno Lessing in which he contrasts a Jewish father to his two sons. The father holds to his origins and religion, but the sons have entered the modern world of America, and become detached of their origins. They want their father to be “Americanized”, but the father cannot stand the situation any longer, so he rebels. Finally, the father and the sons are all “Americanized”, but they still keep their Jewish identity. Shadrash Cohen, however, does

dawn with the feeling he needs to warn Gatsby of something immediatly. He finds him at his mansion where Jay waited all night for Daisy to appear at her window. Gatsby tells Nick «Nothing happened» : Daisy did not get hurt by Tom, nor did she came outside and talk to him. Nick suggests Gatsby to leave Long Island and lay low but the latter refuses to even consider leaving his lost love behind. The beginning of chapter 8 epitomizes the successive downfalls of Gatsby -- his crumbled dreams and social condition

Dean, School of Education, Mills College & Director, Civic Engagement Research Group (CERG) Ellen Middaugh, Sr. Research Associate, CERG Alexandra Rankin Macgill, Project Manager, Pew Internet Project Chris Evans, Sr. Program Associate, CERG Jessica Vitak, Research Intern, Pew Internet Project PEW INTERNET & AMERICAN LIFE PROJECT 1615 L ST., NW – SUITE 700 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036 202-415-4500 http://www.pewinternet.org/ Summary of Findings Video games provide a diverse set of experiences and