Art in America

BACCALAUREAT ANGLAIS LV1 - SERIE S - SESSION 2008 Oral du second groupe TEXT 1 "Why America?" Jagan is a sixty-year-old shopkeeper in a small town in southern India. He would like to know more about the future plans of his son Mali, an arts student asked his cousin, a teacher in Mali's college, to investigate. The cousin came back four days later and said, "New things are coming your way; your son 5 wants to go to America. Didn't I hint to you long ago that it was coming?" The first shock of the impact

painters, they have been put side by side, as much as pulled apart. Though Hopper himself hated the comparison, we will attempt to analyse in the following paper what unites and divides those artists. After a short presentation of both painters, we will examine their subject matters, their techniques and methods of painting, as well as the meaning of their work of art. Before analysing and juxtaposing the work of Norman Rockwell and Edward Hopper, let’s introduce briefly our two main characters. As

everybody knows, but French and French-Indian mountain men had penetrated to the West Coast before any of the officially recognized explorers and discoverers, for whom they were in fact often the guides. Deep in the Northern Rockies is the town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. In Nevada, Wyoming, Oregon, many of the leading merchants in the small towns are descended from the French, and they often still name their children Pierre, Jeanne and Yvonne — conspicuous among the recent rash of movie-star first names

Jong who lives in San Fransisco's China Town. The chess game appears for her as a true revelation as she begins to play. As Waverly begins to win more and more tournaments, her Chinese heritage moves aside for the American culture. In this story, the symbolism, the setting and the conflict between Waverly and her mother, Lindo Jong, illustrates the distress of Waverly who is torn between Chinese and American origins. In “Rules of the Game”, the symbolism has an important role in the separation

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 four decades. Norman went to high school to the Chase Art School at the age of 14. Then he went on to the National

CIVILISATION “60’s and 70’s society, a revolutionary society ?” Mention of `the sixties' rouses strong emotions even in those who were already old when the sixties began and those who were not even born when the sixties ended. For some it is a golden age, for others a time when the old secure framework of morality, authority, and discipline disintegrated. We’re talking about a post-war society, which was influenced by the end of the World War II, during which the Nazis and associates were crushingly

house in England in the late nineteenth century. Lady Hunstanton is entertaining1 a few guests. Among them is a young American, Hester Worsley. LADY HUNSTANTON: I hear you have such pleasant society in America. Quite like our own in places, my son wrote to me. 5 HESTER: There are cliques2 in America as elsewhere, Lady Hunstanton. But true American society consists simply of all the good women and good men we have in our country. LADY HUNSTANTON: What a sensible system ... I am afraid in England

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American music Objectives: discovers the americans musics What types of music were created in American ? And by who ?     Intro: The colonial period is between 1619 and 1776. About 1 million slaves were deported against their will in America. Slavery will have profound and irreversible consequences on the history of music. Throughout history, music and religious songs mainly allowed black Americans to preserve their unity and culture, to ensure against slavery and racial segregation, their

Between 1950 and 1954, in the midst of "cold war", a true witch hunt is rampant in the United States, on the initiative of Senator Joseph McCarthy. This campaign against the Communists is so appalling that McCarthyism remains the symbol of intolerance and blind fear . Because McCarthyism is well born of the fear of the Soviet Union and has never had any rational basis. During four years, entire categories of the population have been denounced and arrested, each considered as a potential State enemy