American Way Of Life

Writer/author : an American-born novelist /best-selling author ( Iowa , 1951) Books deal with comparing life in the USA/UK/Australia Mostly autobiogrphical works /non-fictional/fictitious A personnal exprerience : a first-hand testimony/a witness Studying the faults/failings/shortcomings of the society he lives in on either side of the Atlantic . a satirist : writing satirical/satires : making fun/ridiculing his fellowAmericans/British ( married to an Englishwoman ) and of himself A good deal of self-mockery/derision

....................................... Steps on the American floor …................................................................................. Discovery of my family …......................................................................................... First contacts with the civilisation …......................................................................... Learning the way of life ….............................................................

In China there are millions of people learning English everyday and it has led to some great improvements in life, yet it has also some setbacks. While learning English may seem like an easy task for us Americans, it truly is a decade long experience and pain for many Chinese people. This new concept around the world that states English is the most important language in the world is taken by heart in China were students spend most of their childhood and teenage years studying English. This English

victims of segregation A story of fear and domination Looking back in the past, looking back when it is fixed 1960 Georgia Washington Alabama Dark places in America All the same, all the pain, Each lynching in vain Slavery is abolished But remain established Segregation of the nation Well known as oppression Where freedom is bury But not in their memory Humiliation growing every day We’re talking about the way White American citizens destroy the American dream Turning

scratching of my name from all future invitation lists), but I have since come to realize that there was nothing especially odd in their driving less than a couple of hundred feet to visit us. Nobody walks anywhere in America nowadays. A researcher at the University of California at Berkeley recently made a study of the nation's walking habits and concluded that 85 per cent of people in the United States are "essentially" sedentary and 35 per cent are "totally" sedentary. The average American walks less

A streetcar named desire Discuss the view that a Streetcar Named Desire is a play concerned with the conflict between the values of the old world, and the new, and that this conflict is expressed through the battle between Stanley and Blanche The play A streetcar named Desire was written by Tennessee Williams in 1947. It’s the story of a woman named Blanche who goes to New Orleans to live with her sister Stella and her brother in law Stanley. Unfortunately things get complicated and a conflict

t ofTHE BROOKLYN FOLLIES “A night of eating and drinking” ( 2 excerpts ) Introduction : what makes this chapter different The chapter takes the form of a play within the novel ( Auster constantly reminds his reader that he is playing with words and literary genres - autobiography, picaresque ecc… ). Its writer is anonymous; consequently, Nathan, the narrator becomes a character ( how does viewpoint change this way ? ) As in a play , there are stage directions , a dialogue ( the focus is on

years old since … , I have …hairs clear with …eyes. I lived at my Parent's, in house with a brother and sister (older) as well as a cat and a rabbit, in the South of France. I have my customs here, and it is attractive. I like my family and my group of friends. I study to Jean Aicard's general high school to Hyeres one city in quoted of from my home, and I am at present in high school would like after enter in a business school. always estimated(appreciated) the United States and, I always dreamed

The American Economic Model Introduction The American economic model is the capitalistic model. The economy in the US is mixed with the American culture, civilisation and identity. The Americans believe that there is no equivalent of economic achievement anywhere else in the world. The American identity is based on economic achievement and on their economic system. Understanding this system, its creation, the beliefs and values that founded this system, is something necessary to understand

first exposure to serious politics, and to a nineteen-year-old, as I was then, it was overwhelming. Part of the experience was realizing that the USA was on the wrong side. Fine speeches at the United Nations were one thing, but the directory board in the lobby of the American Embassy in Pretoria, with its long list of military attachés, told a different story. [...] Learning something of the cooperation between the USA and the white regime in South Africa [...] was my first lesson that America