American Way Of Life

OVERVIEW OF THE COURSE Chapter 1: From the first colony (1607) to the declaration of independance (1776) → historical background of the United States of America Chapter 2: The creation of the american federation – the Constitution of the USA (1789) Chapter 3: Federal government vs State government Chapter 4: The federal Congress and the president of the USA → voting in the USA Chapter 5: The judiciary in the USA from the federal Suprem Court down to the State local juridiction Chapter

presentation of the three countries I. Poland 1. Hofstede analysis [pic] - Power distance: For the Polish society, typical norm is medium power distance (60). Possible explanation of these results lies in the role of the communist ideology during the past few decades proclaiming equality in all aspects of social life. However, the recent experience of the Poles has indicated to them a rising inequality and a rapid differentiation of the society in terms of income and

a philosopher, inventor, architect and was part of the Enlightenment elite. But above all he was a prominent political figure of his time. He is one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence, inspiring himself mainly from Locke's Natural Right Theory, and later he will participate in the creation of the American Constitution. He is of course the 3rd president of the U.S. He would later work as ambassador in France. He also doubled the size of the U.S. by buying Louisiana to the French. As

what the definition of culture is. Second, we will talk about culture in society. Finally, we will deal with stereotypes the lack of understanding which it can involve. Culture is meaningful. That is why we need to define it first. Globally speaking culture means a way of life in society and in personal life. Culture presents several points of view such as law, beliefs, politics, history, art and language… Each culture has a language, an art, a settlement, a story and so on. The way these elements are

the listener's act of creation. This made possible a depth of thought.... The indefinite personality of the narrator in Toni Morrison's novel, Jazz, invokes two of the author's central concerns in the creation of African American literature. On the one hand, through both the indeterminacy and the self-questioning of the narrative I," she compels her readers, whatever their ethnic background, to engage in a thorough self-exploration, or, in her own words, "to examine centers of the self and ... to

Unit 4 American dreams Ouverture (p. 64-65) Cette unité décline le mythe du rêve américain sous de nombreuses facettes. Cette thématique permet de traiter les notions espaces et échanges et mythes et héros du programme culturel du cycle terminal. L’expression American dream est sans doute connue des élèves, à travers les films et les séries télévisées, mais on constatera, avec l’étude des documents proposés, qu’elle ne recouvre pas une réalité figée, ce qui explique le mot dreams au pluriel dans

This text in a an extract of the news paper "The Toronto star", and was written in 2002 by the famous American producer Joe Eszterhas. In fact the author was the film director of many sleazy movies like "Basic Instinct". In this extract, the narrator shows us how cigarette had a particular place in his films, being himself a big smoker. But when he was diagnosed with throat cancer because of smoking he changed his mind becoming a staunch anti-smoking militant. In this article he seems to feel particularly

plantations of cotton and tobacco, and the north, which was much more industrialised. In the south, the plantations required a lot of manual labour, which led the whole economy to depend on slaves. It was therefore understandable for the south to be reticent when the north abolished slavery. After the Civil war though, which lasted from 1860 to 1865, slavery was definitely abolished in the whole country. But the black community still did not attain an equal status. Indeed, an era of segregation

Marketing Project The Cultural Creative March 18, 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS I- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY P.3 Research Objectives p.3 Statement of the Method Used p.3 Findings p.3 Conclusions and Recommendations p.4 II- INTRODUCTION, BACKGROUND P.5 Interview of Paul Ray p.6 III-SECONDARY DATA P.10 Cultural Creatives Values and Belief p.10 Cultural Creatives Purchasing Behavior and Expectations p.11 Data Interpretation p.13 IV-FOCUS GROUP P.15 The Concept p.16 The Derivates p.19

amical et ses conseils, Lydia Djouhri, pour ses nombreuses relectures et sa présence. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 1 : Creation of the product Marilyn Monroe ..................................................... 9 I. The Hollywood industry of cinema A. Ideological function of cinema 1) Nationalism and Patriotism ......................................................